Bernadette Despujols

Bernadette Despujols (b. 1986, Barquisimeto, Venezuela) studied Architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), where she graduated with honors in 2007. Soon after, she continued her education at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she took classes in architecture, cultural exchange, morphology and anatomy before beginning her endeavors in art making. Despujols taught Architectonic Design at the School of Architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela before moving to the US to pursue her MFA in Visual Arts at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Exquisite Cuerpo, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; Oh Man!, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Homesick, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Women and Sculpture, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL. Despujols has participated in group exhibitions at the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; New Child Gallery, Antwerp, BE; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Marquez Art Projects, Miami, FL; Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel; New York Academy of Art, NY; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, NY; and Cerquone Projects, Madrid, Spain. Her work can be found in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, El Espacio 23, and Marquez Art Projects. Despujols currently lives and works between Miami, Florida and New York, NY.