Bernadette Despujols

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b. 1986, Barquisimeto. Venezuela

Lives and works in Miami, FL and New York, NY

EDUCATION

2010

MFA California Institute of Arts

2007

B.Arch Universidad Central de Venezuela

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022

Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Green Family Foundation, Miami, FL

2021

I Love You, Man, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

The Vast Ocean in Which the Woman Swims, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY

2020

Mamita, Arts + Leisure Projects, New York, NY Circle Within a Square, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL

2018

Recent Works, IK Projects, Lima, Peru

Two person exhibition, ProFoundation, Brooklyn, NY

Fábulas de sangre y rojo, curated by Lorena González Inneco, Cerquone Projects, Caracas, Venezuela

2017

Fábulas de sangre y rojo, Museo de Arte Contemporánea del Zulia

2016

Guilt, pleasures and other uncomfortable matters, curated by Amalia Caputo, Platabanda, Miami, FL

2012

HOME VENEZUELA, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLIC + PRIVATE, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

High Voltage, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel

We Are Family, curated by Peter Drake and Clifford Owens, New York Academy of Art, NY

2021

WE DANCE YOU MEAN, Cerquone Projects, Madrid, Spain Shattered Glass, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, NY

2020

Time-Sensitive, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

CURRENTS: Gaslight, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019

For Now; Contemporary Venezuelan Art of the Miami Diaspora, Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL

Personify, Art & Cultural Center, Hollywood, FL

Perverse Furniture, curated by Sarah Fritchey and Helen Kauder, Artspace, New Haven, CT

Supported at its ends, hanging by its weight, curated by LAZO, Loisaida Center, New York, NY

Future & Past, Showfields, New York, NY

2018

FREE!, Spinello Projects, Miami FL

IK Projects, Pinta Art Fair, Miami, FL

Sixteen Memos for the Next Millennium, NARS Foundation, New York, NY

Florida Biennial, curated by Sarah Fritchey, Art & Cultural, Center, Hollywood, FL

II Edición Fuera de Catalogo 2018, Centro Cultural Español, Miami, FL

RCS Rocking Chair Sessions Show, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, FL

O, Miami Poetry Festival project Fight me with words, Miami, FL

CURRENTS: ABORTION, curated by Barbara Zucker, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

New Work, curated by Justing H. Long, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL

2017

Mottos, curated by Laura Marsh, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

MACZUL, Venezuela Fresco, Cerquone Projects, Caracas, Venezuela

Colectiva, GBG Arts, Caracas, Venezuela

Nature at the Edge of Urban, curated by Ombretta Agro & Kathryn Mikesell, Miami, FL

Hardware, group show, 3 Punts Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

PUBLICATIONS

2020

Aslan, Adam. “Returning the Male Gaze”, Arcade Project Magazine

2019

“Perverse Furniture”, Connecticut Magazine

Slattery, Brian. “Artspace Gets Perverse”, New Haven Independent

2018

“Artist of the week: Bernadette Despujols”, LVL3 publications

“One piece: Bernadette Despujols, The artist talks about investigating the gender

spectrum and the female gaze“, BOMB Magazine
“El humor, la sangre y el feminismo de Bernadette Despujols”, The Amaranta
“Soy feminista porque soy mujer: Bernadette Despujols”, Newspaper El Universal

“Bernadette Despujols: Hay quienes recorren el mundo con los ojos cerrados”, Luster

Magazine

“Bernadette Despujols”, TBD MAG, The Billboard Creative publications
2017

“Bernadette Despujols”, Create Magazine, Miami Edition
2016

Woolridge, Jane. “Giant tongues, vanishing steel and thinner crowds: Welcome to Miami Art

Week 2016”

Nicholas Nehamas and Siobhan Morrissey, Miami Herald

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2020

Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Online Course: The architecture and the moving image/dictated together with Prof. Gianni Napolitano

2012 - present

Invited Guest Critic, Florida International University

2007 - 2012

Assistant Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Studio I - Studio I - II & III, Studio VIII

2012-13

Associate Professor, University Central de Venezuela, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Studio V

2010

California Institute of Arts, Teaching Assistant, Shooting Landscapes, professor James Benning

RESIDENCIES AND SUMMITS

2019

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL

2018

NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

Trestle, Brooklyn, NY

2005 - 2006

Exchange student, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

2006

WORKSHOP “HIPER-CITIES ANDINAS”, Planning and territorial design, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia

2005

WORKSHOP by Architect Souto de Moura / Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy