Gabriela Brito

Born in 1989, Gabriela is a self-taught Venezuelan artist with background in design and communications. She pursued fashion design studies in Istituto Marangoni in London, and holds a BBA degree in Strategic Design & Management from Parsons The New School for Design in New York City where she also worked in fashion public relations. In 2014, Gabriela returned to her hometown Maracaibo and began her career in art, focusing on painting and illustration. She became involved in creative protests projects, collaborations with brand and also in the visual communication of flamenco (dance) festivals and performances in Venezuela, Miami and Spain. She has been invited to participate in several group shows and, in 2016, she held her first solo show “Hijos del Petróleo” (Children of Oil) from which one piece was selected to participate in the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women annual auction in London. Due to the ongoing socio-political crisis in her country, Gabriela moved to Barcelona, Spain where she currently works and resides. She obtained a Postgraduate degree in Museum and Cultural Heritage Management at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in 2019, and a Master ‘s degree in Digital Arts Curatorship from ESDi, Universitat Ramon Llull in 2020, after which she collaborated as curator in a cycle of performative art. In addition, for the past two years, Gabriela had worked in arts communications until recently when she decided to focus on her artistic practice full-time.