Chicago! 🦋👁️ Join me this Saturday May 16 for my Artist talk on the occasion of my solo show “Un patio particular” at @andrewrafaczgallery
I’ll be in conversation con las chidas de @nati.work y @julieta_belazo moderated by @jenalsspace 🩶
“Un patio particular”, my first solo show in US, opened last Friday at @andrewrafaczgallery and I couldn’t be happier. Thank you for all the support y los besos y abrazos. It meant a lot to see all the people I love gathered around my most recent work. Les amo mucho. 🦋🤍
Special thanks to @jenalsspace@jenaljenaldolsondolson and @andrewrafacz my “partners in crime”, for believing in my work. Toda mi gratitud.
My solo show “Un patio particular” opens this Friday, April 10th at @andrewrafaczgallery from 5–8pm.
I’ll be showing what I’ve been working on over the past months! 🤍
A little text about the exhibition:
The word “patio” in Spanish carries multiple meanings: it can refer to a domestic courtyard, a schoolyard, or even a prison yard. It is an open yet contained space, often cemented, intended for recreation. “Particular” is equally layered—meaning private, but also peculiar, specific, or strange. Together, “Un patio particular”proposes a space that is both playful and ambiguous: a site meant for recreation that could be anywhere, yet where strange scenes are unfolding.
Across eight paintings, female figures inhabit an undefined open space that oscillates between playground, domestic exterior, and carceral environment. Moments of play coexist with tension, control, and negotiation—gestures that hover between care and aggression, alongside more suspended, contemplative states.
On view through May 30th.
La mochila 🎒
80 × 110 cm
Oil on muslin
Happy to share that my painting “Los binoculares” is featured on the cover of the April issue of the @chicago_reader
This painting is going to be part of my solo show exhibition “Un patio particular” at @andrewrafaczgallery opening on April 10th!
See you there!
Los binoculares 👁️👁️
2026
Oil on muslin, 30x30cm
La reja (caída)
2025
oil stick, acrylic and oil paint on muslin.
In a country where private property is fenced off, and where the same type of fence is used to imprison innocent people, I imagine, finally witnessing its collapse.
Showing right now at @newartdealers booth B214 @andrewrafaczgallery 🩶
👁️ Mis ojos 👁️(2025) is one of the pieces that I’ll be showing at @newartdealers Miami next week at @andrewrafaczgallery booth along other amazing artists! Come and say hi!
Miami see you soon ❤️🔥🕺🏻
Hoy empieza @famamonterrey 💖
Acá unas fotos de la nueva serie de pinturas que ando exhibiendo
Nos vemos en el booth 7!
Viernes 7 y Sábado 8 de 12-8pm
Domingo 9 12-7pm
El entierro 🪱🥄
80x80cm
Parte de las obras que estaré exponiendo en @famamonterrey del 6-9 de noviembre en Monterrey, NL.
Ahí nos vemos! ❤️🔥
Foto y modelo: @pillowsage_lin
Conoce a @bervbr
Berenice Vargas Bravo (1998, Ciudad de México) vive y trabaja entre Ciudad de México, París y Chicago. Su práctica artística se desarrolla principalmente en torno a la pintura figurativa de gran formato, con un estilo gráfico y de alto contraste. A través de estas, Berenice busca exponer las dinámicas de poder subyacentes que moldean silenciosamente nuestro mundo.
Su práctica también se extiende a distintos medios y técnicas, como performances, instalaciones compuestas por estructuras en madera o acero, objetos fundidos en aluminio y cerámica, que buscan la integración de la pintura con el espacio.
Su trabajo ha sido expuesto en la galería HAOS, el Atelier Alain Le Bras y la Galerie Sabrina Lucas en Nantes; la galería Maia Muller, la galería Camille Pouyfaucon y el museo La Villette en París; el Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano y ANDREW RAFACZ gallery en Chicago; y la feria de arte ARCO en Madrid.
