RESUME

Bio

Born and raised in Santiago, Chile.

Received her BFA from Universidad de Chile, Santiago,Chile in 2011. Francisca recently received her MFA at Columbia University, New York (May 2025)

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Resume

Education

Columbia University, School of the Arts — New York, USA
MFA in Visual Arts | 2025

Universidad de Chile — Santiago, Chile
PGDEd in Visual Arts | 2017
BFA in Visual Arts | 2011

Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) — Buenos Aires, Argentina
MFA in Combined Arts | Incomplete, 2014

Supplementary & Informal Education

• 2023 — Printmaking Studies, Taller Aguafuerte, Santiago, Chile
• 2022 — Independent Studies in Art and Visual Culture V, Santiago, Chile
• 2019 — Ceramic Studies, Taller Barbotina, Santiago, Chile
• 2017 — Material & Immaterial Heritage Restoration, Escuela Fermin Vivaceta, Santiago, Chile
• 2011 — Cultural Management Intensive, Casona Nemesio Antúnez, Santiago, Chile

Selected Exhibitions

2025

• “Fault Lines”, The Blanc Gallery, New York
• MFA Thesis Show, Wallach Gallery, New York
• “Play”, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York
• “Celestial Navigation”, Columbia University RBML, New York

2024

• “Untitled Summer”, Chelsea Walls Gallery, New York
• “Currents”, SK Gallery, New York
• First-Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, New York
• “Leaps of Consciousness”, ZAZ10TS, New York

2023–2022

• “El Color del Sur”, Centro de Arte Molino Machmar, Puerto Varas, Chile
• MAVI UC Larraín Vial Arte Joven Prize, MAVI Museum, Santiago, Chile
• “Show UP”, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
• “Works on Paper 5”, Blue Shop Cottage Gallery, London, UK
• Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, multiple venues, UK
• “Flat Files”, Collar Works, Troy, NY
• “A Generous Space”, Hastings Contemporary, UK
• “Arte Joven XLII”, Sala El Farol, Valparaíso, Chile
• “Artardor”, Museo de la Estampación, Barcelona, Spain

2011–2021 (Select)

• FAIN Art Fair, CDMX, Mexico
• “Show Up, Show Off”, OnBoards Biennale, Antwerp
• “Filmideo”, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
• “Tiempo Encapsulado”, H2O Gallery, Barcelona
• “Volumetrías Espaciales”, Sala Juan Egenau, Santiago

Grants, Awards & Residencies

2024

• Jacques & Natasha Gelman Scholarship, USA
• Three Arts Club Scholarship Fund, USA
• FONDART Grant – Becas ChileCrea, Chile

2023–2024

• Columbia University Visual Arts Program Scholarship & Teaching Fellowship
• Circ Art Grant, USA
• Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Oregon, USA
• Shortlisted: MAVI UC Art Prize (Chile), Jackson’s Painting Prize (UK)

2022–2021

• Shortlisted: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (UK)
• Painting First Prize, Artardor, Barcelona, Spain
• Shortlisted: Arte Joven XLII, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Publications & Presentations

• 2024 — Interview: A Conversation with Francisca Isabel Brunet Bayon, Chelsea Walls
• 2023 — Artist Talk, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Oregon, USA
• 2021 — As Yet Untitled, Issue 02, Interim Arts, UK
• 2021 — The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Issue 1, Canada

Teaching & Related Experience

Columbia University, School of the Arts, NY

• Teaching Assistant: Figure Painting – Alternative Source Material (2024)
• Teaching Assistant: Basic Drawing (2023)
• Shops Fellow (2024)
• Shops Coordinator (2023)

Freelance Roles

• Independent Art Handler, New York (2024)
• Illustrator for Music Projects, Santiago (2020–2021)

Education

• Visual Arts Teacher, Grades 9–12, Santiago, Chile (2015–2016)

Creative Direction & Publishing

• Co-Founder / Editor / Creative Director, Suda La Lengua Magazine, Chile & Argentina (2013–2014)

Other

• Lab Technician & Sales Manager, Konica Minolta, Santiago (2011)