CECILIA BONILLA
Montevideo, Uruguay
https://www.instagram.com/ceciliabonilla_studio
Education
2006-07 MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2003-04 Post graduate Diploma in Fine ArtChelsea College of Art and Design, London
1996-99 AA Fine Art New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida
1993-96 BA Graphic Design O.R.T. University, Montevideo, Uruguay
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025- Forthcoming: Solo presentation, Madre project space, Margate
2025 -Ensamble(with Martin Verges), Galeria del Paseo, Pta. del Este, Uruguay
2023-The Touch of Others
The Eye Sees, Roussilion, France
2021-Echadoras de la Buena Fortuna
ArtFest, Campo Garzon, Uruguay
2019-A hard shell lined with Velvet
Limbo Art Space, Margate, UK
2017-IT’S NOT FOREVER,
Galeria del Paseo, Pta. del Este, Uruguay
2014-Nebulae
Galeria del Paseo, Pta. del Este, Uruguay
2013-Veladas
MNAV, Montevideo Uruguay
2013- Inerte
Subte Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay
2013-Se Alquila
EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay
2011- Intemperie
Figari Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay
2006-Tahiti
Reception Space gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026-Winter break me
Off season, Margate
2025-Small things with big ideas
White Conduit Projects, London
2025- Disturb the Logic
Tondo Cosmic Projects, London
2025- Blink and you miss it
Safehouse, London
2024-Give away your relics
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
2023- Annihilation
Snap Art Centre, Shanghai China
2022- Summer Exhibition
Galeria Del Paseo, Lima
2021-After_Image
Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
2021-Shapeshifters, the image in flux
OD Gallery, London
2021-London Art Fair
with Charlie Smith Gallery
2021-OD photography prize
The Old Brick Shop, London UK
2021-Give Away your Relics
Arthouse, London UK
2020-Contagio
Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, UK
2019-Allhallowtide
Porthsmouth Art Space, Porthsmouth, UK
2019 Notices in a Mutable Terrain
Piero Atchugarry Art Centre, Miami, USA
2018-Lima Photo 2018
Lima, Peru
2018-Prision, Palace
Margate Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay
2017-Espectros del Deseo
Subte Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay
2016 National Salon for Visual Arts
Montevideo, Uruguay
2016-Anthology
Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2016-Terrestre
Verdi_Verd Espai Art, Barcelona
2015-El Pensamiento Oceanico
EAC, Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo,
2015-Chelsea 10
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London UK
2014 -The way you see it
Galeria Szara Kamienica, Kraków, Poland
2013-A tourist in other people’s reality
Vestry House Museum, London, UK
2013 -Speak Clown!
Fold Gallery, London, UK
2013-We sell Pornography here
Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2012-Fabricate
Parlour Gallery, London
2011-She’s in the picture
Centrum for Photography, Stockholm, Sweden -
2011-Videorover II
Nurtureart, NY USA
2011-Good Looks
24 Chalton St- London
2010-The MAB Film Exercise
screening of Horse Riding , Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
2009-Now You See It
CGP Gallery, Southwark Park, London
2009-Publish & be Damned
Self Publishing Fair Oxford House, London E2 68G
2009-Subtext(s)
Basement Gallery, Pages of Hackney,
2008-Take me Show me, I’m absolutely yours
Gallery 52a, London
2008-IF YOU CAN'T CLOSE …OPEN IT
The Wharf Road Project, London
2008-DIVA Art Fair
(White Box gallery), New York
2008- A Snake on a Tree
(screening), Berlin, Germany
2008-A Snake on a Tree
screening, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
2008-After Dark
Eleven Fine Art, London
2008-Besame Mucho mas
Chat’s Palace, London,
2008-Foldback II
Space Gallery, London
2007- Is great pretending you are dead
NOG gallery, London
2007- PILOT 3
Venice Biennale, Italy 2006
2007-Speakers Corner
Meals & SUV's gallery, London
2006-Real Proper Show
Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design
2005-Unexpected (interventions)
Shoreditch Festival 2005
2005-Think and Wonder,Wonder &Think
Museum of Childhood, London
2004-SV Open
Studio Voltaire, London
2004-XS
FA Projects, London
2004-Besame Mucho
(live art event), Hoxton Hall Theatre, London
2004-Gatsby
The New Lansdowne Club, London
2001-Ataque de Nervios
Hoxton Hall Theatre, London
1998-Rising Stars
South Florida Arts Centre, Miami, Florida
Awards and Commissions
2024 Arts Council Grant
Developing your Creative Practice
2022 Finalist Passepartout Catalogue Prize –
2021 Judge’s pick -OD photography Prize London
2019 Artist Newsletter Bursary – Developing your practice for Artist Residency Limbo,
2018 Arts Council Grant – Developing your own practice (participation in LimaPhoto2018)
2016 Finalist (special commendation) Anthology, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2016 FinalistNational Salon Visual Arts, Montevideo Uruguay
2011 Haringey Council’s Olympic Art Collection Commission 2011
2007 Selected for publication Pilot 3 by Alex Sainsbury
Publications and Catalogues
2023 And I still Rise, Sola, Journal, UK
2022 Passepartout prize Catalogue, Rome, Italy
2021 OD Photo Prize Catalogue, London UK
2021 PORT Magazine, 10 year anniversary edition
2020 Photofilmic Journal, issue 6 Fall, Canada
2020 Contagio, exhibition Catalogue, Cecilia Brunson Projects, London
2018 Lima Photo 2018, Art Fair/ xhibition Catalogue, Lima, Peru
2017 Panorama, Montevideo, Uruguay
2016 National Salon for Visual Arts, exhibition Catalogue , Montevideo Uruguay
2015 Chelsea 10, exhibition catalogue
2014 Locatarios y Visitantes 2014, EAC Space for Contemporary Arts, Montevideo Uruguay
2013 A tourist in other people’s reality, exhibition Catalogue, Vestry House Museum, published by Mnemoscapes, UK
2013 Veladas, exhibition Catalogue, MNAV (National Museum of Visual Arts), Montevideo, Uruguay
2011 One minute video awards 2012,- DVD Catalogue, Theoneminutesfoundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 2010/11 Exhibitions Season Catalogue, NURTUREart, online issuue edition, NY, USA
2009 Succulent L’egume – The Insurgent Issue, Magazine published by Zoe Darling, London, Uk
2007 Pilot:3 Catalogue, published by PILOT, Venice, Italy 2007
1996 Rising Stars – Exhibition Catalogue published by NWSA, Miami Florida
Collections
Private collections: Argentina, Uruguay, USA, UK, Peru, Germany, Hong Kong, China, Spain, France, Canada.