Cecilia Bonilla is a UK-based Uruguayan artist working predominantly with assemblage, installation, and collage.

Bonilla works primarily with images and objects that already exist in the world, subtly combining them to subvert their original meanings—reconfiguring, perverting, and dismantling the source material. In her assemblages and installations, she arranges materials into ephemeral, often precarious displays. Her practice is rooted in appropriation and quiet disruption, resisting spectacle and obvious statements.

Across her work, the fragility of our connection to nature, along with themes of domesticity, “ideals of beauty,” “lifestyle,” and other social constructs, are questioned corrupted and undermined through minimal yet skillful assemblage and modification.

Bonilla grew up as a political refugee in Sweden during the 1980s, an experience that continues to inform her sensitivity to context and representation. She has lived and worked in the UK since 1999 and is currently based between Margate and London.