Fernanda Luz Avendaño

Chilean painter based in São Paulo, Brazil. Through landscape painting I explore the relationship between natural and urban environments, connecting daily life with the unknown. My work often depicts empty spaces suspended in time. Since moving to Brazil, I have particularly focused on gardens and parks as allegories of a lost paradise.

She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual Poetics at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She holds a Master’s degree in Advanced Design (2021) and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts (2016) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago. In 2016, she also completed an academic exchange in Painting at the University of Porto, Portugal.

Selected solo exhibitions include "Atravessar o Verde" at Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2026); "Un país sin otoño" at Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile (2026); "Tentativas de Desaparecer" at Casa Camelo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2024); "Onde Voltarão a Crescer as Margaridas?" at Museu Universitário de Arte (MUnA), Uberlândia, Brazil (2024); "Destellos Lejanos" at Centro Cultural Costanera, Puerto Natales, Chile (2023); "Símbolos Difusos" at Museo Regional de Rancagua, Chile (2023); and "Estructuras en Suspenso" at Museo Regional de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile (2021).

Selected group exhibitions include "em nome da coisa" at Arte FASAM Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); "Quase à noite" at Espaço das Artes, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2025); "20 Anos da Residência Artística FAAP" at Museu de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); the MARP Exhibition Program at Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2025); the 34th Bunkyo Contemporary Art Salon, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); the 19th Ubatuba Visual Arts Salon, Ubatuba, Brazil (2024); "O Mundo Sem Mim" at Trapo Galeria, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2020); "Linguagens em Papel" at Galeria El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia (2019)... Her work has been pre...