Amy Bravo combines icons from Latin American popular culture and hyper-personal family stories, to invent her own vision, intimate and fantastic, of an afterlife in the rough shape of the island of Cuba.  Rather than classic stretched canvases, Bravo prefers to draw on loose canvas—cut and stitched to create irregular shapes that expand into painting and assemblage sculpture. She seeks to queer the myth of her family lineage, challenge and communicate with her ancestors, and draw the contours of a mythical world. Her works thus give birth to a rural colony populated by amazons, boxers, rooster-women, and cowgirls.

Born in 1997 in Park Ridge, New Jersey, Amy Bravo currently lives and works in Queens, New York. After completing a BFA in Illustration at Pratt Institute, New York, she obtained an MFA in Painting at Hunter College, New York in 2022. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Swivel Gallery, New York, Semiose Gallery in Paris, as well as group shows with Buffalo AKG Art Museum and The FLAG Foundation. Her work is featured in the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum in Miami. She was a 2024 New York Community Trust Fellow at ISCP and a resident at the Fountainhead in Miami in 2022.