Jeanine Brito (b. 1993, Germany) is a painter living in Toronto, Canada, where she received her B.Des in Fashion Communication from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2015. In 2014 she studied at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, completing a minor in independent fashion magazines. Her design education informs the use of colour and composition in her paintings, where she explores themes of memory and desire through self-portraiture and still life. Her work has been exhibited by galleries such as Prior Art Space in Berlin and Eve Leibe Gallery in London, and is collected internationally.

Education

Toronto Metropolitan University, Bachelor of Design, 2015

Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Independent Fashion Magazines Minor, 2014

Select exhibitions

2022, solo exhibition, La Causa Galeria, Madrid, Spain (forthcoming)

2022, group exhibition, Renata Fabbri, Milan, Italy (forthcoming)

2022, duo exhibition, Artistellar, London, UK (forthcoming)

2022, group exhibition, That Wilderness Within, Prior Art Space, Barcelona, Spain

2022, group exhibition, The Power of Femininity,  Kutlesa Gallery, Goldau, Switzerland

2022, group exhibition, Whims, La Causa Galeria, Madrid, Spain

2022, group exhibition, Eve Presents #2, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK

2022, group exhibition, Venomous, D Contemporary, London, UK

2021, group exhibition, The Eyes of the Night Creatures , Delphian Gallery, virtual

2021, group exhibition, Coming in, Coming Out, Prior Art Space, Berlin, Germany

2021, group exhibition, Prelude to Light, Bird & Tale, Chicago, IL

2021, group exhibition, Eve Presents #1, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK

2021, solo exhibition, August and Other Stories, Artistellar (virtual)

Select press and publications

“Artist Jeanine Brito hopes to turn bad memories into something beautiful through her surreal and theatrical paintings.” Creative Boom, 1 March 2022, https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/jeanine-brito/

“Jeanine Brito uses her dreamlike paintings to preserve memories and fantasies of ‘life before’.” CBC Arts, 8 Dec. 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/arts/jeanine-brito-uses-her-dreamlike-paintings-to-preserve-memories-and-fantasies-of-life-before-1.6276567

“Bedroom Diaries: Jeanine Brito.” Capsule 98, Nov. 2021, https://capsule98.com/bedroom-diaries/jeanine-brito/

“Jeanine Brito creates dreamlike paintings with a designer’s eye.” Creative Review, 7 Sept. 2021, https://www.creativereview.co.uk/designer-artist-jeanine-brito/.

“Artist Jeanine Brito.” Ninu Nina, 23 Aug. 2021, https://www.ninunina.com/blog/2021/8/23/artist-jeanine-brito.

“Most Wished For.” S/ Magazine, Jan. 2021, pp. 52–57.

“Through Her Eyes.” S/ Magazine, Nov. 2020, p. 23.

Teaching

2015, Guest lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University

2014, Teaching Assistant, Toronto Metropolitan University