Mila Bernardo
b. 1994, Brazil
Based in Baixada Santista, São Paulo, Brazil
Contact: contato@milabernardo.com
Is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of memory, identity, and the spaces we inhabit. Her work moves between painting, sculpture, and installation, often incorporating everyday materials, objects, and architectural elements to investigate the relationships between people, places, and things, and the marks these relationships leave over time.
She is currently developing the series Rejunte, an ongoing research project that investigates spaces as frames for everyday life and memory. From a Brazilian and Latin American perspective, elements such as ceramic tiles, cobogós, patterned tiles, iron grilles, and other architectural structures are explored as starting points for understanding memory as something that is constructed and transformed through the mutual relationship between people and spaces.
Education
2015 Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Inventory: Time Within Things, G. Arte e Galeria, Santos, Brazil
2025 Mila, a Solo Exhibition, Futrica Creative Economy, Santos, Brazil
2021 Literary Reveries, Main Hall of Santos City Hall, Santos, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2026 23rd Araraquara Art Territory, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
2026 Ephemeral, Casa Alderete Gallery, Mexico
2025 70th Piracicaba Fine Arts Salon, Miguel Dutra Municipal Pinacotheca, Piracicaba, Brazil
2025 Bound and Unbound VIII, University of South Dakota, United States
2025 Coastal Women, Casa do Trem Bélico, Santos, Brazil
2025 Embracing Our Differences, Sarasota and St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
2025 Portraits and Self-Portraits, Oposta Espaço Inventivo, Limeira, Brazil
2022 Coastal Latin America, Herval 33, Santos, Brazil
2022 Doors, installation in the historic center of Santos for the 14th UNESCO Creative Cities Conference, Santos, Brazil
Awards
2025 1st Place, Poster Competition, 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, United States
2024 Special Mention for Research Quality, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy
Publications
2025 The Social Art Award 2025 — Planetary Healing: Blue Tribes for Ocean Health, The Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany
2024 The Power of She, Arts to Hearts Project and Women in Arts Network, United States
