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(see-sa-g klee-oh b-rah-voh id-ro-bo)
Ecuador, 1990. Based in New Brunswick, NJ. 
+1 7325329350

EDUCATION
2020 – 2023
MFA in Visual Arts – Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Thesis title: “Let’s Party Like it’s 1492”
2021 – 2023
Graduate Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
2013 – 2017
Baccalaureus Artium Contemporary Arts – Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. GPA 3.34/4. Thesis title: “Behind the footsteps of Agnès A. Caamaño”.
2013 – 2017
Minor in Photography – Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2020 – 2023
Mason Gross School of the Arts Fellowship. Rutgers University. NJ - United States of America.
2020 – 2022
Fulbright Scholarship Grantee, Fulbright Foreign Student Program. United States of America.
2019
Mujeres Difíciles Fellowship. Más Arte gallery-workshop, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2017
Nodo Fellowship, long-term art residency. No Lugar - Contemporary Art. Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2017
Brazil Award, Emerging Art 2017, selected. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2016
COCOA Award in Photography. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2016
Dean list, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2016
Playground, artist program, selected. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.

TEACHING
2023
Rutgers University, NJ, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Workshop How to organize your image archive, Spring 2023.
2022 – 2023
Rutgers University, NJ, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Part-Time Lecturer 4D FUNDAMENTALS & Drawing I-B: Systems and Structures, Fall 2022-Spring 2023.
2021
Universidad San Francisco de Quito. College of Communication and Contemporary Arts, Mentorship Gris Medio II Meeting of Contemporary Photography.
2021
Rutgers University, NJ, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Teaching Assistant (Teaching Mentorship Program) PHOTOGRAPHY II A, September-December 2021.
2021
Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador, Fractal geometry in the Andean flora of Chimborazo, Research Assistant and Design, August-December 2020.
2017
Archive of the Modern Architecture in Quito, Research Assistant, February-December 2017.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2020
Cierre. Khôra / Ana María Garzón (curator), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2017
Behind the footsteps of Agnès A. Caamaño. No Lugar - Contemporary Art/ Ana María Garzón         and No Lugar (curators), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
DUO
2019
Saudade. Más Arte gallery-workshop / Gabriela Moyano (curator), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
JURIED
2019
Narrativas Transitorias. Ubica-t: Una calle para nosotras (Loca-te: A street of our's own). No Lugar – Contemporary Art. Ana Rodriguez, Eduardo Carrera and Francisco Suarez (jurors). Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2019
Difficult Women. Femmage 2. Más Arte gallery-workshop / Gabriela Moyano and Saskya Fung Sang (curators & jurors), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2018
Unraveling History, The Threads of Memory. Muses (muses no more). Centro de Arte Contemporáneo / La Emancipada and Leyla Dunia (jurors), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2017
Premio Brasil. 13/100. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo / Romina Muñoz, Ana María Garzón and Eduardo Carrera (jurors), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
GROUP
2023
Ventana Hacia un Momento. 33 body-casts of a mestiza body. Q Gallery, Quito, Ecuador.
2022
Breaking Down the Sun. Let’s Party Like it’s 1492. Mason Gross Galleries. Rutgers University. NJ - United States of America.
2021
I miss you terribly when you're away. The Blah Library. Mason Gross Galleries. Rutgers University. NJ - United States of America.
2021
Anti-Matters. Saudade. Mason Gross Galleries. Rutgers University. NJ - United States of America.
2020
TRADUCCIONES. Declaración (Statement). Spacio, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2019
60,6% Diálogos artísticos contra la violencia machista (60.6% Artistic dialogues against sexist violence). 13/100. Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2019
vague à l'âme. SCAN 001-006. Espacio Violenta, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
2019
Habitual. Atlas. No Lugar – Contemporary Art, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2019
You Will Not Speak for Us. Femmage 3. Wampra art, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2018
Group Exhibition. Femmage 1. No Lugar - Contemporary Art / Francisco Suárez (curator), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2018
Fagia. Gombrich’s Art History. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2018
Particular Spaces. Behind the footsteps of Agnès A. Caamaño. Espacio Violenta, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
2018
Variations on the Same Topic. Fragment of Behind the Footsteps of Agnès A. Caamaño. Khôra / Ana María Garzón (curator), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2017
Particular Spaces. Behind the footsteps of Agnès A. Caamaño. Más Arte gallery-workshop, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2017
Andean Women. Other stories of Art History. LoftA46 Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland.
2017
P1. @barbie_uio. Container - Pobre Diablo, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2017
Pixel Fixer. A Little Bit More… . Arte Actual, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2015
Pixel Fixer. Me/portraits. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.

LECTURES
2021
Portfolio reading. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, First Photography Congress: Gris Medio. Virtual.
2020
A Brief Introduction to Cultural Industries. Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo. Riobamba, Ecuador.
2020
Self-Archive. Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Quito, Ecuador.
2020
Portfolio presentation. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador.
2020
Cierre. Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Quito, Ecuador.
2019
Round Table. Universidad de las Américas. Quito, Ecuador.
2017
On the Trail of Agnès A. Caamaño. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador.

RESEARCH
2021 –  Ongoing
Mestiza. Interdisciplinary exploration of the body of the mestiza and the rejection of the colonial taxonomy. Rutgers University. NJ - United States of America.
2021 –  Ongoing
Andean Runes. Elaboration of a runic oracle system based on Andean symbols from the extinct Puruha Language from Ecuador. Rutgers University. NJ - United States of America.
2019 – Ongoing
Las mujeres que dieron forma al arte ecuatoriano de inicios del milenio (Women who shaped Ecuadorian art at the beginning of the millennium). Co-author of the research, along with Ana María Garzón. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
2019 – 2020
Saudade. Artistic research. Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.

PRESS & INTERVIEWS (SELECTED)
2023, March Fun Sang, S., Ventana hacia un momento. Artishock Revista. Chile.
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2020, February    Zambrano, J., Garzón A., Fun Sang S., Vega B. Clio Bravo arma un museo de su memoria y hace eco de otras tantas (Clio Bravo builds a museum of her memory and echoes many others). Cartón Piedra, El Telégrafo. Ecuador.
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2020, January Varas, E. Clío Bravo presenta ‘Cierre’, su archivo personal elevado a arte (Clío Bravo presents
‘Cierre’, her personal archive elevated to art). Primicias. Ecuador. Link:
2019, December Arte Contemporáneo Ecuador. Vulvas [Video]. YouTube.
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2019, December Varas, E. Quito a través de la mirada de seis artistas de diversas disciplinas (Quito through the gaze of six artists from various disciplines). Primicias. Ecuador.
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2019, November Varas, E. ‘Narrativas transitorias’ cuestiona la idea de pertenencia (‘Transitory narratives’
questions the idea of belonging). Primicias. Ecuador. Link:
2019, September Zambrano, J. Las galerías de arte equilibran la balanza (Art galleries balance the scale). El Telégrafo. Ecuador.
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2019, September Medina, K. Ocho mujeres protagonizan exposición en Violenta (Eight women star in an exhibition in Violenta). El Universo. Ecuador.
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2019, February Tres artistas desafían el ideal femenino con sus exposiciones interdisciplinarias (Three artists challenge the feminine ideal with their interdisciplinary exhibitions). Diario La Hora. Ecuador.
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2018, May Rivera, F. La exposición -fagia reúne a diez artistas y cuatro curadores jóvenes (The exhibition - fagia brings together ten artists and four curators). Diario El Telégrafo. Ecuador.
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2017, December Flores, G. El mundo de nueve artistas jóvenes llega a +Arte (The world of nine young artists comes to + Arte). Diario El Comercio. Ecuador.
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2017, July Rivera, F. Clio Bravo recupera la vida de Agnès A.Caamaño (Clio Bravo recovers the life of Agnès A.Caamaño). Diario El Telégrafo. Ecuador.
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2017, July Valencia, L. Enigma y memoria de Agnès Caamaño (Enigma and memory of Agnès Caamaño).
Diario El Universo. Ecuador. Link:
2017, July Cardona, M. Clio Bravo y la barbaridad de las redes. (Clio Bravo and the barbarity of social media). Lifestyle Kiki. Ecuador.

SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL Sound, Projection, Analog Photography, Alternative Photographic Processes (Chemigram, Lumen, Photogram, Cyanotype), Digital Photography, Photomontage, Video, Graphic Design, Serigraphy, Wood Work, Drawing, Art History, Embroidery.
LANGUAGE English. Certificate in English as a Second Language – Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. TOEFL iBT Score 112 out of 120.
German. Level 4 – Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
RESEARCH Data Collection, Interviewing, Archival Research, Archival Processing, Analysis of Information, and Project Management.
COMPUTER Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Adobe Lightroom, Social Media Management, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Instant Messaging, Video Conferencing, Cloud Backup Software, AutoCAD.
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