The Collection

Amy Bravo is a Cuban/Italian American painter whose work navigates questions of cultural identity, belonging, and queer experience. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Pratt Institute in 2019 and subsequently pursued a Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College.

Bravo came to fine-arts painting relatively recently, completing her first large-scale canvas work in 2018. Her practice is grounded in the shared languages of family and culture — encompassing both blood lineage and chosen, queer kinship. At the center of her work is a deeply personal inquiry into what it means to exist as a queer Cuban person with few remaining Cuban relatives and a homeland made inaccessible by the complexities of Cuban politics.

Her large-scale paintings construct what she has described as an impossible utopia — an imaginative space loosely shaped around Cuba, where the very impossibility of that place becomes the defining condition of the work.