Brenda is a Texas-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator born in Mexico City. Through
painting, ceramic sculpture, and photography, her work explores place as memory, place as material,
and place as self. Her journey has taken her from Texas to Italy, the U.K., New York City, New
England, the Rocky Mountains and the Middle East - shaping a practice that is both global and deeply
personal. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, attended residencies in Greece, Maine,
and Wyoming, and was named a 2021 Carter Community Artist with the Amon Carter Museum of
American Art, Fort Worth.
between things sensed and things remembered is an exhibition of multidisciplinary work by Mexican
artist Brenda Melgoza Ciardiello. This selection of original paintings, ceramics, and photomontages
explores place as memory, place as material, and place as self motivated by the beauty of a life lived
crossing borders and negotiating origin and belonging through a lens of displacement and cultural
plurality.
Inspired directly by plants, landscapes, and fruits encountered on multiple visits to Coyoacán in
Mexico City in 2023 and her residency in Crete, Greece in 2024, the artist uses abstraction and color
to examine what it means to carry multiple places within oneself. Through metaphorical self-
portraiture the work embodies the varying states of the self as it is reshaped over the years by the
ongoing influence of movement, migration, and memory.
