Natividad Bermejo graduated in art from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1986, she received a scholarship for Plastic Creative Arts in Non-Traditional Materials from the Institute of Youth. Since 1994, she has lectured in sculpture at the School of Art of Vigo University. In the mid-1980s, she began creating pieces in non-traditional materials such as rubber and polyester, with forms that referenced the poetic and the surreal, inspired by her perception of the multiple manifestations of nature. In the mid-1990s, she shifted her focus to photography, video and installation. However, her most common medium was drawing in graphite and pastels, which she used to cover the paper and make a white figure emerge from the darkness. Bermejo takes scale as a differential concept, translating referential images from a range of sources — scientific texts, the media and personal items — to monumental drawings. Her mimetic representation explores events related to the sublime, chaotic and abysmal vision of reality, combining the hyperreal and the dreamlike in a metaphorical expansion of the object or scene depicted.
Since her first exhibition in 1989, she has staged numerous solo shows in Spanish galleries and exhibition spaces, including Sala Amós Salvador (Logroño, 1994); the Caja de Burgos Art Centre (2008); and the ABC Museum (Madrid, 2012). Her work has also been shown in many group exhibitions, among other venues, at the European Central Bank (Frankfurt, Germany, 2002), the Instituto Cervantes in Berlin and New York (2003) and the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art (León, 2007 and 2009).
Natividad Bermejo graduated in art from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1986, she received a scholarship for Plastic Creative Arts in Non-Traditional Materials from the Institute of Youth. Since 1994, she has lectured in sculpture at the School of Art of Vigo University. In the mid-1980s, she began creating pieces in non-traditional materials such as rubber and polyester, with forms that referenced the poetic and the surreal, inspired by her perception of the multiple manifestations of nature. In the mid-1990s, she shifted her focus to photography, video and installation. However, her most common medium was drawing in graphite and pastels, which she used to cover the paper and make a white figure emerge from the darkness. Bermejo takes scale as a differential concept, translating referential images from a range of sources — scientific texts, the media and personal items — to monumental drawings. Her mimetic representation explores events related to the sublime, chaotic and abysmal vision of reality, combining the hyperreal and the dreamlike in a metaphorical expansion of the object or scene depicted.
Since her first exhibition in 1989, she has staged numerous solo shows in Spanish galleries and exhibition spaces, including Sala Amós Salvador (Logroño, 1994); the Caja de Burgos Art Centre (2008); and the ABC Museum (Madrid, 2012). Her work has also been shown in many group exhibitions, among other venues, at the European Central Bank (Frankfurt, Germany, 2002), the Instituto Cervantes in Berlin and New York (2003) and the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art (León, 2007 and 2009).