Paraíso, 2026: Mónica Pérez
For the inaugural edition of Paraíso, a new London art fair dedicated to Latin American art, Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to present two solo presentations by Francisco Valdés and Mónica Pérez. The fair is open to the public 16-18 October, with a VIP preview on Thursday 15 October.
View further details on Francisco Valdés at Paraíso here.
Paraíso marks Mónica Pérez’s first presentation beyond the institutional framework of the Royal College of Art. The Uruguayan painter creates her own pigments from materials gathered in her home country, including Garzón clay, bone black, raddle and industrial wool residue. These materials root the paintings in the history of Uruguay’s grasslands and in the livestock economy that once linked the country’s agricultural wealth to industrial Britain. Through them, Pérez examines the systems of marking, counting and control embedded within that history.
Recent exhibitions include FAULT: studies in survival, The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye, London (2026); Eternal Return Vol. II, The Koppel Project, London (2026); The Diasporic Archive, The Old Waiting Room, London (2025); Donde Comenzamos, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London (2025); ARK Parrhesia, Hockney Gallery, London (2025); Fall of Icarus, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, London (2025); and Ancestral Utopias, Hangar Gallery, London (2025). She has been an invited artist at CAMPO ARTFEST in Garzón, Uruguay (2020, 2023). Her work is discussed and illustrated in Jesse Ash’s “Mosaic Methodologies: What Does a Regenerative Art Practice Look Like?” (Arts, 2026), and in Jasmine Haniff’s “Unravelling the thread from colonial England to Uruguay in Mónica Perez’s art” (Latin America Bureau, 2025). She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2025).