Please join us to close out the residency of Brenda Vega. You’ll have the opportunity to meet the artist and see what she has been working on during her time with us. We also utilize these events for networking to enable connections between artists working in other locations.

Brenda (she/her) is a Visual Artist from the Andes. (Ecuador, born in 1984.) In 2016, Brenda was awarded the Troika Photography Prize in London for her multimedia work 'Interfaced Nature.' She participated in artist residencies like SIM Residency Reykjavík (2019), Lumen in Italy (2018), and No Lugar in Quito (2017). Brenda completed her MA in Photography at the University of the Arts London in 2016. From 2019 to 2023, Brenda taught art full-time at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. In 2022, Brenda was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Grant for Faculty Development in Ecuador before embarking on a Ph.D. in Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Dallas, which is her current pursuit. She now resides in Richardson, Texas, with her husband and dog, Bruno.