About Chee Bravo
Photography courtesy M.K. Hammerstein
jcheebravo@yahoo.com
Chee Bravo is a Trinidad and Tobago–born, U.S.-based multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking, painting, digital collage, bricolage, and immersive installation. Her practice is shaped by her traditional training as a printmaker, her career in graphic design, and her upbringing in the culturally diverse Caribbean before emigrating to the United States.
Bravo’s ongoing Performer series centers on storytelling, ritual, and collective experience within public and shared spaces. Using photography and digital platforms, she constructs layered compositions that are individually separated and hand-prepared for silkscreen printing. The series started with subway performers in New York City has since grown to include subjects from her travels, the tri-state area she called home for over a decade, and now Florida, where she is currently based. These works celebrate resilience, movement, and joy, honoring often-overlooked contributors to urban culture while capturing the fleeting yet powerful exchanges between performers and their audiences.
Her recent body of work, the Aerial series, explores abstraction through color, form, and process, emphasizing a sense of calm and rhythmic flow. For over a decade, she has been developing her Aerial series, drawing from photographs taken from airplane windows during her travels. These images serve as a starting point for digitally manipulated compositions that transform natural landscapes into organic, abstract forms. The final works are realized as silkscreens, blending photographic origin with layered, tactile printmaking techniques. Through this practice, she invites viewers into meditative visual experiences shaped by movement, atmosphere, and perspective.
In addition to two-dimensional work, Bravo creates bricolage sculptures and multidisciplinary installations conceived as contemporary deities addressing fertility, addiction, materialism, hope, and social values. Drawing from personal experience and the iconology of mainstream and pagan religions, these works frequently incorporate light as both material and metaphor. Her installations are designed to foster reflection, dialogue, and meaningful engagement in public settings.
Bravo earned her BFA in printmaking from Florida International University and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections. She has received multiple honors, including a 2025 Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Commission and a 2022 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.