Chilean artist Constanza Briceño has dedicated the last few years of her life to painting. After graduating from the Catholic University of Chile's art program (2001), her work has shifted from the language of installation to a recovery of the craft of painting, which traces a return to the learning practices she maintained during her childhood and adolescence, when she pursued personal studies in this technique after moving with her family to a house in a remote town on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile.
 

The preservation of these childhood memories constitutes the raw material from which Briceño creates her pictorial work, which is shaped through the repetition and superposition of layers of color that fit together, revealing forms and memories of the house and nature. The stains and textures that blend without the need for a fit reveal the construction process of the work, revealing the beauty of imperfection as a metaphor for repairing or mending a moment. The artist proposes a visual narrative using a personal color palette that she has built over time, which identifies her painting as a personal and intimate mirror.
 

Currently, Constanza works in her home-studio in Papamoa, New Zealand, the country to which she emigrated in 2009 and where she started a family with Argentine guitarist Santiago Rebagliati. In the intimacy of this space, near the sea—that sea that distances her and at the same time allows her to evoke her personal history—the artist reconstructs and narrates passages from her memory, drawing moments, people, and places from the past that intertwine in an accumulation of layers and veils, as in the series "Knitting, Women and Stories," where she recovers the stories of the women in her life. The artist also teaches painting, developing a methodology that unites art and life, where the intimacy of living, lived spaces, and remembered places are interwoven in her works.
 

Constanza's work is recognized locally and regionally. Her work has been selected for major group and solo exhibitions in galleries in New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. In 2024, she co-created the first version of the BOP Open Studios / Art Trail in the Bay of Plenty. Recently, she has been selected twice for the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award (2021 and 2024), exhibited her series "Returning Home. Everything looked smaller and darker than in my memories" (Chile, 2024), and has held three solo exhibitions at the Incubator Gallery in Tauranga, New Zealand, the latest titled "That House Where I Grew Up" (2025).