Fabiola Gonzales

Fabiola Gonzales (b. 1996, Lima) is a visual artist currently based in Lima, Peru. She studied Painting at the Faculty of Art & Design of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and pursued editorial illustration at Toulouse Lautrec. Her interdisciplinary practice incorporates painting, collage, photography, and installation, drawing from personal and collective memory to explore domestic archives and intimate spaces. Through this lens, she investigates affectivity as a mutable force, framing private rituals, testimonies, and commemorative objects as vehicles for broader social narratives.

Gonzales’s work centres on how the family album and domestic photography construct identities, preserve legacies, and mask underlying tensions. She reflects on these materials as ritualistic tools that shape notions of affection, power, and transgenerational dynamics. In her paintings, festive imagery of family gatherings is used not just to portray joy but to critique the underlying structures of gender, tradition, and violence. Her art captures the fragility and performativity of intimacy, offering viewers a space where memory is simultaneously cherished, deconstructed, and reimagined. Through this interplay, she presents the domestic as both archive and battlefield, where affection becomes a site of resistance and reconciliation.

Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions including Nadie me enseñó a decir no, ahora canto todos los días(CASA FUGAZ, 2020), Negociaciones de pica y pica (Galería del Paseo, 2020), GOMENASAI (CASA FUGAZ, 2022), Antes que se acabe el café amarillo (Ginsberg Galería, 2023), and Beautiful boy, you were a mix of honey, mint and pink (Soon Gallery, Zurich, 2023). She is preparing her upcoming solo show Zona de promesas at Ginsberg Tzu, curated by Max Hernández (October 2024). Gonzales has participated in the artist residencies La Fabrique III (Alianza Francesa, Lima, 2022) and Casa Intermitente (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2022). She was a finalist for the ICPNA Contemporary Art Prize (2023) and received first prize in painting critique from PUCP (2019). Her curatorial projects include contributions to Wu Galería and the Latin American itinerant video art festival VIDEOTITLÁN (Mexico, 2021).