Jeanine Brito
Modern medicine, 2024
acrylic on canvas
48h x 36w in
122h x 91w cm
Here, a scene of motherly devotion, 2023
acrylic on canvas
80h x 72w in
203.20h x 182.88w cm
Gentle is the knife she wields so nicely, 2023
acrylic on canvas
36h x 28w in
91.44h x 71.12w cm
Everything I did, I did for love, 2022
acrylic on canvas
167.64h x 127w cm
66h x 50w in
Bathwater, 2022
acrylic on canvas
44h x 72w in
111.76h x 182.88w cm
Jeanine Brito (b. 1993, Germany) is a painter living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her work explores themes of memory and desire, imagined in a theatrical, surrealist context. Self-taught, her previous experience as a graphic designer informs her approach to colour and composition, where smooth, saturated surfaces meet photographic crops. Recent exhibitions include Jeanine Brito, Nicodim, New York (2024, solo, forthcoming); The Invitation: A Fairytale by Jeanine Brito, Nicodim Upstairs, Los Angeles (2023, solo); DISEMBODIED, curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim, New York (2023); So Softly and Sweetly, La Causa Galeria, Madrid (2022, solo); You Me Me You curated by Rachel Keller, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022); and New Mythologies II, Huxley Parlour, London (2022).
Brito ran an online fashion magazine before posting her fairy tale–inspired painted creations on Instagram. They were an instant hit.
Toronto-based artist Jeanine Brito (b. 1993) is telling her own fairy tales in bold visions of red and pink paint.
The artist, who was born in Mainz, Germany, and raised in Toronto, recently held her first U.S. solo exhibition, “The Invitation: A Fairytale by Jeanine Brito,” at Nicodim Gallery’s Los Angeles space—a show that felt like falling into a picture book. Inspired by the peculiar combination of brutality and beauty found in the pages of Hans Christian Andersen and Grimm’s children’s stories, Brito conceived of the exhibition as a space to construct her very own fairy tale—one that was dark, visceral, and glamorously theatrical at once.
To mark the beginning of a new chapter at Nina Ricci with Harris Reed at the helm, the French fashion house commissioned three paintings reinterpreting the brand’s classic iconography by German artist Jeanine Brito. Archival Nina Ricci symbols —including apples, flowers and doves— took on dreamy new appearances in buttery shades of pink and blue. Several of the collection’s prints and promotional images were also adapted from Brito’s custom series.
