Gabriela Reyna: Things of Female

29 October to 13 December 2026
  • Things of Female

    Gabriela Reyna | 29 October to 13 December 2026

     

  • Gabriela Reyna was born in Havana in 1991. She graduated from the University of the Arts of Cuba in 2016 and has served as a professor of sculpture at the San Alejandro Academy since 2022. Based in Havana, her work investigates female identity, domestic space, and the body as a lived political territory.

     

    Her work is held in collections in Cuba and internationally, including the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana and the private collection of Jorge M. Pérez in Miami. She is represented by Galería Servando, Havana, and was selected for the Haifa Mediterranean Biennial, Videonale #1: Image of Happiness, in 2023. Recent presentations include El Baño at Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, Los Angeles, El Motivo at Galería Acacia, and Atravesar el Caribe a la sombra de una ceiba at the Centro Wifredo Lam.

     

  • Gabriela Reyna, Felix Vallotton - Gabrielle Vallotton Kneeling in Front of a Mirror on the Sofa of the Study on Rue des Belles-Feuilles, 2022

    Gabriela Reyna’s Things of Female began with a desire to return to painting through one of its most traditional subjects: the portrait.

     

    Developed between 2013 and 2023, the series appropriates female portraits painted by male artists throughout the history of art. In doing so, Reyna revisits the academic exercise of studying the Old Masters while questioning the gendered structures embedded within that tradition. Many of the female figures that shaped the visual language of art history were represented through the gaze of men. Reyna turns back to these images, not to reproduce them passively, but to recover the women behind them.

  • “The wardrobe is a manifesto where the everyday is transfigured into a critical gesture.”

    — Gabriela Reyna

  • Created with makeup on make-up remover towels, the works transform materials associated with beauty, care, and domestic routine into tools...
    Mockup installation view of Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo - Espalda / Back
    Created with makeup on make-up remover towels, the works transform materials associated with beauty, care, and domestic routine into tools of historical critique. The surface becomes both intimate and resistant: a place where femininity is not simply depicted, but reconsidered.
     
    For Reyna, clothing, appearance, and the rituals of the body operate as political territories. Her practice examines how garments, domestic spaces, and everyday gestures shape female identity in contexts of power, domination, and survival. In Things of Female, the portrait becomes a site of revision, where beauty, fatigue, memory, and resistance coexist.
    • Gabriela Reyna, Ramon Casas I Carbo - Tired, 2022
      Gabriela Reyna, Ramon Casas I Carbo - Tired, 2022
    • Gabriela Reyna, Édouard Manet - Berthe Morisot with Purple Bouquet, 2021
      Gabriela Reyna, Édouard Manet - Berthe Morisot with Purple Bouquet, 2021
    • Gabriela Reyna, Felix Vallotton - Gabrielle Vallotton Kneeling in Front of a Mirror on the Sofa of the Study on Rue des Belles-Feuilles, 2022
      Gabriela Reyna, Felix Vallotton - Gabrielle Vallotton Kneeling in Front of a Mirror on the Sofa of the Study on Rue des Belles-Feuilles, 2022
    • Gabriela Reyna, Jean Puy - In the Studio, 2021
      Gabriela Reyna, Jean Puy - In the Studio, 2021
    • Gabriela Reyna, Camilo Mori - Woman in Blue, 2017
      Gabriela Reyna, Camilo Mori - Woman in Blue, 2017
    • Gabriela Reyna, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo - Back, 2019
      Gabriela Reyna, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo - Back, 2019
    • Gabriela Reyna, Alex Katz - Blue Umbrella 2, 2020
      Gabriela Reyna, Alex Katz - Blue Umbrella 2, 2020
    • Gabriela Reyna, Adigio Benitez - Unusual Love, 2019
      Gabriela Reyna, Adigio Benitez - Unusual Love, 2019
    • Gabriela Reyna, Albert Marquet - Standing Female Nude, 2020
      Gabriela Reyna, Albert Marquet - Standing Female Nude, 2020
    • Gabriela Reyna, August Macke - Hat Shop, 2019
      Gabriela Reyna, August Macke - Hat Shop, 2019
    • Gabriela Reyna, Edgar Degas - Woman Combing Her Hair, 2017
      Gabriela Reyna, Edgar Degas - Woman Combing Her Hair, 2017
    • Gabriela Reyna, Andy Warhol - Wedding Portrait of Princess Diana, 2021
      Gabriela Reyna, Andy Warhol - Wedding Portrait of Princess Diana, 2021
    • Gabriela Reyna, Fernand Léger - Maria the Acrobat, Unknown
      Gabriela Reyna, Fernand Léger - Maria the Acrobat, Unknown
    • Gabriela Reyna, Carlos Alonso - Naked, 2021
      Gabriela Reyna, Carlos Alonso - Naked, 2021
    • Gabriela Reyna, Henri Matisse - The Romanian Blouse, 2018
      Gabriela Reyna, Henri Matisse - The Romanian Blouse, 2018
    • Gabriela Reyna, Israel Roa - Black Woman, 2017
      Gabriela Reyna, Israel Roa - Black Woman, 2017
    • Gabriela Reyna, Lucian Freud - Naked Portrait, 2021
      Gabriela Reyna, Lucian Freud - Naked Portrait, 2021
    • Gabriela Reyna, Mark Tansey - Still Life, 2020
      Gabriela Reyna, Mark Tansey - Still Life, 2020
    • Gabriela Reyna, Otto Dix, 2021
      Gabriela Reyna, Otto Dix, 2021
    • Gabriela Reyna, Kees van Dongen - Gypsy, 2019
      Gabriela Reyna, Kees van Dongen - Gypsy, 2019
    • Gabriela Reyna, Lasar Segall - Lucy with Dejected Eyes, 2019
      Gabriela Reyna, Lasar Segall - Lucy with Dejected Eyes, 2019
    • Gabriela Reyna, Marc Chagall, 2019
      Gabriela Reyna, Marc Chagall, 2019
    • Gabriela Reyna, Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Dora Maar, 2018
      Gabriela Reyna, Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Dora Maar, 2018
    • Gabriela Reyna, Toulouse-Lautrec - Helene Vary, 2021
      Gabriela Reyna, Toulouse-Lautrec - Helene Vary, 2021
    • Gabriela Reyna, William Rothenstein - Woman with Hat, 2019
      Gabriela Reyna, William Rothenstein - Woman with Hat, 2019
    • Gabriela Reyna, Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Lise Sewing, 2020
      Gabriela Reyna, Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Lise Sewing, 2020
    • Gabriela Reyna, Yiannis Moralis - Pregnant Woman, 2020
      Gabriela Reyna, Yiannis Moralis - Pregnant Woman, 2020