Pablo Bronstein b. 1977

Pablo Bronstein works across drawing, printmaking, film, and performance. He combines anachronistic elements to create architectural fantasies, exploring constructions of history, identity, and fiction. Merging stylistic elements from a range of periods and movements, Bronstein presents newly invented imagery as if it were documentary evidence, unraveling projections of human desire and imagination.

Bronstein lives and works in London. He earned a BA Fine Art from the Slade School of Art, London (2001) and an MA Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College, London (2004). His work is collected in depth by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate, United Kingdom; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The British Museum, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and RISD Museum, Providence, among others.

In 2009, Bronstein created a series of large ink and computer drawings imagining a mythical history and future of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He opened We Live in Mannerist Times at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2015, an exhibition of monumental line drawings and architectural renderings inspired by porcelain objects and Industrial Revolution-era manufacturing machines. 

For Bronstein’s Tate Britain Commission in 2016, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, classically-trained dancers performed moves derived from the Italian concept of sprezzatura to 15th-century Spanish court music, set within an installation staged in the museum’s historic Duveen Gallery. At the RISD Museum, Providence, in 2019, Bronstein presented Historical Rhode Island Decor, comprising a new video work within an installation of original wallpapers and fabrics exploring how the architectural imagery of statehood shapes notions of the past. He conceived the installation Carousel for OGR Torino in 2019, taking the historic form of the zootrope, a pre-film animation device that produces optical illusions, as a point of departure to various mirrors and screens that shape contemporary experience. Hell in Its Heyday, consisting of a series of large-scale watercolors presenting ironic depictions of Hell, was presented at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, in 2021. The Temple of Solomon and Its Principal Contents, comprising imagined designs for the biblical structure, was presented at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, UK, in 2025.