Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, Fernanda Cataldo graduated in Architecture from the Universidad de Chile in 2008 before committing fully to painting.
Her practice is figurative in foundation but deliberately difficult to place: working across traditional and unconventional mediums, from pencil to acrylic spray, she builds compositions through accumulated layers that obscure their own making, leaving the viewer with a surface that resists easy reading. Her influences run from the Impressionists to Peter Doig and Adrian Ghenie. She was named Chilean Artist of the Year in 2022. Her exhibition history includes Art Revolution Taipei, the Bazart UC contemporary art fair in Santiago, and a group exhibition with McKay Williamson in London in 2016. She is based in Santiago, Chile.