Roser Bru’s work is marked by the interwar period, exile and her two homelands, Spain and Chile. When she was only one years old, she moved with her parents to Paris where she lived for four years during her first exile during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.

Later, the family returned to Barcelona, ​​where she entered the Montessori School. In 1931, she began her studies at the Instituto-Escuela of the Generalitat in that city. In 1939, after the Spanish Civil War, she went into exile again. She traveled to France, where she boarded the ship Winnipeg, arriving in Chile on September 1, when the Second World War began in Europe. That same year she entered the School of Fine Arts in Santiago, where she studied freely until 1942 and received the teachings of the Chilean painters Pablo Burchard and Israel Roa.

Roser Bru’s work has spanned painting, drawing and engraving from the beginning. Her initial works were characterized by a closeness to the material, influenced by Catalan Informalism. In the late 1960s she painted and drew bodies and faces inspired by her motherhood and focusing on the figure of the woman. Her bodies of work, which mix language and the use of photography, are then close to the conceptualisms of the Escena de Avanzada and artists such as Eugenio Dittborn (Santiago de Chile, 1943).

In 2017, she participated in the collective exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960–1985, organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. In 2021, MEMORIA dedicated her the exhibition Vidas en Tránsito: Homenaje a Roser Bru. This posthumous tribute was the first solo exhibition dedicated to the artist in Madrid since 1976 and was supported by the Roser Bru Foundation.

Her work is part of important public and private collections, including: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA – New York, United States), Brooklyn Museum (New York, United States), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Art Museum of Americas (Washington D.C., United States), Museo de Arte de Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Since 2020, she has been part of the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid, with her graphic series Made in Spain (1966).