Veronica Bello
Veronica Bello (b. Caracas) is a Brooklyn based textile artist who works with pulled-thread lace on printed fabrics, using images from her family archive to engage with memory, distance, and the imagined spaces that emerge from displacement. Raised in Mexico City and later in South Florida, her work hovers between photography and painting.
She primarily employs “calado", a pulled-thread lace technique native to the Canary Islands and now a dying tradition, introduced to her by her grandmother. Applied directly onto printed fabrics, Bello removes and re-stitches threads to alter archival images. This act of destruction and reconstruction becomes both redaction and repair.
She received a BFA in Textiles with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2022. As a student, she was awarded a RISD Museum Global Exchange Scholarship to study material cultures in Oaxaca and received the Barbara L. Kuhlman Fiber Arts Scholarship for her thesis project, Standing on Porous Rock. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Textile Arts Center (2025–26). Bello’s work has been exhibited at SET Art Space in London, and at Minimal Gallery and MAPSpace in New York. Her writing has been featured in Hyperallergic.
email: verobellostudio@gmail.com
Rhode Island School of Design, 2022
Providence, RI — Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Textiles
Textile Arts Center “AIR 17 Feature: Vero Bello by Geovanni Barrios.”
Hyperallergic “Five Venezuelan Artists Respond to US Attacks,”
Elephant Magazie“Angela Santana and Samuel Schler Cross-Pollinate Performance and Painting,”