Veronica Bello
Veronica Bello (b. Caracas) is a Brooklyn-based textile artist whose work is a meditation on memory, distance, and the imagined spaces that emerge from displacement. Raised in Mexico City and later in South Florida, and as a member of Venezuela's ongoing diaspora, she examines the narratives constructed around places that no longer exist or are in the process of disappearing.
Bello creates textile works that hover between photography and painting, reconstructing moments from her family's image archive. Central to this practice is calado, a pulled-thread lace technique introduced to her by her grandmother. She applies calado directly onto printed fabrics, removing and re-stitching threads to interrupt the image, an act of destruction and reconstruction that becomes both redaction and repair, opening gaps where memory falters and invention begins. Her current project, "La 8va Isla" (The 8th Island), takes its title from the historical bond between Venezuela and the Canary Islands, where her maternal family originates.
Bello 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 was an Artist in Residence at the Textile Arts Center (2025–26) and is currently a resident at NYLAAT on Governors Island. Her work has been exhibited at SET Art Space in London, and at Mooni, 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,”