BiO
— with earth, belonguing and interconnectedness

BEL FALLEIROS is a Brazilian artist whose practice focuses on place and belonging. Starting with her hometown, São Paulo, she’s worked to understand how contemporary constructed landscapes (mis)represent the diverse layers of presence that constitute a place and how that affects those who inhabit them.

In her work, she creates spaces to be in community with nature, with our own inner being and with the beings around us.  She is a fellow artist from Sacatar Institute in Bahia, Brazil (2014), Pecos National Park, New Mexico (2016), Burnside Farm, Detroit (2017), Santa Fe Art Institute Equal Justice Residency (2018), Socrates Sculpture Park (2020), More Art (2021), and Dia:Beacon artist-in-residence for the Dia Teens Program (2021-2) and Wave Hill (2023). She had a commissioned piece for the 37o Panorama of Brazilian art show at MAM, São Paulo (2022) and recently had a solo show, with a collection of works made in the past 7 years, at KinoSaito Art Center (2024).

In addition to her studio practice, she participates in collaborative projects across the Americas connecting art, education and autonomous thinking.

Falleiros lives and works between Stony Point, New York and São Paulo, Brazil. 
        

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—past, PRESENT, future and ongoing

- On view at Rockland Center for the Arts with ‘the body remembers, the vessel contains’, until November 2024 (artist talk with Alexis Elton November 14th). 
   - Comission piece for the Wave Hill Sun Room Project, Fall 2023
   - Vermelho como Brasil [As Red as Brazil] at the 37th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Under the Ashes, Embers.  July 2022 to January 2023 at MAM São Paulo, Brazil.
  - To Ripple with Water at The Border Project, May-June 2021, New York.
  - Recipient of the More Art Engaging Artist 2021 Fellowship for public art and socially-engaged practice.
   - 2020 Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park to construct a site specific sculpture for the show Monuments Now, (opening in October) in Queens, New York.
        - Subversive Kin show at The Clemente, March-April 2020, New York.
         - 2020 NYFA Immigrant Art Program in Brooklyn, New York.
        - Teaching Artist at Dia:Beacon program for public schools in Beacon, NY.  Some of the exercises were shared on the institution’s blog for kids and families to find homes in art during the quarantine.
       -September to October at Marilia Razuk Gallery, São Paulo. 
        -June to August on view at the Mexic-Art Museum in Austin, Texas, part of the Young Latinx Artis 24 show BUEN VIVIR / VIVIR BIEN.  
        –March 2019 participated on the Spring Break Art Show, in New York.
        –January/February 2019 resident at Massapê Projetos, an artist-run space in São Paulo.  There a new performance and site specific installation was presented, alongside with a public talk, in dialogue with the curator Julie Dumont/The Bridge Project.
        –September 2018 resident at Governors Island, New York, part of the Works on Water and Underwater New York initiative.     
        –Summer 2018 resident at AnnexB, New York, promoting a series of gatherings Manas Americanas with fellow Latinx Womxn working with social and cultural issues (ongoing).
        –Equal Justice Residency at SFAI, Santa Fe, New Mexico, working in collaboration with Tewa Women United.
        –2017 Resident at Burnside Farm Detroit working on earth work permanent installation. To visit it, please book here.
        –2013-2017: Founder of the .Aurora art space in São Paulo, promoting shows, open calls, walks, workshops, talks, screenings and other activities that expands the notions of the arts.
        –2014: Residency at Sacatar Institute, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil, with a CCSP grant.
        –2014: Solo show at Caixa Cultural São Paulo, with a federal government prize, to develop a research on São Paulo ancestral landscape, and the artist own place reference and identity.