Bel Falleiros

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. Walking is core to her practice and to her solo show at CAIXA Cultural São Paulo, and residency at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia, Brazil (2014). Since arriving in the U.S., she has worked to create spaces for grounding and connecting people, stories, nature and place, including a site-specific installation at Pecos National Park, NM (2016), an earth-work at Burnside Farm, Detroit (2017), sculptures for a community garden in collaboration with Tewa Women United as part of the SFAI Equal Justice Residency (2018), a ‘non-monument’ with words from people of the Americas for the ‘Monuments Now’ show at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY (2020). She was a More Art Engaging Artist Fellow (2021), an artist-in-residence at Dia Art Foundation for the Dia Teens Program (2021-2) and had a commissioned pieces for the biennial show 37o Panorama da Arte Brasileira ‘Under the ashes, ember’ at MAM, São Paulo (2022). More recently she has focused her practice in creating welcoming spaces in immersive installations To Ripple with Water (2021) and Forest of Pulses at Wave Hill (2023); and in healing art-activations One Only Earth, Tang Teaching Museum (2023) Earth-Body, Dia:Chelsea (2024) Beyond her studio practice, she participates in collaborative projects across the Americas connecting art, education and autonomous thinking.