FLAVIA BERTORELLO Argentinian-born-NYC-based artist, architect, and researcher exploring the body-environment relations through a practice that includes drawing, writing, and experimenting with materials in various formats, scales, and spatial contexts. Interested in site-responsive processes, Bertorello’s work exists at the intersection of drawing, sculpture, printed media, sound, installation and restoration.
CURRENT STATEMENT/ 2026
My practice navigates multiple scales—geographical, temporal, and conceptual. Using my body as an interface, I connect the physicality of place to lived experience. Interested in site-responsive processes, my work has gradually shifted from the production of objects toward the construction of narratives grounded in observation, listening, and research.
Through fieldwork, editorial practices, and experimentation with living organisms, I investigate slow processes that require cultivation and attention. Drawing from ethnographic methodologies, my approach is rooted in direct engagement with place through walking, observation, situated listening, and fieldwork. I understand listening as a practice capable of revealing relationships between landscape, memory, and experience.
This attentiveness also informs my material practice. I am interested in the cultivation of materials: the creation of conditions that allow living organisms to grow, interact, and transform over time. Working with biological systems has led me to question conventional distinctions between making and growing. While I actively shape the conditions in which these transformations occur, the resulting forms emerge through processes that exceed my control. This tension raises questions about participation, responsibility, and what it means to make with living organisms rather than simply from them.
Education
2018-2019- Transart Institute for Creative Research, University of Plymouth, UK. MFA.
2014-2018- The Art Students League of New York. Sculpture & Painting.
1997-2006- National University of Cordoba, Argentina. M.Arch & Urban Design.
Publications
2025- Ooze- Made Land- Artist Book
2023- NYLAAT program overview, New York Latin American Triennale
2023- Body as Land- Artist Book
2022- Shape of Nature- Jewelry Book-China Humanities Publishing House
2020- Growth & Evolution-Jewelry Book- China Modern Publishing House
Guest Lecturer
2025- Columbia University GSAPP (M.S. AAD) — Art, Architecture, Ecology & Material Practice (2025)
Art Residencies
2025-26 Genspace NYC. Brooklyn, New York.
2024- Swale House/ Urban Soil Institute. Governor’s Island, New York.
2023- New York Latin American Art Triennial. Governor’s Island, New York.
2021- Untethered Magic. Nairobi, Kenya.
2019- Field Kitchen Academy. Wüsten Buchholz, Germany.
2019- Transart, UferStudios. Berlin, Germany.
2019- Transart, Art in general. Brooklyn, New York.
2018- Transart, UferStudios. Berlin, Germany.
Group Exhibits
2026- GBS Bioart Exhibit - September 18- Flux Factory, Queens, New York
2026- Secado al Sol / Sundried, collective installation curated by Oscar M Caballero + Ensayos Urbanos-National Academy of Design, New York
2025- Inspiration Point: Contested Landscapes- Sound Activation, curated by Oscar M CaballeroNew York Latin American Art Triennial. NYC
2025- Bronx Art Space: “BEYOND THE ARTIFACT: Do we call it architecture or a system of contingencies?”/ group exhibit, curated by Oscar M Caballero, New York Latin American Art Triennial. NYC
2024-“Ipaint flowers so they won’t die”/ wearable art/ group exhibit. Rome, Italy
2023-“Ooze”/ installation/ group exhibit. Governors Island, NYC
2023-“This jewelry is 100mrb”/wearable art/ group exhibit. Beijing, China.
2022- “I break”Venice experimental video and performing arts festival/Pallazo Bembo, Venice,Italy.
2021- “eternal flame” / video/ group exhibition / V Gallery, NYC
2020- “the heart cave” / sound piece/ online symposium/ transart reading room
2020- “Coil of life”/ wearable art/ group exhibit. Beijing design week. China.
2020- “This Happened”/ installation/ citadel + compagnie. Toronto, Canada.
2019- “Iron and Granite: IN Conversation”/ performance & installation/ Uferstudios, Berlin. Germany.
2019- “Particle lake”/ sculpture & sound installation- live stream/ New York-Cordoba, Argentina
2017- Elizabeth st. Garden Fundraising show/ poetry piece/ NY, NY
2017- “Red dot exhibition”- Sculpture- Phyllis Harriman Mason gallery, NY, NY
2016- “Red dot exhibition”- Sculpture- Phyllis Harriman Mason gallery, NY, NY
2015- “Red dot exhibition”- Sculpture- Phyllis Harriman Mason gallery, NY, NY
2010-“Nuage” - The Lab gallery/ installation / NY, NY
flabertorello@gmail.com
+1 646-852-7305