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bule.violette@gmail.com
Violette Bule's practice harnesses social and economic vulnerability as a catalyst for creativity and political agency, engaging memory, data, digital technologies, and social justice to explore structural violence, migration, identity politics, and populism.
Bule studied photography at the EAF in Mexico City and earned her MFA from the University of Houston. Her recent exhibitions include Soy de Tejas (The Riverside Museum, California, 2025); Bienal Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: Bajo Presión (San Juan, 2024); Southern Survey Biennial (Project Row Houses, Houston, 2024); Day Jobs (Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, and the Blanton Museum of Art, 2023–24); and Echo Chamber (The Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology, 2020).
She received the 2023 Horton/Artadia Award and funding from the City of Houston's MOCA for her public art project Re-thinking Your Neighborhood, part of Inst11ation, organized by Art League Houston. She completed residencies at Artpace, San Antonio (2026); the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin (2024); Cornell University (2022); and SOMA in Mexico City (2014). Her monograph De la Lleca al Cohue — Born from Prison Workshops (2010–12) was named Book of the Month by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in July 2024.
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