Contact | Isabella Convertino

Bella Convertino (b. 1998, New York) is an American artist and writer based in New Haven, CT.

Interested in the potential for lyric within fixed codas of space, her images map the formal

and psychological elements of the contemporary office as suggestive of latent crisis.

Convertino employs photography, video, and language to stress imaginary dynamics between

authority and the body; the citation of ecology in the production of corporate philosophy;

and the configuration of the ‘conscious’ within increasingly spectral corporate systems.

She earned her MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art in 2025.

Education
Yale School of Art — New Haven, CT (May 2025); Master of Fine Arts in Photography
Wesleyan University — Middletown, CT (May 2020); Bachelor of Fine Arts with High Honors in Photography

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 — Jetzeit (Now-Time), Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
2025 — First Breath Second Sight, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2024 — Upward Spiral, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2023 — why do i always fall out of bed at night? Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2022 — Passepartout Photo Prize Annual Exhibition, Rome, IT
2021 — On Possibilities of Frictions, PHROOM, Dublin, IE
2021 — 25 Things to Photograph, Pioneer Works, New York, NY
2021 — PEP New Talents, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin, DE
2021 — OD Photo Prize, London, UK (Online)
2021 — UnBound10!, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA
2021 — ART MATTERS, Galerie Bisenbach, Cologne, DE (Online)
2021 — Field Notes, Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg,PA
2021 — Context2021, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
2021 — SE Center Open, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2020 — Senior Thesis Showcase, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
2018 — Palm* Photo Prize, THEPRINTSPACE Gallery, London, UK

Awards & Residencies
2025 — Ward Cheney Memorial Award, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2024 — Pasanella Residency Program, Camaiore, IT
2022 — VCCA Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2021 — Shortlist, OD Photo Prize, London, UK
2021 — Residency, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, IE
2020 — Shortlist, Copenhagen Fotofestival, Copenhagen, DK
2020 — Shortlist, Palm* Photo Prize, London, UK

Collections
Modern Museum of Art Library, New York, NY
SE Center of Photography, Greenville, SC

Artist Lectures
Wesleyan University — 2021, 2023, 2025

Publications & Books
2025 — First Breath Second Sight, Yale MFA Photography Department
2021 — The Journal of Grievances, Vol. 4: Collected Tales, Antics Publications
2021 — JRNL 8, Guest Editor Michael Famighetti, Fotofilmic
2020 — Small Victories Book, Booooooom
2019 — #63 - Portraits of Life, GUP
2018 — Pack 72, ROMAN NVMERALS

Essays
2025 — The Field, First Breath Second Sight, Yale MFA Photography Department

Selected Online Features
2022 — Isabella Convertino: Pressure, Bursts of Light, and Flailing, Silver Eye Center
2021 — A New Focus: ecco i nuovi talenti della fotografia che dovresti conoscere, i-D Italy
2020 — Photographer of the Week, Capricious
2020 — Interview, i-D Italy
2019 — We Love, Paper Journal

Experience
Visiting Artist Program Coordinator, Yale University, New Haven, CT | 2024 — 2025

Campaign & Special Projects Assistant, Aperture, New York, NY | 2022 — 2024

Editorial Work Scholar (Books), Aperture, New York, NY | 2021 — 2022

Art Assistant in Photography, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA | 2021 — 2022

Teaching Assistant, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT | 2018 — 2020