Roberley Bell spent her childhood in Latin America and Southeast Asia, before returning to the United States to attend the University of Massachusetts and State University of New York at Alfred from where she holds an MFA in Sculpture. Bell is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including two from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, a Fulbright to the Netherlands and several residency awards.

Bell's work has been exhibited in both one person and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Dieu Donne Gallery, NYC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Fassbender-Stevens Gallery, Chicago Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn , Paul Petro Gallery Toronto and several Art Fairs. Bell has completed public site projects in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and New York.

Bell's projects examine ideas related to the built environment exploring the relationship between the man made and the natural in landscape focusing on the artifice of nature. Bell creates both exterior and interior works Her gardens projects are both a play on and with nature. The recent sculpture series Flower Blobs take their cue from blob architecture their forms are in fact nothing in nature though the sculptures reveal themselves as natural forms. The Flower Blobs continue to explore the spills of her landscape projects, the space where the artificial meets the real. The Flower Blobs become a miniature version if not a souvenir of our extreme control of the landscape.

Bell's prints and book works are an extension of the themes explored in her large-scale installations.

PRESS
Beyond/In WNY: Roberley Bell (Video)
Hallwalls
Sculpture - At Play
Sculpture - Dressing
Second Nature
Neuberger - Belvedere
PAN - Belvedere