Juliana Bellante is a visual artist whose work explores drawing and painting as forms of relational thinking. Originally trained in Fine Arts, she later completed an MA that deepened her interest in archives, knowledge systems, and the material life of books. This led her to train as a librarian — a shift that now informs the conceptual and material foundations of her practice.
Working across gouache, collage, and found or discarded materials, Bellante approaches each work as an open ecology of becoming, where remnants, scraps, and overlooked fragments gain new relational potential. Her ongoing project, Sensitive Ontologies, treats the page as a porous site where diagrams, figures, and textual traces articulate a shifting sense of self in relation to the world.
Bellante also develops artist books such as Breathing Inside and Painting Matter, where the tactile presence of the page and the intelligence of materials become central to meaning. In all her work, she positions visual art as a mode of inquiry — a way of thinking through matter, memory, and the subtle exchanges between bodies, environments, and thought.