Bel Andrade (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Wellington, New Zealand, currently living between Toronto, Canada and New York City.

Bel is a sculptor, metalworker, and performance artist, regularly working in multiplicity through the editioning of their works and through the performance of repetitive obsessive actions and stims. Bel is transmasc, neurodivergent, and lives with a post-viral nervous system disorder, integrating elements of their queer-crip identity into their work through the visual analysis of systemic collapse, rhizomatic intersections, and intentional failures. Their public art practice invites viewers to appreciate the complex and interconnected nature of the human experience, seeking to dismantle and disrupt systemic barriers in the building of a crip-Utopian future.

Bel obtained their Masters in Fine Art in Studio Arts from Parsons School of Design at the New School (New York, USA) in 2023, and completed their Bachelor in Fine Arts in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD University with a Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies (Toronto, CA) in 2020. They’ve received a Parsons School of Design Graduate Research Award (New York, 2023), the ArtScape Foundation Launchpad Bursary (Toronto, 2020), the Bluma Appel Thesis Award (Toronto, 2020), and the Toronto International Film Festival Battle of the Scores Best Score award as member of the disbanded Porcelain Citizen (Toronto, 2015).

Upcoming, Bel is participating in an ongoing art activation project The Art of Disruption, which invites Disabled artists to engage with and distrupt multiple major culteral sites and galleries across New York City in late-2024.