Bella Petito (b. 1996, New York) is an artist primarily working in photography and text based in Jersey City, NJ. Her work meditates on lost worlds of the American landscape, inheritance of past generation’s dreams, as well as the balance between journey and routine.

bellaapetito@gmail.com

Education

2025 – BSVA, Photography, SUNY Purchase, Harrison, NY

2021 – AA, Graphic Design, County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ

Awards

2025 – Senior Project Award, Purchase College

Solo Exhibitions

2025 – Cowshit America Blues 0012 Gallery, Purchase College

Group Exhibitions

2025 – Senior Photography Group Exhibition, Purchase College

2024 – Photography is…, Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase College

Publications

2025 – Cowshit America Blues: The Dollhouse Fell in the Move, Self Published

2023 – Michigan House, Italics Mine issue #19