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 the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, a summer Fulbright to the Netherlands and a 2010 Senior Scholar Fulbright to Turkey. Bell has received several residency awards including a summer residency at the StadtKunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria, Sculpture Space in Utica, NY and the Tacoma Glass Museum, Tacoma, WA. Numerous residencies including, Dieu Done paper mill, Hand Print Workshops international the Women Studio Workshop have supported ?Bells’ books and prints, ?Bell's work has been exhibited in both one person and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Including, The National Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, Denise Bribo Gallery, NY, NY, Paul Petro Gallery Toronto and several Art Fairs. In 2010 she will have one-person exhibitions at, Alan Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, and Rezan Has Museum, Istanbul Turkey, Bell has completed public site projects in Cambridge, Pittsburgh, Chicago, 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 Flower Blob series take their cue from blob design 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. ?? The wonder series is inspired by the wunder & kunst kammers of the 17th century. The wonder series are miniature worlds. The curious collections of flora and fauna play on and off the real. Other Landscapes, Bell's most recent work, departs from the overtly adorned surfaces of the Flower Blob series to reveal the form stripped bare, increased in scale, swelling and bursting with energy. In the artist's words, ‘‘there is certain sexuality as if fresh pollen is oozing over the surface.'' Bell's prints and book works are an extension of the themes explored in her sculpture, an investigation of the artifice of nature and our view of such.