“I’m excited to see how this award will shape upcoming projects for Bule and support her multidisciplinary practice that centers personal connection and storytelling to reveal the power dynamics that shape our daily life.”- Juror Anna Walker, Executive Director, Lawndale Art Center.

Violette Bule is the Horton Artadia Award Recipient.

Violette Bule is an artist operating in the liminal space between art-making and making a living. Drawing from her experiences as a Venezuelan-Lebanese individual in the United States, her work examines the power dynamics that shape everyday life, exploring their intersection with structural violence in the contexts of migration, identity politics, and populism. She utilizes social and economic vulnerability as a catalyst for creativity and political empowerment, engaging with themes such as memory, data, digital technologies, and social justice.

At its core, Violette’s practice addresses the political constraints of displacement and the construction of identity within cultural and systemic frameworks. In a climate shaped by polarization and media distortion, she aims to create work that transcends fixed boundaries, rooted in site-specific experiences and committed to resisting the exclusionary nature of dominant narratives.
Her interdisciplinary installations, participatory works, and public interventions stimulate critical reflection and collective engagement. Rooted in lived experience and shaped through collaborative dialogue, Violette’s practice fosters sensory and intellectual encounters, creating space for alternative understandings of self and society.