Nadia Botello — artist, composer, engineer
Nadia Botello (b. 1986) is a sound artist, composer, and engineer. A 9th-generation Texan, she’s based in San Antonio. Her work has been exhibited and performed at MATA Festival, Nameless Sound, Clocktower, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Fairmount Water Works, Flux Factory, Icebox Project Space, the Rail Park, the Arthur Ross Gallery, and James Turrell’s Skyspace Gathered Leading, among other venues. She’s lectured and developed workshops at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University (MA), the University of Pennsylvania (MFA/PhD), and Columbia University (MFA). Nadia has self-released two full-length albums — Saint Shë: Ska jag berätta en hemlighet? and Emerald Rd. She’s most often working around themes of listening, attention, and water.
2025:
Finalist for the 10th Annual Water, Texas Film Festival with What the River Says — April 1st (Austin, TX)
From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change @ Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts — June 13th through September 14th (Omaha, NE)
Theophany @ Contemporary at Blue Star — July 11th through October 5th (San Antonio, TX)