About / Isabella Bru
Miami · Interdisciplinary Artist
Isabella Bru is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, and public art. Her practice is rooted in layered memory, grief, and identity — intimate in nature but growing increasingly fearless in form. Working primarily with found, raw, and recycled materials, she takes things apart to build something new, mirroring a lifelong process of self-discovery and inner-child healing. Bru holds dual bachelor's degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies and Studio Fine Arts from Florida International University. Alongside her studio practice, she is the founder of Permitted, a free public pop-up art series reclaiming parking lots and transit hubs across Miami-Dade County as sites for community and art.
Artist Statement
My work begins in the body — in memory, grief, and the quiet weight of personal history. I make sculpture, installation, performance, and drawing rooted in the intimate: the moments we carry without language, the emotions we overlook, the stories that shaped us before we knew we were being shaped.
I work primarily with found, raw, and recycled materials. I take things apart. I rebuild them into something that couldn't have existed before the breaking. This process of destruction and reconstruction mirrors something I'm living — a fearlessness I've been developing since graduating, a desire to be rawer, bolder, more honest with myself and with the people who encounter my work.
Miami is not backdrop for me — it's material. It's in how I understand space, community, and belonging. I'm drawn to the places people pass through without stopping, the overlooked and the undervalued, and I believe those spaces are often the ones most worth reclaiming. That conviction lives in my studio and it lives in the streets.
At the core of everything is a search — for who I am, who I'm becoming, and who little Isabella always hoped I'd be. My work is how I find her.