Bella Butler (b. 2002) is a multi-media performance artist, photographer, and writer from Brooklyn, New York. She is receiving her BA in German media studies from Princeton University in 2025 and will continue to practice art as well as continue her academic studies.

Bella grapples with the idea of ‘subjectivity’ in her work, exploring what it means to be both a living subject as well as a subject in art. Her work is influenced by film and media theory and thus she utilizes it in her performance practice as well as her more traditional photography practice. Documentation, archive, and the human form are integral to every body of work she develops.

Bella’s photography seeks to understand the subject primarily through the nude body and its peculiarities and familiarities. Most of her photos are self portraits and play with the concept of ‘point of view’ and how it pertains to defining the subject. She uses 35 mm, polaroid, and digital.