Rebel Betty

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Rebel Betty is a Boricua multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in social justice, ancestral memory, and cultural survival. Grounded in the lived experiences of the Puerto Rican diaspora, her practice explores the intersections of resistance, labor, spirituality, and collective struggle across Black, Indigenous and Latin American communities. Through collage, textiles, sound, and animation, she creates visual narratives that function as altars, honoring everyday acts of resilience and the spiritual frameworks that have guided liberation movements. Her work positions Puerto Rican cultural knowledge as a lens for understanding broader social justice movements, illuminating how struggle and spirit shape the pathways to survival, transformation, and ultimately, decolonization.

Rebel Betty is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist of Afro-Indigenous descent, having been raised in a working-class family, she values history, culture, and community resilience. Based in Chicago with strong ties to the island, she has spent over a decade as a grassroots organizer and arts educator. Her visual work through collage, textiles, murals, and video explores labor, memory, and spiritual resistance across the Boricua diaspora. Deeply committed to internationalism, she builds bridges between Puerto Rican, Latin American, and Indigenous movements, using art to honor cultural survival and connect local struggle to global histories of resistance and liberation.