THE PERSON

Gloria Abella Ballen is an artist and author creating award-winning art books such as The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet, The New World Haggadah (with Ilan Stavans), and Garden of Eden. All three title won Best Book Awards with The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet winning multiple awards. 

Abella Ballen has graduate degrees in art from SUNY-Buffalo and the National School of Anthropology in Mexico City and has done specialized studies on studio art and theory with Larry Rivers and John Cage. 

She has exhibited internationally in individual and group shows and has received awards from the UNESCO prize in painting, the Latin American Graphics Biennial, National Endowment for the Arts, British Council and the Pan American Graphics Portfolio Award among others. 

Her art is in the collections of museums, corporations and private individuals. She has been an international visiting artist in England at the University of Essex and the Camberwell School of Art (London), in China at the University of Xinjiang and in Israel at the Mishkan Omanim in Herzliya. Gloria has been a professor of art at universities in Puerto Rico, Colombia and the United States. 

Abella Ballen currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Contact her at gloriaabella18@gmail.com