Born in Davao City in the Philippines, Katrina Bello is a visual artist who works in New Jersey in the United States and in Metro Manila in the Philippines. Her work as a visual artist is informed by observations and experiences of natural environments encountered during the course of her travels and migration. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and the Philippines, and has been awarded fellowships and residencies in the United States. She attended the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, and received a BFA from the Mason Gross School of The Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. Katrina is the founder of north willow, an informal artist-run attic exhibition space in Montclair in New Jersey.