Raquel Bessudo

Raquel Bessudo is a contemporary jewelry artist whose work explores memory, transformation, and the dialogue between material and emotion. Trained as a fine artist at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, she bridges painting and jewelry, creating intimate objects that reflect identity, impermanence, and the human experience. Her pieces blend tactile experimentation with conceptual depth—metal and acrylic paint layered like traces of thought made visible.
Born and based in Mexico City, Bessudo holds a Postgraduate Degree in Architecture, Art, and Ephemeral Spaces from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, along with studies in lithography, weaving, sculpture, and metalsmithing in Mexico. This multidisciplinary background gives her work a structural sensibility—her jewelry becomes small architectures of emotion, balancing fragility and resilience.
Between 2020 and 2025, Bessudo has exhibited widely across Europe, North, and Latin America. Her work has appeared at MAD About Jewelry at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (2025), Schmuck in Munich (2020,2025), La Frontera at MAD New York, and the Puyuan International Contemporary Jewelry Biennale in China (2025–2026). Other venues include the Franz Mayer Museum (Mexico City), Museo José Hernández (Buenos Aires), the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts (El Paso).
Her collaborations with Italian artist Letizia Maggio—such as Converging Nodes, Tales of Transformation, and Outer Casing—explore the invisible connections between materiality, gesture, and narrative, exhibited in Munich and Athens.
Recognized with a Special Mention at the II Bienal de Joyería Contemporánea Latinoamericana (2019), Bessudo’s work has been featured in Metalsmith, Garland Magazine, JAMS, and Autor Magazine. As a member of Garland’s editorial board, she writes about Mexican craft and traditions.
Through her practice, Bessudo redefines jewelry as a vessel of memory and transformation—a poetic space where material and emotion converge.