Vanessa Nieto Romero was born in Bogotá in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice focuses primarily on printmaking, sculpture, and installation. She studied Visual Arts at the National University of Colombia and earned an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Since 2012, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in cities such as Bogotá, New York, France, and Japan, and she is a co-founder of Taller Circular, a printmaking studio based in Bogotá. She currently teaches in the Fine Arts Department at the National University of Colombia.

Her work is characterized by an ongoing exploration of the relationship between the body and materiality, as well as an interest in the traces left by human experience on everyday objects. Through materials such as textiles, paper, discarded furniture, and urban debris, Nieto investigates their social, sensory, and symbolic layers, addressing themes such as labor, memory, and daily life. Through processes involving material transformation and sustained manual labor, her practice establishes connections between the physical and the symbolic, proposing reflections on the presence of the body—particularly the female body—within historical and social dynamics.