Veronica Mijelshon

Bio

Veronica Mijelshon is a Brooklyn-based glass jewelry artist and architect, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires, where she specialized in spatial design and material exploration, foundations that now inform her sculptural, flameworked jewelry practice. With over 18 years designing interiors for a New York-based restaurant group—and more than three decades of architectural practice—Mijelshon brings a structural sensitivity to her wearable works, often exploring contrast, balance, and tension.
In parallel to her interior design practice, Mijelshon has pursued a long-standing engagement with curatorial work.

She served as Gallery Director at NurtureART (Brooklyn) from 2004–2007 and later founded 0.00156 acres, an independent project space (2008–2014) focused on socially engaged art around themes such as migration, urbanism, and ecology.
An alumna of the Bead Project at UrbanGlass, she was awarded a full scholarship to the Corning Museum of Glass for a one-week residency in 2023. In 2025, she was selected as a mentor in the Bead Project Mentorship Program at UrbanGlass, and participated in NYFA’s Artist as Entrepreneur Program, hosted in partnership with Powerhouse Arts.

Her jewelry has been exhibited internationally, including the upcoming PRESENCE /// ABSENCE exhibition (2025), co-curated by Galleria Carlo Lucidi (Rome), Tincal Lab (Porto), and Uni.Versus Art Room (Athens), opening across all three cities in September.

Statement

I see jewelry as wearable poetry—tiny sculptures that hold memory, beauty, and meaning. Through glass, I shape color and light into forms that speak to identity and emotion. Each piece
becomes a story lived on the body—shaped by the wearer’s presence, the maker’s intention, and the quiet language of the materials.

As an architect-turned-glass artist, I bring a structural sensibility to my work while allowing the flame to shape the material organically. I work primarily with borosilicate glass using flameworking techniques, including glassblowing in the flameshop. I often pair glass with contrasting materials—rubber, textiles, and metal—to create tactile tension and harmony. These tensions echo the contrasts I explore in form and concept—strength and fragility, clarity and opacity, control and release.

My material curiosity is rooted in my childhood—summers spent in my father’s workshop, where the scents and tactile sensations of the materials stayed with me, eventually weaving into my work. As contrasting textures—glass, rubber, metal, textiles—meet in tension and harmony in each design, every piece becomes one-of-a-kind and a conversation between memory and object.

Jewelry has always been more than adornment to me. It is a vessel of memory, a symbol of identity, and a bridge between people. I’m drawn to it for its emotional resonance and for its ability to transcend time, geography, and language. I love making jewelry, wearing it, and witnessing the quiet power a single piece can hold—how it can communicate without words and create connection through its presence.

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