Violette Bule studied at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Mexico City and earned her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Houston. Her work has recently been featured in several group and solo exhibitions, including the biennial La Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico y el Caribe: Bajo Presión / Under Pressure in San Juan (2024); Day Jobs at both the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas (2023–24); and Echo Chamber at the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology in Houston, among others. She was awarded the 2023 Horton/Artadia Award in Houston, TX. In 2024, Bule was an artist-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin and previously held a residency in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University in 2022. Her book De la Lleca al Cohue: Photography in Venezuelan Penitentiaries was recently published by Roga Ediciones and was selected as the Book of the Month by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in July 2024. She was also part of Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II at Project Row Houses in Houston.