Verena Gaudy is a contemporary ceramic artist, and a graduate to the MFA program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is currently a Senior Lecturer, teaching Basic Ceramics and Advanced Ceramics at UTSA. During the past five years she collaborated with Martin C. Rodriguez in performance art and is the co-founder and gallerist of Un Grito Gallery.

Verena was born in Graz, Austria in 1975. After high school graduation, she spent  ten years living, working and studying in London (UK), Stockholm (Sweden) and Cardiff (UK), where she achieved her BFA at the University of Wales, Institute Cardiff in 2005. San Antonio has been her home since August 2015.