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BETTY BEAUMONT

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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lives and works in New York City.

EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, School of Architecture, M.A. 1972

California State University, Northridge, CA, Art Department, B.A. 1969

Select HONORS + AWARDS


2023
New York State Council on the Arts Grant


2021
City Arts Corps Grant


2016
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant


2007
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant


2006
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of California at Berkeley


2005
National Endowment for the Arts Grant


2002
National Endowment for the Arts Grant


2000
Creative Capital Foundation Grant


1998
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant


1997
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship


1993
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant


1989
Professor of the Year Award, SUNY, Purchase


1988
New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship


1985
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship


1983
New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship


1980
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship


1978
CETA Artists Project Fellowship


1977
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship


1973
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship


SOLO EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS


2022
Betty Beaumont, Textiles & Pollution, New Arts, Kutztown, PA


2021
Birds Matter, Tribeca Park, New York, NY


2019
Carry On, Union Square Park, New York, NY


2015
Lost & Found, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA


2015
Million Woman March, Northampton College, Bethlehem, PA


2014
That Obscure Object of Desire, 3A Gallery, New York, NY


2012
Alexandria… Projects, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt


2008
Who Will Our Children sing Songs About in 100 Years?, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA


2007
Boxed In / Boxed Out: The Mobile Studio Project, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY


2003
Betty Beaumont, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY


2001
Betty Beaumont, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY


1996
Works on Paper, Galleri Göran Engström, Stockholm, Sweden


1990
Whose Voice, Stalinuv Pomnik, Prague, CZ


1989
RiverWalk, Roch River, Rochdale, UK


1989
Changing Landscapes: Art in an Expanded Field, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK


1987
Toxic Imaging, 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY


1986
Betty Beaumont, Performance Space, Cambridge, MA


1984
Windows on Multi-Nationals & Banned Pesticides, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland


1983
Betty Beaumont, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY


1982
Betty Beaumont, Academy of Science and Art Gallery, Zagreb, Yugoslavia


1981
Love Can Be Dangerous, Site Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1980
Found Words, Galleri Göran Engström, Stockholm, Sweden


1980
Ocean Landmark, Atlantic Ocean, 70 miles off of Fire Island, NY


1979
Betty Beaumont, Forum, Middleburg, Holland


1978
Betty Beaumont, Galleri Stenström, Stockholm, Sweden


1977
Cable Piece, McDonald Farm, Macomb, IL


1976
Kansas City Drag, Volker Park, Kansas City, MO


1975
Overlapping Spheres, Private Pond, Naples, NY


1974
Wind Piece, Private Pond, Naples, NY


1973
Submerged Island Piece, Teddy Bear Island, New Hartford, CT


Select GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2023
Visions2030, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA (upcoming)


2023
A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s, Touchstones, Rochdale, U.K.


2022
feel rubble, NYU Gallatin WetLab, Governors Island, NY


2022
ART/WORK, City Lore, New York, NY


2021
ART/WORK, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, NY


2016
Sublime. Tremors of The World, The Centre Pompidou-Metz, France


2016
Group Show DiMattio Gallery, East Long Branch, NJ, USA


2015
Norwegian Climate Campaign, www.forfatternesklimaaksjon.no, Norway


2014
Social Photography IV, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY


2014
China: June 4, 1989, White Box, New York, NY


2013
Social Photography 111, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY


2012
AgitPOP, Guided by Invoices Gallery, New York, NY


2012
Social Photography 11, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY


2011
Social Photography 1, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY


2011
Fresh Angle on the Arts, Ford Foundation, New York, NY


2010
Another Green World, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY


2009
Market Forces, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium


2009
Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY


2009
New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA


2008
French Cultural Center, Yaoundé, Cameroon, West Africa


2008
Market Forces, Consuming Territories, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY


2007
Artbiotics - Bios 4, Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain


2007
Impakt Video Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands


2006
Distinguished Alumni Award Exhibition, Wooster Hall, University of California, Berkeley


2006
I (heart) the Burbs, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY


2005
Out of Place, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY


2005
re-Generations: Environmental Art in California, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA


2004
T-Zone, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands


2004
Portraits, ESSO Gallery, New York, NY


2004
VICTORY 2004, Philips, de Pury, New York, NY


2004
Toxic Landscapes, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ


2003
ShoreLines, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada


2002
Toxic Landscapes, Bibliotheca Nacional José Marti, Havana, Cuba


2002
Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH


2002
Transmediale.02 Festival, Berlin, Germany


2001
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY


2001
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico


2001
Networking, Art Center, Art & Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea


2000
Real to Reel, Ota Fine Arts gallery, Tokyo, Japan


2000
Nobodies Home, Kunstbunker, Forum for Contemporary Art, Nuremberg, Germany


2000
Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY


1999
Networking, P-House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


1999
Nobodies Home, Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


1999
Drip Blow Burn, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY


1999
Heroines & Heroes II, The Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY


1998
Center for Art and Earth, New York, NY


1997
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY


1996
Z Gallery, New York, NY


1996
Creative Time, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY


1995
Mapping, a Response to MoMA, American Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY


1995
Garbage, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY


1994
American Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY


1994
Koln Art Fair, Germany


1994
Garbage, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT


1994
Fragile Ecologies, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA


1993
Kunst-Kultur-Okologie, Bea Voigt Galerie, Munich, Germany


1993
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY


1993
National Art Club, New York, NY


1993
Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY


1991
New York Diary; Almost Twenty-Five Different Things, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY


1993
Fragile Ecologies, San Jose Museum of Art, CA


1992
Lower Manhattan Sign Project, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY


1992
Apartment Store, Exit Art, New York, NY


1992
Choice Histories, Artists Space, New York, NY


1992
Fragile Ecologies, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY


1991
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY


1990
Words and Images With a Message, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY


1990
A Natural Order, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY


1990
Municipal Art Society, New York, NY


1990
China, June 4th, 1989, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY


1990
Arsenal, Central Park, New York, NY


1989
Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY


1989
Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


1989
Signals, QCC Art Gallery at CUNY, Queens, NY


1989
China, June 4th, 1989, Blum Helman, New York, NY


1988
The Debt, Exit Art, New York, NY


1988
Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY


1987
Art in Un-Established Channels, Bronx River Gallery, New York, NY


1986
Area, New York, NY


1985
Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY, Purchase, NY


1984
Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, Judson Memorial Church, NY, NY


1983
Internacional de Muestras de Bilbao, Spain


1982
Parsons Gallery, New York, NY


1982
22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY


1981
Books As Art Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1980
Nelson Museum, Kansas City, MO


1979
Twelve Artists in Various Media All Using the Written Word, The Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, IL


1978
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan


1978
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY


1977
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan


1973
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT


1973
Oakland Museum, CA


1973
Art + Design Gallery, Sussex, England


1972
Camden Art Centre, London, England


1972
Denver Art Museum, CO


1972
Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA


1972
Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY


Select BIBLIOGRAPHY


2022
Ron Schira, “Betty Beaumont, Textiles and Pollution,” New Arts, April 22


2020
Teresa Morrison, “The Great Gallery Beyond: Alumnae in the Public Sphere,” CSUN Today, October 13


2020
Carry Osborne, “World-Renowned Conceptual Artist Betty Beaumont Provokes Imagination” CSUN Today, September 1


2015
Ron Schira, “Finding Visual Form for the Loss of Language,” Reading Eagle, March 22


2014
Peter Foy, “Art—China: June 4, 1989” Manhattan Digest, New York, NY, May 20


2013
Project EcoCampus,Designing for the Unknown. Inspirational, Sustainable, Higher Education. Flemish Government, Dept. of Environment, Nature and Energy, Brussels; April


2012
Jenny Laden, “Betty Beaumont, Ocean Landmark” Artist Projects, Schuyikill Center, Philadelphia, PA


2011
Amber Vilas, “


2011
Daniel Levis Keltner, “Betty Beaumont, Camouflaged Cells,” Precipitate / Journal of the New Environmental Imagination, www.precipitatejournal.com


2009
Amanda Boetzkes, At the Limit of Form: The Ethics of Contemporary Earth Art, University of Minnesota Press


2008
Ellen Slupe, “Inside PA: Environmental art pioneer Betty Beaumont,” Montgomery Newspapers, PA, 11/1


2008
Ron Schira, “At the New Arts Program, Betty Beaumont Ponders Education Through Sculpture,” Reading Eagle, November 2


2006
Cover Photo: “Betty Beaumont: Urban Cells, New York City,” Journal of Urban Technology, Volume 13, Number 1, Routledge, April


2006
Grace Glueck, “Happiness Is a 2-Car Garage and a Quarter-Pounder Roof Overhead,” New York Times, March 24


2006
Patricia Phillips, "Eco-tistical Art,” Art Journal, College Artists Association, Spring


2004
Martin Kemp, “From Art to Environment: Betty Beaumont’s Ocean Landmark is in Deep Water,” Nature (UK), Vol 321, October 28


2004
Heike Strelow, “Ecological Aesthetics. Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice,” Basel, Switzerland, Birkhauser


2004
John K. Grande, “Art Nature Dialogues–Interviews with Environmental Artists,” State University of New York Press


2002
Sue Spaid, “Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies,” at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Ram Publications


2001
Betty Beaumont Works 1969–2001, NY ARTS, International Edition, New York, NY, Vol.6 No.5, May


2001
Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Art In Review, “Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communication,” January 5


2001
Diana Fuller, editor, Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1910–2000, UC Berkeley Press


2000
Jeffrey Kastner, “Real to Reel,” Ota Gallery catalog, Tokyo, Japan


1999
Andrew Weinstein, “Nobodies Home,” zingmagazine, Winter


1999
Tom Weaver, “Drip Blow Burn,” catalog essay, Hudson River Museum, NY, March


1999
Peter Scott, “Nobody’s Home,” catalog contribution, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, March


1999
Heike Strelow, “Natural Reality, The Unity of Man and Nature: Between Desire and Reality,” Daco, Verlag, Stuttgart


1998
Jeffrey Kastner, editor, Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon Press Limited, London, October


1998
Christopher Payne, “The Work of Betty Beaumont: Creative Vision Through Dialogue and Connection,” Journal of Utopian Studies, Winter


1996
Marilu Knode, “Gardens,” zingmagazine, Winter/Spring


1995
Bea Voigt, “Art Culture Ecology,” Voigt Galerie, Munich, Germany


1995
Barbara and Howard Morse, “Mapping, a Response to MoMA,” American Fine Arts, NY, NY


1995
Jeffrey Kastner, “Garbage,” Art Monthly, London, England, April


1994
Maria Rosa Beozem & Philip Peters, Forum 1977–87, Holland, Kempen Publishers, Eindhoven


1994
Gina Crandell, “Reconstituting Disturbance,” Scholarly paper presented at the American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Conference – topic: Ecology, Aesthetics and Design, October 8


1994
Marilu Knode, “Urban Artists and the Natural World,” exhibition essay, Chapman College, Guggenheim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, September


1992
Lynette Holloway, “Art and History Prove a Volatile Mix,” The New York Times, August 27


1992
Kay Larson, “The Wasteland,” New York Magazine, October 26


1992
Elizabeth Hess, “Gallery of Trash,” The Village Voice, New York, NY, October 6


1992
Michael Kimmelman, “Art in Review, Ecology as Subject,” The New York Times, Nov. 27


1992
Barbara Matilsky, “Fragile Ecologies,” Catalog essays, Queens Museum, NY


1992
Jouke Kleerebezem, “Allocations 1992, art for a natural and artificial environment,” The Hague, Holland


1991
Lucy Lippard, “The Garbage Girls,” Z Magazine, Boston, MA, December


1991
Kim Levin, “Art in Brief – Burning in Hell,” The Village Voice, New York, NY, Dec. 10


1991
Chieko Mizuno, “Our World Today, The World Tomorrow?,” Vita Nova, Tokyo, Japan, October 15


1991
Robin Cembalest, “The Greening of the Art World,” ARTnews, New York, NY, Summer


1991
Hawley Truax, “Art for the Environment's Sake,” Environmental Action Magazine, Wash., D.C., July/August


1991
Kay Larson, “Foreign Intrigue,” New York Magazine, New York, NY, May 20


1991
Kim Levin, “Choices – ‘New York Diary...’,” The Village Voice, New York, NY, April 24


1991
Beth Haber, “Connections,” The Binnewater Tides, Rosendale, NY, Spring


1991
Sara Selwood, “Public Art, Private Amenities,” Art Monthly, London, England, February


1991
The Totalitarian Zone, Prague, CZ (exhibition catalog)


1990
Barbara Bloemink, “A Natural Order,” exhibition catalog, Hudson River Museum, New York, May 27 - August 12


1990
Amy Gamerman, “New Sculpture: A Matter of Waste,” Wall Street Journal, New York, January 30


1990
Anita Wetzel, “Words and Images – With a Message,” exhibition curated by Nancy Spero, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, exhibition essay, March 31-April 26


1990
Steven Kolpan, “Media of Immediacy,” Woodstock Times, New York, April 12


1990
Hafthor Yngvason, “Reflections of a Year of Public Art Conferences,” On View, New York, Summer/Spring


1989
Perry Bard, “Signals,” exhibition essay, QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, March 12-April 27


1989
Jill Morgan, Rochdale Observer, Lancashire, England, September


1989
Marilu Knode, “Changing Landscapes: Art in an Expanded Field,” exhibition catalog, Rochdale Art Gallery, England, August 26-September 23


1989
Keith Wishnia, Ann Hess, “The Fight to Save Our Groundwater,” WHY Magazine, NY, Summer


1989
Margo Lovejoy, Postmodern Currents: Art + Artists, Age of Electronic Media, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI


1989
Natalie Wivietsky, “Technology and Art,” Communique, New York, April


1988
Robert Stefanotti, “De Vormkracht Van Spiritualiteit,” Speling, Netherlands, October


1988
Kim Levin, “Choices – ‘The Debt’,” The Village Voice, New York, June 28


1988
Bomb Magazine, New York, Spring


1988
Nancy Princenthal, “Synthesizing Art, Nature, and Technology,” Heresies Magazine, New York, Spring


1988
Victoria Geibel, “Toxic Imagery,” Metropolis Magazine, New York, Jan, Feb


1988
William Zimmerman, “A ‘Living Version’ of Heresies Magazine,” The New York Times, Jan 3


1987
Gary Indiana, “Strange Weather,” The Village Voice, New York, October 20


1987
Nancy Princenthal, “Ordinateur et Création,” Art Press, Paris, February


1986
Emily Rubin, “Vocal Imaging – Betty Beaumont's Sonic Gateway Project,” Ear Magazine, New York, January, February, March


1985
Hiroaki Sato, “The Positive & the Constructive,” Mainichi News, Tokyo, Japan , September 2


1985
Hiroaki Sato, “Not Just Decorative Things,” Mainichi News, Tokyo, Japan, August 19


1985
Hiroaki Sato, “The Work and the Site,” Mainichi News, Tokyo, Japan, July 29