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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

2024  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

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, Out of Fashion: The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact, 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

009 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, New York, 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

2027 Mary Mattingly and Suzanne Watters, “Art & Ecology,” Yale University Press, (forthcoming)

2025 Gerko Egert, “Work and the Anthropocene,” FKW Zeitschrift fur Geschiechterforschung und Visuelle Kultur (Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture)) Jonas Publication House for Art & Literature (forthcoming)

2024 Davia Lagos, “Submerged Art: Between Scientific Tool and Agency of the Underwater Environment” ASTASA, University of Bordeaux, Montaigne. December 24

2024 Dr. Francesca Curtis, “Land Art Submerged: Betty Beaumont’s Ocean Landmark and Art History Beyond Proximity,” Art History, Oxford University Press, August 19, 2024

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, “In Plain Sight, Betty Beaumont's Camouflaged Cell Concealment Sites,” wead.com

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