Artist:
Betty Beaumont
Artist Statement:
Since 1969 Betty Beaumont\'s works have helped define Ecological Art— a model of interdisciplinary problem solving. She is internationally recognized for her environmental and conceptual art marked by deep-seated social and ecological concerns, ranging widely from experimental landscape projects, photo-based art, image/text/object works, information art, and interactive combined-media installations. After receiving her Master\'s degree from the College of Environmental Design in the School of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, she began showing widely in the United States and Europe in the early 1970s. Since then she has produced a body of research-based psycho/bio/social projects that are unique works of visual art. She has had over 125 solo and group exhibitions that include the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, PS 1 Museum, The Hudson River Museum, The Queens Museum and The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and in Kyoto. An artist and educator, she has served on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SUNY, Purchase (where she was awarded the 1989 Professor of the Year Award), Hunter College, and is currently at New York University. Among the awards and fellowships she has been honored to receive are five National Endowment for the Arts grants, three New York State Council for the Arts grants, two Pollock-Krasner grants, and the German Unwelt Stiftung Award. She has served as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Art & Technology Program at the New York Hall of Science as well as on the Board of Directors of Women Make Movies.
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