Betty Beaumont

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Artist Betty Beaumont (born 1946 in Toronto, Canada) lives and works in New York City, New York. Beaumont is now a U. S. Citizen.

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. Frequently chosen as a panelist on many subjects that involve environmental art and collaborative projects, Beaumont strives to show an ever-changing attitude based on what is best for out environment and surroundings. With numerous venues, Beaumont has worked with ArtSci99 Symposium, Columbia University, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, Interactive Telecommunications Project (ITP), Japan Radio Network WMBS and University of Oregon.

Her work has appeared in many articles around the globe including Art Monthly, London, New York Magazine, The New York Times, NY ARTS, The Village Voice, Vita Nova Tokyo, Z Magazine and zingmagazine among others.

Beaumont' work has been shown in Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden as well as the United States

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[edit] Academia

Beaumont received a B.A. in Art from California State University in 1969 and in 1972 Beaumont received a M.A. in Architecture from University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design.

  • Since 1998 Beaumont has been a Graduate and Undergraduate Advisor at New York University and continues in that capacity.

[edit] Work

  • With a significant body of environmentally and socially concerned research-based projects, Beaumont's work has been shown in New York at P.S. 1 Museum, the Queens Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art and also The Hudson River Museum, The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and Kyoto,
  • "Ocean Landmark" 1980 is an underwater work on the floor of the Atlantic, made of 500 tons of processed coal-waste, a potential pollutant that has undergone a planned transformation into a flourishing ecosystem—a lush underwater garden.
  • One of the artists featured in the video, "Totalitarian Zone," by Czechoslovakian film/video maker, Vaclav Kucera. 1991
  • Incited by her landlord's constant threat of conviction, Beaumont has created this body of work that includes boxes and vitrines combined with letters and an active archiving of her displaced works. This exhibition also includes a series of public forums addressing the continual displacement of artists in contemporary urban settings.


[edit] Honors and Awards

  • Having received 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.
  • National Endowment for the Arts, (regrant) 2002
  • World Parks Endowment Travel Grant, 2001
  • Creative Capital Foundation Grant, 2001
  • Travel Grant, Gallatin School, New York University, 2000
  • Creative Capital Foundation Grant, 2000
  • Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 1998
  • National Endowment for the Arts, (regrant) 1997
  • Professor of the Year Award, SUNY, The Purchase Student Union, 1989

[edit] Quotes

  • Betty Beaumont comes to mind as an artist who began as a political artist and evolved to an activist artist. Beaumont first documented environmental devastation with her photographic series in 1969 of the Santa Barbara, California oil spill. Her work a decade later took a significant change, whereas instead of exposing these problems of nature and industry colliding, she offered a solution. In her work that merged art and environmental science, Ocean Landmark Installation completed in 1980. -Nicholas Lambert [1]

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