29 Facts About Betty Beaumont

Betty Beaumont was born on January 8,1946 and is a Canadian-American site-specific and conceptual installation artist, sculptor, and photographer.

Betty Beaumont is an internationally recognized artist known to explore cross-disciplinary media, interweaving the environmental, social, economic, political, and the architectural.

Betty Beaumont is involved with investigating solution-based sustainability strategies that reflect contemporary, historic, and cultural perspectives and environmental and social conditions.

Betty Beaumont attended California State University, Northridge where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1969.

Betty Beaumont earned her master's degree from College of Environmental Design in the School of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 before moving to Chicago and then to New York City in 1973, where she currently resides.

In 1976, Betty Beaumont built a film set for Andy Warhol at The Factory, worked part-time with filmmaker Barbara Kopple, and danced at Brooklyn Academy of Music with Twyla Tharp in Half the Hundreds, as well as Anna Halprin at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Betty Beaumont has described art as central to shaping the world.

In 1977, Betty Beaumont created Cable Piece, forming an enormous iron ring of 4,000 feet of cable measuring 100 feet in diameter, which was left to bury itself slowly in the ground on a farm in Macomb, Illinois.

Betty Beaumont's 1977 work Found Words is a record of found fragments originating from anonymous people and their unknown activities.

The project culminated in a box set of paper works and a comprehensive artist's book, featuring English text by Betty Beaumont translated into Japanese by Hiroaki Sato.

In 1978, Betty Beaumont created a set of chromogenic prints entitled Love Canal USA.

Betty Beaumont's Ocean Landmark was a $3 million project that was jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy, The Smithsonian Institution, Bell Labs, Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, America the Beautiful Fund, Media Bureau, and in-kind contributions.

Betty Beaumont collaborated with a team of scientists and engineers who were experimenting with coal-waste and ways to stabilize the industrial byproduct in water.

Betty Beaumont in turn proposed the concept of processing waste material into an underwater sculpture that would function as an artificial reef that would create a place where people might come and fish.

In 1989, Betty Beaumont began working on a project that would continue to develop and expand for the next two decades.

Betty Beaumont created a list of over 150 personally significant books and collected replicas from bookstores.

In 2004, Betty Beaumont created Camouflaged Cell Concealment Sites, a series of color photographs documenting camouflaged cell towers disguised as everyday sights such as palm trees, water towers, and cacti throughout various climates like Azusa, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia; and Sparta, New Jersey.

Betty Beaumont seeks to examine the extent in which greenwashing exhibits itself throughout natural environments and a reconsideration of preconceptions.

Betty Beaumont has said that the installation was informed by a dream she had the first week moving to NYC.

Since 1972, Betty Beaumont's work has been included in solo and group exhibitions around the world.

In 1994, Betty Beaumont began exhibiting with Colin de Land at American Fine Arts Gallery.

Betty Beaumont's work is included in the collections of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, Ringier in Zurich, Switzerland, Vescom BV in Deurne, Netherlands, and Centre Pompidou-Metz, France.

Betty Beaumont is one of the 400 women artists listed in the Women Environmental Artists Directory.

Betty Beaumont taught sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1972 to 1973, and at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976.

Betty Beaumont was an assistant professor of 3D Media at State University of New York at Purchase from 1985 to 1990, where she was awarded a Professor of the Year Award by the Purchase Student Union.

Betty Beaumont taught in the MFA program at the City University of New York at Hunter College from 1989 to 1993, and was an Arts Program faculty member at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study from 1998 to 2001.

Betty Beaumont served as a Graduate and Undergraduate Advisor at Gallatin from 1998 to 2007.

In 2006, Betty Beaumont was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from University of California, Berkeley.

Betty Beaumont is the founder of Art Research Collaboration, a non-profit organization that promotes and develops large-scale media and environmental projects that could otherwise not be realized.