Fine Artist focusing on vibrant large-scale abstract oil paintings and textile sculpture works with nature elements and heritage fabrics

Beckett@studiobes.com +9747770880 @skyarts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2005-the present (partial list)

2023, SCAD Lacoste Teaching Assistantship, France

Responsible for presentations on contemporary art history methods and theories, group and individual student discussions, assisting student projects and field trips

2021, Collegio Villoresi, Monza, Italy

Studio Art and Art History Teacher, program innovation and development

2015, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnesota

Responsible for instruction in traditional oil painting techniques, personal documentary-based works, artist books and experimental sculpture workshops

2010, San Francisco Art Commission, California

responsible for public art project implementation including artist relationships and support, project implementation and public outreach

2008, Hudson Gallery, New York

Responsible for exhibition operation support, including installation and events and artist relations

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018, Shinsei, Maidoff Gallery, Florence, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025, Everything I Ever Wanted to Say, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY

2024, The Gathering, Flat iron Gallery, NYC

2023, SCAD Lacoste Summer Showcase, Lacoste, France

RESIDENCIES

2023, Fellowship, Rome Art Residency, Rome, Italy, classical sculpture studies

2011, Eastside Arts Council, Minnesota, Resident artist and workshop facilitator

AWARDS

2023, Robert Courtright Endowed Scholarship, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France

20010, University of Minnesota project grant for the American College dance festival

COLLECTIONS

‘Inside the Dreams of Flowers,’ oil painting, Private collection, Puglia, Italy

‘Chasing that Feeling of Aliveness,’ Oil painting, Private collection, Kuwait

ARTIST TALKS

2025, Exhibition panel interview, “The Core Animating Principle of My Practice,” Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY

PUBLIC ART

2005, ‘PS Wish You Were Here,’ interactive sculpture and public performance, West River Commons, Minneapolis, MN

EDUCATION 2008-the present

SCAD, MFA Painting, Candidate

2018 Istituto Lorenzo de Medici, Florence, Italy

studies in old master painting techniques, art conservation and Italian Renaissance art history

2013 UWM, The Peck School, MFA in Dance Pedagogy and Performance

2005 The New School, NY, BA in Art and Culture in Society

2003 American University of Paris

2003 Parsons School of Design, NYC and Paris

2002 Idyllwild School of Music and Art

AFFILIATIONS

Member Advancing Women Artists (AWA), Florence, Italy

Member National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA

Member UNESCO Conseil de la Danse