Anna Betbeze

For many years, Anna Betbeze has used experimental processes that push against the limits of language and circumvent the primacy of visual perception to create painterly forms that communicate at the haptic level. Beginning with field painting as an architectural and perceptual site, Betbeze’s works operate in the dialectic between painting and relief, architecture and textiles, interior and exterior spaces. Her recent work involves exploration of the touch sense, arriving at new forms that combine elements of painting, sculpture, puppetry, and performance. Betbeze’s work has been shown at institutions and galleries such as MOMA PS1, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, The Hessel Museum at Bard College, MassMOCA and The Power Station, Shanghai, Kunstverein Hamburg, The Box LA, and Nina Johnson Miami, among others. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, New York Magazine, Frieze, and The Los Angeles Times. She is a 2013-2014 recipient of the Rome Prize, the 2020 recipient of The Headlands Chiaro Award, and the recipient of a 2024 Bau Institute Fellowship Residency at the Carmargo Foundation in Casiss, France. Betbeze is an Associate Professor at University of California-Riverside.