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Elizabeth R. de Béthune
71 Valentine Lane, Yonkers, NY 10705 • 914 523 2680 •
[email protected] • www.elizabethdebethuneart.com • instagram: @lizartdeb
Exhibitions • Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
9-10/2025 Portraits of Queer Folk, Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
5-6/2024 Intimate and Ordinary, Rye Art Center, Gallery B, Rye, NY
1-2/2024 Out in Yonkers, Portraits from the Yonkers LGBTQ Community
• White Plains Library Gallery, White Plains, NY
• 6–7/2024 Westchester Jewish Community Services, White Plains NY
2-3/2020 Every Picture Tells A Story; Narrative Paintings and Composite Images
Wenburg Gallery at the Fonseca Center, The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2/2018 Horizon Lines, Harrison Public Library, Harrison, NY
4-5/2015 People, Patterns & Planes, Donald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
9/2010 Sebago Summer Paintings, ACA Camp Pavilion, Harriman State Park, NY
11/2008 Mixed Media Images, Images Gallery, Briarcliff Manor, NY
5-6/2006 Groups and Gatherings, Earlville Opera House Art Gallery, Earlville, NY
3/2006 Alternated Planes, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
11/2005 Two Rivers, Broad Street Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
5/2005 Gatherings, Yonkers Public Library, Yonkers, NY (made possible in part with a SCA S.O.S. grant)
4.25–5.17/2002 Halloween Parade and Other Images of Children, Gallery FS/Fleetwood Stage, New Rochelle, NY
2/2002–6/2005 Palisades Framed, Yonkers Paddling& Rowing Club Boat Building Space/I-Park Café Yonkers, NY
11.1–12.31/2001 City Grids/Windows on Mamaroneck, w/Mia de Béthune: Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
6/1996 Domestic Theater, Bellmore Public Library, Bellmore, NY
9/1992 Recent Paintings, The Metro Gallery, SUNY Empire, NY, NY
4/1991 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Group Exhibitions
9–12/2024, Hudson Valley MOCA; “The Crit Lab at HV MOCA (Dream Big) ", Peekskill NY
9–11/2024, Riverfront Art Gallery; “Within/Without", Yonkers NY
8–9/2024, Bristol Art Museum; “Look Harder, See More”, Bristol RI
6–8/2024, Riverfront Art Gallery; “Radical Joy”, Yonkers NY
6/2024, WomensWork.Art, “Renascense”, Cunneen Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
Spring 2024, Spirit Songs, Visual Voices of LGBTIQA+ Artists, Mindy Ross Gallery, Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY
Winter 2024, Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Drawing from Perception, Invention and Memory, Wright State University, Dayton OH
Summer 2023, Upstream Gallery; "Our Bodies, Ourselves— 50 years On”, Hastings-on-Hudson NY
Summer 2023, Riverfront Art Gallery; “Love is the Only Norm”, Yonkers NY
Summer 2023, Gallery18 at the Y; “Love is Love, the Other Side of Summer”, Bronx, NY
June 2023, A Contingency of Joy, The Crit Lab at MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
June 2023, She, He, They, We, Gender Identity in Art, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY
Spring 2023, Art Effect, Trolley Barn Gallery; “Is It Me?”, Poughkeepsie, NY
Winter, 2023 Gallery18 at the Y; “Then Now When”, Bronx, NY
Fall/Winter, 2022 Riverfront Art Gallery; “Winter Colors”, Yonkers NY
Fall, 2022 Blue Door Art Center; “Mood Indigo” at Serious Fun Art Festival in White Plains.
Fall, 2022 Autumn Reflections, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Summer, 2022 Summer Waves, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Spring, 2022 Intimacies; An exhibition celebrating the small of stature, big of heart, The Crit Lab at MAPSpace,
Port Chester, NY
Spring, 2022 Queer Perspectives: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson NY
Spring, 2019 Artists Who Teach, Riverfront Library Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Spring 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 Yonkers Artists Showcase, Riverfront Library Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Fall, 2016 Inclusion, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY
Spring, 2016 Big Ideas, Small Packages, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 YOHO Studios Open Studio, YOHO Studios, Yonkers, NY
11/2008-1/2009 Human Matters, Hiram Halle Library, Pound Ridge, NY
11/2006 Windows to the Soul: Blue Door Art Association, Yonkers Public Library, Yonkers, NY
5-6/2006 Sister Show Art 3/Windows on Main, 45 Main St., Yonkers, NY
5-6/2006 Tidal Current: Upstream Gallery at the Yonkers Public Library, NY
2/2006 Different Strokes, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
7–8/2005 Summer Invitational, Celia Hirsch Gallery, Chappaqua, NY
6/2005 Yonkers on Hudson, an art event in downtown Yonkers, NY
3/2005 Upstream Gallery at Pomona Art Center, Pomona Art Center, Pomona NY
2/2005 Black and White Show, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
10/2004 Five Hands, Westchester Artists at the Somers Library, Somers, NY
1/2004, 2/2003 Upstream Gallery Small Works Exhibition, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
4/2003 Vulnerabilities/2003 Alumni Exhibition, NY Studio School, NY, NY
6 –9/2001 Found in Yonkers, (Art on Main Street) Getty Square Library, Yonkers, NY
3/2001 Home, Sweet Home: Visions of Home by Contemporary Westchester Artists, County Center, White Plains, NY
6/2000 Open Studios Invitational, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
5.24 – 7.4/2000 On the City: Urban Realities and Fantasies, NY Studio School, NY, NY
2 – 4/2000 Executive Suite 2000, Westchester County Executive’s Offices, White Plains, NY
10/1999 – 1/2000 The Hudson River at Yonkers: Currents of Art, History and Science, Art on Main Street, Yonkers, NY
6/1999 Open Studios, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
4 – 5/1999 Eight Artists of the Westchester Arts Council Roster, Museum Gallery, White Plains Library, White Plains, NY
10/1998 Sisters Show Art, Art on Main Street, SU Educational Opportunity Center, Yonkers, NY
5/1996 Out of the Ordinary, MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY
1/1996 Intimate Spaces Gallery, II, Zeuxis, Clinton Hall at Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
7/1995 North Fork Images, Yellow House Gallery, Greenport, NY
9/1994 Images of Things to Come, Bronx River Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
6/1994 The Nature of the Oysterponds, Oysterponds Historical Society, Orient, NY
11/1993 Small Works, exhibition curated by Stephen Westfall, Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY
10/1993 People, Places and Things, curated by Karen Harris, Marymount Manhattan Gallery NY, NY
7.9 – 9.2/1993 The Food Show, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Emerging Artists Program, NY, NY
7.2 – 21/1993 Bowery Gallery Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, NY, NY
5.3 – 31/1993 Nature Morte: A Current View, curated by Judy Rifka, NY Studio School, NY, NY
3.3 – 4.2/1993 Sisters: Women of the Americas and Beyond, Women's Studies, College of Staten Island; Staten Island, NY
3.1 – 24/1993 Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, curated by Dennis Barrie, Gardiner Art Gallery, Bartlett Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
1/1993 Women on Women, Artsquad Contemp. Fine Arts, Easton, PA
6/1992 Long Island Arts Council 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, Award for General Excellence, Freeport, NY
4/1992 Fools for Art, April Fools Day Drawing Exhibition, Artist’s Space, NY, NY
12/1990 Small Works Exhibition, The Metro Gallery, SU Empire State College, NY, NY
4/1990 Celebrating 20 Years of Women at Yale: Alumnae Exhibit, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Talks and Discussions
6/2024 About “Out in Yonkers”, Panel at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY,
2/2024 Representing the LGBTQ Community, in conjunction with “Out in Yonkers”, for the White Plains Rotarians, Sarah Lawrence Professor Yeong Ran Kim’s “Queer Feminist Praxis: Digital Humanities and Community Engagement” class, and The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center, White Plains Library NY
4/2024 Representing the LGBTQ Community, in conjunction with “Out in Yonkers”, for Center Lane LGBTQ Youth, and for the LOFT Silver Connections programs, White Plains NY
9/2023 Westchester LGBTQ History Project Interview about "Out in Yonkers",
7/2023 Transcending the Binary in Art, ArtsWestchester, Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers NY.
Grants
Arts Alive Grant, ArtsWestchester, 2023, for “LGBTQ Portrait Series.
Education
MFA in Painting, The State University of NY at Purchase, Purchase, NY, May, 1991
BA in Fine Art, cum laude, with distinction in the major, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 1979
Post-Masters Certification Program in Art Education, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, 2000 – 2002
The Crit Lab: post-graduate seminar for working artists, Spring 2022– Spring 2024
Art New England– Massachusetts College of Art Limited Palette Color Painting, Susan Lichtman, Bennington, VT, Summer 2015
Whitney Museum Teacher Exchange Program, NY, NY, 2009-2010
Wildacre/Ringling College of Art + Design, Painting en Plein Aire, Little Switzerland, NC, Summer 2009
Skidmore College Summer Arts Institute, Summer Arts Fellow in Painting, Saratoga Springs, NY, Summer 2008
Norwalk Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Mural Monotype Printing, Sarah Amos; Digital Printing, Mary Taylor & Chris Shore, Norwalk, CT, Summer 2006
Vermont Studio Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Fellowship in Printmaking; January 2006
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York:
Fellowship in Monotype Printing. January 2005; October 2003
Moku Hanga Japanese Woodblock Printing, April Vollmer, Summer 2004; “The Layered Page,” Maureen Cummings, Summer 2003
Silkscreen, Roni Henning, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, New York, Winter 2004
Artist Studio Program, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY. 1993–1995
Scholarship for the study of Printmaking, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY. Spring, 1993
SUNY Empire State Studio Program, New York, NY. 1990–1991
Non-matriculated Painting Student, Lennart Anderson, Brooklyn College MFA Program. Brooklyn, NY. Spring 1988
Independent study in painting with artist Brenda Goodman, 1986–1987
Studies in drawing and painting. NY Studio School. New York, NY. 1984–1985
71 Valentine Lane, Yonkers, NY 10705 • 914 523 2680 •
[email protected] • www.elizabethdebethuneart.com • instagram: @lizartdeb
Exhibitions • Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
9-10/2025 Portraits of Queer Folk, Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
5-6/2024 Intimate and Ordinary, Rye Art Center, Gallery B, Rye, NY
1-2/2024 Out in Yonkers, Portraits from the Yonkers LGBTQ Community
• White Plains Library Gallery, White Plains, NY
• 6–7/2024 Westchester Jewish Community Services, White Plains NY
2-3/2020 Every Picture Tells A Story; Narrative Paintings and Composite Images
Wenburg Gallery at the Fonseca Center, The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2/2018 Horizon Lines, Harrison Public Library, Harrison, NY
4-5/2015 People, Patterns & Planes, Donald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
9/2010 Sebago Summer Paintings, ACA Camp Pavilion, Harriman State Park, NY
11/2008 Mixed Media Images, Images Gallery, Briarcliff Manor, NY
5-6/2006 Groups and Gatherings, Earlville Opera House Art Gallery, Earlville, NY
3/2006 Alternated Planes, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
11/2005 Two Rivers, Broad Street Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
5/2005 Gatherings, Yonkers Public Library, Yonkers, NY (made possible in part with a SCA S.O.S. grant)
4.25–5.17/2002 Halloween Parade and Other Images of Children, Gallery FS/Fleetwood Stage, New Rochelle, NY
2/2002–6/2005 Palisades Framed, Yonkers Paddling& Rowing Club Boat Building Space/I-Park Café Yonkers, NY
11.1–12.31/2001 City Grids/Windows on Mamaroneck, w/Mia de Béthune: Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
6/1996 Domestic Theater, Bellmore Public Library, Bellmore, NY
9/1992 Recent Paintings, The Metro Gallery, SUNY Empire, NY, NY
4/1991 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Group Exhibitions
9–12/2024, Hudson Valley MOCA; “The Crit Lab at HV MOCA (Dream Big) ", Peekskill NY
9–11/2024, Riverfront Art Gallery; “Within/Without", Yonkers NY
8–9/2024, Bristol Art Museum; “Look Harder, See More”, Bristol RI
6–8/2024, Riverfront Art Gallery; “Radical Joy”, Yonkers NY
6/2024, WomensWork.Art, “Renascense”, Cunneen Hackett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
Spring 2024, Spirit Songs, Visual Voices of LGBTIQA+ Artists, Mindy Ross Gallery, Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY
Winter 2024, Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Drawing from Perception, Invention and Memory, Wright State University, Dayton OH
Summer 2023, Upstream Gallery; "Our Bodies, Ourselves— 50 years On”, Hastings-on-Hudson NY
Summer 2023, Riverfront Art Gallery; “Love is the Only Norm”, Yonkers NY
Summer 2023, Gallery18 at the Y; “Love is Love, the Other Side of Summer”, Bronx, NY
June 2023, A Contingency of Joy, The Crit Lab at MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
June 2023, She, He, They, We, Gender Identity in Art, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY
Spring 2023, Art Effect, Trolley Barn Gallery; “Is It Me?”, Poughkeepsie, NY
Winter, 2023 Gallery18 at the Y; “Then Now When”, Bronx, NY
Fall/Winter, 2022 Riverfront Art Gallery; “Winter Colors”, Yonkers NY
Fall, 2022 Blue Door Art Center; “Mood Indigo” at Serious Fun Art Festival in White Plains.
Fall, 2022 Autumn Reflections, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Summer, 2022 Summer Waves, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Spring, 2022 Intimacies; An exhibition celebrating the small of stature, big of heart, The Crit Lab at MAPSpace,
Port Chester, NY
Spring, 2022 Queer Perspectives: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson NY
Spring, 2019 Artists Who Teach, Riverfront Library Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Spring 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 Yonkers Artists Showcase, Riverfront Library Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Fall, 2016 Inclusion, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY
Spring, 2016 Big Ideas, Small Packages, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 YOHO Studios Open Studio, YOHO Studios, Yonkers, NY
11/2008-1/2009 Human Matters, Hiram Halle Library, Pound Ridge, NY
11/2006 Windows to the Soul: Blue Door Art Association, Yonkers Public Library, Yonkers, NY
5-6/2006 Sister Show Art 3/Windows on Main, 45 Main St., Yonkers, NY
5-6/2006 Tidal Current: Upstream Gallery at the Yonkers Public Library, NY
2/2006 Different Strokes, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
7–8/2005 Summer Invitational, Celia Hirsch Gallery, Chappaqua, NY
6/2005 Yonkers on Hudson, an art event in downtown Yonkers, NY
3/2005 Upstream Gallery at Pomona Art Center, Pomona Art Center, Pomona NY
2/2005 Black and White Show, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
10/2004 Five Hands, Westchester Artists at the Somers Library, Somers, NY
1/2004, 2/2003 Upstream Gallery Small Works Exhibition, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
4/2003 Vulnerabilities/2003 Alumni Exhibition, NY Studio School, NY, NY
6 –9/2001 Found in Yonkers, (Art on Main Street) Getty Square Library, Yonkers, NY
3/2001 Home, Sweet Home: Visions of Home by Contemporary Westchester Artists, County Center, White Plains, NY
6/2000 Open Studios Invitational, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
5.24 – 7.4/2000 On the City: Urban Realities and Fantasies, NY Studio School, NY, NY
2 – 4/2000 Executive Suite 2000, Westchester County Executive’s Offices, White Plains, NY
10/1999 – 1/2000 The Hudson River at Yonkers: Currents of Art, History and Science, Art on Main Street, Yonkers, NY
6/1999 Open Studios, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
4 – 5/1999 Eight Artists of the Westchester Arts Council Roster, Museum Gallery, White Plains Library, White Plains, NY
10/1998 Sisters Show Art, Art on Main Street, SU Educational Opportunity Center, Yonkers, NY
5/1996 Out of the Ordinary, MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY
1/1996 Intimate Spaces Gallery, II, Zeuxis, Clinton Hall at Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
7/1995 North Fork Images, Yellow House Gallery, Greenport, NY
9/1994 Images of Things to Come, Bronx River Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
6/1994 The Nature of the Oysterponds, Oysterponds Historical Society, Orient, NY
11/1993 Small Works, exhibition curated by Stephen Westfall, Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY
10/1993 People, Places and Things, curated by Karen Harris, Marymount Manhattan Gallery NY, NY
7.9 – 9.2/1993 The Food Show, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Emerging Artists Program, NY, NY
7.2 – 21/1993 Bowery Gallery Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, NY, NY
5.3 – 31/1993 Nature Morte: A Current View, curated by Judy Rifka, NY Studio School, NY, NY
3.3 – 4.2/1993 Sisters: Women of the Americas and Beyond, Women's Studies, College of Staten Island; Staten Island, NY
3.1 – 24/1993 Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, curated by Dennis Barrie, Gardiner Art Gallery, Bartlett Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
1/1993 Women on Women, Artsquad Contemp. Fine Arts, Easton, PA
6/1992 Long Island Arts Council 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, Award for General Excellence, Freeport, NY
4/1992 Fools for Art, April Fools Day Drawing Exhibition, Artist’s Space, NY, NY
12/1990 Small Works Exhibition, The Metro Gallery, SU Empire State College, NY, NY
4/1990 Celebrating 20 Years of Women at Yale: Alumnae Exhibit, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Talks and Discussions
6/2024 About “Out in Yonkers”, Panel at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY,
2/2024 Representing the LGBTQ Community, in conjunction with “Out in Yonkers”, for the White Plains Rotarians, Sarah Lawrence Professor Yeong Ran Kim’s “Queer Feminist Praxis: Digital Humanities and Community Engagement” class, and The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center, White Plains Library NY
4/2024 Representing the LGBTQ Community, in conjunction with “Out in Yonkers”, for Center Lane LGBTQ Youth, and for the LOFT Silver Connections programs, White Plains NY
9/2023 Westchester LGBTQ History Project Interview about "Out in Yonkers",
7/2023 Transcending the Binary in Art, ArtsWestchester, Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers NY.
Grants
Arts Alive Grant, ArtsWestchester, 2023, for “LGBTQ Portrait Series.
Education
MFA in Painting, The State University of NY at Purchase, Purchase, NY, May, 1991
BA in Fine Art, cum laude, with distinction in the major, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 1979
Post-Masters Certification Program in Art Education, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, 2000 – 2002
The Crit Lab: post-graduate seminar for working artists, Spring 2022– Spring 2024
Art New England– Massachusetts College of Art Limited Palette Color Painting, Susan Lichtman, Bennington, VT, Summer 2015
Whitney Museum Teacher Exchange Program, NY, NY, 2009-2010
Wildacre/Ringling College of Art + Design, Painting en Plein Aire, Little Switzerland, NC, Summer 2009
Skidmore College Summer Arts Institute, Summer Arts Fellow in Painting, Saratoga Springs, NY, Summer 2008
Norwalk Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Mural Monotype Printing, Sarah Amos; Digital Printing, Mary Taylor & Chris Shore, Norwalk, CT, Summer 2006
Vermont Studio Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Fellowship in Printmaking; January 2006
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York:
Fellowship in Monotype Printing. January 2005; October 2003
Moku Hanga Japanese Woodblock Printing, April Vollmer, Summer 2004; “The Layered Page,” Maureen Cummings, Summer 2003
Silkscreen, Roni Henning, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, New York, Winter 2004
Artist Studio Program, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY. 1993–1995
Scholarship for the study of Printmaking, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY. Spring, 1993
SUNY Empire State Studio Program, New York, NY. 1990–1991
Non-matriculated Painting Student, Lennart Anderson, Brooklyn College MFA Program. Brooklyn, NY. Spring 1988
Independent study in painting with artist Brenda Goodman, 1986–1987
Studies in drawing and painting. NY Studio School. New York, NY. 1984–1985