William Betts
Born and raised in New York City, resided in Houston Texas and is currently based in Miami Florida. In 1991, graduating with a Bachelar of Arts, Studio Art-Cum Laude from Arizona State University, William Betts has exhibited throughout North America and Europe. His artwork has been featured in the group exhibition, Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum, in Stuttgart, Germany, in the Arlington Museum of Art, The University of Texas, The Salt Lake City Art Center, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, and the Albuquerque Museum. His selected Bibliography includes The Creators Project (video interview), June 2016; Politiken, Københagen, Photo Essay, March 28, 2016; Kinetic, Art from Polsinelli Art Collection, Privately Published 2015; Victoria Machmudov, Under övervakningsradarn, Konstperspektiv, Sweden, June, 2014 and Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum Stuttgar (Show Catalog). He was named New American Painting Annual Prize winner in 2011 and featured in issues #60, #72, #84, and #96
William Betts had a career in tech industries where he established proficiency in computer language and programing. From this, he uses complex industrial processes to create paintings that reflect the possibilities for an analog medium in a digital age. Betts uses his own source material (photographs/videos) as data sets to be examined, sampled, re-contextualized, manipulated and represented. Typically less interested in content and more concerned with the structural and social aspects of the image.
Recent Artwork
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Artist Information
Artist Website: williambetts.com
William Betts had a career in tech industries where he established proficiency in computer language and programing. From this, he uses complex industrial processes to create paintings that reflect the possibilities for an analog medium in a digital age. Betts uses his own source material (photographs/videos) as data sets to be examined, sampled, re-contextualized, manipulated and represented. He is typically less interested in content and more concerned with the structural and social aspects of the image.
William Betts was born and raised in New York City, resided in Houston Texas, Miami FL and is currently based in rural Connecticut and Mexico. In 1991, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art-Cum Laude from Arizona State University, William Betts has exhibited throughout North America and Europe and in the 2019 Biennale De La Habana, Cuba. His artwork has been featured in the group exhibition, Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum, in Stuttgart, Germany, in the Arlington Museum of Art, The University of Texas, The Salt Lake City Art Center, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, and the Albuquerque Museum. His selected Bibliography includes The Creators Project (video interview), June 2016; Politician, Københagen, Photo Essay, March 28, 2016; Kinetic, Art from Polsinelli Art Collection, Privately Published 2015; Victoria Machmudov, Under övervakningsradarn, Konstperspektiv, Sweden, June, 2014 and Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum Stuttgar (Show Catalog). He was named New American Painting Annual Prize winner in 2011 and featured in issues #60, #72, #84, and #96.
Residence: Miami, Florida
Education
1991 Arizona State University, Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art – Cum Laude
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2017 4306 Contemporary, Miami, FL
2017 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas
2017 Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2016 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2015 Geneation, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2012 Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2012 Robert McClain Gallery, Houston TX
2012 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2011 Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2010 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2010 Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2010 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009 Simpatia e Quiase Amor, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2008 Field of Vision, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2008 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2007 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Indelible, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery Vancouver, BC
2007 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2006 Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2006 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
2005 Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2005 Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2005 Gallery deSoto, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005 Thomas Werner Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Poissant O’Neil Gallery, Houston, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Summer Salon Exhibit, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2018 Peers, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn New York
2017 Summer Salon Exhibit, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2017 Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views, Heritage Museums & Gardens
Sandwich, MA
2015 Brave New World, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Praha, Czech Republic
2013 Margaret Thatcher Projects, Logical Expressions and Variations, New York, NY
2012 Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 Substainability, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2010 This is Not a Photo Show, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
2010 Appropriate Manipulate Duplicate, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Landscape Affected, University of Dallas, Haggerty Gallery, Irving TX
2008 Invisible Omniscience: Seeing and the Seen, Baltimore Art Place
2008 New American Talent 23, Arthouse Texas, Austin
2008 Group Show, Trinity University, San Antonio, Steven Lam, Curator
2008 Houston Area Show, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Claudia Schmukli, Curator
2008 Group Show, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2008 Group Show, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA
2008 Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2008. Dr. Kevin Salatino, LACMA Juror
2007 Collectors Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 Chill: Summer Group Show, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
2007 Vertigo, Plus Gallery, Denver
2007 B & W, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Texas Biennial, Austin, TX
2007 Fab Ab, Salt Lake City Art Center
2006 Watch it! Television’s Influence in Art. State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
2006 Baroque Visions and Urban Verities: Seven Houston Painters, Blue Star, San Antonio, curated by Terrie Sultan and Chris French
2006 SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
2006 Texas Paint, Part Two: Abstraction, Arlington Museum of Art, curated by Anne Allen
2006 Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM, Dr. Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Juror and Curator
2006 OPENDraw, OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL
2006 Works on Paper National Competition, Long Beach, New Jersey, Juror: Carter Foster, Drawing Curator Whitney Museum of American Art
2006 5 Angles on Abstraction, Addison Arts, Santa Fe
2006 Ripped from the Pages, Gallery 125, CACHH, Houston, Texas
2006 Blurring the Line, University of Texas San Antonio, Julie Shipp Curator Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror
2005 New Texas Painting, Diverseworks, Houston
2005 Clothesline Exhibition, the Hospital, Covent Garden, London
2005 Three Landscape Painters, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut
2005 Incremental Disruption, NAO Gallery, Boston
2005 20th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas
2005 Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas
2005 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas,
2005 Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Curator DPI:
2004 Competition, Kellogg University Art Gallery Cal Poly, Pomona, California
2004 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston
Awards and Honours
2011 New American Paintings Annual Prize
2010 Individual Artist Grant, Houton Arts Council
2008 Finalist, Hunting Art Prize
2008 First Place, Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2008. Dr. Kevin
2008 Salatino, Curator of Drawings and Prints LACMA, Juror
2007 Finalist, Hunting Art Prize
2006 Best in Show, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM, 2006
2006 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror
2005 Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County
2005 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Juror and Curator
Bibliography
2016 The Creators Project, June 2016
2016 Politiken, Københagen, Photo Essay, March 28, 2016
2015 Kinetic, Art from Polsinelli Art Collection, Privately Published 2015
2014 Victoria Machmudov, Under övervakningsradarn, Konstperspektiv, Limhamm, Sweden
2014 Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum Stuttgar (Show Catalog)
2014 Just Not Yet: Dodging the Vaccum of Meaning, Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University (Show Catalog)
2013 Painted Landscapes, Lauren P. Della Monica, Schiffer Books. 2013
2011 Iris Mclister, WIlliam Betts Review: Terminal at Richard Levy Gallery, THE Magazine, 2011
2010 Douglas Britt, Confronting Beauty—And the Ugly Truth—In a Mirror, Houston Chronicle, November 7, 2010
2010 Laura Lark, Mirror Stages: William Betts and the Reflective Surface, October 2010
2010 Charissa Terranova, William Betts: Surveillance, ARTlies
2009 Manon Slome, The Aesthetics of Terror, Charta
2008 Sharon Brock, Looming threats spark art, Palo Alto Daily News, February 28, 2008
2008 Alan Artner, Chilling surveillance-camera images tap into fears, Chicago Tribune, January 18
2008 New American Paintings – Western Region Edition No. 72, Nick Capasso, juror
2007 Kelly Klaasmeyer, Retinal Redux, Houston Press, April 19, 2007
2007 Elaine Wolff, Reading Between the Pixels, San Antonio Current, March 13, 2007
2007 Visual Art Feature, Lungfull Magazine, Issue 16
2007 Nikki Moore, Bi-ology, Austin Chronicle, March 1
2007 Brian Staker, Abs, Tracked, Salt Lake City Weekly, April 18, 2007
2007 Texas Biennial 2007, Austin, Texas, Show Catalog
2007 Theresa Downing, SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire
2006 Margery Gordon, Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump, ARTINFO.com, December 9
2006 Dan R. Goddard, Houston, in the eyes of the artists, San Antonio Express-News, December 3
2006 Nancy Salem, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Tribune, October 5, 2006
Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Show Catalog
2006 Bill Davenport: Ripped from the Pages at CACHH, Glasstire.com, May 15, 2006
2006 Bill Davenport: William Betts Makes Art and a Profit, Houston Chronicle, Sunday Zest Magazine, May 7
2006 Alan Artner, Review: William Betts at Peter Miller, Chicago Tribune, March 10, 2006
2006 Lauren Weinberg, William Betts at Peter Miller, Time Out Chicago, March 3, 2006
2006 Fred Camper, Slices of Light, Chicago Reader, March 3, 2006
2005 Kelly Klaasmeyer, Grab Bag: Diverseworks surveys Texas Painting, Houston Press, December
2005 Charissa N. Terranova, William Betts at Holly Johnson, ARTLIES 48, Fall 2005
2005 New American Painting, Volume 60, Open Studios Press, 2005, Fereshteh
2005 Daftari, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Juror
2005 Michael Paglia, Formal Ware, Westword Weekly, May 13, 2005
2005 D’Lynne Plummer, Destination Nao, South End News, April 2005
2005 Cate McQuaid, Incremental Disruption, The Boston Globe, April 15, 2005
2005 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Brushed With Greatness, Austin American-Statesman, March 8, 2005
2005 Elaine Wolff, Digital-induced Angst and Sensory Overload, San Antonio Current, March 10, 2005
2005 J R Compton, The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension, Dallas Arts Revue, March
2005 Tyler Green, ArtLA Faves, Artsjournal.com, February 2, 2005
2004 Kelly Klaasmeyer, Capsule Reviews, Houston Press, October 21, 2004
2004 Tim Moloney, The Line on William Betts, 002 Magazine, November 2004
Art Fairs
CONTEXT Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Florida December 2013
CONTEXT Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Florida December 2012
San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Fransico, CA USA May 2011
TIAF Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, ON CANADA October 2010
PULSE NY Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY USA March 2008
LAAS Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA USA January 2008
ART MIAMI, Miami, FL USA December 2007
PULSE MIAMI, Miami, FL USA December 2007
PULSE NY Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY USA March 2007
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