MA Design '72

One of the early pioneers of environmental art, Beaumont’s work has helped define this movement as a model of interdisciplinary problem solving. She has produced a body of research-based psycho/bio/social projects that are unique works of visual art. She is internationally recognized for her environmental and conceptual work marked by deep-seated social and ecological concerns, ranging widely from experimental landscape projects, photo-based art, image/text/object works, information art, and interactive combined-media installations. Beaumont founded Art Research Collaboration, Inc., and works and consults with scientists, engineers and scholars as well as municipalities on such global issues as energy, species diversity, health and environmental hazards of toxins, and the elimination of waste.

After receiving her Master’s degree in Design from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley in 1972, she began showing widely in the United States and Europe. She has had over 125 solo and group exhibitions that include the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, P.S. 1, MoMA, The Hudson River Museum, The Queens Museum and The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and in Kyoto. An artist and educator, she has served on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SUNY, Purchase (where she was awarded the 1989 Professor of the Year Award), Hunter College, New York University, and at Columbia University in the Graduate School of Architecture.

Among the awards and fellowships she has been honored to receive are five National Endowment for the Arts grants, three New York State Council for the Arts grants, two Pollock-Krasner grants, and the German Unwelt Stiftung Award. She has served as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Art & Technology Program at the New York Hall of Science as well as on the Board of Directors of Women Make Movies.