Jill Bedgood
Bedgood creates multi-media art that reflects her questioning of the duality of human nature, andthe transitional moments between. She has a BFA: painting/art history, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and MFA: U-Texas-Austin, mixed media sculpture. Residencies: Contemporary at Blue Star SATX Kunstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Residency-Berlin 2023, Rockefeller Foundation Center-Bellagio Italy, Visiting Artist American Academy-Rome-Italy, MacDowell Colony,Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Awards: New Forms Regional Initiatives Grant/ Rockefeller-Andy Warhol Foundation-National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America-National Endowment for the Arts Award Sculpture, Art Matters Inc.-NYC, Native Plant Society of Texas Annual Award.
Exhibitions include the Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, ArtScan Rudolf Blume Gallery-Houston, G Contemporary-Houston, Austin Museum of Art, SanAntonio Museum of Art, Women & Their Work-Austin, Lawndale Art Center-Houston, TheContemporary at Blue Star-SATX, University of-Texas-Arlington, ArtSpace 111 FWTX. Reviews: NewYork Times, The New Art Examiner, High Performance, Sculpture, BE Berlin Magazine, ArtLies, Houston Chronicle, CNN online, NPR.
Bedgood is/ has been a Professor, Adjunct Faculty at Austin Community College, U-Texas Austin,Trinity University, Texas State University San Marcos, and Visiting Artist University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She lives-works in San Antonio, Texas.
