Bio & Exhibition History
Beth Racette
Madison, WI
608.239.9790 | [email protected]
Born in Wichita Kansas, USA | August 7, 1960.
MFA - Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, 1989
SOLO EXHIBITION HISTORY
2019 GAIA Series, Threshold, Madison WI
2017 GAIA Series, River Arts, Prairie du Sac, WI
2016 GAIA Series, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI
2014 GAIA Series, Monona Library, Monona, WI
2014 GAIA Series, Drury Gallery, Portage Center for the Arts, Portage, WI
2014 GAIA Series, Sonderreger Hall, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
2013 GAIA Series, Sundance Theater, Madison, WI
2013 GAIA Series, Systems of Abstraction Watrous Gallery, Madison WI
2010 FLOW: Web of Interconnection, Overture Center, Madison, WI
2002 Without Liberty and Justice for All, The Academy Gallery of Arts and Science, Madison, WI
2000 Time 2000: The Millennium Show, DeRicci Gallery, Madison, WI
1998 Installation With 13 Names, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Towards an Integration of Work and Play Palmyra Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ
Medical Paradigm, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Authority of Refined Consumption, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Impact! Celebrating 20 Years of Art at Overture, Overture Center, Madison WI
2024 A Breath of Fresh Art- Democracy Project, Primrose Retreat, WI
2022 The Shape of The Environment, Art Lit Lab, Madison, WI
2022 Crossing the River, The Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2020 Earthly Kin, Overture Center, Madison, WI
2019 Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Arts and Design
2018, The Sixties Revisited, Overture Center, Madison WI
2017, The Capitol Centennial, Overture Center, Madison, WI
2016, Intimate Systems, 100 State Gallery, Madison WI
Ossuary, Chazen Museum, Madison WI
Dendritic Visions: Peace by Piece, The Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
Starts - Artists for Social Change, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
SUGAR, San Diego State University Gallery
Queer Vision, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
Woman on the Edge of Time, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
1998Beijing and Beyond: Women Artists Respond to the World Conference on Women
Washington University Gallery, Mills College,Oakland CA; ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL; HUB Gallery, Penn State; Lever House, NYC; The United Nations, NYC; University of Texas at Dallas;
Diverse Origins: an Exhibition of Cultural and Geographic Variety Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
Change Becomes Us Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
25th National Anniversary Exhibition of the WCA, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago
H x W x D, Visual Arts Program, St. Marks Church in the Bowery, NYC
Omni Gallery, Long Island, NY
Personal Narratives, NGO Forum, Beijing China
Global Sweatshop, Art In General, NYC 1994
Amendments, Hallwalls Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
Race and Gender, Mason Gross school of the Arts, NJ
Recycling With Imagination: Art From Detritus, at the National Recycling Conf, Portland, OR
Trenton Avant Guard Festival, Trenton, NJ
Site of Crisis, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
The Women's Health Show, NYC Director
Race and Gender, Raritan Valley Community college, NJ
Chapter One Books, New Brunswick, NJ
Breaching Containment, 30 Bond Street Gallery, NYC
Women's Art, Women's Lives, Women's Issues, Tweed Gallery, NYC
New Horizons, Long Beach Island Foundation, NJ
NJ Fellowship Recipients 91 - 93, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers Camden, NJ
Big Art, Billboard in the Atlanta Arts Festival, Georgia
Materiality Revisited, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
Robeson Gallery, Rutgers Newark; Glassburo College;
Ramapo College; Calwell College; Stockton College
WAC - Women's Action Coalition, Creative Time's Art in the Anchorage, Brooklyn
Community Artists Against Drugs, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC
Members Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
Choice, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
Race and Culture, 494 Gallery, NYC; City College, NYC
Park and Ride, NJ Communities,
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
Death On Drugs, Taller Boricua Gallery, NYC
RVCC Faculty Exhibit, Hunterdon Art Center, Clifton, NJ
Visible for a Change, Harvard University, MA
Points of Origin, City Gallery, NYC
Interactions, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
Mayfair, Allentown, PA
Altarpiece, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers
Women in the Visual Arts 1990, Erector Square, New Haven, CT
Inalienable Rights / Alienable Wrongs, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
The Jane Doe Show, Pyramid Gallery NYC
Rutgers/Yale Exchange, A&A Gallery, New Haven, CT
Summerfest, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
MFA Thesis, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University
Hunger Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers NJ
Love and Sex Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers NJ
New Members, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
Democracy, White Columns Gallery, NYC
Prohibition, Hiro Cafe, NYC
Window Peace, Soho Zat, NYC
Women in Action, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers NJ
Little Works By Big Thinkers, Bess Cutler Gallery, NYC
Birth Control and Dipety Doo, New Brunswick, NJ
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
Democracy, 2023, Overture Center Co-Curated with Emily Parkman
Everything Covid, 2021 Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
Earthly Kin, 2020 Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
60s Revisited, 2018 Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
Puppets!, 2015 Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
Hunger Show, 1989 Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ
ARTS ADMINISTRATION - CULTURAL WORK
2015- Present 350 WI Art Collective, Wisconsin
1997 – 2024 Beth Racette worked at Overture Center Directing five galleries and a variety of education and community programs.