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BEATA WEHR
5155 N. Avenida Primera, Tucson, AZ 85704, USA, (520) 822 7298, [email protected], www.beatawehr.com
 
Education
 
1999       M.F.A. in Painting, University of Arizona, Art Department, Tucson, AZ
1982        M.A. in Art History, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland  
1984-85  Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

Recent Professional Experience
 
2014-       Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College, Art Department, Tucson, AZ 
2015        Adjunct instructor, University of Arizona, School of Art, Tucson, AZ  (and 2005, 2007)
2015        Artist-in-Residence, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2004-12  Art instructor, Tucson Museum of Art School, Tucson, AZ
2012        Artist-in-Residence, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, AZ
2010        Adjunct instructor,The Art Center Design College, (Southwest University of Visual Arts), Tucson, AZ
2000- 03 Adjunct lecturer, University of Arizona, School of Architecture, Tucson, AZ
 
Awards
 
Special Collections, University of Arizona,Purchase Award, Tucson, AZ, Paperwoks Artist’s Book Exhibition(2013)
Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ, ,Open Studio Tour Preview at JCC, Best in Show (2012),  
Book Art Museum, Łódź, Poland, Curators selection for inclusion in Polish Artist's Book Collection (2010), 
MarinMOCA, Novato, CA, Alchemy:Transmutation from the base to the precious, Honorable Mention (2009), 
Tucson Pima Arts Council, Travel grant (2005), 
Tucson Pima Arts Council, International Exchange Grant (2003), 
Northwest Bookfest, Seattle, WA, Honorable Mention (2002),
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,  Final Project Financial Aid Award (1999), Albert M. Haldeman Scholarship (1998)
 
Selected Individual Exhibitions

2023  Tucson Airport, Tucson, AZ, Desert paintings
2022  Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ, Blue & Yellow, New paintings
2020  Artist’s Book Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, Artist’s books and objects, virtual
2019  Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ, Stories, Artist's Books and assemblages 
2016  Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ, Inside/Outside, Artist's Books, Collages and Paintings
2015  Mills College, Book Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Books from Here and Far Away
2014  Tucson Botanical Gardens, Porter Hall Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Paintings and Books from Sonoran Desert
           Amis Gallery, Nyack, NY, Narrative Impulse: The Book Works & Interpretive Landscapes of Beata Wehr
2012  Poetry Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, From Here and Far Away: Books, Pages and Paintings
2011  Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ ,Books and Paintings,
2010  Joel D. Valdez Main Library, Tucson, AZ, Artist's Books,
2009  PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,Taming the Landscapes,Paintings and Books, 
2006  Pima Community College Library, Artist’sBooks, 
2000  Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 
1999  Book Arts Museum, Łódź, Poland, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, 
1998  Fine Arts Library Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 
1997  Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ, 
1996  Artisimo Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ,
1995,1991 The Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
1993  Book Arts Gallery, Tucson, AZ
 
Selected Group Exhibitions


2024      
​Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA, Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined 
Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 10x10
Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Exotic sublime / on a wing

2023                         
Spark Gallery, Denver, CO, Photobookworks 2023
Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Exotic sublime, Land and Sky
Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 10x10

2022      
Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 10x10

2021        
Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, PAPERWORKS: Forming the Effect, Affecting the Form

2020
Galeria Retroavangarda
, Warsaw, Poland, Collage Art international, 3rd edition

2019
Laramie County Library  Constellation: Inspiration and the Artist Book, Cheyenne, WY 
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Small Things Considered, 27th Small Works Invitational
Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 10x10
Tubac Art Center, Tubac, AZ, Arizona Aqueous XXIV
Triangle L Ranch, Oracle, AZ Lost and Found
​ 
2018
1Art on Broadway, Tucson, AZ, Dark and Light, 2 person show with Emily Duwel  
R2 Gallery, Carbondale Arts, 
Carbondale, CO, Narrative threads, traveling to: Art Gym, Denver Gallery, Denver, CO,  
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, National College Society 21st Small Format Exhibit, Roche Tissue Diagnostics Community Gallery, Oro Valley, AZ, Paperworks, The Artful Space, Oro Valley, AZ, National College Society, 2018 Tucson Collage Artists, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Small Things Considered, 26th Small Works Invitational, Joel D Valdez Library, Tucson, AZ, Paperworks Artist’s Books exhibition, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Arizona Otherworldly, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Sonoran Stories, Rancho Linda Vista Wilson Barn Gallery, Oracle, AZ, RLV 50th Anniversary Artist Friends Exhibition, Tubac Art Center, Tubac, AZ, Bees and Wax, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Arizona Otherworldly
 
2017  
Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL, National Collage Society 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ,Small works, Megaphone, Phoenix, AZ,LA DADA, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 12 Annual Encaustic Invitational, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Small Things Considered, 24th Small Works Invitational
Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ, Paperworks, Steinfel Warehouse Art Community Center, Tucson, AZ, X is for Xenophobia–I am America, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Resist,The Art of Disruption, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Handmade Books

2016 
Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library,ReadingRoom, Washington, DC, Recent artist's books acquisitions, Seager/Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, The Art of the Book , Living Learning Commons Gallery, Saint Anselm College,Manchester, NH, Contemporary Book Arts Exhibition, 100+ Works in LLC, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ,Shaped by Hand, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 11th Annual Encaustic Invitational, Length x Width x Depth,Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Small Things Considered, 24th Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Revisions, Joel D Valdez Library, Tucson, AZ, Paperworks exhibition

2015
Galeria Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania, Error,7hInternational Artist’s Book Triennial (catalog)
traveling to Leipzig Book Festival, Leipzig, Germany; Museo Leone, Vercelli, Italy; Hamburg Book Fair, Hamburg, Germany, ILDE, Plaça de Sant Just,Barcelona, Spain, VIII Festival del libro de artista, la pequeña edición 2015, traveling internationally, 
The Gallery of National Visual Arts Foundation, Bucharest, Romania, 3rd European International Book Art Biennale, University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ,PaperWorks: Between Word and Image
Community College, Bernal Gallery, Tucson, AZ, About Books 
 
Public Collections
 
Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, ​Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Sears Artsists Book Collection, Bainbridge, WA, Baylor University, Crouch Fine ArtsLibrary, Artist Book Collection,Waco, TX, Biblioteca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, Boise State University, Boise, MT, Bokartas, Vilnius, Lithuania, Book Arts Museum, Lódź, Poland, Center for Creative Photography, Rare Books,University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA, Cleveland Art Institute Library, Cleveland, OH, Duke University, Durham, NC, Flaxman Library, School of Art Institute ofChicago, Chicago, IL, Fogg Art Museum, Grinnell College Libraries, Special Collections, Grinnell, IA, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, ILDE, Barcelona, Spain, Indiana University, School of Fine Arts Library, Artists’ Books Collection, Bloomington, IN, International Collection of Contemporary Artists’ Books, Marseille, France, Libros de Artista, La Coruna, Spain, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, Macalester College, DeWitt Wallace Library, Special Collections, Saint Paul, MN, Maryland Institute of College of Art, Decker Library, Baltimore, MD, Mills College, F.W.Olin Library, Special Collections, Oakland, CA, Mobilivre Book Collection, Canada, Museum of Art, Satu-Mare, Romania, Musashino Art University Museum andLibrary, Tokyo, Japan, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland, National Visual Arts Foundation, Bucharest, Romania, Newark Public Library, The Special Collection Division,Newark, NJ, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County,Cincinnati, OH,Queens College Library,  New York, NY, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Scripps College, Denison Library, Special Collections, Claremont, CA, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, DC, State Universityof New York, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, Stanford University, Green Library, Palo Alto, CA, Swarthmore College Library, Special Collections, Swarthmore, PA, Texas Tech, Architecture Library, Lubbock, TX, The King St. Stephen Museum, Artists’ Book Collection, Szekesfehervar, Hungary, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS, University of Arizona, Special Collections, Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona, Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ, University of Denver, Penrose Library SpecialCollections, Denver, CO, University of Glasgow,Crichton Campus, United Kingdom, UC Berkeley, Environmental DesignLibrary, Berkeley, CA, UCLA Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, UCLA Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, UC Santa Barbara, Davidson, CA ,UC  Santa Cruz, McHenry Library, Special Collections, Santa Cruz, CA, University of Connecticut,Dodd Research Center, Special Collections, Storrs, CT, University of Denver, Penrose Library Special Collections, Denver, CO, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI,University of North Carolina, Sloan Art Library, Chapel Hill, NC, University of Oregon,Knight Library Special Collections, Eugene, OR, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, University of Vermont, Special Collections, Burlington, VT, University of Washington, Department of Special Collections, Seattle, WA, University of Wisconsin, Kohler Art Library, Special Collections,Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin, Golda Meir Library, Milwaukee, WI, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Walker Art Center, Library Collection, Minneapolis, MN, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, Middletown, CT, Yale University, Arts of the Book Collection, New Haven, CT

Bibliography
 
C.Liégois, L'art du livre tactile, Editions Gallimard--Editions alternatives, 2017
500 Handmade Books, vol.2, Lark Books 2013
C. Nash, Authentic Visual Voices,  Contemporary Paper and encaustic, Nash/Renfrow Productions, 2013 DVD 
S. Salamony, P&D. Thomas, 1000 Artists' Books, Quary Books 2012
500 Handmade Books, Lark Books 2008
G. Diehn, The Decorated Page, Lark Books 2002

Galleries affiliation
                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Vamp and Tramp, Birmingham, AL, books, www.vampandtramp.com
Abecedarian Artists’ Books, Denver, CO, books, www.abecedariangallery.com
​23 Sandy, Santa Fe, NM, books, 23Sandy.com

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