Biography

Isabel Betsill is a multimedia artist and art teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado, living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Betsill received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Lewis and Clark College in 2020, with concentrations in drawing and sculpture. Her recent bodies of work have been concerned with social rules surrounding friendship and intimacy, particularly for women. Other themes in Betsill’s work include public versus private, femininity, and comfort.

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Isabel Betsill

Born March 26, 1997

Lives and works in Minneapolis, MN, USA

isabel.betsill@gmail.com | isabelbetsillart.com

Isabel Betsill is an emerging multimedia artist utilizing painting, sculpture, drawing, and performance in pieces that contemplate intimacy, comfort, and femininity as pertains to her lived experience as a young, queer woman.


EDUCATION

2020 BA in Studio Art 

Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

Studied Under

Jess Perlitz

Dru Donovan

Cara Tomlinson


EXHIBITIONS

2024 With Love, Group Exhibition, Girls who Paint Gallery, Kensington, MD

2024 Still & Lifeless, Virtual Group Exhibition, Gallery 4%,

2023 Barbie, Group Exhibition, Girls who Paint Gallery, Kensington, MD

2023 Rejected, Group Exhibition, Argyle Zebra Gallery, Saint Paul, MN

2023 Faces of our Community, Group Exhibition, Solidarity Street Gallery, Saint Paul, MN

2020 Everything Must Go, Group Exhibition, Portland, OR

2019 HouseShow, Group Exhibition, Portland, OR

2019 [In]Site, Site-specific Group Exhibition, Portland, OR

2018 InSecurity, Group Exhibition, Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium, Portland, OR

PUBLICATIONS

2024 Subo Art Magazine, February 2024

2023 I Like Your Work: Fall 2023 Exhibition Catalog

2020 Going Nowhere but F**k it, I’m Getting Dressed, Watzek Library, Portland OR

2019 Jalan Jalan, The Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Kaleidoscope, Fort Collins, CO

AWARDS AND HONORS

2024 Second Place, Still & Lifeless art contest, Gallery 4%