Béatrice Lebreton MFA
Beatrice was born in Tours, France. Her travels took her to different countries in Europe and Africa. She came to the USA in 1986 and has been residing in New York City since 2008.
Selected Exhibitions (* single shows)
2021 "Living her Truth: Transcending Boundaries", Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA *
2020 "Pattern Migration", Living with Art Salon, New York, NY
2018 "Hope is Maybe", Jesuit Refugee Home & Munich International Airport, Munich, Germany
2018 "Don't Shut Up", Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2018 "In Her Image", Maggie Peyton Gallery, New York, NY *
2018 "The Paddock III: Posted", Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, France
2017 “A Time for Everything”, City College Windows on Amsterdam Gallery, New York, NY *
2017 “Weaving Memories”, The Mason Civic League, Hoboken, NJ
2016 “The Finest of Arts”, Helene Fuld College of Nursing, New York, NY
2016 “Elementiks”, Calabar Gallery, New York, NY
2016 “The Art of HERstory”, Skylight Gallery & Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 “Harlem is ... A STATE OF MIND”, Mist Harlem, New York, NY
2015 “Small Works”, Clover’s Fine Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Ancient Rhythms Remixed”, Art in the Atrirum, Inc., Morristown, NJ
2014 “Fall/Winter Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ
2014 “In Her Skin”, La Maison d’Art Gallery, New York, NY
2014 “Women’s Work”, LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, NY
2013 “Afropolitan Week”, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
2013 “Niarry Kanaam”, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, Sparkill, NY
2012 “Visions, Art & Matter”, La Maison d’Art Gallery, New York, NY
2012 “Echoes From Afar”, Art In Flux Harlem, New York, NY
2012 “Art Speaks”, Art In Flux Harlem, New York, NY
2012 “Small”, Art In Flux Harlem, New York, NY
2012 “Extended Roots”, Gallery 1200, Hoboken, NJ
2012 “A Tribute to Women in the Arts”, LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, NY
2011 Bombay Sapphire Artisans Series, Rush Philanthropic Foundation, New York, NY
2011 “Women in the Heights”, NoMAA, New York, NY
2011 “Women’s Voices”, The Grady Alexis Gallery, New York, NY
2010 “A Celebration of Art”, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
2010 “Femmes/Fragments”, Harlem Arts Alliance, New York, NY *
2010 “And the Beat goes on…”, Creole Restaurant, New York, NY *
2010 125th Street Banners, Harlem, NY
2010 “Design in the Heights”, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, NY
2010 “Women in the Heights”, NoMAA, New York, NY
2007 “Women, Femmes, Mujeres”, Fusionista Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 PCPC Arts Festival, “Exploring the 23rd Psalm”, Dallas, TX
2004 Dallas Arts Gala, Convention Center, Dallas, TX
2004 “Consciousness & Conditions”, Nicole Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “Contemporary Art influenced by African Culture”, The Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
2002 “Woman Image: Image of Women”, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
2002 “Letters from Afar”, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, NC *
2001 “Saints and Goddesses”, Irving Art Center, Irving, TX
2001 “Import/ Export”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “Kindred Spirits: A Visual Journey”, Quorum Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001 “Beyond and Behind the Mask”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2000 The Critic’s Choice, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX
2000 “Bits of Life, Patches of Dreams”, South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2000 “Art for the African Diaspora: Influences and Confluences”, Chemeteka College, Salem OR
1999 The Nineteenth Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition, AAMuseum, Dallas, TX
1999 DVAC “The Sixteenth Annual Critic’s Choice Exhibition”, Dallas, TX
1999 “Out of the Ordinary”, Community Artists’ Collective, Houston, TX
1997 “Echoes of Africa”, Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, TX
1997 “Treasures of our Lives”, Irving Black Art Council, Irving, TX
1996 “An African Harvest Festival”, University of Texas at Dallas, TX *
1996 “Watercolor Month, H2O”, Art Inc. Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1996 “A Cultural Odyssey and Its Beauty”, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
1995 “Mosaic”, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX *
1994 “16th Southwest Black Art Exhibition”, African American Museum, Dallas, TX
Collections
University of Texas at Dallas
Kansas Community College, Kansas City, MO
Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, TX
and many private collections
Commissions/Public Art
2021 “A Symphony of Dreams and Hopes”, Painting commissioned by Lendrum Fine Art, Inc., San Francisco, CA
2021 “Melanctha”, Painting commissioned by Lendrum Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY
2018 VIA: 3 panes bus shelter, Zarzamora St. San Antonio, TX
2017 MTA: 16 panels - Junius station, Brooklyn, NY
2016 MTA: 16 panels - Rockaway Blvd. station, Brooklyn, NY
2012 “Let’s Play”, Painting for the recreation room at Nemours Children Hospital, FL
2005 Floor medallion, DFW Airport, International Terminal E
1999 “In the Spirit of Dance”, Poster for Dallas Black Dance Company, Dallas, TX
1992 “Hispanic Dancers”, 2 paintings for Fiesta Texas, Spanish Theater, San Antonio, TX
1991 “The Family and Community United”, Poster for United Way, San Antonio, TX
Bibliography (selected)
2013 Eboni Boykin “Harlem Artists talk African Art label”, Columbia Daily Spectator, Sept. 25
2012 Sylvia Lewis “Art Speaks”, Examiner.com, October 9
2007 Cliff Dweller magazine, Dallas, TX
2006 “Daily Inspiration”, YMIB magazine
2002 “French Artist will speak..”, The Chronicle, Winston-Salem, vol. 28 N0 25, Feb 21
2001 “Artists of the Mask”, The International Review of African American Art, Vol.17
2001 Eve Modzelewski, “Face to face”, Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, May 3
2000 Tom Sime, “Arts Out There”, The Dallas Morning News, April 13
1999 Folio, A Literary Journal of American University, Fall & Winter/Spring
1997 “Echoes of Africa”, Midland Reporter, October 12
1996 Michele Majors, “UTD professor showcase art”, U.Y. Dallas News
1996 Michel Hill, “Artists share African roots”, Star Telegram, October 10
1996 “Watercolor Month”, American Art Review, March
1995 Anyika McNMillan, “The Artist at Work”, Dallas Examiner, August 10
Broadcasts
2012 WABC, Eyewitness News, Kemberly Richardson, “African Art celebrated in Hoboken”, Sept. 19
2001 Irving Community Television Network, “About Towns”, interview with C. Whiteman, Oct. 3
2001 WFAA TV, channel 8, “Metro” interview with Angelique Tege, September 30
1996 Irving Community Television Network, January 31
1995 KMPX, Channel 29, interview with Mr. Obregon, August 11
Education
1983 Master of Art and Aesthetics (Major: African Art History), La Sorbonne University, Paris, France
1981 Bachelor of Arts, La Sorbonne University, Paris, France
1979 Master of Fine Arts (Drawing), Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France