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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Rosalux Gallery Upcoming in March
2024 Women’s Club of Minneapolis Upcoming in August
2022 Kolman & Reeb Project Space, Scaffold, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Rosalux Gallery Deferred Grievance, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Ridgewater Community College, Migration, Hutchinson MN
2018 Rosalux Gallery, Remnants, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Sensitive Indicators, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Rosalux Gallery, Freeze and Thaw, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Hillstrom Musuem of Art, Submerge, Recent Works by Betsy Ruth Byers, St. Peter, MN
2015 Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Indeterminate Present, Minneapolis, MN
2012 HFA Gallery, Peripheral Accumulations, University of MN Morris, Morris, MN
2011 Burnet Gallery, Elsewhere, Chambers Le Méridien Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
2010 The Phipps Center for the Arts, Boundary Conditions, Hudson, WI
2010 Augsburg College, Surface Structures, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Miles Reif Center for the Arts, Extending, Grand Rapids, MN
2005 Keyes Gallery, Live. Re-Live, Stony Creek, CT
Selected Two-Person and Group Exhibitions
2023 A Fresh Start, Kolman & Reeb Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2022 The Color Series: Part 5: Blue, Kolman & Reeb Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Natures’ Way, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021 The Color Series: Part 4: Orange, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Escape, online group exhibition and print book, Rosalux Gallery
2020 Project Bike, Minneapolis International Airport, Minneapolis, MN
2020 The Color Series, Part 3 Yellow, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Home, online group exhibition and print book, Rosalux Gallery
2019 Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Habitats, juror Ellen Weiss, Independent Artist and Curator, Alexandria, VA
2019 ICOSA Collective, Driving South in a Mostly Straight Line, curated by Andrea Mellard, Austin, TX
2018 Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Landscape: Natural Fit, Imagined Prospects, Mpls, MN
2017 SCOPE International Art Fair, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, New York City, NY
2016 Kolman & Pryor Gallery, No Boys Allowed, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Phipps Center for the Arts, Lunation: 29 Days of Darkness & Light, Hudson, WI
2015 National Galleries of Scotland, Society of Scottish Artists, Invited Artists, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 Groveland Gallery, Love Letters from Artists, Invitational Group Show Curated by Peter Kramer
2015 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Topographies, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Summer Group Show 2015, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Minnesota Museum of American Art, 2014 MN Biennial, Jurors: Christina Chang, Brian Frink and Meredith Lynn
2014 Arts Center of St. Peter, RACA Three, St. Peter, MN
2014 University of Wisconsin River Falls, About Space, River Falls, WI
2013 Devos Art Museum, N of the 45 Parallel, Juror: Mason Riddle, Marquette, MI
2013 Hillstrom Museum of Art, Recent Acquisitions, St. Paul, MN
2013 Kolman & Pryor Gallery, 30 x 30, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Vine Arts Center, Substance of Life, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Arts Center of St. Peter, Departures, St. Peter, MN
2013 Burnet Gallery, Interaction, Chambers Le Méridien Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Kolman & Pryor Gallery, JSM II, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Minnesota Museum of American Art, Painting the Place Between, St. Paul, MN
2012 Anita Sue Kolman Gallery, In and Out, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Hillstrom Museum of Art, Faculty Exhibition, St. Peter, MN
2012 Anita Sue Kolman Gallery, Juicy Steak Mustache, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Art on the Town, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Water Rights, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Hudson Hospital, Healing Arts Program, Hudson, WI
2009 St. Catherine University, Ways of Doing, St. Paul, MN
2009 Fallon Worldwide, Re-Surfacing, Minneapolis, MN
2008 The Soap Factory, Thesis Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Burnet Gallery, Chambers Le Méridien Hotel, Get StARTed, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Whittier Gallery, Open Format, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2006 The Institute Gallery, Betsy Byers and Kristi Ylvisaker, Sogndal, Norway
2006 Case Gallery, Betsy Byers and Barbara Borck-Hart, Orange, CT
2005 Jorgensen Gallery – UCONN Campus, Connecticut Women Artist’s 76th Juried Exhibition, Hartford, CT
2005 Guilford Art Center, Mixed Media Quilts, Guilford, CT
2003 Intermedia Arts Gallery, Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota Show: Inspired by Woman, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Carleton College Art Museum, HOMEing Devices, Northfield, MN
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2021 Four Painters, co-curated exhibition with Patrick Pryor at Rosalux Gallery
2020 Rosalux gallery, Reservoir, Minneapolis, MN
2019 410 Project, 0 degrees Celsius, -3 Degrees Celsius, Mankato, MN
2014 Something Like Flight, Spring Dance Concert with Sarah Hauss
2013 Lunation: 29 Days of Darkness and Light, Print Portfolio
2012 Number Tumbler, Spring Dance Concert with Sarah Hauss
GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 Kolman & Pryor Project Space Grant
2020 Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Artist Development Grant
2019 Co-Primary Investigator Grant No. 1758854, National Science Foundation
2019 Scholarship, Research and Creativity Grant Recipient, Gustavus Adolphus College
2018 Professional McKnight Mid-Career Artist Grant Recipient, Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council
2018 Presidential Scholarship Grant Recipient, Gustavus Adolphus College
2017 Ryerse Fund Recipient, Gustavus Adolphus College Sabbatical Research
2015 Artist Initiative Grant Recipient, Minnesota State Arts Board
2015 Scholarship, Research and Creativity Grant Recipient, Gustavus Adolphus College
2013 Presidential Scholarship Grant Recipient, Gustavus Adolphus College
2012 Scholarship, Research and Creativity Grant Recipient, Gustavus Adolphus College
2012 Jerome Visual Artist Fellowship, Semi-Finalist
2009 Artist Initiative Grant Recipient, Minnesota State Arts Board
2009 New York Mills Jerome Foundation Artist Residency
2006-2008 MFA Opportunity Grant Recipient, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2002 Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Art, St. Olaf College
2002 St. Olaf College Art Department Senior Scholarship Recipient, St. Olaf College
1998-2002 Buntrock Scholar Recipient, St. Olaf College
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Weisman Museum of Art
Hillstrom Museum of Art
Target Corporation
Nordstrom Corporation
BMO Harris Bank
Minnesota Vikings, LLC
LPM Corporation
Radisson Hotel Minneapolis
Marriott Courtyard Minneapolis
Taft Law Firm
Allina Health Center
SuNu Chiropractic
Gustavus Adolphus College
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
St. Olaf College
Private Collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Oregon and Norway
SELECT PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2021 Art Hounds, Review of exhibition by Rachel Breen at SOOVAC, NPR, MPR
2021 Alicia Eler 5 Gallery shows to Brighten January for Twin Cities Art Lovers, Minneapolis Star Tribune
2021 Diana Rojo-Garcia. Glacial Art: Multimedia Project a Big Undertaking for Gustavus Art Professor, Mankato
Free Press
2018 Kristine Goodrich “Professors Exhibits Explore Contrast and Climate Change Mankato Free Press
2016 Mary Abbe “Seeworthy: Submerge” Minneapolis Star Tribune
2016 Robb Murray “Submergence- Byers exhibition is Visceral, Evocative, Powerful” Mankato Free Press
2016 Stephanie Ash “Return to the Water” Gustavus Quarterly Spring
2016 Jeff Moss “No Boys Allowed, Kolman & Pryor Gallery” Lost Weekend
2016 Regan Sheila, “Four Must See Shows To Check out This Week,” City Pages
2016 “The Guerilla Girls Take Over the Twin Cities,” Minneapolis Happening Magazine
2015 Joseph Buchholz, “Betsy Ruth Byers Captures Fleeting Moments for ‘Indeterminate Present’”, City Pages Blog
2015 Carolina Borja, “Betsy Ruth Byers ‘Indeterminate Present’ “, Weekend What’s What l’étoile
2013 Mary Abbe, “Film Offers a Brush with Artists’ Lives,” Minneapolis Star Tribune
2013 Carbon Mouse Studios, “Painting the Place Between,” Documentary Film
2013 Rachel Kimpton, “Meet the Artists of February’s First Free Saturday,” Walker Art Center Blog
2012 William Randall Beard, Lightsey Darst, Tad Simons and Stephanie Xenos, “Fall Arts Preview Must See Shows,”
Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine
2012 Mary Abbe, “A Museum Reborn,” Minneapolis Star Tribune
2012 Tanner Kent, “Hey Betsy, I like your Art,” Mankato Free Press
2011 Cy Winship “Don’t Settle For the Mundane When Choosing Art,” Metro Magazine,
2011 Marianne Combs, “Night Swimming,” State of the Arts Blog
2011 Studio Visit, Juror Beth Venn, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Newark Museum, Volume 13
2011 Marsha Trainer, “Interview: Betsy Byers Talks Bodies in Space and
2011 Susannah Schouweiler, “Featured Banner Artist: Betsy Byers,” mnartists access+ENGAGE ejournal
2010 Stephanie Davila, “Scene and Heard- Works of Art,” Mpls St. Paul Magazine, p25 and 27
2010 “2010 Guide to Galleries, Museums and Artists,” Art in America, Volume 98, Issue 7, New York, NY
2009 The Herald, Volume IXV, Issue 24, New York Mills, MN
2007 Rena Sargigianopoulis, Interview for exhibition “Get stARTed,” Kare 11 Sunrise News
2006 Yale University Gallery Audio Guide, New Haven, CT
2005 The Sound, exhibition announcement with photograph, Volume IX, Issue 37 and 36, Branford, CT
EDUCATION
2006-2008 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies, Painting Emphasis
2002-2003 St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN,
Initial Licensure Master of Arts in Education Program
1998-2002 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art Major, Environmental Studies Concentration
2001 Linguaviva Scuolo d’Italiano, Florence, Italy
Semester Abroad: Associated Colleges of the Midwest, London, England