Betsy Connors

Born: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, M.S. MAS
    University of Massachusetts, B.A. Art, French
    Ecole des Beaux Arts, Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France

Solo Exhibitions Commissions

Light Pond, the Jimmy Fund Clinic, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, 2015
The HoloCenter on Govenors Island, New York City, 2015
Windows Art Project with Arts Union and the Somerville Arts Council, 2007
Center for the Holographic Arts, Long Island City Queens, NYC, 2005
Thomason Library, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina, 2003
MIT Cancer Research Labs Bldg 38, Mass Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, 2001
Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Clinton, South Carolina, 2000
Light Forest: The Holographic Rainforest, MIT Museum, Cambridge, and MA, 1996
What’s New, What’s Real, The Children’s Museum, Boston MA, 1994
Future Gardens Holographic Installation, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, 1991
Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston MA, 1988
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley CA, 1988

Group Exhibitions (partial list)

Iridescence, HoloCenter for the Holographic Arts, Kingston, NY 2023 – 2024
Holograms Dimensions in Light, Cornell Creative Arts Center, Kingston, NY 2022
Light Windows II International Light Artists Collaboration, Cyberats Gallery, Boston Ma 2021
Light Windows International Light Artists Collaboration, Studio Wrentham Ma 2020
Iridescence HoloCenter on Canal St NYC 2019
Art in Holography Light Space, & Time, Aveiro City Museum, Aveiro, Portugal, 2018
Center Advanced Visual Studies MIT, exhibit MIT, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 2017
Planes in the Sky, The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, Boston, Ma 2017
Ripple Effect, The HoloCenter on Govenors Island New York City, 2017
Grounded, Boston Cyberatrs Gallery, Jamaica Plain, Ma, 2016
The HoloCenter on Govenors Island New York City, 2015
Light, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, Ma, 2014
Raw Edges Art Project, Windsor, Ct. 2013
Interference: Coexistence, Queens Clock tower Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y., 2013
The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography, MIT Museum, Cambridge Ma, 2012 – 2014
Holography: The Art of Shaping Light, Hudson Gallery, Beacon NY, 2011
Eye Spy, Playing with Perception, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA 2010 – 2011
MIT Museum Night Windows Exhibition, MIT Cambridge MA 2008 – 2009
First Works Providence, Pixilerations [V.5,] Providence, RI, 2008
Somerville Arts Council Fellowship winners, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2008
First Works Providence, Pixilerations [V.2], Providence, RI, 2005
Center for the Holographic Arts, Long Island City, Queens, NY, 2005
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 1998
SouleNYMax, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, NY 1997-98
Affordable Art Show, Aidkerman Gallery, Tufts University, Medford MA 1997-98
The Sixth International Symposium on Holography, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, 1997
Women in Art, Science and Technology, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston 1997
New Directions in Holography, Harn Museum, Gainesville, Fl 1996
West Virginia Museum of Art, ART Venture, Roanoke, VA 1995-96
J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A. &M. University, College Sat., Texas 1995
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona 1995
Images du Future, Montreal, Canada 1995
New Directions in Holography-The Landscape Reinvented, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MI 1995
Center for Advanced Visual Studies 25th Anniversary Show, CAVS MIT, Cambridge Ma 1994
De jouer, Campredon Art et Culture, L’Isle-sur-la Sorgue, France 1991
Clocktower Gallery, P.S. 1, New York City, N.Y. 1990
Living with the Living Theater, Nam June Paik Collaboration, Museum of Moderm Art NY 1989
International Exhibition World of Holography, Nagoya, Japan 1989
Vusac Nam June Paik Collaboration, Whitney Museum, N.Y. 1989
High Tech/New Pop Photographic Resource Center, Boston MA 1987-88
N.Y.U. Video Festival, New York 1987
Point of Vue, Video Installation, Artists Foundation Cityplace 1987
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI 1987
Nam June Paik collaboration, The KoreanToy Tapes 1986
Made for TV, Women in Film and Video, I.C.A., Boston MA 1985
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN 1984
East West Video Exchange, San Francisco CA 1984
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA 1984
Nam June Paik Collaboration, Pompidou Center, Paris France 1984

Awards and Honors (partial list)

The Hologram Foundation, Paris, France, 2019
Art-in Residence project grant, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2014
Art-in Residence project grant, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2012
MIT Museum Night Exhibition Grant, 2009
New York Center for the Holographic Arts, AIR Grant, 2008
International Holography Fund, 2007
New York Center for the Holographic Arts, AIR Grant, 2003
Shearwater Foundation Materials Grant, Lake Forest College, 2000
AT&T’s New Experiments in Art and Technology Grant, 1996
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Science Literacy Grant, 1993
New England Foundation for the Arts, New Forms Grant, 1992
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio and WGBH New Television Workshop, Boston, collaboration with William Wegman, 1991
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, New Works, 1989
Council for the Arts at MIT, Holography, 1986
Boston Arts Festival, Boston MA, 1985
Mary R. Rollins Electro-Optical Arts Fellowship MIT, 1984
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; Partnerships in Production, 1983
Spaces Between, Video Production Grant, WGBH TV, Boston MA, 1982
Council for the Arts at MIT and The Polaroid Corp., Photography, 1981

Appointments

Board of Directors Center for the Holographic Arts Queens, New York City 2011–15, 2018
MIT Museum Collections Committee, 2020 2024
Wrentham Cultural Council member 2019–2023
Ohio State University, Visiting lecturer, 2014, 2015
Exhibition Committee, International Symposium on Display Holography, 2011–12
MIT Media Lab Spatial Imaging Group, Faculty 1990–2006
MIT Museum Holography Exhibition and Education Consultant, Curator 1993-2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Research Fellow
WGBH TV Boston New Television Workshop Artist

Publications

S.P.I.E. Proceedings from the Nineth International Symposium on Display Holography, Portugal 2018
S.P.I.E. Proceedings from the Eighth International Symposium on Display Holography, Shenzhen, China 2015
S.P.I.E. Proceedings from the Seventh International Symposium on Display Holography, Cambridge, MA 2012
Illustrations: Stephen A. Benton, V. Michael Bove, Holographic Imaging, ISBN: 9780470068069, John Wiley &Sons, Inc. 2008
S.P.I.E. Proceedings from the Sixth International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest, Il 1997
S.P.I.E. Proceedings from Practical Holography IV, San Jose, Ca 1997
S.P.I.E. Proceedings from the Fifth International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest, Il 1994
S.P.I.E., Proceedings from the Fourth International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, 1991

Reviews (partial list)

Boston Globe, Just a Touch of the Wizard, July 4 2010
Floating Space, INS & OUTS, Long Island City Arts Magazine Fall, 2005
MIT Tech Talk, February, 2005
Country Gazette, Southwestern Suburban Newspaper, Featured Artist, 2003
Laser Focus World, December, 1996
Community News, Somerville/Cambridge Chronicle, October 31, 1996
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 7, 1994
Boston Sunday Herald, March 6, 1994
The Cape Cod Register, Feb 10, 1994
Boston Sunday Globe, May 5 1991
The Boston Globe, Thurs. August 11, 1988
The New York Times, Video Spin Offs, Feb 2, 1990
The Boston Globe, Upgrading High-Tech Art, Dec 14, 1987
Metropolitan Home, State of the Art: Young, Gifted, and Affordable, Nov, 1987
The Boston Globe, Wild Wild Wit, Nov. 26, 1987
Boston Magazine New Medium, Old Messages, Nov, 1983
Art in America, Report from Boston, May, 1983

Works Broadcast (partial list)

Made in Maine, William Wegman Collaboration, WGBH TV and Cable Broadcast 1993, 1994
Spaes Between, WGBH New Television and PBS Broadcast in the USA 1991
New Television, WGBH/WNET-TV, Boston, New York 1987
Mixed Signals, N.E. Foundation for the Arts, Boston MA 1985, 1986
Vusac, Nam June Paik Collaboration for Belgium TV 1984
Green Lagoon, CBS TV National Broadcast 1982, 1983
Batteries Not Included, WGBH TV, Boston MA 1980, 1981
Selected Works, Cambridge USA, WLVI TV, Boston MA 1981
The Gallery, WGBH TV, Boston MA 1981

Professional Activities (partial list)

PanMass Challenge ride for the Jimmy Fund, Boston 2015 2016
Rodman ‘Ride for Kids” Foxboro Ma 2010, 2011, 2012
Pixilerations Exhibition Committee, First Works Providence, R.I. 2005-2010
Education, Exhibition, advisor MIT Museum 1993-1998
First International Congress on Art and Holography artist, St.Mary’s College, South. Bend, Indiana 1990
Artist-in-Residence, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN, 1984
Board of Trustees, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, (Cultural Council) Boston MA 1981-83
WGBH New Television Artist, Boston 1977-1980
Founding Member, Board of Directors, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, 1976