Biography
Jeannette Betancourt
Brooklyn, New York, 1959 -
Began her artistic career in Mexico City in 1995, as a sculptress. Eventually, she moved to the expanded field and more recently, towards an interdisciplinary territory of expression, always with an emphasis on tridimensional work. She has trained through different sculpture workshops and theory seminars on contemporary art.
From 2004, she ventured into the subject of Art and Nature.
She currently holds a fellowship of the National System of Creators of Art from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico (period 2013-2015) in which she has researched and developed the subject of Nature and its State of Contingency under the following sub-themes: Water (2013), food (2014) and the Earth (2015).
Accounts for public work at: the Universidad Autónoma de México (UAM Azcapotzalco), Mexico City; on Reforma Avenue, in Mexico City; at the Cultural Centre for the Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly in Cerro Chincua, Michoacán, Mexico; Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico and in Caguas, Puerto Rico as well as in important private collections, museums and cultural institutions. He has held more than 24 solo exhibitions and projects and participated in more than 135 collective shows in Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
