About
Bethany Hughes is a Canadian visual artist, dancer, and writer currently living in New York City. As a UX Designer and choreographer, her research focuses on interaction between movement, design, performance and experience.
Education
MFA/Research Arts, Columbia University, 2016-2019
BFA University of Victoria, 2010-2015
Double Major Visual Arts and Creative Writing with distinction
Grants & Awards
Columbia University Scholarship, 2016-2019
The Millen Scholarship, 2015
BC Arts Council Grant, 2014
Jamie Cassels Research Award, 2014
Exhibitions
Movement Research: Somatic Practices and Inquiry as part of The Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done, group performance, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019
Arts Elektra, group performance, World Trade Center, 2019
Interstices, group performance, Movement Lab, New York, 2018
Spider Mother, mixed format performance series, 8-Ball Community,
New York, 2018-2019
ACT 1, September Gallery, New York, 2017
Nasty Women, Instar Lodge, New York, 2017
Performing the Library: Reading Series, Butler Library, 2017
Glitch Bouquet, Continental Shelf Writer’s Collective, Vancouver, 2015
Usnea, Concourse Gallery, Victoria, 015
Withdrawal, Upstairs Gallery, Victoria, 2015
Femmeldehyde, The Audain Gallery, Victoria, 2014
Publications
Emergency INDEX, Leste, Polymath Journal, The Warren Review, Kink, Feedback Magazine, Paper Trails, Girls Get Busy Magazine, among others.