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.

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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

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Arts Elektra, group performance, World Trade Center, 2019

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Interstices, group performance, Movement Lab, New York, 2018

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Spider Mother, mixed format performance series, 8-Ball Community,

New York, 2018-2019

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ACT 1, September Gallery, New York, 2017

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Nasty Women, Instar Lodge, New York, 2017

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Performing the Library: Reading Series, Butler Library, 2017

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Glitch Bouquet, Continental Shelf Writer’s Collective, Vancouver, 2015

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Usnea, Concourse Gallery, Victoria, 015

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Withdrawal, Upstairs Gallery, Victoria, 2015

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Femmeldehyde, The Audain Gallery, Victoria, 2014

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Publications

Emergency INDEX, Leste, Polymath Journal, The Warren Review, Kink, Feedback Magazine, Paper Trails, Girls Get Busy Magazine, among others.