Bethan huws biography sample

British artist (born 1961)

Bethan Huws (born 1961) is a Welsh multi-media artist whose work explores place, identity, and translation, often using architecture and text.^[1][2] Her work has been described as "delicate, unobtrusive interventions into architectural spaces".^[2]

Life and career

Huws was born in Bangor, Wales in 1961.^[3] English is her second language, with Welsh being her vernacular.^[4] She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic between 1981 and 1985^[5] and at the Royal College of Art, London, between 1986 and 1988.^[5] At her graduate show, Huw's presented an empty studio 'having chiselled clean, inch by inch, the entire wooden-floor'.^[6]

Huws' first major solo exhibition was Art Cologne 1989 at Koelnmesse GmbH in Cologne.^[7] Other notable exhibitions include the Anthony Reynolds Gallery (1988), Riverside Studios (1989), Kunsthalle Bern (1990), Luis Campana