P.O. Box 9751
Savannah, GA 31412
betsy@betsycain.com / www.betsycain.com
Education
MFA/ BFA, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende,Guanajuato, Mexico
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Grants/Awards
Georgia Women In The Visual Arts, Governor’s Award; 1997
Artist Initiated Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts; 1992
Southern Expressions Regional Purchase Award, High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, Georgia; 1991
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico; Artist-in Residence Grant; 1980 to 1981
Projects/ Workshops
The Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia, one day community painting workshop in conjunction with the
Painter's Reel Exhibition, March 2010.
The Gertrude Herbert Museum, Augusta, Georgia, re-certification workshop for high-school art teachers and teachers
from all disciplines. Creative exercises. Feb, 2007, August, 2003.
Pritchard’s Island Artist Retreat, Pritchard’s Island, South Carolina. Awarded by the Beaufort Arts Council, Beaufort,
South Carolina; March 2003
EarthWatch Grant, The Erzbischofliches Diozesanmuseum Koln, an interdisciplinary project in Cologne, Germany,
June 1997. Fine Arts Team, Teresa Norton, Director.
Community
Cultural Committee, Ossabaw Island Foundation, Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 2009 -2011.
Cultural Affairs Commission, City of Savannah, Georgia. Appointment by Savannah City Council and Mayor. The
Commission sets policy and recommends funding for all cultural events for the City of Savannah; 1994-1997.
Town Forum, Public discussion and discourse on the state of the arts in Savannah, Georgia, May 1996, organized by
AHA, Artists helping Artists.
Artists Groups
Creative Force Artists Collective, Savannah, Georgia, interdisciplinary artists collaborate on projects.
ArtSounds, an exhibition in conjunction with the Savannah Music Festival, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, Georgia,
March-April, 2011.
Spill, a curated exhibition addressing the Gulf and other environmental crises, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah,
Georgia, Oct-Nov 2010, curated by Harry Delorme and Betsy Cain.
Nuance, curated by Henry Dean, an exhibition subtleness and nuance, Fall 2009.
Seeing Sounds, innovative approach to art, music and the creative process, Savannah Music Festival and the
Telfair Museum of Art, performance at the Jepson Center for the Arts, March 22, 2009.
S.P.A.C.E, City Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, “Seeing Sounds” Collaborative sculptural installation, exhibition and
performance, March 6 - April 7, 2009.http://creativeforceartists.com/
MEAT, Meddin Evolving Artist Theatre, Savannah, Georgia; artists create working studios and stage community events
and exhibitions in an old meat packing company, 2006-2009.
April 4, 2009, MEAT artists joined ‘Taste’ artists for an art and live performance event.
Touloose To Group, Co-Founder with Gary Miller, a loose group of visual, performing, and literary artists; Savannah,
Georgia. Founded 1987.
AHA (Artists Helping Artists), Co-Founder with Larry Gray, organized to take stands on artistic issues that effect
individual artists as well as the cultural community as a whole. Savannah, Georgia. Founded 1994.
Recent Publications
Studio Visit, Volume 7, a juried selection of international visual artists, The Open Studio Press, 2009.
Painter’s Reel; Contemporary Painting in Georgia, Catalog; Noted Georgia painters select, engage, and reflect on the
work of their contemporaries, color images: isle of elongation #1, page 17, isle of elongation #2, page 19. Essay by
Rocio Rodrigues, page 16.
Beyond the Gift of Time, Catalog; Current work by former Fellows of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, color
image: Sino-Slide, 2006.
Professional
Juror, This ain't Junk, Repurposing Competition, a competitive exhibition reusing discarded building materials to make
art. Organized by Emergent Structures and Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity, Savannah, Georgia, April 8, 2011.
Juror, Sense of Place, a national competitive exhibition held by the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia,
Sept- Oct 2010.
Juror and guest artist, Spill, a juried exhibition addressing the Gulf and other environmental crises, Indigo Sky Gallery,
Savannah, Georgia, Oct-Nov 2010.
Curated Invitational Exhibitions
Physical/Metaphysical, selected paintings by Rocio Rodrigues, Don Cooper, and Betsy Cain, Gallery 101, curated by
Jeffrey Whittle, Director, Lamar Dodd School of Art of Georgia, The University of Georgia, August 17- September 15,
2009,
The Painter's Reel, Contemporary Painting in Georgia, curated by Corrinne Colarusso for the Macon Museum of Arts
and Sciences. Noted Georgia painters select, engage, and reflect on the work of their contemporaries, January 2009.
Exhibition traveled to the Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia, in January 2010, then to the Morris Museum
of Art, Augusta, Georgia June 2010. Featured artists Corrine Colarusso, Don Cooper, Rocio Rodrigues, Betsy Cain,
Marcus Kenney, Cheryl Goldsleger, Tom Nakashima, Philip Morseberger, Art Rosenbaum, Scott Belville and Stephanie
Jackson
2007 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, selected by Ellen Plummer, Executive Director,
Curators: Phaedra Siebert, Anne Gochenour, and Joe Lampo. November 30-December 2007.
Georgia Painters, Macon Museum of Art, Macon Georgia, 2005.
Live Art, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama, curated by Wanda Sullivan. A juried exhibition of works by 20 artists from the
southeast, October 2004-Jan 2005.
Elizabeth Cain and Alex Powers, Works on Paper, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia. April 20 - May
28, 2004. Curated by Amy Ethridge.
Georgia Triennial, 2002-2003. Presented by the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah;
Georgia, curated by Louise Shaw.
An exhibition featuring 30 of Georgia’s most innovative contemporary artists. Traveled to: City Gallery East, Atlanta;
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah; and the Albany Museum of Art, Albany.
Visions, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, Georgia; April 2003-May 2003. Featured artists: Carmel Anderson,
Elizabeth Cain, Kathie Hanson, Donna Mintz, Karen Selsor, Kenson Thompson.
The Essence of Nature, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Curated by Marianne Lambert, May 1-June 14,
2003.
The Women’s History Month Art Show, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC; 2001“Hypnotic-Post, Atlanta Abstraction
Now”, Swan Coach House; curated by Michael Pittarri, Editor, Art Papers; Atlanta, Georgia; January 2000.
Southern Exposure: Small Works by Regional and Local Artists, Owens-Thomas Regional Arts Gallery, Telfair Museum
of Art, Savannah, Georgia: November 4 - January 5, 1998. Lecture by Holly Koons, Assistant Curator of Education.
Featured Artists : Mary Adams, Elise Ansel, Michael Chad Barrett, Elizabeth Cain, Nocole Foster, Rene Kuntz, Karen
Nangle, Joseph Shields, Mark Uzmann.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
In Situ, August 6-December 4, 2011, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia, Solo exhibition.
unbound, new works on canvas & paper, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, New York, April 9 - May 9, 2009.
Paintings and Works on Paper, Project Room, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, New York, March 18th - May 10th,
2008.
Paintings, Cutouts, Works on Paper, Rosewood Contemporary Art Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, March 9, 2007.
pairs, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2002.
Paintings, Gallery Victoria, Naples, Florida, February 2001.
New Works, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998.
Cut-outs, Gouaches and Other small Works, Owens-Thomas Regional Gallery, Telfair Museum Of Art, Savannah,
Georgia, 1996.
Paintings and Drawings, A Retrospective, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, 1993.
Paintings, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, Georgia, January 1993.
Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1991.
Selected Works from 1979-1989, Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia; November 1989.
Paintings and Drawings, Young Harris College, Young Harris, Georgia; February 1989.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Cain, Powers, Sandoz, 1704 Lincoln, Inaugural show with Blanche Nettles Powers and Katherine Sandoz, Savannah,
Georgia, May 6-June 25, 2011.
Spill,a juried exhibition addressing the Gulf and other environmental crises, Indigo Sky Gallery, Oct 22- Nov 6, 2010.
Summer in Suite 402, Robert Steele Gallery, NY,NY, August 4-August 18, 2009. Betsy Cain, Laurie Frick, Martyn
Jones, Preston Orr, Graham Sears and Keizo Ushio. (First exhibition in the new gallery space).
Summer Guest House, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, gallery artists invite guest artists for a summer show,
June 16 - August 1, 2009.
7 from Savannah, 2 Car Garage, Savannah, Georgia, March 13-April 14, 2009. Featured artists: Betsy Cain, Susanne
Carmack, Heather Deyling, Deb Oden, Christine Sajecki, Alexandro Santana, and Todd Schroeder.
Summer Show, Gallery Artists, Robert Steele Gallery, NY, NY, Summer, 2008.
Twilight, Three Perspectives, 2Car Garage Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, Betsy Cain, John Olenyik, Preston Russell, to
benefit Savannah's Children's Theatre, Feb 29- Mar 25, 2008.
Beyond the Gift of Time, Current work by Former Fellows of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Roswell
Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico, May 19, 2007-January 13, 2008.
Woman's Image, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Mansion on Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia, April 7, 2007- May 6, 2007.
Trees and Marshes, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Mansion on Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia, June 15, 2007- July 14,
2007.
5 To Collect 2005, Hospice Savannah, Savannah, Georgia, Jan - Feb 2005.
Drawings and/or works on Paper, Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2004-January 2005.
Five Savannah Artists, Spiller/Vincenty Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida. December 2001. Curated by Cynthia Szychenski.
Portraits, Self and Otherwise, Sandler-Hudson Gallery, July, 1999.
Gallery Artists, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, August 1997.
Eros Rising , A Valentine Show, City Market, Savannah, Georgia, February, 1997.
Gallery Artists, Fay Gold Gallery, August 1995.
Southern Women II, Fay Gold Gallery, 1994.
Works by Southern Women, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1992.
Touloose To Group At Telfair Square, Telfair Museum symposium on Art in Historic Places, May 1992:site-specific
sculpture and performance
Contemporary Art by American Women, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1991.
Women's Visions, Art Inside, Cocoa Beach, Florida, May 1991.
The Eccentric Landscape, Ester Saks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, June 1990.
Eleven Women Artists, Brenau College, Gainesville, Georgia, April 1990
Birmingham Biennial, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; May 1989.
Touloose To Group To Piccolo, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC: site-specific sculpture and performance, June 1989.
Detour, the shortest, most under curated exhibition in the history of Savannah, GA: (24 artists), 1987.
National Women Artist Invitational Exhibition, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; 1986.
New Figuration, Harsh Images on Canvas, Asheville Museum of Art, Ashville, North Carolina; 1986.
Artists In Georgia, University of Georgia Art Museum, Athens, Georgia; 1985.
Birmingham Biennial, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; 1985.
The Alternative Biennial, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia;1985
Public Collections
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico.
University of Alabama, University, Alabama
The Residency Collection, Donald B. Anderson, Roswell, New Mexico
Corporate Collections
Westin Hotel, Savannah, Georgia
Chemical Bank, New York, New York
Hyatt Regency, Cologne, Germany
Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC
Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Georgia
Kessler Enterprises, Atlanta, Georgia
United States Treasury Department, Atlanta, Georgia
Coca-Cola USA, Atlanta, Georgia
Holder Properties, Atlanta, Georgia
King and Spaulding, Atlanta, Georgia
Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia
Bank of America, Charlotte, NC
Gallery Affiliations
Sandler-Hudson Gallery
1009 Marietta St NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
404.817.3300
www.sandlerhudson.com
Williams-Cornelius Gallery
643 Edison Avenue
Jacksonville, Florida
904.525.3368
www.williamscornelius.com
Chroma Gallery
31 Barnard Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
912.232.2787
www.chromaartgallery.com
1704 Gallery
1704 Lincoln Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
912. 398 1676
http://1704lincoln.com/
J Costello Gallery
P O Box 22827
Hilton Head Island, SC 29925
843.686.6550
http://jcostellogallery.com/
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page 7 and photo cover, Frogmore Duet oil on cutout board, 2004.
Southern Poetry Review, 43:1 Spring Summer, 2004. cover Image: Totem, photo-gram, 1991.
Live Art, Space 301, (catalog of the exhibition), Center For the Living Arts, Mobile Alabama, artist statement and
image: Diurnal Duet, oil on canvas, pg. 8, 2002.
Preview, Telfair Museum of Art, October-December 2004.Color reproduction on back cover, Low country construct #1,
2002). One of a pair of paintings purchased by the museum.
Georgia Triennial 2002/2003, (catalogue of the exhibition), Telfair Museum Of Art, Savannah, Georgia, 2002: with color
reproduction on page 14, Mud Island Spin, 2001, also essay by Curator Louise Shaw, page 13.
New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition- In -Print, Number 22: with color reproductions page 24, Sapelo Soup”,
1998, page 25, Romerly Marsh Maenad, 1998”, page 26, Ludowici Rain Dance ,1998, also artist statement and
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Carolina, 1986; with a b/w reproduction Bathing With Buddha,1985).
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reproduction on page 7, Icarus,1985; Witness and Ritual, 1985).
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Carolina, June 1984; page 4L; with a b/w reproduction, Figure and Landscape,1984).
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Sikora, Art Papers, July/August, 1994, Volume 18, #4.
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color reproduction The Eye Is The First Circle, 1988; "Square Dance",1988).
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Jinker-Lloyd, Amy. Artist's Layered Paintings Evoke Myth, Mathematics, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, with color
reproduction Pi-R-Square Dance,1988).
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November, 1983.
Shields, Kathleen. Paintings Complement Ceramics At Exhibit, The Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
19 September 1982; page D6, with a b/w reproduction, Armchair with Leg, 1982.
Weyman, William. Expressionist Show At Armstrong, The GeorgiaGazette, 13 October 1982
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reproduction, In Conference, 1980), also statement by artist and biographical information.
Money, Power and Sex: A self-help guide for all ages, by Robert Steed, color reproduction on cover ("Interior with
Figure and Landscape", 1980).
Brown's Guide To Georgia, January 1982, color reproduction on Cover, Blue Chair,1980)
A Guide To The Coca-Cola Company Art Collection'#15, Marionette-and Sundial, 1986; Tabletop Easel With Dog,
1986).
To Dance With the White Dog, a novel by Terry Kay, color reproduction on cover, 1990.