Bea Hurd
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Education
2021, BFA Sculpture intermedia, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Solo Exhibitions
2024, Root Rot Roast, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2023, Ode To My Belly, Gallery at Library Square, Salt Lake City, UT
2022, This Lawn Only Grows Banana Bread, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
2022, It Was Their Third Cup of Coffee, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2021, Devoured Devotion, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2021, Devour Digest Devote, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2021, Strip Sear Suckle, Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT
2020, Artifacts of Suburban America, Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, Seeing in Color, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
Exhibitions
2024, I Teach Art, Old Dome, Riverton, UT
2024, 35x35 Zillenial Edition, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2022, Art Out: Queering the Pandemic, Gulfport Public Library, Gulfport, FL
2022, Bountiful Davis Art Center Juried Exhibition, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2022, President’s Art Show, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
2021, Back & Forth; 2021 BFA Show, Catalog and Website (www.art.utah.edu/2021-bfa-show/)
2021, Annual Student Art Show, Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2020, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2020, Things and Pictures of Things, Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2020, Video Evidence, Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT
2020, Warnock Exhibition, Modern West, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, This is Not a Furniture Show, 178, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Annual Student Art Exhibition 2019, Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Call It Art, 178, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Art in Form, Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Within and Without, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Devine Delirium, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, In Her Own Image, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, South Jordan Visual Art Show, South Jordan, UT
Residencies
2023, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2021-2022, Bountiful Davis Art Center Test Site A.I.R., Bountiful, UT
2021, Arts Letters and Numbers residency, Averill Park, NY
2021, Camp Wonder Wander, Wayensboro, TN
2021, Art Farm Residency, Marquette, NE
2021, A.I.R. Studio Paducah Residency, Paducah Kentucky
2019, Cow House Studios Residency, Enniscorthy, Ireland
Awards
2022, Second Place, President’s Art Show, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
2022, Best of Show, Art Out: Queering the Pandemic, Gulfport Public Library, Gulfport, FL
2021, Ethel Armstrong Rolapp Endowed Award for Excellence, Department of Art and Art history, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2021, June Feature Artist, Slug Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT
2021, Blick Award, Annual Student Art Show, Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2021, Selected Student Presenter at Art Week, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
2021, Nomination for Outstanding Student Achievement Award, Sculpture Magazine
2020, Carmen Morton Christensen Scholarship, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2020, Sears Memorial Scholarship, University of Utah, Salt lake City, UT
2020, Office of Undergraduate Research Opportunities Small Grant, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Office of Undergraduate Research Opportunities Grant, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Departmental Scholarship, Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Faculty Choice Award, “Annual Student Art Exhibition 2019”, Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Public Art Commission and Grant, Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT
2018, Trustee’s Scholarship, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2017, “Utah State Senate Recognition for Art”, Utah State Senate, UT
2017, “Alumni Scholarship for Visual Art”, West High School, Salt Lake City, UT
2017, “Visual Arts Sterling Scholar”, University of Utah, UT
2017, First place, “Avenue Street Art Fair”, Salt Lake City, UT
2017, First Place, “Connect Event”, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2017, Featured Artist, “Connect Gala”, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2016, “Utah Watercolor Society Scholarship”, Utah Watercolor Society, Salt Lake City, UT
Related Experience
2024, Judge, President’s Art Show, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
2022-present, Visual Arts Teacher, West Jordan High School, West Jordan, UT
2021, Video Production Intern for Rachel Lichtman, Network 77, Waynesboro, TN
2020-2021, Woodshop Technician/teacher, Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2020-2021, President of BFA Club, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2020-2021, Ambassador for Sculpture Club, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019-2020, Studio Assistant to Maureen O’Hara Ure, Salt Lake City, UT
2019-2020, PR Officer, Sculpture Club, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2018-present, member of Sculpture Club, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Club awarded the Fine Arts Fees grant, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Publications and Biography
Hurd, Bea. (2021). Your Tongue is a Tool for Sewing. Salt Lake City: Blub.
“Bea Hurd: Devour Digest Devote at BDAC.” August 3, 2021. 15 Bytes
Hurd, Bea. “John Sproul’s Inner Child Searches for “Serenity Now!” September 15, 2020. 15 Bytes
15 Bytes. “A Visit to UDAM’s Statewide Annual.” December 23, 2019. 15 Bytes
Hurd, Bea. “Kathryn Wingard’s ‘A Loving Struggle’ Explores the Push and Pull of Intimacy with the Inanimate.” October 14, 2019. 15 Bytes
Karahalios, Kiki. “Bea Hurd, Lucy Fairchild, and the Carnal Instinct of Consumption.” June 4, 2021. 15 Bytes.
Scott, Parker. “Material Conditions: The Sculpture of Bea Hurd.” June 2, 2021. Slug Magazine