Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Beverly Acha

As part of the Tuesday Night Lecture Series (TNLS) BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents a lecture with artist Berverly Acha, organized by MFA Painting.

Beverly Acha (b. 1987, Miami, FL) is a Latinx artist whose abstract paintings, drawings and prints evoke shifting spatial, physical and perceptual phenomena. Acha received her MFA from Yale School of Art and BA in Studio Art and American Studies from Williams College. She has had solo exhibitions at Deanna Evans Projects (NYC), Emerson Dorsch (Miami, FL), Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY), Underdonk (NYC), and the Roswell Museum (Roswell, NM), among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Hesse Flatow, North Loop, DC Moore Gallery, 1969 Gallery, the Wassaic Project, the Albuquerque Museum, and El Museo del Barrio, among others. Her work is included in public and private collections including the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; El Espacio 23: the Collection of Jorge Pérez, Miami, FL; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA; and the Soho House Collection, London, UK. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, MAKE Magazine, Diacritics Journal, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She is the recipient of numerous residencies including the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program (2021-22); Fountainhead (2020); MacDowell Benny Andrews Fellowship (2019); Vermont Studio Center Zeta Orionis Fellowship (2019); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018); Lighthouse Works Fellowship (2017) and Artist-in-Residence (2021); and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (2016-17). Acha has previously taught at Yale School of Art, Oberlin College, and the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently faculty in painting and drawing at Bennington College. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

When 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm on 19 November 2024
Building FLR, RM. 410, 808 Commonwealth Ave