Born and raised in Lyon, France. Lived in Taiwan, Mexico and Egypt. Living and working in New York since 1984.

Collections:

Public Art:

• Cultivate Your Mind in the Orchard of Knowledge, 2009, Santa Teresa Library, San Jose, CA, hand-blown glass, cut metal and stone
• "Floating Memories"- Sept- Dec 2008- cut Tyvek banners at the Bell Tower, 7380 E 2nd St, Scottsdale, Arizona
• "Tell Me A Story"-2008, Aurora, CO, cut metal sitting bench installed at 9724 East Colfax Avenue, part of "the Intersection of Art & Function" program
• "Energie"- 2007- stainless steel and LEDs, Halle de sport de Tigery, France
• "Postcards from North Carolina"-2007, six aluminum murals, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, North Carolina
• "Have a Ball"-2006, Kent, Washington, cut-out metal gates
• "Bronx Literature"-2006, Burke subway station,New York City: permanent faceted glass mural commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts in Transit, New York City
• "Seeds of the Future are Planted Today"-2004, Kostner subway Station, Chicago: stainless steel fence Chicago Transit Authority Commission administered by the City of Chicago's Public Art Program
• "Working in the Same Direction"-2003, permanent sculpture commissioned by the Percent for Art Program of the New York Department of Cultural affairs, the New York City Fire Department and the Department of Design and Construction - Rossville, Staten Island, New York City

Fences, signage, gates:

• "Books"- 2011- cut stainless steel- Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum (not in a public area)
• "The Melody" - 2011, cut and painted metal, 853 Macy Place, South Bronx, New York, commissionned by Blue Sea Development Company
• "Twirls" - 2010, cut and painted metal, 750 Fox Avenue, South Bronx, New York, commissionned by Blue Sea Development Company
• "on the Moon"- 2009- cut and painted metal, private residence, Tucson, Arizona
• "herbes folles"- 2009- cut stainless steel, 53 rue des prairies, Paris XX, France
• "herbes piquantes", 2009, cut and painted aluminum, Autun, France
• "Wild Flowers" - 2009, cut and painted metal, Melrose 5, South Bronx, New York, commissionned by Blue Sea Development Company
• "Roots & Wings"- 2010, cut and painted metal, lobby papercut tryptich, General Colin Powel Apartments, South Bronx, commissionned by Blue Sea Development Cie
• "Patterns of Life"-2006, stainless steel shadow boxes for the Chelsea House, Manhattan, commissionned by the Clarett Group

Curated slide registry:

The Drawing Center, New York, www.drawingcenter.org
PlacerArts Public Art Registry, CA, www.publicart.placerarts.org
City of Atlanta Public Art Registry
Prequalified artist for Public Art in the Cities of:
Evanston, Il; Santa Cruz, CA; Tucson, AZ; Richmond, BC, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Selected Group Shows:

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Publications and Reviews:

• The Southern Review Fall 2011 issue
• Masters: Book Arts : Major Works by Leading Artists, Lark Books, 2011
• Papercutting, contemporary artists, timeless craft, Chronicle Books, 2011
• Paper-craft 2, Gestalten, 2011
• 60 second interview. Metro NYC, June 18, 2010
• Maison à part: Mon portail? Une oeuvre d'art!, July, 2009
• Le magazine Actives - Les Pays de Savoie côté femmes, June 2009
• Hand Papermaking, Volume 23, Number 2, Winter 2008, page 23
• Blueprint, the magazine for leading architects and designers, issue 259, October 2007, page 178.
• Teachers & Writers Magazine, cover, Fall 2007.
• Mercure Liquide number 7, October 2007.
• Riding Easy: Works to Soothe the Harried, New York Time, Art review, April 23, 2006.
• Arcade, Ephémère, Montréal, été 2005, numéro 63, page 64-65.
• City Art: New York's Percent for Art Program, 2005, Merrell publishers, pages 230-231.
• DesignNet June 2005, Seoul, pages120-123.
• “Celle qui enchantait la ville” Métiers d’Art, numéro221, page 28-29, Mai-Juin 2005.
• Book Paradise by Fang-Ling Jong, Taipei 2004, pages 60-61.
• Recto Verso, Radio Suisse Romande interview par Alain Maillard, 2 Novembre 2004.
• Come Decorare con gli stencil by Celina di Pisa, 2003,p.61-63 ISBN 88-86422-48-2 .
• Book Arts by Ha-Rae Kim, Seoul 2003, pages 110-111.
• "New directions in creation" Photosign, Russian CD, December 2003 (view realplayer video).
• "Paper Magic" The Morning Call review by Geoff Gehman, December 2003.
• Wall Street Journal review by Stuart Ferguson, December 17, 2003.
• "Creative Process and Organization." Tabellae Ansatae, Volume 3, number 1, Fall issue 2003.
• DesignNet March 2003, Seoul, pages126-131.
• "The art of using papercutting as pochoirs & stencils." Tabellae Ansatae, Volume 2, number 2, Spring issue 2002.
• The book of papercutting by Haeyong Kwon.2002.p.27-28 ISBN 89-86009-10-2.
• "Spotlight on Artist" Newsletter of the Ph.D. Program in French, The City University of New York, volume 2, April 2001.
• Paper Illuminated by Helen Hiebert. 2001 p.39 Storey books-ISBN 1-58017-330-6.
• "Le Magazine des Femmes," interview avec Béatrice Coron. Laurence Garcia, pour Radio France Internationale, 20 Septembre 1999 (écouter en Real Player 20mn).
• "Regards: livres et découpes." Lunes, numéro 8 (juillet 1999).
• "Béatrice Coron ou l'art du papier découpé, "Christophe Comentale. Art & Métiers du Livre, numéro 211 (Septembre-Octobre 1998): pages16-20.
• Resident illustrator of Attitude: The Dancers Magazine since 1989.

Residencies:

Museum of Arts & Design, New York, June 2009
Lehman College Art Gallery, The Bronx, summer 2007, 2008, 2009
Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ, September 2008- February 2009

Nomination:

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2009

On the web:

• From the series Book Artists & Poets: podcast interview by Steve Miller, September 2011 during a faculty retreat at Penland (37mn)
• Fibermark Faces: Béatrice Coron and the Language of Silhouettes
• The Adirondack Review, Winter 2011
• Cut,but Connected: Artist weaves a new story with every slice of her knife
• ImPRESSions, The Art of Dupont Tyvek
• Seeing Dance in the City, January 2011
• Maison à part: Mon portail? Une oeuvre d'art!, July 2009, en français
• Hell Gate Review, Summer 2008
• CBS Sunday Morning, December 10, 2006.
• Salon Manhattan: New York Chooses You, film project.
• Costco Connection "Eat Your Words".
• cmonmetier: en français.
• Willet-Hauser: faceted glass windows.
• Europe-USA, online publication March 2005, en français.
• Dog Eared Magazine, Turtle Press,WA; Issue two.

Workshops & Lectures:

TED 2011, Long Beach, CA
Split Rock, Minnesota, June 20-26, 2010
Peters Craft Valley, New Jersey, July 2-6, 2010
Haystack, Maine, July 18-30, 2010
Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1-2, 2010
French Institute- Alliance Française, New York- Gallery Talk The SIlhouette World of Béatrice Coron, March 24, 2010
BookWorks, Asheville, North Carolina, May 22 & 23, 2009
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale,New York, July 21-25, 2008
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Cutting workshop, May 31- June 1, 2008
Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, Fresh Cuttings Workshop, April 26-May 2, 2008, May 24- June 5, 2009
Florida Atlantic University, Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Lecture November, .Workshop "Cutting for Design" November 10-11, 2007
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, March 10-April 13, 2007
Ubud, Indonesia: Mitra-Bali, January 2007
Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan, Sharp New Art with Traditional Kiri-e Techniques Nov 8-9, 2006
Kagoshima, Japan: Asuka Gallery, Kanoya (see pictures), October 2006
Brooklyn Public Library "Making Books" Spring 2006
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005
Taller Leñateros, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, 2005
Macalaster College, Minnesota- French Series Program- December 2004
Relevance/Resonance, MAPC2004, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. October 6-9, 2004
Paper and Book Intensive, Portland, Oregon June 7-18, 2004
Maison des Mémoires, Carcassonne May 2004
The Ink Pad, New York, 2002
Queens Library,New York,"The Art of Book Design", Spring 2001
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, May 1998, March 2001
American Craft Museum, New York 2000-2001.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, April 2000-2001
Au Papier Japonais, Montréal, October 2001
Papercutting workshops in New York: Center for Book Art and Creative Women with Cancer since 1999.
Book Structures & Papercutting workshops in France: Matière Contact, Lyon since 2001
Papercutting workshops at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago since 2002
 

running (without scissors):
Marathon du Médoc 1999: 4h20
50k 2003 5h20
Kurt Steiner 50 miles 2004 9h22
Knickerbocker 60km (37.2 miles) Nov 2010: 6h42

last update 1/23/12