Betsy Connors	Holographer | Video Artist | Photographer
	Born	Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Education	University of Massachusetts, B.A. in Art/French Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France, Certificate, 1974 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. in Holography, 1986
	Appointments	WGBH-TV New Television Workshop Artist, 1976 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies Research Fellow, 1977-1983
	Awards and Honors	The Artists Foundation Fellowships: Video, 1976, 1979 Massachusetts Artist-in-Residence Grants, 1978, 1985, 1986 Synapse Video Center Grant (Syracuse, New York), 1979 Wadsworth Video Festival Award (Hartford, Connecticut), 1980 Council for the Arts at MIT and The Polaroid Corporation: Photography, 1981 Spaces Between Video Production Grant, WGBH-TV (Boston), 1982 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities: Partnerships in Production, 1983 and Massproductions, 1986-1987 Mary R. Rollins Electro-Optical Arts Fellowship (MIT), 1984 Boston Arts Festival, 1985 Council for the Arts at MIT: Holography, 1986 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities: New Works, 1989 Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio) and WGBH-TV New Television Workshop: Boston collaboration with William Wegman, 1991 New England Foundation for the Arts: New Forms Grant, 1992 Massachusetts Cultural Council: Science Literacy Grant, 1993 Somerville Arts Council, 1994 AT&T: New Experiments in Art and Technology,1995 Council for the Arts at MIT, 1996
	One Woman Exhibitions	Boston Film Video Foundation, 1979, 1988 "The Gallery" Video Installation, Helen Schlien Gallery (Boston), 1980 University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, 1981 Thomas Segal Gallery (Boston), 1982 Federal Reserve Bank (Boston), 1983 Boston Film Video Foundation, 1988 "Star Cores" Holographic Installation, Thomas Segal Gallery (Boston), 1988 "Future Gardens" Holographic Installation, Photographic Resource Center (Boston), 1991 "What's New, What's Real," The Children's Museum (Boston), 1994
	Group Exhibitions (partial list)	Invitational Video Expo (Rhinebeck, New York), 1977 Boston Film Video Foundation, 1976, 1978, 1982 "Centerbeam," Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS)/MIT (Washington, D.C.), 1978 Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), 1978 Massachusetts College of Art (Boston), 1979, 1981, 1982 Athens Video Festival (Athens, Ohio), 1980 "Video in the 70's," DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, Massachusetts), 1980 "Collaborations," Connecticut College (New London, Connecticut), 1981 Centervideo, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (Paris, Cologne, Zurich), 1981 La Mamelle (San Francisco), 1981 Phoenix Video, Alte Oper (Frankfurt, Germany), 1981 Anthology Film Archives (New York, New York), 1982 Thomas Segal Gallery (Boston),1982 S.I.G.M.A. Video Festival (Bordeaux, France), 1982 Monserrat School of Art (Beverly, Massachusetts), 1982 "Boston Now," Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), 1983 Watching Television, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1983 San Paulo Biennal (San Paulo, Brazil), 1983 Atlantic Film Video Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia), 1983 Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1984 East West Video Exchange, San Francisco, 1984 Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), 1984 Nam June Paik Collaboration, Pompidou Center (Paris, France), 1984 Cambridge Video Festival (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1984, 1985 "Made for TV," Women in Film and Video, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), 1985 Thomas Segal Gallery (Boston), 1986 Brockton Art Museum (Brockton, Massachusetts), 1986 Stebbins Gallery (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1986 Nam June Paik, Living Theater and the Korean Tape, 1986 MIT Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1987 "Point of Vue" Video Installation, Artists Foundation, CityPlace, 1987 New York University Video Festival, 1987 "High Tech/New Pop," Photographic Resource Center (Boston), 1987-1988 Somerville Historical Museum (Somerville, Massachusetts), 1988 "Alternative Mediums," Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, Massachusetts), 1989 Nam June Paik Collaboration, Whitney Museum (New York), 1989 International Exhibition World of Holography (Nagoya, Japan), 1989 Clocktower Gallery, P.S. 1 (New York City), 1990 ArtTransition, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1990 "de jouer," Campredon Art et Culture (L'Isle-sur-la Sorgue, France), 1991 "The Country Between Us," Mass College of Art (Boston), 1992 Montgomery Museum of Art (Montgomery, Alabama), 1992 UMass Alumni Show, Transportation Building (Boston), 1993 "Fused: Art, Science and Industry," Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, 1994 MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies 25th Anniversary Show (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1994 Cybersmith Electronic Cafe (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1995 "13 Grant Winners," Brickbottom Gallery (Somerville, Massachusetts), 1995 "New Directions in Holography-The Landscape Reinvented," Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson, Mississippi), 1995 "Images du Future," (Montreal, Canada), 1995 J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A.&M. University, 1995 "A Celebration of Light, Technology and Art," Palm Beach Community College of Art, (Palm Beach, Florida), 1995 West Virginia Museum of Art, "ART Venture," (Roanoke), 1995-1996 "New Directions in Holography," Harn Museum (Gainesville, Florida), 1996
	Works Broadcast	"Batteries Not Included," WGBH-TV (Boston), 1980, 1981 "Selected Works," Cambridge USA, WLVI-TV (Boston), 1981 "The Gallery," WGBH-TV (Boston), 1981 "Green Lagoo," CBS-TV National Broadcast, 1982, 1983 "Vusac," Nam June Paik Collaboration for Belgium TV, 1984 "Mixed Signals," N.E. Foundation for the Arts (Boston), 1985, 1986 "New Television," WGBH/WNET-TV (Boston, New York), 1987 "New Television," PBS Broadcast in the USA, 1991 "Made in Maine," Cable Broadcast, 1993, 1994
	Professional Activities	Founding Member, Board of Directors, Boston Film Video Foundation (Boston), 1975-1979 Board of Trustees, The Artists Foundation (Boston), 1981-1983 Artist-in-Residence, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1981, 1986 Artist-in-Residence, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minneapolis, Minnestoa), 1984 Member, First International Congress on Art and Holography, St., Mary's College (South Bend, Indiana), 1990
	Publications	S.P.I.E., Proceedings from the Forth International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois), 1991 S.P.I.E. Proceedings from the Fifth International Symposium on Display Holography (Lake Forest, Illinois), 1994
	Reviews (partial list)	The Boston Phoenix, Getting into the Picture (September, 1982) Art in America, Report from Boston (May, 1983) Boston Magazine, New Medium, Old Messages (November, 1983) The Boston Phoenix, Experimental Media (September, 1987) The Boston Globe, Wild Wild Wit (November 26, 1987) Metropolitan Home, State of the Art: Young, Gifted, and Affordable (November, 1987) The Boston Globe, Grace Notes (November 30, 1987) The Boston Globe, Upgrading High-Tech Art (December 14, 1987) Visions BFVF Magazine (Winter 1987) The New York Times, Video Spin Offs (February 2, 1990) The Boston Globe (August 11, 1988) The Boston Phoenix (August 5, 1988) Photographic Resource Center Magazine (May, 1991) The Brookline Tab (June 18, 1991) Photo Design Magazine (Volume 8, Number 3, 1991) Boston Sunday Globe (May 5, 1991) Boston Sunday Herald (June 23, 1991) The Cape Cod Register (February 10, 1994) Boston Sunday Herald (March 6, 1994)
	Experience Teaching	Tufts University Experimental College, "Laser Art: An Introduction to Holographic Imaging" (1995) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spatial Imaging Group, "Creative Holography Workshop" (1990-1996) Polaroid Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Basic Holography Course (1989) Cultural Educational Collaborative, Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts), Poetry and Video Workshop with poet David Raffeld (1989) Boston Film Video Foundation Video Animation Workshops (1987-1988) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spatial Imaging Group, Teaching Holography Labs and a Seminar on Holographic Art and Artists (1985-1986) Artist-In Residence, North Middlesex Regional High School (Townsend, Massachusetts) (1986) School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Full-time Video Instructor of Beginning and Advanced Courses (1984-1985) Artist-In-Residence, New Bedford High School (New Bedford, Massachusetts) (1985) Artist- In-Residence, Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School (1979) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Advanced Courses in Video Animation, Performance and Video, and Historical Seminars on Video Art and Artists (1978-1981)