Beau Coleman

she/her

Edmonton, Canada

Performance title: The Divide

Photo credit Brittany Snellen

Beau Coleman’s work as a performance artist has been exhibited widely across Canada, United States, and Europe, and in Africa, Asia, Australia and South America.

Recent performances and exhibitions include: Silent Words, Performance as Experiment, Institution of Knowledge, Edmonton, Canada (2023), Learning Here (invited artist/Marilyn Arsem performance), The Institution of Knowledge, Edmonton, Canada (2023); birth of the decay, Unexpected Encounters, Out of Site Chicago, Chicago, United States (2021); Time Regained, 2cnd Nieuwstraat Festival, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2021); wherever you go I will…, Inhabiting Time, Out of Site Chicago, Chicago, USA (2021); Death Eye 3, Dyscorpia, About Light Gallery, Edmonton, Canada (2021); Lost/GAINED, Flow • embody in-site, Out of Site Chicago, Chicago, USA (2021); leaves fallen/broken dreams, Inhabiting Time, SPAR2C, Edmonton, Canada (2020); Breathe, Art-Mutation, Die Bedürfnisantalt, Hamburg, Germany (2020); The Divide, SOSterria emergencia, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2020); Prayer for Understanding, Itinerant Performance Art Festival, New York City, USA (2019);  Rompiendo el silencio and White Noise, AUSTRAL
AUSTRAL Performance Art Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019); Breaking the Silence, Latitude 53 Gallery. Edmonton, Canada (2019).

Beau’s curatorial practice includes: Live FLOW, Out of Site Chicago, Chicago, USA (2022); Performances for Urgent Times, SPAR2C, Edmonton, Canada (2021); and the Zero Gravity International Performance Art SUMMIT, Mile Zero Dance, DC3 Art Projects, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Canada (2019)

Beau is a member of the collective Out of Site Chicago.  As a core artist of The Lock/Unlock Performance Art Project (2020-2022), Beau performed and curated for the series.

Beau is on faculty at the University of Alberta, where she teaches performance and is Co-Director of SPAR²C (Shifting Praxis in Artistic Research/Research-Creation).  She serves on the Board of Directors of Performance Studies international (PSi).