BABECHU




INSTALLATION
DIGITAL MEDIA /SOUND
VIDEO
PHOTO
PRINT

CV


Betelhem Abechu 2000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Currently Lives and works in New York  


EDUCATION

2020-2024 Rhode Island School of Design - BFA Film, Animation + Video: Open Media


GROUP EXHIBITION

2024
  • New Contemporaries ‘24 , Gelman Gallery, Providence RI
  • Black Biennial: Sonder, Gelman gallery, Providence, RI
  • Let's show them before we make better ones, FAV OPEN MEDIA, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
  • Chipwitch, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI 
  • BAAD X Carrhaus, Carrhaus, Providence, RI

2023 
  • Playing house,  Gelmen Gallery , Providence, RI 
  • Safe in my Garden, Gelmen Gallery, Providence, RI
  • BAAD X Carrhaus, Carrhaus, Providence, RI
  • FAV Junior Show, RISD, Providence, RI

2022
  • Black Arts Showcase Multiplicity, Not Monolith: Locating The Self Through Art, Leung Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
  • Black Biennial, Gelman gallery, Providence, RI

2019 
State Visual Arts Contest Gallery, LaCroix Hall, Rapid City, SD 

2017
State Visual Arts Contest Gallery, SF Convention Center, Sioux Falls, SD 

2015
Traffic Box, Sixth Street and Cliff Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD


AWARDS AND HONORS
2024 
Film, Animation + Video Departemental Grant 

2023/2022
Awarded ‘Award of Excellence’ in Film, Animation and Video Studies Department