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Gina Beavers (b. 1974; Greece) creates drawings, paintings and installations inspired by photos culled from the internet and social media and rendered in high acrylic relief. Her series have included paintings that are based on body painting, social media snapshots of food, make-up tutorials, memes, and bodybuilder selfies.

Beavers’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York in 2019 and at Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen in 2021. Beavers’s work has been included in group presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica – Palazzo Barberini, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Mazovian Contemporary Art Museum, Barns Art Center, New York, Schlossmuseum Linz, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville among others.

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Perez Art Museum Miami, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, RISD Museum, Providence, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Frieze Magazine, Artforum, and Art in America, among others.

Beavers earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MS in Education from Brooklyn College, and a BA in Studio Art and Anthropology from the University of Virginia. She served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University from 2019–2020.

Beavers lives and works in the Oranges, New Jersey.