Beverly Acha
Beverly Acha is a New York-based visual artist working in painting, printmaking, and drawing. Her work is informed by the visual and spatial languages of landscape, architecture, and diagrams. Through a process-based practice that embraces formal and material experimentation, color theory, and symbolism, Acha explores the poetic, shifting spaces of perception and memory.
Biography
Acha holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BA in Studio Art (with highest honors) and American Studies from Williams College. Her work has been exhibited widely including at the Brattleboro Museum (VT), El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY), the Albuquerque Museum (NM), DC Moore Gallery (New York, NY), Deanna Evans Projects (New York, NY), North Loop (Williamstown, MA), Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY), and Emerson Dorsch (Miami, FL), among others. Her work is held in numerous private collections, as well as public and institutional collections including the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Collection at Embassair (Miami, FL); Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH); El Espacio 23: The Collection of Jorge M. P茅rez (Miami, FL); the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art (Roswell, NM); and the Soho House Collection (London, UK). She is the recipient of the Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award (2018) and the Frederick M. Peyser Prize in Painting (2009). Her work has been featured in publications including New American Paintings, MAKE Magazine, Diacritics, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
In 2025, she completed her first public art commission: a monumental 34-foot oil painting for the Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center commissioned by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places (Miami, FL). Her practice has been supported by residencies and fellowships from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, MacDowell, Lighthouse Works, Fountainhead, Vermont Studio Center, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, among others. Acha previously taught at Yale School of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Oberlin College, University of California at Davis, and Williams College.
Acha joined the Bennington faculty in Fall 2023.