Ruth Beer is an artist, a Professor of Art in the Faculty of Art and Graduate Studies and the Director of ACE (Art/Culture/Ecology) Research at Emily Carr University of Art and Design Her research creation practice that addresses energy, culture and ecological transition is informed by cross-disciplinary approaches within the expanded field of contemporary art and media. Her artwork that includes sculpture, video, photography, interactive projections, sound and woven structures has contributed to her extensive record of exhibitions in museums and galleries in Canada, the USA, Japan, Norway, Australia, Iceland and Finland. She has been awarded several large public art commissions for the cities of Richmond, Surrey and Burnaby.
She is the lead artist/researcher (Principle Investigator) on recent and current Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) research creation projects entitled Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Pipelines (tradingroutes.ca) and Shifting Ground: Mapping Energy, Community and Geography in the North (shiftingground.ca). She is involved in other SSHRC funded projects as co-investigator, including Feminist Energy Futures and Speculative Energy Futures (U of Alberta), IMPACTS (McGill) and The Hidden Cost of Supply Chains (UBC) working with Canadian and international colleagues.
She received a BFA (Concordia), MFA (U of A) and PhD i (UBC) and is a member of the RCA.
She teaches Sculpture, Interdisciplinary Visual Art and Graduate Studies studio courses.
Personal website: https://ruthbeer.com/
