Bette Ridgeway

Bette Ridgeway, "Top 60 International Contemporary Masters 2017" by Art Tour International Magazine, was awarded the DaVinci International Prize in Rome, Italy in 2016. Other recognition includes the Chianciano International Art Award in 2012. Her work on metal, in the "Art of the Mind" exhibition received the Oxford Univ. Alumni Prize.
In addition, the artist participated the 2013 London Art Biennale. She also collaborated with famed fashion designer, Mihara Yasuhiro on his 2013 women's wear collection.

Bette Ridgeway's work is featured in "International Contemporary Masters 2010," published by Worldwide Art Books, "100 Artists of the Southwest" published by Schiffer Books, "Famous - 120 Contemporary Artists," "Masters of Today" and "Trends" all published by WOA, Stockholm, Sweden," and "The New Mexico Millennium Collection" by Nancy Stem & Kathryne Fowler. This recognition has positioned Ridgeway, internationally, as one of the leading contemporary artists in the US.

For the past two decades I’ve maintained an art practice in Santa Fe, NM, where the high desert light fuels my spirit. My career began in the sweatshop of Reuben Donnelley Advertising as a young graphic artist and over many decades taken me to ...

SOLO Exhibition History (selected)
2015 Signature Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Legends Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2013 Gagliardi Gallery London “Art of the Mind” Exhibition
2012 Galerie Joyce, Paris, FR
2013 Chianciano Art Museum, Tuscany, Italy
2012 Rio Grande Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2010 The McDaniel Collection, Rancho de San Juan, NM
2008 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2007 M Gallery of Fine Art, Sarasota, FL
2007 Edmund Craig Fine Art, Ft. Worth, TX
2005—2006 Tadu Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Jordan Road Gallery, Sedona, AZ
2001 Expressions in Fine Art, Santa FE, NM
2000 ArtMerge Gallery, Dallas, TX
1999 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Waxlander Kadouri Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1989 FOTA Gallery, Alexandria, VA
1988 Windows Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1986 Kobiashi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

GROUP Exhibitions (selected)

2004—2013 (ongoing) Chasen Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2007—2009 Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2007—2009 Montage Fine Art, Wilmington, NC
2007 Proctor Fine Art, Sedona, AZ
2006 Linda Goldenstein Gallery, Sedona, AZ
2006 - 2007 Tadu Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2004—2005 Duley Jones Gallery, Scottsdale, ...