Nathan Beard

Nathan Beard employs a variety of processes to achieve complex, multi-layered artworks inspired by the human conception and experience of Space-Time. The meaning of his work is inextricably tied to the process of its creation, with each color, form and technique chosen for its metaphorical possibilities. He draws inspiration from the density and variety of Floridian flora, the natural and cosmological sciences, as well as mathematics and anthropology.

After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State University in 2001, Nathan worked in galleries and as an Art Consultant in Denver, CO for seven years. He grew up on a dairy farm in western New York. Prior to his university studies, Nathan lived in Egypt for one year as an exchange student and, upon his return, worked as a cowboy in Wyoming for two years. Nathan currently maintains a studio in St. Petersburg, FL, where he lives with his wife and eight year old daughter. Nathan also serves as Assistant Curator at Dunedin Fine Art Center, and as Independent Curator of his own traveling group exhibition called CONSTRUCT.

Beard has exhibited extensively since 2013, including Tampa Museum of Art, JADA Art Fair (Miami), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Dunedin Fine Art Ce...

2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO

Museum Exhibitions
2019 Unexpected: Art by Alternative Means (Nathan Beard, Akiko Kotani, Rob Tarbell),
Leepa- Rattner Museum, Tarpon Springs, FL
2018 3rd Dynamic Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2018 East Meets West, Safety Harbor Museum, FL
2017 SKYWAY: A Contemporary Collaboration, Tampa Museum of Art, Ringling Museum of Art
(Sarasota) and Museum of Fine Arts (St Petersburg), FL
2017 BROAD SPECTRUM, Highlands Museum of the Arts, Sebring, FL
2016 Pond’s Edge, Museum of Coastal Carolina, Ocean Isle Beach, NC

Exhibitions
2019 Cut & Paste, Victorian House Gallery, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbannais, IL
2019 Drawing Water, Brooker Creek Preserve Art Gallery, Tarpon Springs, FL
2017 Left to Right, Gallery 501, Howard W. Blake School for the Arts, Tampa, FL
2016 Confluence of Origins, Gallery 221, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL
2015 Surface Tension, (with Nin McQuillen) ARTicles Art Gallery, St. ...