Bethany LeJeune is an artist whose work consists of mixed media sculptures, installations, and video. She received her BFA at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2019 and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in the summer of 2022. Her work responds to assumptions that surround femininity and to the lack of care throughout society that has been made more obvious in a return to the hurried pace of life after COVID quarantine periods. At the root of LeJeune’s practice is a desire to create and foster communities of care in Southwest Louisiana, specifically around a French culture as it relates to her heritage and ecofeminism.
Education:
2022- MFA, studio art, Vermont College of Fine Art
2019- BFA, studio art, concentration in painting, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Selected Exhibitions:
2023- Group Show, Who Lit the Fire?, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, guest curator Dr. Anita N. Bateman
2023- Group Show, Cūr Nōn, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA, guest curator Camille Farrah.
2022- Group Show, Cosmic Folk/ Cosmic Lands, Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans Louisiana
2022- MFA Thesis Exhibition, Vermont College of Fine Arts
2021, 2022, 2023- Group Show, Annual Bare Walls Group Exhibition, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2021- Solo Show, The Care We Give, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2020- Group Show, Fresh Pickins’ 7, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2019- Group Show and Curatorial Project, Willingly Rejected, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2019- Senior BFA Exhibition, Fletcher Hall Gallery, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
2019- Group Show, Fresh Pickins’ 6, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2019 Group Show, Student Juried Exhibition, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA (Shawn Major, juror)
Curatorial Projects:
2022- Assez/ Enough: Identity in Southern Louisiana,
Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2021- 2022- ProjectSpace Residency Exhibition Coordinator, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2019- Oblique Forms, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Related Experience:
2022- Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2021- 2024- Preparator/ Facilities Manager, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
2020-2022- Curator of Exhibitions and Residencies, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA