Beatriz González

1932, lives and works in Colombia

González has had exhibitions at museums in Latin America, the United States, Europe and Japan. In 2011 Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellín held an extensive retrospective of her work titled Beatriz González: La comedia y la tragedia. In 2017 a retrospective exhibition travelled to CAPC Bordeaux, KunstWerke in Berlin and the Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 2019 she had a retrospective at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In 2020 this exhibition was shown at the Centro Cultural de Bogotá, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU).
In 2014 González's work was on view at the 8th Berlin Biennale. In 2015 she took part in the group exhibition The World Goes Pop at Tate Modern in London and in the group exhibition Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980 at the MoMA, New York. In 2017 she participated in documenta 14, held in Athens and Kassel. In 2017 and 2018 her work was included in the group exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum, New York and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2021 she took part in the exhibition Another Energy: 16 Women Artists from around the World at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

The work of Gonzalez is in four collections in Bogotá, Colombia: Museo Nacional de Colombia, Colleción de Arte del Banco de la República, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional and Museo de Arte Moderno. Her work is also at Suramericana de Seguros, Medellín; Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Museum of Modern Art, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.