About.

Beatrix Shelton (b. 2003) is a visual artist, musician, and gallery assistant living and working in New York City.

Beatrix received her BA in Visual Studies from The New School in May of 2026. 

Artist Statement.

Working across sculpture, performance and painting, material exploration is the driving force behind my practice. 

I am interested in how materials inhabit space and how spatial conditions shape the work. 

Material exploration is a way of considering the broader material conditions that shape artistic production. I am interested in how labor, production, and exchange influence both the materials I work with and the creative processes through which meaning is made.

Engaging with ideas drawn from psychoanalysis, I explore emotional desire as a generative force, considering how longing, touch, and sensory memory informs our relationships to objects and environments. 

My work invites participation and activation, using space as a container and a medium for communal experience. Working with space as something that can be activated through presence and interaction, I invite my work to allow shared encounters to unfold. 

Sensory exploration is central to my sculptures; through texture, proximity, and engagement, I aim to evoke a deeper awareness of how we relate to our material surroundings.

Education. 

The New School, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Art & Parsons School of Design      

Bachelors of Arts in Visual Studies, minor in Fine Arts  May 2026

Experience. 

Gallery Assistant at CC Jasper                                                                        May 2026 - Present

Gallery Intern at George Adams Gallery                                               February 2026 - May 2026

Exhibitions. 

Publications.                                                              

Bias Cut Magazine