Betsy Damon

Born in 1940 in New York, graduated from Skidmore College in 1963 with a bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and from Columbia University in 1966 with a master of Fine Arts degree. American ecological artist and founder of the American Keepers of the Water.

Her idea of a living water garden was proposed to Chengdu in 1996 and supported by the government. In 1998, the world’s first urban eco-park themed on water conservation, Chengdu Living Water Garden, was completed. The project won the highest international award for waterfront excellence, the International Environmental Design Award, and became the Chengdu case study for the Best Urban Practice Area at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. Besty has lectured extensively in the United States, Europe, and China, and is a guest artist at numerous universities. For more than sixty years, she has dedicated herself to protecting water, listening to water, and leading audiences to interact with water, thereby promoting a deeper link between humans and nature. Besty is a world-renowned eco-artist, whose work encompasses a wide range of media, including painting, installation, performance, and video, and has participated in countless important exhibitions from all over the world. Recent exhibitions include Anti-Internationalism at the Van Abbemuseum in Netherland, Connecting Drops at SUNY Stony Brook, etc. He has also published books such as Director, Living Waters of Larimer and Principles of Water and other books. Her works of art are collected by many institutions and collectors internationally.