April Bey

Education
BFA (Drawing) Ball State University
MFA (Painting) California State University Northridge

April grew up in the Caribbean (Nassau, Bahamas) and now resides and works in Los Angeles, CA as a contemporary visual artist and art educator. Bey’s interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian popular culture, immigration, contemporary pop culture feminism, generational theory, social media, Afrofuturism and race.

She received her BFA in drawing in 2009 from Ball State University and her MFA in painting in 2014 at California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles. Bey is in the permanent collection of The California African American Museum, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and The Current, Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas. Bey has exhibited internationally in biennials NE7, NE8 and NE9 in The Bahamas, Italy, Spain and Accra Ghana, West Africa.

April travels extensively to collect data for her work having traveled to Canada, Iceland, England, Bali, Dubai, Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana, West Africa.

Bey is both a practicing contemporary artist and art educator having taught a controversial course at Art Center College of Design called Pretty Hurts analyzing process-based art and Beyoncé hashtag faux feminism.

Courses Taught: ART-130 | ART-131 | ART-150 | ART-151 | ART-280

Study Abroad