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Carrie Beehan's creative style combines music, writing, performance, painting, and video. Carrie worked as a news and documentary editor for German television in Berlin from 1986-to 1992 and then emerged as a performer and recording artist with her first recording contract in 1998 with BMG/Universal. She is a longtime resident (20+ years) of New York City. Throughout 2017-2019 her documentary theater/musical multimedia show AITQRdisplaced, spotlighted displaced people and immigrant artists leaving their quiet rooms of contemplation. Her musicals, Folk Tales of The Monarch and The Rusty Whetted Whistle, are in permanent catalog with the prestigious AVIFF (Art Video Film Festival) in Cannes, France. Her latest 2022-23  EP, "The Cold Spring Files," produced by veteran glam/punk rocker Venus De Mars, currently has the first two video releases on Vevo with their music tracks available on your favorite music platform - the third single available March 2023.

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Carrie Beehan Performance-Artist/Painter/Musician is an established international multi-media performer and artist residing in the East Village in New York City for 20+ years. Carrie worked as a news and documentary editor for German television in Berlin from 1986-1992. She emerged as a performer and recording artist with her first recording contract in 1998 with BMG/Universal. With a background in London, New York, Berlin, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand in dramatic arts, music, and the film industry. Her creative style combines paint, music, multi-media art, performance, and video. Carrie Beehan's work has been included in: the New Museum Ideas City New York 2013 & 2011; the Žižkov Television Tower, Art Gallery for Children (GUD), Czech Center Prague; TINA B Contemporary Arts Festival Prague; the Fusion Arts Museum-Fountain Art Fair at the New York Armory; AVIFF Festival Cannes; Shalom Neuman's: TALKING AT YOU - PROMLOUVÁNÍ at the Prague National Gallery, Veletžní palace. Carrie Beehan has exhibited and/or performed in Queens Museum of Art; The Lincoln Center Summer Stage; opening act for European Film Awards, Babelsberg Studio, Potsdam; Chameleon Theater, Berlin; HOWL New York and the Figment Festivals, FusionArts Museum LES, to name but a few. She has exhibited at La MaMa Galleria in Noho, Agency Catch-24 Design in Manhattan, ORA-NY Gallery in Chelsea, Gallery Center with Lisa Farago (Farago Art) in Soho, and completed an artist residency for the Central School Project in Bisbee, Arizona 2014 - 2016, founding her current documentary musical AITQR Displaced 2023. https://www.carriebeehan.com/mixed-media-fine-art

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Carrie Beehan’s creative style combines music, paint, performance, and video, and was developed through her extensive training in the arts in AU, UK and Germany, as well as her training in the technical aspects of filmmaking and editing. She worked as a news and documentary editor for German television in Berlin from 1986-1992, and then emerged as a performer and recording artist with her first publishing deal in 1994 with Warner Chapel followed by her first recording contract in 1998 with BMG/Universal.

 

After her electronica release, “Tryst/Tryst” (BMG/Universal) and her 2006 U.S. collaboration, "Deepest Part of My Soul," with legendary metal-funk bassist/vocalist T.M. Stevens, Beehan composed several short musicals and a narrative of introspective songs somewhat removed from her previous electronic upbeat releases. She recorded at sessions in Arizona, Berlin, and New York during 2015-2016, and concurrently, the name of Beehan’s theater performance project and album was developed, “Alazon In The Quiet Room.” The album, “Alazon In The Quiet Room” was co-produced in New York City by Oscar & Grammy-winning producer/engineer, Robert L Smith of Defy Recordings, and released on BNS Sessions/Cargo Records UK.

 

Carrie Beehan’s work has been included in: the Museum of Jewish Heritage New York; the New Museum (New York, 2011 and 2013); the Žižkov Television Tower Prague: Art Gallery for Children (GUD), Czech Center Prague; TINA B Contemporary Arts Festival Prague; the Fusion Arts Museum-Fountain Art Fair at the New York Armory; AVIFF Festival Cannes; Shalom Neuman's: TALKING AT YOU - PROMLOUVÁNÍ at the Prague National Gallery, Veletžní palace. Her performance art video, “Art of the Crash” was featured in National Galeria in Poprad, Slovakia FusionArtSteam with Shalom Neuman, and with Israeli curator Doron Polak at educational institutions in Israel.

 

Beehan's Art Films with original scores for both "Folk Tales of The Monarch” (2011), and "Rusty Whetted Whistle" (2012, New York's Czechoslovak Marionette Theater) is part of the Cannes Art Video Festival AVIFF permanent catalog. She has exhibited and/or performed in Queens Museum of Art; The Museum of Jewish Heritage New York, The Lincoln Center Summer Stage; the European Film Awards, Babelsberg Studio, Potsdam; Chameleon Theater, Berlin; HOWL New York and the Figment Festivals and more. Beehan’s soundtrack collaboration with animation artist, Hye Rim Lee, is part of museum collections in Shanghai, Seoul, Sydney, and Auckland.

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2019, she became a member of the DJ CherishTheLuv DJ Musician Crew with New Yorker Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka, DJ CherishTheLuv, resident Wholefoods DJ, and Bose Ambassador. DJ CherishTheLuv has produced music, custom mixes, and is called on by Ryan Seacrest CIVIC, Samantha Bee, Amy Schumer, Nile Rodgers, the We Are Family Foundation, Viacom, Comedy Central, TED Talks, The New School for Social Research, Goddard Foundation, Heritage Radio Network, You Can Thrive!, Vanity4Humanity, Project1Voice, and more.

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2021, she composed music for eight songs and performed  several of them as the Hungry Ghost for  "The Forty Hour Club" founded by playwright, director, and experimental theater artist Mike Gorman for the musical production of "Never Leaving This Boat" (Fragments of a Blues Opera., performing in Portland and Rockland, Maine.

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2022-23 Carrie Beehan's latest 2023  EP, "The Cold Spring Files," produced by veteran glam/punk rocker Venus De Mars, currently has the first two video releases on Vevo with their music tracks available on your favorite music platform -  song # 3, Rein Doe Ring, due for release in March 2023.

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2023, March,  Carrie's documentary music AITQR DIsplaced 2023  is selected for the Emerging Artists Theater NEW WORKS Series Spring 3/23/23   - https://newworkseries.com/emerging-artists-theatre/

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2023, May-June Studio Hill Gallery CT, Group Multi-Media Show - WE ARE HERE NOW Hidden in Plain Sight - East Village NYC - the show is moving to the EV in summer 2023.