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Carrie Beehan Performance-Artist/Painter/Musician is an established international multimedia 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. 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. Carrie Beehan has exhibited and/or performed in Queens Museum of Art; The Lincoln Center Out Of Doors; 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 Carrie Beehan’s work has been included in: the Museum of Jewish Heritage New York with the Immigration Arts Coalition 2018.

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After her electronica release, “Tryst/Tryst” (BMG/Universal) her 2006 U.S. collaboration, "Deepest Part of My Soul," with legendary metal-funk bassist/vocalist T.M. Stevens was released, winning best video single for "Good Part Of My Soul" Beehan/Stevens duet on the New Century Chart Awards and topping various online radio charts.  Beehan then 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. Sadly, legendary Bassist/Artist/Producer T.M. Stevens  died March 2024 and Carrie has established The T.M. Stevens Music Fund to honor his legacy with the first Fundraiser concert planned for October 10th, 2024 in New York with a host of celebrity performers.

 

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. 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, Carrie's album "Alazon In The Quiet Room" music was featured in various community radio shows 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 Netflix, Ryan Seacrest CIVIC, Samantha Bee, Amy Schumer, Nile Rodgers, the We Are Family Foundation, Viacom, Comedy Central, TED Talks, and more.

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2021, Carrie composed music for eight songs for various cast members and performed  several of them as the Hungry Ghost character 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, launches two video releases on Vevo with their music tracks available on current music platforms -  song # 3, Rein Doe Ring, was released Fall 2023. "Forgive Me" is nominated for best cinematography (Ladyia Cheryl) at the Rome Video Awards.

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2023, March,  Carrie's documentary music AITQR Displaced 2023  is selected and performed 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  and NuBlu Ave B, East Village, NYC.

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2024 "Displaced 2024" Select dates in March,  June and December at The Old Stone House in Brooklyn , Carrie Beehan and Company produced by AITQR Theater Collective, GOH Productions, CAMT and OSH & Washington Park.

 

2024, My Father's Tools - currently in progress a series of six robot sculptures built from her father's old power tools and the tools of his kitchen with sound /light responsive elements set to music due for curated exhibition late Fall 2024.