CARRIE BEEHAN

                                                                           

                                                                            

                                                                                     Biography

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Carrie Beehan is a multimedia artist and sculptor based in New York City’s East Village. Her interdisciplinary practice spans painting, assemblage, sculpture, sound, performance, video, and installation, investigating how memory, voice, and material form can converge into embodied presence.

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Beehan’s artistic foundation developed across film, music, and visual art. She worked as a news and documentary editor for German television in Berlin before emerging as a recording artist, signing with BMG/Universal in 1998. Her work in sound, video, and performance has appeared internationally, including presentations at the New Museum’s Ideas City (New York), Prague National Gallery, AVIFF Cannes, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Queens Museum of Art, La MaMa Galleria, and exhibitions and festivals across New York, Berlin, Prague, and New Zealand. Her audiovisual collaborations are held in museum collections in Asia and Oceania.

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Beginning in the mid-2000s, Beehan’s visual practice expanded beyond painting to incorporate found objects, inherited tools, and industrial remnants directly into mixed media works. These assemblages embedded material history into the structure of the artwork, transforming painted surfaces into dimensional forms and marking a transition toward sculpture.

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This evolution culminated in the creation of the KindRobo Cartel, an ongoing sculptural collective of conversational entities constructed from reclaimed mechanical and domestic tools, maritime artifacts, and obsolete electronics. Many materials originate from tools inherited from her father, embedding personal and generational memory within each work. Each sculpture integrates responsive light, engineered sound, and conversational artificial intelligence, allowing viewers to engage in direct dialogue. These works exist simultaneously as sculptural form, sound instrument, and relational presence.

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KindRobo sculptures are currently installed in active professional environments in New York City, where they engage viewers in sustained conversational interaction. Through these works, Beehan continues her long-standing exploration of voice, embodiment, and material memory, transforming inherited objects into responsive sculptural entities that exist between archive, instrument, and presence.

Beehan lives and works in New York City.

 

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                                                                   Music and Theater 

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, Wall hanging  series of six mixed media 3-D works with sound /light responsive elements set to music - Featuring : Michael's Table, Octo7static, Spearfishing in the 1960's - 1970's, Attempted Break-In, and Tech Titians  (The Mindset).

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2025, The Sculptural Mixed Media series is expanding, with seven pieces and counting  Ranging in height from 2 to 4.5 feet, each sculpture reveals its own personality and story through AI-driven interactive question and response. Viewers can speak directly into the sculpture’s embedded microphones, engaging in real-time dialogue. 

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This evolution culminated in the creation of the KindRobo Cartel, an ongoing sculptural collective of conversational entities constructed from reclaimed mechanical and domestic tools, maritime artifacts, and obsolete electronics. Many materials originate from tools inherited from her father, embedding personal and generational memory within each work. Each sculpture integrates responsive light, engineered sound, and conversational artificial intelligence, allowing viewers to engage in direct dialogue. These works exist simultaneously as sculptural form, sound instrument, and relational presence.

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