Betsy Rosenwald is a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada)-based visual artist. Her paintings have been exhibited across Canada, the US, and internationally, and can be found in many private and public collections. Born in Boston, Betsy received her B.A. in fine arts from Beloit College and moved to New York to complete an M.F.A. at Brooklyn College. Her early work is associated with the East Village art scene, where it was represented by the seminal East Village gallery, Civilian Warfare.
Betsy is the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Art Matters Foundation, SK Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She has attended artist residencies at AKA Artist-Run (SK), Artscape Gibraltar Point (ON), Klondike Institute for Art and Culture (YT), Emma Lake Artists/Writers Retreat (SK), Pouch Cove Foundation (NL), and MacDowell (NH). She received the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal (2023) for her contributions to the Arts in Saskatchewan. A former art editor of the literary magazine, Grain, she has collaborated with writers on several projects, including Jack Pine Press’s limited edition Pliny’s Knickers, which received the 2005 bp Nichol chapbook award. Her work is represented by The Gallery / art placement, Saskatoon and Grasslands Gallery.
