Béa Aaronson was born in Paris in 1956. A self-taught multimedia artist, published poet, essayist, art critic, international lecturer and independent scholar, stage and movie performer, Aaronson holds a BA Honors in Art History, an MA in French Literature and a PhD in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. Her book Baudelaire-Miller Sexual Squalor in Paris, which she illustrated with ink drawings, is now the property of the Harvard Private Book Collection.

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“It feels as if 50 different artists live inside of me! Not easy to channel! What counts are the images being birthed, following the heartbeat of my plural identity. And no hierarchy!
Photographs, watercolors, oils or acrylics, drawings, collages, assemblages, sculptures (bronze, wood, clay, welded metal, found objects), poems, plays, short stories… Harnessing the energies of the ceaseless becoming life is all about. So? An ‘ism’ on what I do? Impossible! Mostly Dada and Surrealist though, figurative or non-figurative, with symbolist Nawal imagery, outbursts of expressionism, constructivism, black and white, colors…”