ISABEL BEAVERS (they/she) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles working at the intersections of new media, ecology, and collective action.
Beavers is the Artistic Director of Supercollider LA, and the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in STS at Harvey Mudd University. A founding member of Great Pause Project, their collaborative archive is housed on the moon as part of ArchMission’s Lunar Library.
Beavers' artistic practice combines emerging technologies with in-situ research and collective learning. They have led projects in Jordan as the ZERO1 2022 Creative Impact Lab - Amman Lead Artist; in Seattle, WA, USA as the 2021 AICAD/NOAA Art + Science Fellow, and cross-nationally as a CreaTures EU ExP Artist. Their research-based practice has been awarded with support in the form of grants, residencies, and presentations in Iceland, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Italy and most recently, Athens, Greece and Cyprus. Exhibited widely through the USA and globally, their work addresses the climate crisis through myth, spirituality, and more-than-human perspectives.
Beavers’ work on deep sea mining was recently included in the Getty’s 2024 PST Art + Science Collide as part of Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean curated by Cassandra Coblentz and Aaron Katzeman. In 2025 their anamorphic animation Sundown was commissioned by the Moving Image Media Arts (MIMA) Program of West Hollywood to premiere on The Now 3D Billboard overlooking Sunset Boulevard. Through artistic practice, teaching, and curating, they foster communities of care and experimentation, inviting audiences to sense the unseen and imagine futures of resilience.
Isabel Presenting at CultureHub LA for The Paradise Dioramas, 2020
Statement + Process
I generate video works, 3D animation, sculptures and immersive spaces that center embodied knowledge and ask viewers to rely on sense-making as a primary mode for constructing reality.
My work attempts to combat systems of oppression as they relate to ecology, bodies and environments, instead imagining new climate futures. Through site-responsive research and artistic projects I interrogate cultural responses to climate change, speculate about climate futures, and question the ethics of emergent technologies.
The environments I create, call into question typical sense hierarchies: shifting scale of image or object, emphasizing listening in dark spaces, and challenging perception of virtual and physical. My work proposes new methods of storytelling that integrate many epistemologies--data science, oral history, science fiction, embodied knowledge and new materialisms--and create space for generating new ways of being.
Recent projects have explored the unraveling of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem, embedded power structures in Icelandic origin stories and Norse Mythology, mega-fires in California as a case study for the operation of compassion fatigue, and curatorial projects addressing extraction, artificial intelligence, and artificial ecologies.
