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betty t. kao
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Artist
  • United States
  • Deviant for 18 years
  • She / Her
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My Bio
Betty's artshows include: Land of Ash with Danger at 3rd Ward 2010, Art Slam at Asian American Arts Centre 2010, Art Implosion with Free Arts Society 2010, PEX at Times Square Arts Center 2010, Maker Faire at NY Hall Of Science 2010, Forbidden City 2010, Alien Acres 2010, Figment 2010, Campfire at Sunset Park Winkel and Balktick's 2010, Circle Arts at Jeffrey's Essex Street Market 2010, Bronx Art Space 2010, Clemente Soto Gallery 2010, Reconstruct Arts at Wonderland LLC 2010, Squid Row at Hudson Terrace 2010, Alchemy at Sunset Park 2010, Chashama Film Festival 2009, Figment at Governor's Island 2009, Luminous Flux at Galapagos 2009, Hope Lounge 2009, Rock Star Gallery Bar 2009, Art Synthesis with Bronx Council of the Arts 2006-10, Mermaid Parade 2004-09, NYC Halloween Parade 2005-09, Superior Concept Puppets 2008-09, Great Small Works at Judson Memorial Church 2009, Circle Arts at The Vod Time's Up 2009, Southside Speakeasy 2007-08, Sutra Lounge 2008, Feminist League at Marymount College 2007, The Queens Museum 2007, Circle Arts at Trinity Church Governors Island 2007, Horizons at Judson Memorial Church 2007, Femme Fatales at Ad Hoc Art 2006, Billyburg Short Film Festival 2006, NY Public Library 2006, Young Architect's League 2006, Antagonist Movement 2006-07, Burning Man 2004-05, House Work 2005, The Change You Want to See Gallery 2005-06, Earth Celebration's Rites of Spring 2003-04, Inside her at Hampshire College Main Gallery 2001, Digital Design Showcase 2000-01, Tavern 2001, Lemelson Center 1997-01, Amherst Museum 1999, Adverse Possession Gallery with More Gardens at Casa del Sol 1999, Centrum Gallery 1998.

Current Residence: here
Favourite style of art: creature shop
Skin of choice: mine
Favourite cartoon character: hello kitty

Favourite Visual Artist
joseph beuys, frida kahlo, mike kelley, vincent van gogh
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
the national, dirty3, johnny cash, lamb, wakey wakey, gorillaz, lady gaga, weezer
Favourite Writers
Ntozake Shange, e. e. cummings, Robert Anton Wilson, Tina Fey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tools of the Trade
hands and mind
Other Interests
almost everything

Art Bio

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Betty Taopat Kao is an artist and writer, integrating both mediums as tools for storytelling. She is interested in how artists use images to voice the collective subconscious. Betty is a visual storyteller, her major influences and investigations include anthropomorphic objects, toys, packaging, metaphysics, religious mythology, Pan-Asian culture, sacred plants, environmentalism, and medicine. Her work explores the mythologies and memes of our culture. The mixed-media nature of her work relates to how she interprets her surroundings in relation to herself. She was raised in New York City, a place where global culture prevails, and a single ne
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HI*****

muito bom, means: very good*

i have showed my work in Portugal, Spain and Brasil.
just awaiting for more internacional calls; lol*

kiss kisss
Thanks for the fave.
Thanks for the watch! :)
thanks for the fave!
Thanks for the add n stuff.