Paul BeaudoinArtist & composer

Biography & record

Curriculum vitae

Selected exhibitions, performances, publications, education, and recognition.

Selected exhibitions

who i talk to when you are not here

Vabaduse Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2025

in another light

Telliskivi Creative City Open Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2025

clique bate

BEARTY Festival, Tallinn, Estonia, 2025

who i talk to when you are not here

Ram Chhatpar Shilp Nyas Gallery, Varanasi, India, 2024

glitch, please, this is ambient!

Creative Room, Tallinn, Estonia, 2023

Peep Show

BEARTY Festival, Tallinn, Estonia, 2023

The Aesthetics of Error

Pärnu Kunstimaja, Pärnu, Estonia, 2019

Selected screenings and moving image exhibitions

a paper rose

ON SCREEN 2026: Re.Singularity, Season V: Somatic Glitches & Digital Obsolescences, 2026

cuando algo en ustedes cambia de color

International Video Art Screening, Galería La Fuerza, Santiago, Chile, 2026

assembly language

Digital Trace, Sisters Room Art Space, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2026

Too Much (A Prayer for Peace)

13th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece, 2026

Conditional Questioning

Experimental Video Art Prize Exhibition, FluxusMuseum, Paros, Greece, 2026

delirious body

Punto y Raya Festival, Official Competition, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2025

delirious body

Altered Images Film and Music Festival, London, United Kingdom, 2025

delirious body

Unboxed: Rethinking the Grid, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, 2025

from here to there

Fubar FILM, selected by curator Petra Belc, Zagreb, Croatia, 2025

Collections

Patarei Varav

Museum of Communist Crimes, Tallinn, Estonia, 2025

Awards and recognition

FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video 2026

Joint runner up · Conditional Questioning

Residencies and fellowships

Artist in Residence

Alice Boner Institute, Varanasi, India, 2023 to 2024 and 2027

Fulbright Scholar

Estonia, 2015

Artist in Residence

MacDowell, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1996 and 1998

Selected commissions and performances

only this, is all there is

Estonian New Music Ensemble, Estonian New Music Days, Tallinn, 2025

dhvani

Commissioned by Estonian Electronic Ensemble, 2024

brook line(s)

Commissioned by Stephen Drury and Piano Spheres for the 150th anniversary of Charles Ives, 2025

Ṭukṛā

Emissary Flute Quartet, Wellesley Composer's Conference 80th anniversary, 2025

Selected publications

“Kashi's Mythological Intervention”

Essay by Sarika Kumari on the work of Paul Beaudoin

Art Soul Life Magazine, New Delhi, India, 2024

“Glitchscapes: Aesthetic Possibilities”

Glitch Art Brazil 2023, exhibition catalogue, São Paulo, Brazil, 2023

“At the Border of Music and Poetry”

Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, University of California Press, 2022

Music in the U.S.A.: A Documentary Companion

Edited by Judith Tick and Paul Beaudoin

Oxford University Press, 2008

“Warhol: Flash, 1963”

Medici University, 2014

Selected interviews and press

FluxusMuseum

Artist feature and interview, 2026

Sandra Schimag

Artist interview, klangraum, Düsseldorf, 2023

“Glitch in the Matrix”

Interview and live performance with Doug Rizo, 2022

15 Questions

Artist interview, 2021

Education

PhD, Music Theory and Composition

Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2002

MM, Composition, with Academic Distinction

New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987

Bard College,  Annandale-on-Hudson

Summer coursework, 1984

BM, Music Theory and Composition

University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1982