Beverly Acha is a New York-based visual artist whose paintings, prints, and drawings explore the poetic spaces between perception, memory, and time through color and symbolism. She has presented solo exhibitions at Emerson Dorsch (Miami, FL), Deanna Evans Projects (New York, NY), and Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY). Her work has also been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY), the Albuquerque Museum (NM), the Brattleboro Museum (VT), and DC Moore Gallery (New York, NY), among others. Her works are held in public and institutional collections including the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH), El Espacio 23 (Miami, FL), and the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Collection.
In 2025, she will complete her first public art commission—a 34-foot oil painting for the Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center commissioned by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places (Miami, FL). Acha has received the Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award and has been supported by residencies and fellowships at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, MacDowell, Lighthouse Works, and Skowhegan. She received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art and her B.A. from Williams College. She teaches at Bennington College.
At MacDowell in 2019, Acha worked on a series of paintings responding to landscape and color at different times of day. Earlier work took on similar themes, but while at MacDowell she was influenced by poetic structure as a way to consider the relationships between different paintings. These works would be shown at Fordham University and Alfred University in 2020. During her 2025 residency, Acha began a series of new paintings and drawings for her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at North Loop West Gallery (2026). She also finished editing the first catalog of her work, Beverly Acha: Nothing Static (2025).
