Elizabeth de Bethune is a representational/figurative painter from Yonkers, New York. Here recent exhibitions include “Out in Orient, Portraits of the North Fork Women’s Community”, Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY, September 20-October 19, 2025; “Out, In, a Series of Portraits” at the Yonkers Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers, NY, June, 2025; “Intimate and Ordinary”, at the Rye Art Center, in May 2024, and “Out in Yonkers, Portraits from the Yonkers LGBTQ Community” at the White Plains Public Library Museum Gallery, January and February 2024. Participation in recent group exhibitions have included Women’s History Month, Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations, March, 2025, Islip Arts Council, Islip NY; “Open Call”, ArtsWestchester, February 2025, White Plains NY; “Iconic Portraits; Figures in the Modern World”,Project Space, Yonkers Arts, November-December, 2024, Yonkers NY; 8–9/2024  “Look Harder, See More”,Bristol Art Museum, Bristol RI, August-September, 2024.

Elizabeth has a BA in Fine Art, (Yale University 1979) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing (SUNY Purchase 1991),with additional studies at the New York Studio School, Brooklyn College, with the painter Brenda Goodman, and Manhattan Graphics Center (scholarship). She has participated in residencies in monotype printing at Women’s’ Studio Workshop (2003, 2005) and Vermont Studio Center (2006). She was an inaugural member of the Bronx River Art Center Artist Studio Program and a part of the Yonkers-based YoHo Studios community for many years. A former NYCDOE Art Teacher, she is presently on the faculty of the Pelham Art Center. She attended the Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency in August, 2025.