About

BEAU TARDY (French - American)

Paris born Beau Tardy is a multi-disciplinary artist whose body of work includes award winning broadcast design for MTV, creating NFTs, video art, music, installations and paintings. Along with his work being seen by millions of TV veiwers, he has shown paintings, installations, video and digital art in Sydney, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, the contemporary art Center in New Orleans and Houston. He was recipient of a French Ministry of Culture grant for new digital image technologies two years in a row. 

He began his art career in 1984 in New York City where he attended Parsons School of Design and attended the first ever computer graphics class. He became involved in the East Village art scene getting his work published in the seminal East Village Eye and participating in group shows with artists Gary Panter and Wayne White.

Illustration for the East Village Eye by Beau Tardy, April 1984. ©Beau Tardy

After dropping out of art school and moving back to Paris he joined art collective Mano-Mano to do street art, graffiti, billboard subversion and art performances.

Mano-Mano street art action LeMans, France 1988. ©Beau Tardy

Beginning in 1987, he became increasingly involved in electronic imagery, digital art, video and television, garnering a French Ministry of Culture art grant for his 'Electronism' project.

'Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe' ELECTRONISM Digital Art French Ministry of Culture Grant 1987 ©Beau Tardy 1987

In New York in the early 90s he was hired by the on-air graphics department at MTV where he animated graphics and show opens for MTV News, Yo! MTV Raps and The Real World. In 1996 Beau founded Dizzy Worldwide, a TV and computer graphics studio whose clients are major cable TV networks and advertising agencies. Dizzy Worldwide has won many industry awards including Gold BDA, Silver Telly Award & Communicator Award of Distinction.

MTV graphics by Beau Tardy, 1992. Created on Quantel Paintbox. ©Beau Tardy

Beau has shown paintings, installations and digital art  internationally including the Barcelona Biennale, Sydney, Australia, the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, Houston, Paris and New York.

'ELECTRONISM' installation. Simms Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans 1990. ©Beau Tardy

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