Bebe Beard earned her BFA in 1976, her MFA from Mass College of Art's Studio for Interrelated Media in 1996. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, St Botolph's Club Art Foundation and the Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance; held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY. She has exhibited in a wide variety of venues alternative spaces, galleries, theaters and festivals from Boston to Seoul.