Elizabeta Betinski

Elizabeta Betinski, a writer and curator with roots transplanted to Los Angeles from Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, founded bardoLA in 2014, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit arts organisation dedicated to promoting international dialogue in arts and culture through traveling exhibitions and events; making art available in public spaces; and supporting the local creative community by way of partnering with like-minded entities.

Before this, Elizabeta was a founder and Director of Overtones Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles that showcased 70+ national and international artists in over forty exhibitions from 2003 through 2009. She was a co-editor of the seminal encyclopedia on Los Angeles artists, L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980, published in December 2010 by the California/International Arts Foundation where Elizabeta served as a co-director. In 2012, she graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Via bardoLA, Elizabeta curated and produced We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles that premiered at La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2015. In 2016-17 Elizabeta served as Executive Director of the inaugural Desert X, a major international contemporary art exhibition featuring site-specific installations throughout the desert in Coachella Valley, California. In 2019, she helped bring AFRICOBRA to the 58th iteration of La Biennale di Venezia.