Bethany Collins

Bethany Collins (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary American artist whose work explores the intersections of language, race, and identity. Using text as both medium and subject, Collins creates powerful, thought-provoking works that often involve erasure or alteration of texts. In her Erasure series, for example, she manipulates historical documents by systematically removing words to create compositions that confront the power dynamics embedded in language. Erasure, along with works like The Color of Law (2017), where she reworks pages from racially charged legal texts, reflects Collins’s interest in how language shapes and excludes, particularly in relation to race and history.

SOURCE - https://www.richardgraygallery.com/artists/bethany-collins (Sept, 2025)