ABOUT BEVERLY PETERSON
"It's magic. I have gone from immersing viewers in a person's life or situation using a 2D Screen format to stories that take place within physically immersive environments. With projection mapping the site visitor is literally wandering around inside the actual 'frame' in which the story is being told."
Beverly Peterson is an experimental filmmaker and immersive installation artist in Hudson, NY. While studying at Cooper Union she became a successful New York City restaurateur, owned fishing boats and a small farm, and traveled the world before returning to art at 40. Her video diaries from the AIDS pandemic — Sandra's Web (HBO) and The Andre Show (PBS, 1997) — led to Invisible Revolution (Sundance, MoMA) and 71 West Broadway (Walker Art Center, Warhol Museum, WNET), begun at the door of her Tribeca home, two blocks from the towers, on the morning of 9/11 and selected for the Library of Congress national 9/11 film archive. She builds walk-in worlds where projection, VR, spatial sound, and AI turn rooms, boxes, and dollhouses into lived memory: Self-Storage (TSL, 2024), Shaky's Meadow (Samuel Dorsky Museum, 2025), RAINDROP: Andre's Secret Project (Wassaic Project, 2025–26). She taught for over 15 years at Monmouth and Montclair State universities, where she was part of the team that built Montclair's School of Communication and Media, now a college. Cuban Vikings: Cariñita premieres at Opalka Gallery, Albany, Fall 2027.