Betty Roodish Goodwin

1923-2008

Betty Roodish Goodwin was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1923. Starting in the early 1960s, she produced a remarkable body of work—prints, installations, paintings, sculptures—that appeared in numerous exhibitions in Canada and abroad, notably at the Kunstmuseum Bern (1989), the São Paulo Biennale (1989), and the Venice Biennale (1995). Goodwin was the recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (1981), the Paul Emile Borduas Award (1986), the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1995), and the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2003). She died in Montreal in 2008.