Bettina Forget is a gallery owner, art educator, visual artist, and art/science researcher living and working in Montreal, Canada.
Bettina owns and runs Visual Voice Gallery, which presents contemporary art exhibitions that create a dialogue between art and science.
Since 2016 Bettina is the art/science researcher for the SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence program. In this capacity, she investigates idea translation between collaborating artists and scientists, and explores different modes of knowledge creation.
She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Art Education at Concordia University, Canada. Her research project examines the recontextualization of art and science, and how women and girls may connect to STEM subjects through art.
Bettina is currently the artist-in-residence at the Mont-Mégantic Observatory, working closely with the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx). Bettina has exhibited her artwork in the USA, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Singapore, and Nicaragua.