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The Hotel is a Gallery
Betsy Exhibitions
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Ever spent the night in an art gallery? From indelible pre-stardom images of the Rolling Stones to contemporary African art, The Betsy is a modern museum.

Dahlia Dreszer

Exhibited in Carlton Room

 Dahlia Dreszer (Panama) is a photo-based artist living and working in Miami, Florida. She graduated from Emory University with a background in Media and Photography. Her work explores identity, memory, and cultural heritage through large-format photography and immersive installations that blur the line between reality and artifice. Using carefully constructed still-life arrangements, Dahlia weaves together personal narratives with broader cultural histories.

David Godlis

Exhibited in Lobby

David Godlis, who is best known by his last name GODLIS, has been photographing in New York City since 1976. A “street photographer” in the style of Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand, he wandered into the nightclub CBGB’s one night, and has become known for his photographs of the NYC Punk scene. GODLIS, who shot in the style of photographers Brassai and Robert Frank, used his handheld Leica camera and Tri-X film to capture his subjects by the natural light of the Bowery outside as well as inside the club CBGB’s.

Herbert Hofer

Details Coming Soon.

Juan Carlos Zaldivar

Exhibited in Hallways
Juan Carlos Zaldívar (Violenta Flores) is a filmmaker, video artist and professor. As sound designer, Z worked in Academy Nominated films (Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility;" "On the ropes”), and on HBO’s America Undercover, for which they garnered an Emmy nomination.

Lianne Jedeikin Goldsmith

Exhibited in Carlton Room
Lianne Jedeikin Goldsmith

Loni Efron

Exhibited in Hallways

 Art Advisor, Curator of ilon Art Gallery Collection, and Founder of Harlem Art House.

Ray Tenorio, Mythological Africa and the Transcultural Influences in the Americas

Exhibited in Board Room
Ray A. Tenorio was born in Havana and currently lives in Miami. Influences in his work are vast and varied, and include his Latin roots, Expressionism, urban mythology and fashion...

Robert Zuckerman

Exhibited in Art Deco Wing
A Film industry photographer, Zuckerman’s award-winning images graced movie franchises and celebrity publicity campaigns for more than two decades. His Hollywood career ended when he was diagnosed...

Steve Dozier

Exhibited in Hallways
Exhibited in two locations, Betsy Hallways and LT Annex. Presented in Partnership with iWitness – Iris Photo Collective and Florida International University.