Beata Wehr was born in Warsaw, Poland, and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, traveling back to Europe every year. She graduated from the Warsaw University in Poland in 1982 with an MA degree in art history, and from the University of Arizona with an MFA in painting/combined media in 1999. She paints and creates artist’s books, examining in her work the ideas of home, place, time, transience, and multicultural experiences. Her works have been shown in national and international exhibitions and are included in nearly 50 public collections in the United States and abroad.