BFA- Sculpture Colorado State University 1973, MFA- Sculpture Indiana University Bloomington, 1981. Bates Neubauer is a professor in the sculpture department at Arizona State University, where she runs the foundry program. She is also affiliated with ASU's Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling.
She is represented by Bentley Gallery/ Projects in Phoenix, AZ and the William Havu Gallery in Denver. She was the recipient of a Ford Fellowship while at Indiana University and later won a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Cambridge, England. She has been a guest artist at the John Michael Kohler Center Arts/Industry program, Oxbow, the University of Minnesota, San Jose State University, Edinburgh School of Art, Scotland, the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall, England, CAST, Ltd. in Dublin, Ireland, and other institutions.
She has served in residencies at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado. This summer, she has been an artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome. Her work recently won first prize at Ars Mathematica, an international digital art competition.
Bates Neubauer exhibits her sculpture and digital prints nationally and internationally and has completed several public commissions in the western states. Her work can be found in a number of private and public collections.