Betty Gold is an American sculptor and painter, born in 1935 in Austin, Texas. She studied art at the University of Texas at Austin. After graduating, she apprenticed with sculptor Octavio Medillan in Dallas. Her work has been collected and widely exhibited at museums and galleries across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Gold has been a Venice, California, based artist since the 70s, and has also lived and worked in Mallorca, Spain, and more recently in Santa Fe, New Mexico.