Beau Dickson is a visual effects art director and video editor, based in New York. He is primarily known for the work he has done in collaboration with Marco Brambilla on his MEGAPLEX series; an elaborate re-contextualizations of found imagery, often employing new technologies in his work. 

Mr. Dickson has helped pioneer the use of 3D technology in video art with his involvement on the Megaplex trilogy, LiDAR computer-mapping for Anthropocene (a public art installation in New York City), as well as elaborate computer simulations of an Apollo launch, presented on 54 screens in Times Square (2015). 

He has worked on projects that have been internationally exhibited and are in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ARCO Foundation, Madrid; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Notable shows include New Museum, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art (Retrospective); Seoul Biennial, Korea; Broad Art Museum, Lansing, Michigan; and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.

Mr. Dickson has also worked with luxury brands for which he has created large scale video installations. His work has been featured at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and 2012 Sundance Film Festival, as well as a screening of the Megaplex trilogy at Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.

In addition to the work he has done on luxury brands, Mr. Dickson has collaborated on work for Kanye West, and Vera Wang.