Bezor was born on 5 April 1950 in Adelaide, South Australia,[1] into a working-class family, the second child of Alma (Billi) Smith and policeman Keith Bateman.
She left school at 14 because of bullying, and worked in a hairdressing salon where a remark by the manager on her "puppy fat" led to her suffering from anorexia for four years.
[4] She was awarded the Australia Council's studio residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, which she took up in 1987 and where she painted Romance is in the Air.
This was described by her agent Paul Greenaway as a "turning point in her career", where she worked on developing her signature style of appropriating images of women and subverting them in her paintings.
[3] In the 1990s, her work was exhibited in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne, and in the 2000s, Hong Kong, Spain, Taipei and New York.