Betty Roodish Goodwin, CM RCA (March 19, 1923 – December 1, 2008) was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist who expressed the complexity of human experience through her work.

Goodwin was born in Montreal, the only child of Romanian immigrants Clare Edith and Abraham Roodish.

Goodwin's parents first settled in the United States, but when her father Abraham, who was a tailor, struggled to find work.

[1] In her work, Goodwin used a variety of media, including collage, sculpture, printmaking, painting and drawing, assemblage and etchings.

[3] It was there where she began working with found objects and clothing and how they held traces of life, in her prints, which brought her international attention.

Over a period of six years beginning in 1982, Goodwin explored the human form in her drawing series Swimmers, a project which used graphite, oil pastels and charcoal on translucent Mylar.