Bein graduated from The Cooper Union (2024) with the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Prize and Fred A. Lane Award. Fellowships and residencies include the Prepared Table Fellowship at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought with the Amistad Research Center (2023), the Benjamin Menschel Creative Inquiry Fellowship (2024), and SunShip Studios at Arts Letters and Numbers (2023). Alongside an artistic practice, Bein is working on long term research of American prison museums.