1975 , United Kingdom
Lives and works in St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, UK
EDUCATION
2000-02 MA Fine Art (Photography), Royal College of Art, London
1996-99 BA Fine Art/Art History, Goldsmiths College, London
AWARDS/PRICES
2023 Freelands Award for Mid-career Female Artists, Finalist
2018 -2021 Paul Hamlyn Award
2017 Artist's Research Centre Writers Programme
2014 Nominated for the Contemporary Art Society Award
2009 Shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2009-11
Professor of Fine Art (Studio Practice), Goldsmith College, London
2027
A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029) | Touring - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2026
A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029) | Touring - QUAD, Derby, Bluecoat, Liverpool
2021
H.S.P. | Plan B Gallery Berlin
2018
Depressive Alcoholic Mother | Plan B Gallery, Berlin
Late Winter Light | Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan
2017
Ous, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
A Gentle Man, 80WSE Gallery, New York (New York Times Review by Roberta Smith)
2016
Lake Erie from the Northwest, Laura Bartlett Gallery
2015
Becky Beasley: Sleep is when you grow, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014
Fall, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan
The Walk…in green, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
A Slight Nausea: An Interior, Live Work, South London Gallery, London
2013
Spring Rain, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2012
Spring Rain, Spike Island, Bristol
The Man Nobody Could Lift, Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon
The Outside, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
Setting, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2011
The Outside, Francesca Minini, Milan
8th May 1904, Kingston, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
2010
13 Pieces, 17 Feet, in collaboration with Chris Sharp, Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion Live Event, London
P. A. N. O. R. A. M. A., Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2009
German Soup, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2008
Malamud, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
Three Notable American Novellas, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Index of Maladjustments, Present Future, curated by Luca Cerizza, Artissima, Turin
Eleven Years Later, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2006
Décors du Silence!, Ubu Gallery, Glasgow
2004
Six Storeys, Millefiori Art Space, Athens, Greece
2003
From the series: Institute of N, Annet Gelink Project Space (The Bakery), Amsterdam
Thru darkly night, Whitechapel Project Space, London
EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS
Serralves Museum Collection, Porto, Portugal
Collection of Frac des Pays de la Loire – 2011
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Sussex Modernism, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (Publication, Yale University Press)
2024
Intension, Copperfield Gallery, London
Intergenerational Forms, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan
2021
Tip of the Iceberg, Focal Point Gallery., Curated by Katharine Stout
A Biography of Daphne, ACCA, Melbourne, Curated by Mihnea Mircan
2020 Transparent Things, CCA Goldsmiths, London, Curated by Natasha Hoare
Werethings, Plan B Gallery, Berlin, Curated by Mihnea Mircan
2019
Resist (Be Modern Again), John Hansard Gallery
Josephine Meckseper: An exhibition of the artist’s works and a selection of works from Frac des Pays de la Loire
Not Photography, Bankley Gallery, Manchester University
The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection | Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
25 Years! Shared Histories. Shares Stories | Foto Museum Winterthur | Catalogue available
2018
Paul Hamlyn Award
25 Years! Shared Histories. Shares Stories | Foto Museum Winterthur | Catalogue available
2017
Builders of Tomorrow – Thinking the Future between Design and Reality, ISIA Faenza
Material Remains, Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art Flatland: Narrative Abstractions, Mudam, Luxembourg
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, curated Elizabeth Price, Arts Council Touring,
2016
Flatland: Narrative Abstractions | Mrac, Sérignan,France
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, curated Elizabeth Price, Arts Council Touring,
Now and then, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Independenza, Rome Répétition | Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels | Curated by Nicola Lees
A Change of Heart | Hannah Hoffman Gallery, L.A. | Curated by Chris Sharp
Left Hand to Back of Head, Object Held Against Right Thigh | Bluecoat, Liverpool |Curated by Adam Smythe
2015
Over You, You | 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana | Curated by Nicola Lees
The Camera’s Blind Spot II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Curated by Simone Menegoi
Narrating Objects: Unlocking the Stories of Sculpture | Leeds Sculpture Collections Displays
The Registry of Promise: The Promise of Literature, Soothsaying and Speaking in Tongues | De Vleeshal, Middleburg, Holland | Curated by Chris Sharp (Cat.)
2014
Getting Rid of Ourselves| OCADU University Gallery, Toronto Soft Material | Wallspace, New York | Group show curated by Justin Beale
The Shrink | Shanaynay, Paris | Curated by Simon Dybbroe Møller
Narrating Objects: Unlocking the Stories of Sculpture | Leeds Sculpture Collections Displays
The Narrators: Works from the Arts Council Collection | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2013
Despite Our Differences, curated by Adrienne Drake, Hippocrene Foundation, Paris Women Collectors, Women Artists | Lloyds Club, London
De Belles Sculptures Contemporaines | FRAC de Pays de Loire Becky Beasley (Project space | invited by Jimmy Robert) | Gallery Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
JERUSALEM | http://www.tillwehavebuilt.com/index.php/about/ The Camera's Blind Spot | Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy | Curated by Simone Menegoi
Knock Knock: Seven Artists in Hastings| Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, England
2012
Think Twice (Part 2: Viral Research) | Whitechapel Gallery, London Dawn Chorus | Arts Council Collection Exhibition | Leeds City Art Gallery
The Imaginary Museum | Kunstverein Munich
Accidentally on Purpose | QUAD, Derby
Je Suis Un Autre | Kunstverein Freiburg
From Stavanger with Love | Stavanger, Norway, Curated by Chris Sharp
Apropos of the Kissing of a Hand | A Celebration of the Writer Robert Walser | Newcastle Upon Tyne
2011
A Voyage Around My Room | Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin (Curated by Becky Beasley)
Beyond | KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn | Curated by Adam Budak
British Art Show 7 - In the Days of the Comet | Plymouth venues | Curated by Lisa LeFeuve and Tom Morton
Structure and Material | Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley, Karla Black | New Art Gallery, Walsall | Arts Council touring exhibition
Two Versions of the Imaginary | Curated by Maria Barnas | Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
La Carte d'Après Nature | Curated by Thomas Demand | Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
British Art Show 7 - In the Days of the Comet | Glasgow venues | Curated by Lisa LeFeuve and Tom Morton (Touring)
Structure and Material | Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley, Karla Black | Spike Island, Bristol | Arts Council exhibition | 31/03–26/06/11 | Touring to New Art Gallery, Walsall
British Art Show 7 - In the Days of the Comet | Hayward Gallery, London | Curated by Lisa LeFeuve and Tom Morton (Touring) Scaffolding of Contrition | Becky Beasley, Liam Gillick, Ohad Meromi, and Markus Miessen with Ralf Pflugfelder | Organized by Walter Smith | LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Predictable Feelings | Dan Peterman, Becky Beasley, Matthew Brannon | Office Baroque, Antwerp
2010
Structure and Material | Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley, Karla Black | Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park | Arts Council touring exhibition | Tours to Spike Island and New Art Gallery Walsall
British Art Show 7 - In the Days of the Comet | Nottingham venues | Curated by Lisa LeFeuve and Tom Morton (Touring)
La Carte d'après Nature | Villa Paloma, NMNM, Monaco | Curated by Thomas Demand
Simultan | Becky Beasley, Katinka Bock, Harald Klingelhöller, Fred Sandback | Meyer Riegger, Berlin
Our Blindsides | Becky Beasley & Michael Dean | Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
How to Read a Book | Curated by Michael Wilson | Locust Projects, Miami
A Man Asleep | LM Projects, L.A. | www.lmprojects.net
En présence | Centre Européen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg | Curated by Bettina Klein
2009
Calling All The Stations, Muslim Mulliqi Prize | National Gallery of Prishtina, Kosovo
Session_7_WORDS | Am Nuden Da, London (A4 text project to celebrate launch of Material Issue 2)
Evidence of the Paranormal | Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | Curated by Chris Sharp
Personne | Galerie schleicher+lange, Paris | Curated by Bettina Klein
The Malady of Writing | MACBA, Barcelona | Curated by Chus Martinez
Karaoke - Photographic Quotes | Winterthur FotoMuseum, Switzerland | Curated by Thomas Seelig
Shining by Absence | Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona | Curated by Jacqueline Uhlmann
Cui Prodest? |New Galerie de France, Paris | Curated by Francesco Stocchi
At the Surface of the Infinite | Noisy Le Sec, Paris | Curated by Marianne Lavanere
It’s Not for Reading. It’s for Making | FormContent, London
Slow Movement or: Half and Whole | Kunsthalle Bern |
Don't Expect Anything | Francesca Minini, Milan
Hannah Beyond the Mirror | American Academy in Rome, Curated by Francesco Stocchi
2008
Fantasmata | Arge Kunst, Kunstverein Bosen, Italy | Curated by Luigi Fassi
Why is there something rather than nothing? | Galleria Galica, Milan | Curated by Filippa Ramos
Word Event | Kunsthalle Basel Curated by Roos Gortzak and Maxine Kopska
Schüttelreime, Office Baroque, Antwerp | Curated by Wim Peeters
W | Becky Beasley & Kate Atkin | Museum 52 | New York
In Our World: New Photography in Britain, Galeria Civilica, Modena, Italy
Building, Dwelling, Thinking, Curated by John Slyce, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2007
Black & White | ibid Projects, London | Curated by Vita Zaman 2006
Anatomies of Desire | Encosta Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal | Curated by Eduardo Barroso
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2006 | Touring Liverpool, London (Cat.)
2005
Button Up NY | Curated by Michael Wilson, DUMBO, NY
The Instant of My Death | Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain | Curated by Hannah Collins
Fata Morgana | Museum of Photography, Thessalonica, Greece (Cat.)
2004
Pilot 1: London
2003
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral | Hoxton Distillery, London |Curated by Francis Summers
Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones | Whitechapel Project Space, London
1997
Getting Out of Our Box | Words & Pictures event produced by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard | ICA, London
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Artists Books
2019
Beasley, Becky, Scanlon Claire, “ ” #3 BECKY BEASLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH CLAIRE SCANLON, 2019 ISBN: 978-88-8056-074-6, Published by Nero Editions, Edited by Adam Gibbons and Eva Wilson, “ ” (quotation mark quotation mark), Format: 10.5×15.8 cm, 76pp
2018
Two Plants in Dip | Artists Research Centre Writers Residency publication
Ous | Crowd funded exhibition publication | Designed & Edited by the artist
2015
Days of Life, Artists Bookwork, Edition of 21, Published by SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana
2013
Spring Rain, Becky Beasley, published by Spike Island, Bristol, Leeds City Art Gallery, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, Francesca Minini, Milan
2009
Thomas Bernard Malamud — Artist book with essays by John Slyce, Becky Beasley, Simone Menegoi, Chris Sharp and Lydia Davis, published by Laura Bartlett Gallery and Office Baroque
2007
American Letter — Artist book with essays by John Slyce and Becky Beasley, published by Laura Bartlett Gallery, designed by Avni Patel (OUT OF PRINT)
Books & Catalogues
2026 A Biography of Daphne, Mihnea Mircan, Spector Books
2025 Sussex Modernism, Hope Wolf, Yale University Press
2020 The Projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image, Stephen Barber, Diaphanes Press, Distributed by University of Chicago Press
2019 Resist (Be Modern Again), John Hansard Gallery
2018 Ous | Crowd funded exhibition publication | Designed & Edited by the artist with essays by curator Brian Cass and artist Dr Jessica Potter
2017 In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and Were Filled with Joy, Elizabeth price, Arts Council
A Thing Becomes Itself by Repetition, Nicola Lees, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
2016 The Registry of Promise, Chris Sharp, ROMA Publications 255
2015 Over You, You: 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
Soft Matter, Wall Space Gallery, New York, Curated by Justin Beal
2014 Getting Rid of Ourselves, Helena Reckitt, Exhibition Publication
RE– Auction Catalogue, published by the Contemporary Art Society
2013 The Camera's Blind Spot : Sculpture - Photography | | NERO Publishing | Edited by Simone Menegoi
2012 Think Twice (Part 2: Viral Research) | Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Imaginary Museum, published by Kunstverein München
2011 Structure & Material, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park | Arts Council Collection Exhibition
2010 La Carte d’après Nature, published by Steidl, edited by M AC K , Villa Paloma, Thomas Demand, Christy Lange
2009 VO I D S: A Retrospective, Pompidou Centre/Kunsthalle Bern catalogue, JRP Ringier
Slow Movement or: Half & Whole, Kunsthalle Bern, Exhibition publication
2008 In Our World: New Photography in Britain, edited by Filippo Maggia, published by SK I R A
1997 Words & Pictures, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, (Limited edition artists multiple boxes)
Press & Other
2026
Art in Liverpool, Review: A Gentle Man (Part II)(1975-2029): Becky Beasley at Bluecoat, Patrick Kirk-Smith https://www.artinliverpool.com/features/reviews/review-a-gentle-man-part-ii1975-2029-becky-beasley-at-bluecoat/ also in newspaper print copy
Liverpool Noise, Becky Beasley’s A Gentle Man (Part II) Comes To The Bluecoat, Steve Kinrade
https://liverpoolnoise.com/arts-and-culture/becky-beasleys-a-gentle-man-part-ii-comes-to-the-bluecoat/
Corridor 8, Feature - Becky Beasley: A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029, Suzanne Golden https://corridor8.co.uk/article/becky-beasley-a-gentle-man-part-ii-1975-2029/
2025
How radical artists thrived in the Sussex Downs – and annoyed the locals, Florence Hallett, https://inews.co.uk/culture/arts/radical-artists-sussex-modernism-annoyed-locals-3709314?srsltid=AYCX9vIHdEvrcLnFpMW1TXN9BvHJk7d3vtmDwRBnMQdmIK9Cvq7hvgmg
2024 The ‘many modernisms’ of Sussex explored in major new exhibition at Towner Eastbourne, Nicola Jeffs, https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/community/the-many-modernisms-of-sussex-explored-in-major-new-exhibition-at-towner-eastbourne-4897544
2022
H.S.P. (or Promising Mid-career Woman), Artforum, February
H.S.P. (or Promising Mid-career Woman), Art Monthly Interview by Mark Prince, March
H.S.P. (or Promising Mid-career Woman), Frieze, April
Tip of the Iceberg, Focal Point Gallery, Art Monthly, Review
2020
Art Review, Transparent Things at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, Ben Eastham
This is Tomorrow, Transparent Things. Goldsmiths CCA, London, Review by Kirsty White
Art Monthly, Chris Townsend essay (add info)
2019
Werethings, Plan B Gallery, Berlin, Curated by Mihnea Mircan (add info)
Resist (Be Modern Again), John Hansard Gallery (add info)
2017
Roberta Smith, New York Times, Review of A Gentle Man, 80WSE Gallery, July 20th
Pamela Buxton, In Bed with Ravilious, RIBA Journal, May 2017
Independent, What to See, Ous
Guardian Guide, Ous
2016
Being Silence: In Conversation with Becky Beasley, Summer 2016 | fourbythreemagazine.com
Art Review, Review of Lake Erie from the Northwest, May 2016
Alexander Glover, Review of Lake Erie from the Northwest, Studio International
This is Tomorrow, Review of Lake Erie from the Northwest, This is tomorrow
Dispatch of Lake Erie from the Northwest, Contemporary Art Society
World of Interiors | March (Works in collectors house)
2015
Oliver Basciano, Guardian Guide 31/10-6/11, Review of House of Life (A Collage)
EROS Journal, Reprint of Carlo Mollino essay, Utopia & Setting, Introduction and photographs by Becky Beasley
Mousse Magazine, Issue 50, Review of Ljubljana 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts and Sleep is When You Grow
Kate Sutton, Becky Beasley, Galerija Skuc, Artforum, September
Casa Minini, Elle Decoration Italy, April 2015
Marco Tagliafierro, Review of Fall at Francesca Minini, Artforum, January
2014
Nuts, Artist’s Diary, www.atpdiary.com, curated by Matteo Mottin, 25th October
Matt Packer, Becky Beasley, Spring Rain, SOURCE, The Photographic Review, Winter 2014, Issue 77
Laura McLean-Ferris, Becky Beasley, Frieze, May 2014, Issue 163
Escape from Manhattan | Elle Decoration | October issue | pp 254-55
2013
The Camera's Blind Spot | Sculpture - Photography | MAN Museo | NERO Publishing | July
Returning to Berlin | Material Journal | Conceived by Kim Schoen | Symposium at MOTTO, Berlin | August
Turning the page: Becky Beasley’s Spring Rain | Jessica Lack | www.creativetourist.com
McLean Ferris, Laura, Review of Spring Rain | Art Monthly | March 2013 | Issue 364
Spring Rain: Pick of the Week | Guardian Guide | 5th - 12th February
Sherwin, Skye | Spring Rain: Pick of the Week | Guardian Guide | January 25 - February 4th
Oliveira, Filipa, Review of Becky Beasley, Fundacao Leal Rios, Lisbon | Artforum.com Critics Picks
2012
Think Twice (Part 2: Viral Research) | Whitechapel Gallery, London | Dec 2012- March 2013
The Commonplace | Fulcrum at The Venice Biennale | http://fulcrum.aaschool.ac.uk
Art Monthly | Review of Accidentally on Purpose, QUAD, Derby | Issue No. 359 | September
2011
-Sutton, Kate | Review of Voyage Around My Room, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin | Artforum.com Critics Picks
-Sharp, Chris | Why the Book? | Kaleidoscope | October 2011
-Art Review | British Art Show 7 reviewed by Brian Dillon | p161 | September 2011
-Flash Art, Top 100 Artists | July-September, Issue 279
-Wall Street Journal | Review of La Carte D'Apres Nature |11 August 201
-New York Times | Review of La Carte D'Apres Nature |11 August 201
-Art Monthly | Laura McLean-Ferris| Review of Structure & Material | May 2011, No. 346, p. 29
2010
P. A. N. O. R. A. M. A. | John Slyce text, artists pages | Portfolio Photography Journal | (Nov)
-Flash Art | October | Review of Our Blindsides: Becky Beasley & Michael Dean
-Flash Art No. 271 Mar/Apr| Review of Personne, Galerie schleicher+lange | Curated by Bettina Klein
2009
-Wilson, Mike | Artforum.com | Critics Picks| Evidence of the Paranormal | Curated by Chris Sharp
-Lange, Christy | Frieze Focus | Issue 127, November/December | pp120-1
-Karaoke - Photographic Quotes | FotoMuseum, Winterthur | Cat. | Edited by Thomas Seelig
-Chris Sharp | Art Review | Issue 30 March | Review of ‘Malamud’ solo exhibition
-Blindspot | Issue 39 | February
-Wouter Davidts | Artforum.com review of ‘Malamud’ | http://artforum.com/picks/section=eu
2008
In Our World: New Photography in Britain, Ed. Filippo Maggia | SKIRA, Italy (Distribution by Thames & Hudson)
-Lupe Nunez-Fernandez | Flash Art International, Vol. XLI No. 258 January – February 2008, pp. 85 | Review of Three Notable American Novellas’ exhibition
2007
-Time Out London, Martin Herbert | Solo exhibition review ‘Three Notable American Novellas’
-Lupe Nunez-Fernandez | Saatchi Online Magazine | Exhibition review ‘Three Notable American Novellas’
-Future Present, Exhibition Cat. Text Luca Cerizza, Artissima ’07, Turin
-MOUSSE Magazine, Milan, Artist’s interview, Issue 8, May-June 2007
2006
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2006, London
Jack Mottram | The List | Review of Décors du Silence! | Scotland, 8-22nd June
2004
Wonders and Miracles – Photography Beyond Representation, Thanassis Moutsopoulos Museum of Photography, Thessalonica, Greece, (Photosynkyria 2005 Catalogue, Greek Edition)