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