LAURA BARTLETT GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY BECKY BEASLEY
1975 Born,UnitedKingdom
LivesandworksinSt.Leonards-on-Sea,EastSussex,UK
AWARDS – PRIZES - SCHOLARSHIPS
2014Nominated for the Contemporary Art Society Award 2014
2009Shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2009-11, American Academy, Rome and Pistoletto Foundation, Biella
EDUCATION
2000-02MAFineArt(Photography),RoyalCollegeofArt,London
1996- 99BA(1stClassHons.)FineArt/ArtHistory, GoldsmithsCollege,London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016Solo show, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Lake Erie from the Northwest, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2015Becky Beasley: Sleep is when you grow, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014Fall, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan
The Walk… in green, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
A Slight Nausea: An Interior, Live Work, South London Gallery, London
2013SpringRain,LeedsCityArtGallery,Leeds
2012SpringRain,Spike Island,Bristol
The ManNobodyCouldLift,LealRiosFoundation,Lisbon
TheOutside,Art Now,TateBritain,London
Setting,LauraBartlettGallery,London
2011TheOutside,FrancescaMinini,Milan
8th May1904,Kingston,StanleyPickerGallery,KingstonUniversity,London
201013Pieces,17Feet, incollaborationwithChrisSharp,ParkNights,SerpentineGallerySummerPavilionLiveEvent, London
P.A.N.O.R.A.M.A., OfficeBaroque,Antwerp,Belgium
2009GermanSoup,LauraBartlettGallery,London
2008Malamud,OfficeBaroqueGallery,Antwerp,Belgium
2007ThreeNotableAmericanNovellas,LauraBartlettGallery,London
IndexofMaladjustments,PresentFuture,curatedbyLucaCerizza, Artissima,Turin
ElevenYearsLater,OfficeBaroque,Antwerp,Belgium
2006Décorsdu Silence!,UbuGallery, Glasgow
2004SixStoreys,MillefioriArtSpace,Athens
2003Fromtheseries: InstituteofN,AnnetGelinkProjectSpace(TheBakery),Amsterdam
Thrudarkly night,WhitechapelProjectSpace,London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2016Flatland: Narrative Abstractions, MRAC Sérignan
Maybe your lens is scratched, Curated by Bianca Baroni and Alex Meurice, Slate Projects, The Averand Hotel,
London
Répétition, Curated by Nicolas Lees and Raza, FondationBoghossian Villa-Empain, Brussels
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy, Curated by Elizabeth Price, Whitworth, Manchester
Now and then… Marc Camille Chamowicz, Curated by Eva Svennung, Indipendenza, Rome
Left Hand to Back of Head, Object Held Against Right Thigh, Bluecoat, Liverpool
A Change of Heart, Curated by Chris Sharp, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
2015House of Life, curated by Becky Beasley, Project 78 Gallery, St. Leonards on Sea
TOWER, Ibid, London
31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
The Camera’s Blind Spot II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp
The Promise of Literature, Soothsaying and Speaking inTongues, Kabitten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg
2014Narrating Objects: Unlocking the Stories of Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery Collections Display, Leeds
The Shrink,curated bySimon DybbroeMøller, Shanaynay, Paris
Soft Matter,curated by Justin Beal,Wallspace, NewYork
Getting Rid of Ourselves, OCAD U, Toronto
2013Despite Our Differences, curated by Adrienne Drake, Hippocrene Foundation, Paris
The Narrators: works from the Arts Council Collection, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Women Collectors, Women Artists, Lloyds Club, London
DeBellesSculpturesContemporaines(SomeBeautifulContemporarySculptures),HabGalleryNantes,France
Spring,Stone,Air,Stone.ADigressionViatheArchesofBurtons’St.Leonards,partof
JERUSALEMProject,St.Leonards-on-Sea,UK
Backspace:BeckyBeasley,DianaStigterProjectSpace(invitedby JimmyRobert), DianaStigter,Amsterdam
Ensuspension...a MarcCamilleChaimowicz’sstatement,Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
The Camera’s Blind Spot, curated by Simone Meneguoi, Museod’ArteProvincia di Nuoro, Italy
BeckyBeasley,AlicjaKwade,LisaCooley,NewYork
Knock,Knock,JerwoodGallery,Hastings,UK
2012ViralResearch,ThinkTwice—Part2,WhitechapelGallery,London
TheImaginaryMuseum,KunstvereinMunich,Munich
FromStavangerwithLove,curatedbyChrisSharp,GalleriOpdahl,Stavanger,Norway
AccidentallyonPurpose,QUADGallery,Derby
DawnChorus,ArtsCouncilCollection Exhibition,LeedsCityArtGallery,Leeds
Apropos ofTheKissingofaHand,FestivalRobertWalser,NewcastleuponTyne
JeSuisUnAutre,BeckyBeasley,MartinKippenberger,DavidMeski,LindsaySeers, StephenShore
atKunstvereinFreiburg, Germany
2011VoyageAroundMyRoom,curatedbytheartist,NormaMangioneGallery,Turin
TwoVersionsoftheImaginary,curatedbyMariaBarnas,AnnetGelinkGallery,Amsterdam
LaCarted’AprésNature,curatedbyThomasDemand,MatthewMarksGallery, NewYork
StructureandMaterial,BeckyBeasley,Karla Black,ClaireBarclay,LongsideGallery, Wakefield,Yorkshire,touringtoSpike Island,BristolandNewArtGallery,Walsall,UK
BritishArtShow7:IntheDaysoftheComet,touringNottingham,London, Glasgow, Plymouth
TwoFiguresinDenseVioletNight, BeckyBeasleywithinvitedartistsAnneHardy,MichaelDean, ClaireScanlon, JohnStezaker, LidoProjects,St.LeonardsonSea
PredictableFeelings,DanPeterman,BeckyBeasley,MatthewBrannon, Office Baroque, Antwerp,Belgium
2010HowtodotheFlowers,SawakoAndo,BeckyBeasley,AnnabelleDalby, JacquiHallum, curatedby JacquiHallumandDanHoward,Millimetre:project01,London
Inthe Days oftheComet,BritishArtShow7—touringNottingham,London, Glasgow, Plymouth
LaCarted’aprèsNature,curatedbyThomasDemand,NMNMVillaPaloma,Monaco
Simultan,BeckyBeasley,KatinkaBock,HaraldKlingelhöller,FredSandback, Meyer Riegger Gallery,Berlin
MulberryTreePress,BeckyBeasley,RuthBeale,AnthonyMcCall, JamieShovlin, HollisFramton,SE8Deptford,London
OurBlindsides,BeckyBeasleyMichaelDean,LauraBartlettGallery,London
HowtoReada Book,curatedbyMichaelWilson,LocustProjects,Miami,
KaraokeLike—YoungEuropean Photography,Fotohof,Salzburg, Germany
EnPresence,curatedbyBettinaKlein,CentreEuropeand’ActionsArtistiquesContemporaines,Strasbourg
AManAsleep,LMProjects,LosAngeles
2009Personne,curatedbyBettinaKlein,Galerieschleicher+lange,Paris
Group Show, curatedbyMax-Hans-Daniel,Autocenter,Berlin
EvidenceoftheParanormal,curatedbyChrisSharp,KlausvonNichtssagendGallery,Brooklyn,NewYork
The MaladyofWriting,curatedbyChusMartinez,MACBA,Barcelona
Shining by Absence,curatedby JacquelineUhlmann,Nogueras Blanchard,Barcelona
KaraokeLike—YoungEuropean Photography,Fotomuseum, Winterthur,Zurich
Don’tExpectAnything,FrancescaMinini,Milan
Slow Movement:orHalfandWhole,KunsthalleBern,Switzerland
Àlasurfacedel’infini,Noisy-le-sec,Paris,France
HannahBeyond theMirror,curatedbyFrancescoStocchi,AmericanAcademyinRome,Rome
CuiProdest?,NewGaleriedeFrance,Paris
2008Fantasmata,curatedbyLuigiFassi,ArgeKunst,Bolzen,Italy
Whyistheresomethingratherthannothing?,curatedbyFilippa Ramos,GaleriaGalica,Milan
Schuttelreime, OfficeBaroqueGallery,Antwerp,Belgium
W,KateAtkinBeckyBeasley,Museum52,NewYork
WordEvent,KunsthalleBasel,Basel
In Our World: New Photography from London, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
Building, Dwelling,Thinking,curatedbyJohnSlyce,LauraBartlettGallery,London
2007Oharhinoceros!,UbuGallery, Glasgow
OstProperty,DanielArnaud,London
BlackWhite,IBIDProjects,London
2006GroupShow, EncostaGaleria,Lisbon,Portugal
BloombergNewContemporaries2006,Liverpool,London
PLUG,RoyalCollegeofArtAlumniexhibition,WhiteSpace,CountyHall,London
INTERIM,RoyalCollegeofArt,London
2004PILOTLONDON: I,London
2003Animal,Vegetable,Mineral,curatedbyFrancisSummers,HoxtonDistillery,London
PrivateProperty,BasementFlat,London
Don’t startfrom thegoodoldthings but thebadnew ones,WhitechapelProjectSpace,London
FloraFauna,curatedbyHarryPye,TheBeehivePub,London
2002Intermission,TheLittleTheatre,Brighton
The Show,RoyalCollegeofArt,London
Sledge,curatedbyMel Jackson,JamFactory,London
DomesticSphere,TheArtHouse,LewishamWay,London
Meantime,RoyalCollegeofArt,London
2001LeavingThings,withAnnabelleDalby,HockneyGallery,RoyalCollegeofArt,London
FlipFlop,ERBAN,Nantes,France
Photographyfrom theRCA,ByamShawGallery,London
The InsistentImage,RoyalCollegeofArtInterimShow,London
1997Getting Outof OurBox,WordsPictureseventproducedbyIainForsyth JanePollard,ICALondon
CATALOGUES
2016The Registry of Promise, Chris Sharp, ROMA Publication 255
2015Over You, You, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
Soft Matter, Wall Space Gallery, New York, Curated by Justin Beal
2014Getting Rid of Ourselves, Helena Reckitt, Exhibition Publication
RE-Auction Catalogue, published by the Contemporary Art Society
2013The Camera's Blind Spot : Sculpture - Photography | | NERO Publishing |Edited by Simone Menegoi
Spring Rain, Becky Beasley, published by Spike Island, Bristol | Leeds City Art Gallery | Laura Bartlett Gallery, London | Francesca Minini, Milan
2012TheImaginaryMuseum,publishedbyKunstvereinMünchen,textbySvenLütticken,BartvanderHeide,AnjaLückenkemper
Think Twice (Part 2: Viral Research) | Whitechapel Gallery, London
2011Structure & Material, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park | Arts Council Collection Exhibition | Essays by Caroline Douglas and Katrina Brown
2010LaCarted’aprèsNature,publishedbySteidl,edited by MACK,VillaPaloma,ThomasDemand,ChristyLange
2009ThomasBernardMalamud—ArtistbookwithessaysbyJohnSlyce,BeckyBeasley, SimoneMenegoi,ChrisSharpandLydiaDavis,publishedbyLauraBartlett Gallery and OfficeBaroque,designedbyArnoudVerhaeghe
VOIDS:ARetrospective,PompidouCentre/KunsthalleBerncatalogue,publishedbyJRPRingier
Slow Movementor:HalfWhole,KunsthalleBern, Exhibitionpublication
2008InOurWorld: NewPhotographyin Britain, editedbyFilippoMaggia,publishedbySKIRA EstherLeslay,InwhichAnnetteisMistakenfor Georges’Mother,OstPropertypublication
2007AmericanLetter—ArtistbookwithessaysbyJohnSlyceandBeckyBeasley,published byLauraBartlett Gallery,designedbyAvniPatel
1997-2000JanePollard,BeckyBeasley:WordsPictures,(Artist’spostcardlimitededitionartists multiple boxes)
PRESS
2016Caroline Douglas, Becky Beasley: Lake Erie From The Northwest, Contemporary Art Society, Feb
Mark Prince, Becky Beasley: Lake Erie From The Northwest, Art Monthly, March
Tim Barnes, Becky Beasley: Lake Erie From The Northwest, This is Tomorrow, March
2015Kate Sutton, Becky Beasley, GalerijaSkuc, September
Marco Tagliafierro, Becky Beasley, Artforum, January
2014Artist’s Diary, Becky Beasley, Art TextsPics, curated by MatteoMottin, 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
2013Rich Jevons, Becky Beasley: Spring Rain, Digyorkshire, August
Robert Clarck, Becky Beasley: Spring Rain, The Guardian, August
LauraMcLeanFerris,BeckyBeasley:SpringRain,ArtMonthly,Issue364,March
2012John Slyce, P.A.N.O.R.A.M.A., Portfolio, Issue 52, October
2011Kate Sutton, Voyage Around My Room, Artforum, December
FilipaRamos,BeckyBeasley’s “TheOutside”,
AylaLepine,AWalkinthePark,TheMarket,October
KarenRosenberg,Out-MagrittingMagritte,oratLeastComingClose,TheNewYorkTimes,August
Structureand Material,ArtMonthly, No 346,May
2010British Art Show 7: In the days of the Comet, Art Review, Issue 46, December
LauraMcLean-Ferris,TheYearinReview:Best visualartsof2010,reviewofInthe
DaysoftheComet,TheIndependent,24December
GrahamMoody,TheMysteryofMuybridge.BeckyBeasley,MuybridgeinKingston,SurreyCometNovember19–25
CharlotteBonham-Carter,ReviewofOur Blindsides(BeckyBeasleyMichaelDean atLauraBartlett Gallery),FlashArt,Octoberissue
MarkPrince,TheArtofLiteraryArt,ArtMonthly,No.338. July/August
BeckyBeasley,Gnommero—Artist’swritingspamphlet,conceivedandpublishedbySarahTripp
BeckyBeasley,Manifesto,ArtReview Issue41,May
RhamaKhazan,ReviewofPersonne,Galerieschleicher+langecuratedbyBettinaKlein, FlashArtNo.271March/April
2009ChristyLange,BeckyBeasley:FriezeFocus,FriezeMagazine, Issue127,November
ChrisSharp,Ouverture:BeckyBeasley,FlashArtInternational,May/June
ChrisSharp,BeckyBeasley;Malamud,ArtReview, Issue 30 December /January
BlindSpot,NewYork, Issue39, January
WouterDavidts,Reviewof “Malamud”at OfficeBaroque,Artforum.com
2008Becky Beasley,The Man Without References, Bedeutung, Issue No. 2
Becky Beasley,Of other Potentialities: The Inhabitable Inhospitable Object, Material
TimeOut,London’s40BestArtists
SuccourJournal,TheAnimal Issue,Artist’spages
KristinaJohansen, American Letter by Becky Beasley, Reviews United, February
Becky Beasley, In which Annette is Mistaken for George’s Mother,Ost Property
LauraAllsop,Consumed,ArtReview, Issue 20, March
LupeNunez-Fernandez,London:BeckyBeasley,FlashArtInternational,VolXLI No.258, January / February
2007BeckyBeasley—ThreeNotableAmericanNovellas,MOUSSE,Issue11,November
MartinHerbert,Review:BeckyBeasley,TimeOut,London,December5–11
Elevenyearslater, BeckyBeasley,September / October
ArtistPensionTrust—Website
Oh a Rhinoceros!,Ubo, July
Danielle Arnaud, OstProperty, May-June
AlessioAscari, Artist’s interview, Becky Beasley, MOUSSE, Issue 8, April
Liste 07 Magazin, pp.14
2006BevBythewayandEileenDaly,BloombergNewContemporaries,NewContemporaries
JackMottram,BeckyBeasley:DécorsduSilence!,TheList, June8–22
2004Lupe Nunez-Fernandez, Laura Bartlett Gallery Re-location, The Saatchi Gallery Online, Daily Magazine, November
Hit List, Visual Art, The Best Exhibition, 8-22 June
The List, Scotland, 8-22 June
MiraclesandMysteries,MuseumofPhotography,Thessaloniki
2003Dark Set Piece, SOURCE Journal of Photography, Winter
1997-2000BeckyBeasley,MeasurementofProlixity,InventoryJournal,Forsyth,IainandJanePollard,ICALondon
BECKY BEASLEY : PUBLISHING WRITING
2013Despite our Differences,Fondazione Giuliani andFondationHippocrene, 5M Rome, October
2010Gnommero—Artist’swritingspamphlet,conceivedandpublishedbySarahTripp
2009AftertheJoy,2HB,CCA Glasgow,ArtistsWritingJournal,Vol.II,March
Enigma:No.1,Kaleidoscope, Issue01,p.90–91
2008Of OtherPotentialities:TheInhabitableInhospitableObject,MATERIALJournal, Inaugural Issue,Autumn
TheSitters:TheNecessitiesofVerticalityand TheAbsurd inLife: TheWorkofRicardo
Alcaide,Hotshoe,Vol.156
TheManWithoutReferences,Bedeutung, Issue2,EssayandArtist’spages,Autumn
Nowhereishere,DrawingRoom,London(touring),commissionedcatalogueessay
2007TheManWithoutReferences,RoyalCollegeofArt(FineArtPhotographyDepartment)commissionedessay
Reference:ABookThePhotographashalfEmptyGlass,commissionedessayonAlessandraSpanzi, HotShoe(CrudeMetaphors)
MindAlteringEmotions,HannahStarkey, SourceJournalofPhotography,Spring
Lettertothe Sighted(Part1),ThePartofLight, commissionedessayon IsidroRamirez, HotShoe (CrudeMetaphors),April
TicklishSpotsandWeakSpots,commissionedessayontheworkofRicardoAlcaide, HotShoe(CrudeMetaphors),March
NoForeignMatter Unconsumed: EccentricWorkinthe TimeofKateAtkin,essayto coincidewithAtkin’ssoloexhibitionatMuseum52,London
2006The ManipulatedLiving—NewWork byDannyTreacy,CommissionedshortessayforPortfolioPhotographyJournal,Summer2006
2005I’mTooDeadtoTellYou:WithdrawingRoomsandotherBreathingSpaces:On thework ofAxelAntas,acatalogueessayforhissoloexhibitionatGaleriaHeino,Finland. Actually,however,lifebeginslessbyreachingupward,thanby turning inuponitself:
Onthe workof Thomas KellnerCrudeMetaphors commissionforHotShoe October
ChemicalEncounters:SpaceOver TimeintheFragments of NigelGreen’sLastTrip, ExhibitionreviewforSourceJournalofPhotography
THESITTERS:TheNecessitiesofVerticalityandTheAbsurdinLife:TheWorkof
RicardoAlcaide,EssaycommissionedbyPlatform25, Glasgow
To becontinued...Jatkuu...BritishCouncilcommissionedcatalogueessayonthe workofDannyTreacyforexhibitionTo becontinued...Jatkuu...,Finland
(inconjunctionwithHelsinkiPhotographyFestival)
Parablesof DeathandTechnology,EssaycommissionedbyMothHouseforHotShoe
2004IntimatingImmensityandParablesofDeathandTechnology,essaycommissioned byMothHouseforHotShoe
The GreySkimBetweenUs:OntheIntensely ExteriorizedInnerWorldofDannyTreacytocoincidewiththeexhibitionTheRoominTheMiddleatEastbourneGallery, EastSussex
2003HowtoStayHungry;AnInterviewwithHannahCollins, June,2003, GreyAreaBooks,London
WhenIcreatepainIcreatebeauty:AlettertoaYoungPoet,catalogueessayforJoeDuggansoloexhibitionatHirschlContemporaryArt,London
2002TheAdventuresofPhotographers;TwoImpromptuDialogues,2002:Conceived andeditedseriesoftwopublisheddiscussionsbetweenRCAPhotographyDepartmentstudents
2001IOncePlayedtheSaddest GameofPeek-a-BooinaCrookedHouse,Catalogue essayforEdgarMartin