Becky Beasley

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Born: 1975 UK
Lives: Antwerp and London

Education
MA Fine Art (Photography), Royal College of Art, London 2000-02
BA Fine Art/Art History, Goldsmiths College, London 1996-99


Solo Exhibitions
2009- German Soup, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2008 - 'Malamud', Office Baroque, Antwerp, December 2008
2007 - 'Three Notable American Novellas', Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (Nov 23 - Jan 19)
2007 - Index of Maladjustments ' Solo Statement, Artissima, Turin (Nov 9-12)
2007 - 'Eleven Years Later', Office Baroque, Antwerp
2006 - 'D�cors du Silence!', UBU, Glasgow
2004 - 'Six Storeys', Millefiori Art Space, Athens, Greece
2003 - 'From the series: Institute of N' , The Bakery, (@ Annet Gelink), Amsterdam,
2003 - 'Thru darkly night', Whitechapel Project Space, London

Group Exhibitions
2009
-Evidence of the Paranormal | Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NY | Curated by Chris Sharp
-Personne | Galerie schleicher+lange, Paris | Curated by Bettina Klein
-The Malady of Writing | MACBA, Barcelona | Curated by Chus Martinez
-Group Exhibition | Autocenter, Berlin | Curated by Max-Hans-Daniel
-Karaoke - Photographic Quotes | Fotomuseum, Winterthur
-Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman Collection | Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
-Shining by Absence | Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona | Curated by Jacqueline Uhlmann
-Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser | The Drawing Room, London
-Cui Prodest? | New Galerie de France, Paris | Curated by Francesco Stocchi
-At the Surface of the Infinite | Noisy Le Sec, Paris | Curated by Marianne Lanaverre
-It's Not for Reading. It's for Making | FormContent, London
-Slow Movement or: Half & Whole| Kunsthalle Bern | Curated by Philippe Pirotte and Elfriede Schalter | (Cat.)
-Don't Expect Anything | Francesca Minini, Milan | 28/01/09 | www.francescaminini.it
-Hannah Beyond the Mirror | American Academy in Rome | Curated by Francesco Stocchi
2008
-Fantasmata | arge kunst, Bosen, Italy | Curated by Luigi Fassi | website�
-Why is there something rather than nothing? | Ignasi Aball� - Becky Beasley - Stefan Br�ggemann | Galleria Galica, Milan | Curated by Filippa Ramos
-Artists of the Gallery, Office Baroque, Antwerp | Inaugural exhibition at new gallery location
-Word Event | Kunsthalle Basel
-Shuttlereime | Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
-W | Becky Beasley & Kate Atkin | Museum 52, New York
-'In Our World: New Photography', Galeria Civicla Modena, Curated by F. Maggia
-'Building, Dwelling, Thinking', Curated by john Slyce, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
-'Schuttelreime', Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp (May-June)
2007
- 'Black & White, ibid Projects, London
2007
- 'Ost Property', Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (Curated: J. Cairns & J. Spicer)
2006
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London | Liverpool
- 'Anatomies of Desire', Encosta Galeria, Lisbon
2005
- ButtonUpNY Curated by Mike Wilson
- 'Fata Morgana', Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 'The Instant of My Death'; Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain
2004
- PILOT LONDON: I, London
2003
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Hoxton Distillery, London, curated by Francis Summer
- Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones, Whitechapel Project Space, London, Curated by Maria Trimi-K.
2002
- Domestic Sphere, The ArtHouse, Cuyrated by Lizzie Nielsen, London

Bibliography
2009
- Lange, Christy | Frieze Focus | Issue 127, Nov/Dec | pp120-121 | Read�
- Thomas Bernard Malamud | Artist's book | With texts by Lydia Davis, John Slyce, Chris Sharp, Simone Menegoi | Published by the artist, Laura Bartlett & Office Baroque
- An A-Z of Personal Stories | Limited Edition Bookwork | 21 copies | Design by Toni Uroda
- Overture | by Chris Sharp | Flash Art International | May/June | Read�
- After the Joy | 2HB | CCA, Glasgow | Artist's Writing Journal | Volume 2 | March 2009
- Enigma No. 1 | Kaleidoscope | Issue 01 | March/April | pp90-91 | Artist's writing | Milan | www.thekaleidoscope.eu
- VOIDS: A Retropsective | Pompidou Centre/ Kunsthalle Bern catalogue| Artist's page | ISBN 9783037640173 | JRP|Ringier
- Art Review | March 2009| Review of Malamud | Chris Sharp | Read�
- Slow Movement or: Half & Whole | Kunsthalle Bern | Exhibition publication | ISBN: 3-85780-149-2
- Blind Spot | New York | Issue 39 | website�
- Artforum.com | Review of Malamud | by Wouter Davidts
2008-
Time Out | London's 40 Best Artist's
-Bedeutung | Issue 2 | Essay and Artist's pages | Autumn 08| www.bedeutung.co.uk
-Succour Journal | Animal Issue | Artist's pages |Available from May 20th | www.succour.org
-In Our World: New Photography from London, Ed. Filippa Maggia, Published by SKIRA, Italy
-Art Review | Future Greats | Issue 20
-Of Other Potentialities: The Inhabitable Inhospitable Object | Material Journal | Artist's writings | Issue 1
2007
- Flash Art International, Vol. XLI No. 258 January � February 2008, pp. 85
- Time Out London, Martin Herbert, 5-11 December 2007
- 'American Letter' (monograph), Published by Laura Bartlett Gallery, 2007
- 'Of Other Potentialities: The Inhabitable Inhospitable Object'; Artist�s writing for MATERIAL journal; Inaugural issue, Autumn 2007, Los Angeles
- Present Future, Artissima, Exhibition Cat. Text Luca Cerizza, Artissima �07, Turin
- 'In which Annette is mistaken for Georges� mother'; Ost Property publication, London
- Mousse Magazine, Milan, Issue 8, (Interview) www.moussemagazine.com
2006
- The Liste, Scotland (Review by Jack Mottram)
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries (cat.)
2005
- FATA MORGANA, Muesum of Photography Thessaliniki, Greece, ISBN 9608802849
2004
- Month of Photography Athens 2004, Hellenic Centre for Photography, art|catalogues, ISBN 9603660612
2003
- 'Dark Set Place' SOURCE Journal Of Photography, Six artist's pages
1999/2000
- Inventory Journal 1999/2000, 'Measurement of Prolifixity'
1997
- Words&Picutres;, Volume 8, Edition 100, Produec by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
1993-99 - I produced a series of small home-made books of short fictions in editions of 12 which I distributed amidst a small circle of friends.

Publications
2008
-'Nowhere is here', catalogue essay for Drawing Room touring exhibition
2007
-'The Man Without References'; Royal College of Art (Fine Art Photography Department) commissioned essay for the publication Reference: A Book
-'The Photograph as half Empty Glass;' Comissioned essay on Alessandra Spanzi for Hot Shoe (Crude Metaphors)
-'Mind Altering Emotions'; Hannah Starkey exhibition review for Source Journal of Photography, Spring
-'Letter to the Sighted (Part 1); The Part of Light'; Commissioned essay on Isidro Ramirez, Hot Shoe (Crude Metaphors), April
-'Ticklish Spots & Weak Spots'; Comissioned essay on the work of Ricardo Alcaide, Hot Shoe (Crude Metaphors), March
-'No Foreign Matter Unconsumed: Eccentric Work in the Time of Kate Atkin'; essay to coincide with Atkin's solo exhibition at Museum 52, London
2005
- I�m Too Dead to Tell You: Withdrawing Rooms and other Breathing Spaces : On the work of Axel Antas (catalogue essay)
-'Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning in upon itself': On the work of Thomas Kellner; Crude Metaphors commission for HotShoe
-Aug Review of Nigel Green 'Fragments' exhibition in SOURCE journal
-Mar British Council commissioned catalogue essay for exhibition To be continued�Jatkuu�in Finland, 2005 (in conjunction with Helsinki Photography Festival)
2004
- Essay commissioned by Moth House for HOTSHOE entitled 'Intimating Immensity'
- Essay commissioned by Moth House for HOTSHOE entitled ''Parables of Death and Technology'
2003
- SOURCE, Winter 2003, six pages, 'Dark Set Piece'
- Publication of 'How to Stay Hungry; An Interview with Hannah Collins' June, 2003, Grey Area Books, London
- 'When I create pain I create beauty: A letter to a Young Poet', catalogue essay for Joe Duggan solo exhibition at Hirschl Contemporary Art, London
2002
- 'The Adventures of Photographers; Two Impromptu Dialogues', Conceived and edited series of two discussions between RCA Photography students.
- I Once Played the Saddest Game of Peek-a-Boo in a Crooked House, 2001, Catalogue essay for Edgar Martins