1951

born in Hempstead, USA

1976
1975
1974

MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York City
BFA, Washington University, St. Louis

Lives and works in New York City, NY

 

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

 

2023

Galerie Francesca Pia, Lucky Charm – Drawings and photographs from the 80's until today, Zurich
REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/ Cal Arts Theater, Films by Ericka Beckman, Los Angeles

2021

Kestner Gesellschaft, Fair Game, Hannover
Performa Biennial, Stalk, New York City

2020

M Leuven, Fair Game, Leuven
Centre Pompidou, Cinderella and Hiatus, Paris

2019

Philip Martin Gallery, Tension Building, Los Angeles
Kanal Pompidou, Super-8 Trilogy, Brussels
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse, Cambridge
FACT Gallery, Ericka Beckman & Marianna Simnett, Liverpool

2018

56th New York Film Festival, Projections, Ericka Beckman, New York City
Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Super-8 Trilogy, Berlin
Zabludowicz Collection, Ericka Beckman, London

2017

Le Secession, Game Mechanics, Vienna
Cherry and Martin Gallery, Ericka Beckman: Switch Center, Los Angeles

2016

MAMCO, Ericka Beckman: The Super-8 Trilogy, Geneva
Mary Boone Gallery, Hiatus, New York City
Cherry Martin Gallery, Cinderella, Los Angeles

2015

VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Ericka Beckman, Berlin
Mary Boone Gallery, You The Better, New York City

2014

 

Cherry and Martin, Boundary Figures, Ericka Beckman, Los Angeles
Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Ericka Beckman: Works 1978–2013, Grenoble
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Ericka Beckman and Julie Wachtel, New York City
Anthology Film Archives, Further Rituals of Rented Island: Ericka Beckman/Theodora Skipitares, New York City

2013

Tate Modern, Image Games: Films of Ericka Beckman, London
Kunsthalle Bern, Ericka Beckman: Works 1978-2012, Bern
Espace 8, Ericka Beckman. Boundary Figures, Paris

2011

1m3 Galerie, Ericka Beckman. Switch Center, Lausanne
Lausanne Experimental Festival, Cinematheque, Ericka Beckman Films, Lausanne

2004

Fox Entertainment Network, Ericka Beckman. Switch Center, Cablecast

2002

Balagan Series, Films by Ericka Beckman, Boston

2000

TOLDI Cinema, Ericka Beckman’s Films, Budapest
MOMA PS1, Special Projects Series: Ericka Beckman, Long Island City

1998

Viper Festival, Film Retrospective, Lucerne

1989

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Directions: Ericka Beckman, Washington

1988

The Public Art Fund, Ericka Beckman. Gitzo Trust, Message to The Public, Times Square, New York City

1987

Cincinnati Film Society, Ericka Beckman, Cincinnati

1984

Wadsworth Atheneum, Ericka Beckman, Hartford
Donnell Library, Ericka Beckman. Meet the Director Series, New York City

1983

Pacific Film Archives, You The Better, Berkeley
Chicago Filmmakers, Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Chicago

1981

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Los Angeles
The Queens Museum, Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Queens

1980

The University of California, Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, San Diego
Film-In-The-Cities, Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Saint Paul

1979

Franklin Furnace, Ericka Beckman. We Imitate; We Break Up, New York City

1978

London Filmmakers Co-Op, Films, London
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Films, Hamburg

 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

 

2023

Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Marges de manœuvres, Martigny
MAMCO, AGORA – second episode, Geneva
Mori Art Museum, World Classroom: Contemporary Art Through School Subjects, Tokyo
Julia Stoschek Collection, Worldbuilding – Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, Düsseldorf

2022

MoCA, Making Worlds: An Imagineering Project, Taipei
CAPC, Barbe à Papa, Bordeaux
Architekturmuseum, Building Information, Berlin
KAI 10 / Arthena Foundation, Landscapes of Labour, Düsseldorf

2021

Academy of Fine Arts, “Motion Into Being” Reframed, Vienna
MAMCO, Inventaire, Geneva
Maysles Documentary Center, Prismatic Ground, New York City

2020

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Gameplay, Barcelona
Bundeskunsthalle, Double Lives, Visual Artists Making Music, Bonn

2019

Kestner Gesellschaft, Where Art Might Happen, Hannover
Treignac Project, Garland, Treignac
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, Grinnell
Akron Art Museum, Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, Akron

2018

Le Halle, Portrait de l’Artiste en Jeune Femme, Pont-en-Royans
The Kitchen, Omnipresence, New York City
Maiden LA, Creative Space for Lease, Los Angeles
The Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Printemps de Septembre Festival, Void, A Visibility Matrix, curated by Gerard Byrne and Sven Anderson, Dublin; Toulouse; Derry
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, Greensboro
Luma Arles / Parc de Ateliers, Picture Industry, curated by Walead Beshty, Arles

2017

The Broad Museum, Oracle, Los Angeles
Hessel Museum CCS Bard College, Picture Industry, curated by Walead Beshty, New York City
Courtisane, Brussels
Futura Project, Scattered Disk, Prague

2016

 

The Walker Art Center, Less Than One, Minneapolis
Muzeum Sztuki, Inoperative Community, Lodz
Oporto, Lisbon
Beursschouwburg, Brussels
3A Gallery, New York City
AMoQA space, Athens

2015

Raven Row, Inoperative Community, London
Centre Pompidou, Un Nouveau Festival, Paris
Participant Inc., Performing Franklin Furnace, New York City

2014

Modern Art Oxford, Straight to camera: Performance for film, Oxford
The Ister AT-1, Fortune III: Grey Skies and Sunny Dispositions, Paris
Anat Ebgi, The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, Los Angeles
AB Contemporary, Showtime, Zurich

2013

Whitney Museum of American Art, Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama, New York 1972­81, New York City
Freedman Fitzpatrick, Blind Country, Los Angeles
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Repertory One Torino: The Broken Rule, Repertory, Turin

2012

Hauser & Wirth, Dan Graham: Rock ‘n’ Roll Show. Unrealized Projects for Children and Boutique Architecture, Zurich

2011

Greene Naftali, Entertainment, New York City

2010

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Contemporary Art Centre, Life, Museion, Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix, Düsseldorf, Harte, St. Nazaire, Bolzano
Provincetown Museum, Cape Cod Modern House, Provincetown

2009

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pictures Generation 1974­1984, New York City
Anthology Film Archives, Origins, Influences and Interests: Four Women Filmmakers, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, Looking at Music: Side 2, New York City
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Practic, Practice, Practice, Austin

2008

Lincoln Center Plaza, SCOPE Art Fair, New York City

2007

Museum of Modern Art, Automatic Update, New York City

2005

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education by Tony Oursler, New York City
Musée d’Orsay, Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education by Tony Oursler, Paris
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai

2003

Portland International Film Festival, Portland

2002

Artists’ Television Access, Altered Realities, San Francisco

2000

Centre pour l’Art Contemporain, Version 2000, Geneva
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Link Gallery, Rosaceleste, Bologna

1999

NGBK, Pink for Boys, Blue for Girls, Berlin
Harvest Works, The Hundredth Turn, New York City

1998

Museum of Modern Art, Big As Life: An American History in 8mm Film, New York City

1996

Louisiana Museum of Art, Here/Now, Humlebaek

1995

Wexner Center for the Arts, Gender and Technology, Columbus

1992

Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Génériques-Désordres, Paris
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Archiv des Leidens, Cologne
Institute of Contemporary Art, Mike Kelley, London
Kunstmuseum Bern, Cinderella and Memory Palace, Bern
Harvard Film Archives, Cinderella, Boston
Art Futura Festival, Barcelona
Werkstatt für Elektronische Medien, Kontaktmaschine, in collaboration with Tony Ourslor, Leipzig

1991

Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991 Biennial Exhibition, New York City
Jablonka Galerie, Mike Kelly: Half a Man, Cologne

1990

Institute of Contemporary Art, Meet the Makers: Ericka Beckman and Mike Kelley, Boston
Boritzer/Gray Gallery, New Photographers, Santa Monica
The Collective, New York City

1989

Museum of Contemporary Art, A Forest of Signs, Los Angeles
Galerie Kaess-Weiss, Foto Art, Stuttgart
Krygier Landau Contemporary Art, Beyond Photography, Los Angeles

1988

The National Gallery of Art, Cinderella, Washington
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Skeptical Beliefs, Newport Beach
Hallwalls, Ericka Beckman, Barbara Bloom and John Jesurun, Buffalo
Bess Cutler Gallery, Ericka Beckman and Bill Wurtz, New York City
Halle Sud, Reprise Des Vues, Geneva
The Alternative Museum, Poetic Injustice, New York City
ACE Gallery, Photographs, Los Angeles
Galerie Westersingel 8, NYC-Photography, Rotterdam
The American Museum of the Moving Image, Independent America; New Films, Astoria
The Yerzerski Gallery, Photographs, Boston
Westersingel 8 Gallery, 3 NYC Photographers, Rotterdam

1987

Whitney Museum of American Art, The Whitney Museum Biennial, New York City
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Fall Film Series, Milwaukee
The Renaissance Society, Film Series, Chicago

1986

Palais des Beaux Arts, Au Coeur de Maelstrom, Brussels
The Collective, in conjunction with Artists Space, The Fairy-Tale, New York City
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Damaged Goods, New York City
North Carolina Museum of Art, The Public Art Show, Raleigh
Lege Riumte Gallery, Fotografie, Bruges
City Gallery, Cinema Objects, New York City
Nexus Art Gallery, Curated by Ronald Jones, Atlanta
LIMBO Lounge, New York City
White Columns, Sign of the Real, New York City
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York City

1985

Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial, New York City
Museum Moderner Kunst, Kunst mit Eigensinn, Vienna
Kunsthalle Bern, Alles und noch viel mehr – Das poetische ABC, Bern
CEPA Art Gallery, World View, Buffalo
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, The BW Show, Los Angeles

1984

Centre Pompidou, Alibis, Paris
University of North Carolina, A Festival of Film as Art – The Women’s Perspective, Greensboro
Walker Art Center, Stories of Her Own, Minneapolis
International with Monument, Still Life in Transaction, New York City
School of Visual Art, Natural Genre, New York City
Artists Space, A Decade of New Art, New York City
Pacific Film Archives, Avant-Garde Film Today, Berkeley

1983

Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial, New York City
Institute of Contemporary Art, You The Better, London
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), The Headhunters, Los Angeles
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs with Anthology Film Archives, Pioneers of Independent Film, New York City
Artists Space, Grand Gallop, New York City
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Mike Kelley and Ericka Beckman, Buffalo

1982

Cal Arts, The Exhibition, Valencia, CA
The Kitchen, Super-8 Trilogy, New York City

1981

Traction Gallery, Film Series: Ericka Beckman, Los Angeles
The Queens Museum, Super-8 Trilogy, Queens
Anthology Film Archives, Super­8 Survey, New York City

1980

The Kitchen, Ericka Beckman and Michael Oblowitz, New York City
The Collective, New York City
Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea, Cinema Independente American e Francese, Milan
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco
The Clocktower, Film as Installation, New York City
Artists Space, Artist Films, New York City
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Horror Pleni: Pictures in New York Today, Milan

1979

London Filmmakers Co­op, Ericka Beckman and Michael Oblowitz, London

1978

Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, 3 Films by Ericka Beckman, Hamburg
Artists Space, Artists Films, New York City
Bleeker Street Cinema, Creative Artists Public Service Series, New York City
40 Langton Street Gallery, Masters of Love, San Francisco

1975

Artists Space, Super-8 Film Exposition, New York City

 

Screenings (selection)

 

2023

National Arts Club, Reach Capacity, New York City
Redcat Theatre, An Evening with Ericka Beckman, Los Angeles
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, LUFF – 22nd Edition, Lausanne
MAST Foundation, Foto/Industria Biennale, Bologna

2022

mumok, Films by Ericka Beckman, Vienna

2019

LIST Gallery MIT, Double Reverse, Cambridge

2017

Film i Samtidskonsten, Films of Ericka Beckman, Stockholm

2016

Anthology Film Archives, Revisions, New York City

2015

High Line Channel 14, Augmented Reality and Cinema Games, New York City
Walker Art Center, Frame UP, Minneapolis
Stavros Niarchos Park, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Fireflies in the Night, Athens
Whitney Museum of American Art, America is Hard to See, New York City
Museum of the Moving Image, Downtown New York Film: The 1970s and 1980s, Queens
China Objects Gallery, This Sentence, by Public Fiction, Los Angeles
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Temperamental, Ontario

2014

Los Angeles Film Forum at Museum of Contemporary Art, Ericka Beckman, Los Angeles
Swiss Institute, The St Petersburg Paradox, New York City
The Hammer Museum, Appropriation and Film: Deconstructing the Masters, Los Angeles
Greene Naftali, Dan Graham. Design for Showing Rock Videos, New York City

2013

Centre Pompidou, Ericka Beckman. Super-8 Trilogy, Paris
Film-Makers’ Co-Op, An Archive of Intersections, New York City

2012

University of Colorado, First Person Series, Boulder
MK Gallery, James Welling: The Mind on Fire, London
New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant Garde, New York City
MOCA Downtown, Dangerous Ideas: Political Conceptual Work in Los Angeles, 1974­1981, Los Angeles

2011

New Preservations Series, Anthology Film Archives, Ericka Beckman: Super-8 Trilogy, New York City

2010

9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul

2007

Orchard Gallery, The Collective for Living Cinema, New York City
Centre Pompidou, Tomorrowland, Paris
Borderline Moving Image Festival, Beijing
New York Video Festival, Scanners, New York City
San Francisco Cinematheque, Experiments in High Definition. Artists in Residence from the Voom HD Lab, San Francisco
Pacific Film Archives, Highly Defined: New Works from the Voom HD Lab, Berkeley

2006

Anthology Film Archives, Ericka Beckman. Tension Building, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, Tomorrowland, New York City

2005

Walker Art Center, Ericka Beckman’s Frame UP, Minneapolis
Museum of Modern Art, Jerome Hill and Foundation, New York City

2004

Boston Public Library, Locus/Focus: Films by New England Women, Boston

2003

Museum of Modern Art at Gramercy Park Theater, Media Scope: Ericka Beckman’s Films, New York City
22nd Annual International Film and Video Festival, Women In The Director’s Chair, Chicago
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison
University of Wisconsin Film Department, Madison
Black Maria Film Festival, USA
Images + Media Festival, Third Text, Hong Kong
Cornell University, Film Series, Ithaca
Four Walls Film Collective, Film Series, Portland

2002

New York Film Festival, Walter Reade Theater, Views from the Avant-Garde, New York City
VIPER International Festival of New Media, Basel
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film and Video, Victoria, Canada
Madcat Festival, San Francisco
IMAGE Film/Video Festival, Atlanta
Coolidge Corner Theater, Director Focus, Boston
Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston
Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco International Film Festival, Berkeley

2001

Bakalar Gallery, Wonderland, Boston

2000

Whitney Museum of Art, The Twentieth Century Exhibit, New York City

1999

Montreal International Festival of New Media and Cinema, Montreal
L’Alternativa Festival, Barcelona
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam
Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm

1998

Viper Festival, Film Retrospective, Lucerne
Art Institute of Chicago, Film Series, Chicago
University of Southern California, Film Series, San Diego

1993

Museum of Modern Art, Art and Technology in the Nineties: Video Viewpoints, New York City

1991

American Cinematheque, Cinema Alternative, Paris

1990

The Kitchen, New Works, First Runs, New York City
Foundation Mecano/Stedelijk, A Passage Illuminated: Festival of American Avant­Garde, Amsterdam
Interfilm Festival, Berlin
Viper Festival, Lucerne
World-wide Video Festival, Den Haag

1988

Cornell Cinema, Ericka Beckman, Ithaca
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Ericka Beckman, Woodstock
White Columns, Reproductions, New York City
Public Art Fund, Times Square Electronic Sign, Message to the Public, New York City
Woman’s International Film and Video Festival, Liatris Media, Austin
Finnish Television Network, The New Independents

1987

 

Manhatten Cable Television, Likely Stories, produced by TLC, Arts and Entertainment Network
The Brattle Theater, Revisions Festival, Boston
Hirschhorn Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum Film Series, Washington
Rocky Mountain Film Society, Film Series, Boulder
The Rochester Institute of Technology, Film Series, Rochester
The International Theater Festival, Valladoid
The Atlanta Film/Video Festival, Atlanta
The 25th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor
A.T.E., Film Series, San Francisco

1986

The Walker Art Center, Ericka Beckman. Cinderella, Minneapolis
San Francisco Cinematheque, Romance and Resistance, San Francisco
The Kitchen, Ericka Beckman and Bette Gordon, New York City
Montreal International Film Festival, Montreal

1984

The Kitchen, Ericka Beckman. You The Better, New York City
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Ericka Beckman, Los Angeles
Film Forum, Ericka Beckman, Los Angeles
Festival l’Autumn, Nice

1983

The New York Film Festival, Ericka Beckman. You The Better, New York City
The Kitchen, Ericka Beckman. You The Better, New York City
The Funnel, Ericka Beckman. Super­8 Trilogy, Toronto
The Millennium, Ericka Beckman. Super­8 Trilogy, New York City

1982

Artists Space, Ericka Beckman. Out of Hand, New York City
Boston Film and Video Foundation, Ericka Beckman. Super­8 Trilogy, Boston
Cornell Cinema, Ericka Beckman. Super­8 Trilogy, Ithaca
Spatzio Zero Festival, New York Works, Rome

1981

Media Study, Ericka Beckman. Super­8 Trilogy, Buffalo
Anthology Film Archives, Super-8 Survey, New York City
The Bleecker Street Cinema, Independent Super­8 Film Series, New York City
WNET­TV, Channel 13, The Independent Focus Series, Film as Play: Beyond Home Movies, New York City

1980

Visual Studies Workshop, Ericka Beckman. Super­8 Trilogy, Rochester
The Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Ericka Beckman. Super­8 Trilogy, Pittsburgh
Interart Center, The Moving Image Festival, New York City

1979

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, LAICA, ‘Film Oasis’ Program, Ericka Beckman’s White Man has Clean Hands and We Imitate; We Break Up, Los Angeles
Artists Space, Ericka Beckman. We Imitate; We Break Up, New York City
The Collective, Ericka Beckman, New York City
The Kitchen, Filmworks 78–79, New York City
Artists Space, We Imitate; We Break Up, New York City

1978

Artists Space, Super­8 Film Exposition, New York City

1976

The Fine Arts Building, Scale, New York City

1975

Hallwalls, White Man Has Clean Hands, Double Beds, Buffalo

 

Awards, Grants

 
2021

CEC 'Back Apartment Residency', St. Petersburg

2017

Stone McGuire Award, Sam Fox School of Art, Washington University, St. Louis

2009

Andy Warhol Foundation and Film Preservation Fund, in conjunction with Anthology Film Archives

2007

LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund, Production Grant Nominated for a NVR’s Media Arts Fellowship

2005

LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund, Pre­production Grant

2004

Ann Jackson Award, Massachusetts College of Art Foundation

2000

Creative Contact Grant, Harvest Works, New York
Experimental Television Center Projects Grant

1999

ArtsLink Collaborative Projects Grant

1994

National Endowment for the Arts, Media Production Grant

1990

New York State Council on the Arts, Film Production Grant

1989

New York Foundation for The Arts (NYFA) Video Production Grant
Massachusetts Council on the Arts, New Works Program, Production Grant

1985

Harvest Works Artists Projects Grant

1983

The Jerome Foundation Film Production Grant CAPS Grant, New York State Council on the Arts

1982

The National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship

1981

The New York State Council on The Arts, Film Production Grant
The Jerome Foundation Film Production Grant

1980

The Beards Fund Award
The National Endowment for the Arts

1979

CAPS, New York State Council for the Arts

 

Museum Collections

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Museum of Modern Art Contemporary Art Collection, New York City
The Museum of Modern Art, Film Collection, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Anthology Film Archives, New York City
The Walker Art Center, Contemporary Art Department and Media Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Centre Pompidou, Film Collection and New Media Department, Paris
Centre Pompidou, Contemporary Art Collection, Paris
The British Film Institute, London
Kunsthalle Bern Stiftung Bern
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
The Broad Museum, Los Angeles
The High Museum, Atlanta
List Center for Contemporary Art at MIT, Boston
Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki
Jill and Peter Kraus Collection New York
Zabludowicz Collection, London
MAMCO, Geneva