ERICKA BECKMAN
Apr. 13 2021
Virtual Event
Born in Hempstead, NY in 1951, Ericka Beckman is an artist and filmmaker, living and working in New York and Boston. Graduating from Cal Arts in 1976, she started to exhibit in the mid-1970s in such renowned independent spaces as The Kitchen, Artist’s Space and Franklin Furnace in New York. Since then her work has shown in museums in the U.S. and abroad: the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The MET, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Broad Museum, Los Angeles; The List Gallery, MIT Boston;The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Tate Modern, London, UK; Secession, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Le Centre de Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; The Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Le Magasin, Grenoble, France; Raven Row, London and Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland. In addition, she has been included in four Biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Her current solo exhibition ‘Fair Game is at M’ Leuven Museum in Belgium and will travel to Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany in September 2021. She is currently working on Stalk a video/performance for Perform 2021 in NYC. She will be screening You The Better and Reach Capacity at ‘Modern Mondays’ on May 10th 2021 at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC (online). Her work is also currently on display in the group exhibition ‘Inventaire’ at MAMCO, Geneva Switzerland until June 2021.
Her work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, The Broad Museum, The High Museum, The Zabludowicz Collection, Le Centre de Georges Pompidou, The British Film Institute, MAMCO, Geneva Switzerland, Saastamoinen Foundation, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland; The Collection of Peter and Jill Kraus, and the Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern and Anthology Film Archives.
Ericka Beckman. Still from Reach Capacity, 2020, courtesy of the artist.