Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

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)

2025	Drawing Center, New York
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, 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, London
2017	Le Secession, Game Mechanics, Vienna Cherry and Martin Gallery, Switch Center, Los Angeles
2016	MAMCO, The Super-8 Trilogy, Geneva Mary Boone Gallery, Hiatus, New York City Cherry Martin Gallery, Cinderella, Los Angeles
2015	VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), 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, Cincinnati
1984	Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Donnell Library, Ericka Beckman. Meet the Director Series, New York City
1983	Pacific Film Archives, You The Better, Berkeley Chicago Filmmakers, Super-8 Trilogy, Chicago
1981	Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), Super-8 Trilogy, Los Angeles The Queens Museum, Super-8 Trilogy, Queens
1980	The University of California, Super-8 Trilogy, San Diego Film-In-The-Cities, Super-8 Trilogy, Saint Paul
1979	Franklin Furnace, We Imitate; We Break Up, New York City
1978	London Filmmakers Co-Op, Films, London Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Films, Hamburg

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2024	Wallach Art Gallery, Growing Sideways: Performing Childhood, New York
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 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 1974–1984, New York Anthology Film Archives, Origins, Influences and Interests: Four Women Filmmakers, New York Museum of Modern Art, Looking at Music: Side 2, New York Lora Reynolds Gallery, Practic, Practice, Practice, Austin
2008	Lincoln Center Plaza, SCOPE Art Fair, New York
2007	Museum of Modern Art, Automatic Update, New York
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 Oursler, 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, 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, Ithaca Center for Photography at Woodstock, 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, Los Angeles Film Forum, 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