Paul Becker has exhibited widely, in the UK and internationally with solo exhibitions at Mackintosh Lane, London in 2022,
M_HKA Antwerp in 2017, Le Salon, Brussels in 2013 and Chapter Gallery, Cardiff in 2005. He has worked with
a wide variety of galleries, publishers and curatorial initiatives such as JOAN, FormContent and Auto Italia in London
Gallery Celine in Glasgow, MAUVE in Vienna and Juan de la Cosa in Mexico City.
In 2022 How We Made 'The Kick Inside' was produced by JOAN publishing.
Becker was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2020.
In the same year, he was the Abbey Fellow in Painting at the British School at Rome.
ENQUIRIES: paulbecker49@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1997/99 Slade School of Fine Art, Master of Fine Art (Painting)
1986/89 Kingston Polytechnic, BA Fine Art (Painting)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Marc Jancou, Saanen, Switzerland
2022 Last Days of 'Poison Ring', Mackintosh Lane, London
2017 The Lodgers, M_HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Paul Becker: New Paintings, Drop City, Newcastle
2013 The Cat, Carpeted, Le Salon, Brussels, curated by FormContent
EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS ETC.
2025 Hereafter, Swedenborg House, London (curated by Simon Moretti)
2024 Drawing the Unspeakable, Towner Eastbourne (curated by David & Liza Dimbleby)
Scotopia, Cabin, NY (Curated by Hugo Alcantara & The Menaea Collection)
Entropy, 4 Princelet St, London (curated by Hugo Alcantara & The Menaea Collection)
Deific Outlines, Cromwell Place, London. (curated by Hugo Alcantara)
The Bruise, Long Story Short Gallery, New York. Curated by Richard Wathen
2023 Thin Skin MUMA, Melbourne. Curated by Jennifer Higgie
2022 How We Made 'The Kick Inside' Joan Publishing, ISBN 978-1-9993276-7-5
Moderato Cantabile, with Merlin James, Louise Hopkins etc.
Stoppenbach & Delestre, London
The Ventriloquists, with Alan Stanners, Gallery Celine, Glasgow
2021 A Table Made Again For The First Time: On Kate Briggs' 'This Little Art'
Paul Becker, Kate Briggs, Daniela Cascella, Sophie Collins, Renee Gladman,
Nadia Hebson, Rubén Martín Giráldez, Arno Renken, Alejandro Zambra
Intertitles Published by Prototype Publishing and edited by Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby,
Hana Noorali & Lynton Talbot
2020 Towner International Biennial
(selected by Mike Nelson, Polly Staple & Noelle Collins)
2018 Legsicon for Laure Prouvost
(with John Latham, Elizabeth Price, Natasha Soobramanien,
Agnès Varda, Emily Wardill, Marina Warner & Lawrence Weiner)
Published by Bookworks, London & M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
The Kink in the Arc
Online publication & performed collective novel, M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Choreography/Coreografia
Juan de la Cosa, Mexico
2016 The Mean of Men Resonance FM (with Adam Phillips)
2015 The Decorator & the Thief Curated by George Vasey NGCA
2014 Continue Without Losing Consciousness Curated by Tony Swain,
Rob Churm & Raydale Dower. DCA Dundee
Cadavere Quotidiano
(Co-editor with Alex Cecchetti & Francesco Pedraglio) featuring:
Tim Etchells, Ed Atkins, Katrina Palmer, Joanne Tatham, Fiona Jardine,
Melissa Gordon, Becky Beasley etc. Published by X-TRA, Los Angeles
My Life by Anton Lesseman Henry Moore Institute, Essays on Sculpture
No. 68. Edited by Lisa Le Feuvre
It's Moving From I to It Published by FormContent, London
TARR: Fiction by Artists Baltic, Newcastle. (with Simon Bill, Jennifer Higgie
& Tom Morton)
The Nabokov Paper Published by Information as Material. Edited by Kate Briggs
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2020 Abbey Fellowship in Painting, The British School at Rome
2017 M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Hospitalfield Summer Residency, Arbroath Scotland
2014 AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 Writer in Residence, Experimentica Live Arts Festival, Chapter, Cardiff
2011 Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship
2011 PEN Writers Residency, Antwerp
CURATING
2025 Entire Days Spent in the Trees, Mackintosh Lane (with Nigin Beck
Nadia Hebson & Marietta Mavrokordatou)2017 We Were Having An Argument About Kenneth Koch's 'One Train May Hide Another'
Kingsgate Project Space, London (with Mark Bleakley, Toby Christian, Rose O’Gallivan
& Milly Thompson) Curated by Paul Becker, George Vasey & Nadia Hebson
Choreography, ARCADE London (with Daniela Cascella, Chris Fite-Wassilak,
Nadia Hebson, Jennifer Hodgson, Ghislaine Leung, Sophie Macpherson,
Francesco Pedraglio, Natasha Soobramanien & Eleanor Wright)
2012 Apropos The Kissing of a Hand, Newcastle (with Becky Beasley,
Catrin Huber, Sophie Macpherson, Jeremy Millar, Roman Signer, Billy Childish etc.)
AWARDS
2020 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2017 Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts (Visual Arts)
COLLECTIONS
Henry Moore Archive of Sculptor’s Papers, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
The Collection of Dame Paula Rego R.A.
The Collection of Tess Jaray R.A.
Paul Becker has exhibited widely, in the UK and internationally with solo exhibitions at Mackintosh Lane, London in 2022,
M_HKA Antwerp in 2017, Le Salon, Brussels in 2013 and Chapter Gallery, Cardiff in 2005. He has worked with
a wide variety of galleries, publishers and curatorial initiatives such as JOAN, FormContent and Auto Italia in London
Gallery Celine in Glasgow, MAUVE in Vienna and Juan de la Cosa in Mexico City.
In 2022 How We Made 'The Kick Inside' was produced by JOAN publishing.
Becker was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2020.
In the same year, he was the Abbey Fellow in Painting at the British School at Rome.
ENQUIRIES: paulbecker49@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1997/99 Slade School of Fine Art, Master of Fine Art (Painting)
1986/89 Kingston Polytechnic, BA Fine Art (Painting)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Marc Jancou, Saanen, Switzerland
2022 Last Days of 'Poison Ring', Mackintosh Lane, London
2017 The Lodgers, M_HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Paul Becker: New Paintings, Drop City, Newcastle
2013 The Cat, Carpeted, Le Salon, Brussels, curated by FormContent
EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS ETC.
2025 Hereafter, Swedenborg House, London (curated by Simon Moretti)
2024 Drawing the Unspeakable, Towner Eastbourne (curated by David & Liza Dimbleby)
Scotopia, Cabin, NY (Curated by Hugo Alcantara & The Menaea Collection)
Entropy, 4 Princelet St, London (curated by Hugo Alcantara & The Menaea Collection)
Deific Outlines, Cromwell Place, London. (curated by Hugo Alcantara)
The Bruise, Long Story Short Gallery, New York. Curated by Richard Wathen
2023 Thin Skin MUMA, Melbourne. Curated by Jennifer Higgie
2022 How We Made 'The Kick Inside' Joan Publishing, ISBN 978-1-9993276-7-5
Moderato Cantabile, with Merlin James, Louise Hopkins etc.
Stoppenbach & Delestre, London
The Ventriloquists, with Alan Stanners, Gallery Celine, Glasgow
2021 A Table Made Again For The First Time: On Kate Briggs' 'This Little Art'
Paul Becker, Kate Briggs, Daniela Cascella, Sophie Collins, Renee Gladman,
Nadia Hebson, Rubén Martín Giráldez, Arno Renken, Alejandro Zambra
Intertitles Published by Prototype Publishing and edited by Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby,
Hana Noorali & Lynton Talbot
2020 Towner International Biennial
(selected by Mike Nelson, Polly Staple & Noelle Collins)
2018 Legsicon for Laure Prouvost
(with John Latham, Elizabeth Price, Natasha Soobramanien,
Agnès Varda, Emily Wardill, Marina Warner & Lawrence Weiner)
Published by Bookworks, London & M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
The Kink in the Arc
Online publication & performed collective novel, M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Choreography/Coreografia
Juan de la Cosa, Mexico
2016 The Mean of Men Resonance FM (with Adam Phillips)
2015 The Decorator & the Thief Curated by George Vasey NGCA
2014 Continue Without Losing Consciousness Curated by Tony Swain,
Rob Churm & Raydale Dower. DCA Dundee
Cadavere Quotidiano
(Co-editor with Alex Cecchetti & Francesco Pedraglio) featuring:
Tim Etchells, Ed Atkins, Katrina Palmer, Joanne Tatham, Fiona Jardine,
Melissa Gordon, Becky Beasley etc. Published by X-TRA, Los Angeles
My Life by Anton Lesseman Henry Moore Institute, Essays on Sculpture
No. 68. Edited by Lisa Le Feuvre
It's Moving From I to It Published by FormContent, London
TARR: Fiction by Artists Baltic, Newcastle. (with Simon Bill, Jennifer Higgie
& Tom Morton)
The Nabokov Paper Published by Information as Material. Edited by Kate Briggs
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2020 Abbey Fellowship in Painting, The British School at Rome
2017 M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Hospitalfield Summer Residency, Arbroath Scotland
2014 AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 Writer in Residence, Experimentica Live Arts Festival, Chapter, Cardiff
2011 Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship
2011 PEN Writers Residency, Antwerp
CURATING
2025 Entire Days Spent in the Trees, Mackintosh Lane (with Nigin Beck
Nadia Hebson & Marietta Mavrokordatou)2017 We Were Having An Argument About Kenneth Koch's 'One Train May Hide Another'
Kingsgate Project Space, London (with Mark Bleakley, Toby Christian, Rose O’Gallivan
& Milly Thompson) Curated by Paul Becker, George Vasey & Nadia Hebson
Choreography, ARCADE London (with Daniela Cascella, Chris Fite-Wassilak,
Nadia Hebson, Jennifer Hodgson, Ghislaine Leung, Sophie Macpherson,
Francesco Pedraglio, Natasha Soobramanien & Eleanor Wright)
2012 Apropos The Kissing of a Hand, Newcastle (with Becky Beasley,
Catrin Huber, Sophie Macpherson, Jeremy Millar, Roman Signer, Billy Childish etc.)
AWARDS
2020 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2017 Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts (Visual Arts)
COLLECTIONS
Henry Moore Archive of Sculptor’s Papers, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
The Collection of Dame Paula Rego R.A.
The Collection of Tess Jaray R.A.