ENQUIRIES: paulbecker49@gmail.com
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 Softly Radiant, Half Buried, Marianne Boesky, New York (curated by Martyn Cross)
Some Notes on Looking, Kingsgate Gallery, London
Hereafter, Swedenborg House, London (curated by Simon Moretti)
Good Work, JOAN Publishing ISBN 978-1-7384394-2-3
2024 Drawing the Unspeakable, Towner Eastbourne (curated by David & Liza Dimbleby)
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 Stoppenbach & Delestre, London
The Ventriloquists, with Alan Stanners, Gallery Celine, Glasgow
2021 A Table Made Again For The First Time Juan de la Cosa, Mexico
Intertitles Prototype Publishing
2020 Towner International Biennial
2018 Legsicon Bookworks, London & M_HKA, Antwerp
The Kink in the Arc M_HKA, Antwerp
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 DCA Dundee
Cadavere Quotidiano X-Tra, Los Angeles
My Life by Anton Lesseman Henry Moore Institute, Essays on Sculpture
It's M oving From I to It FormContent, London
TARR: Fiction by Artists Baltic, Newcastle
The Nabokov Paper 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.
The Collection of Timothy Hyman R.A.
EDUCATION
1997/99 Slade School of Fine Art, Master of Fine Art (Painting)
1986/89 Kingston Polytechnic, BA Fine Art (Painting)
ENQUIRIES: paulbecker49@gmail.com
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 Softly Radiant, Half Buried, Marianne Boesky, New York (curated by Martyn Cross)
Some Notes on Looking, Kingsgate Gallery, London
Hereafter, Swedenborg House, London (curated by Simon Moretti)
Good Work, JOAN Publishing ISBN 978-1-7384394-2-3
2024 Drawing the Unspeakable, Towner Eastbourne (curated by David & Liza Dimbleby)
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 Stoppenbach & Delestre, London
The Ventriloquists, with Alan Stanners, Gallery Celine, Glasgow
2021 A Table Made Again For The First Time Juan de la Cosa, Mexico
Intertitles Prototype Publishing
2020 Towner International Biennial
2018 Legsicon Bookworks, London & M_HKA, Antwerp
The Kink in the Arc M_HKA, Antwerp
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 DCA Dundee
Cadavere Quotidiano X-Tra, Los Angeles
My Life by Anton Lesseman Henry Moore Institute, Essays on Sculpture
It's M oving From I to It FormContent, London
TARR: Fiction by Artists Baltic, Newcastle
The Nabokov Paper 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.
The Collection of Timothy Hyman R.A.
EDUCATION
1997/99 Slade School of Fine Art, Master of Fine Art (Painting)
1986/89 Kingston Polytechnic, BA Fine Art (Painting)