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PAUL BECKER
DRAWING
PAINTING
WRITING
BIO

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)