Becky Beasley

Becky Beasley (born 1975 She is also Professor of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Beasley's work was recognized with a Freelands Award in 2023, for her exhibition at Derby QUAD. She previously received the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2018.

Beasley creates sculptures, photographs, installations and texts rooted in deep literary and historical exploration.

Selected works

Solo exhibitions 2026-7: A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029), Touring QUAD, Derby, Bluecoat, Liverpool, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2022–1: H.S.P., Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany 2018: Depressive Alcoholic Mother, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany 2018: Late Winter Light, Franscesca Minini Gallery, Milan, Italy 2017: Ous, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, UK 2017: A Gentle Man, 80WSE Gallery, New York 2015: Becky Beasley: Sleep is when you grow, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2014: The Walk…in green, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK 2014: A Slight Nausea: An Interior, Live Work, South London Gallery, London, UK 2013: Spring Rain, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK 2012: Art Now: Becky Beasley, The Outside, Tate Britain, London, UK 2011: 8th May 1904, Kingston, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London, UK 2010: P. A. N. O. R. A. M. A., Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium 2009: German Soup, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK 2008: Malamud, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 2007: Eleven Years Later, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium 2006: Décors du Silence!, Ubu Gallery, Glasgow

Group exhibitions

2026: I want to be more than a lesson you learned 2025: Sussex Modernism, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (Publication, Yale University Press) 2024: Intension, Copperfield Gallery, London 2024: Intergenerational Forms, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan 2021: Tip of the Iceberg, Focal Point Gallery., Curated by Katharine Stout

2021: A Biography of Daphne, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU 2020: Transparent Things, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK 2019: Resist (Be Modern Again), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK 2018: 25 Years! Shared Histories. Shares Stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, SW 2013: The Narrators, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

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