John Beech (British, b.1964) is an artist best known for his work using found objects. Many of his pieces use objects that others overlook, including trash cans, dumpsters, and floor mats. Beech often takes black and white photographs of the items he finds and attempts to reflect their natural beauty. He grew up in a small town in England, but his family moved to the United States during his teen years. He entered the University of California as an architecture major. The University of California awarded him the Maybelle Toombs Award for Practice of Art in 1985, which allowed him to then move on to study art.

By the time he finished his BA in 1986, Beech became passionate about painting and sculpting. Three years after he graduated college, he had his first solo show at the Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Other galleries took notice of his work, which led to showings at the Gallery Paule Anglim and the Upaya Gallery, both in San Francisco, CA. He then did a residency with the Chiani Foundation out of Texas. After spending more than a decade in the Southwest, the artist moved to New York, NY, in 1996.

Over the course of his career, Beech received several prominent awards, including the SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, CA, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. Known for his influence in the Modern Contemporary style, Beech mixes objects in his pieces. In his Make, he used duct tape, pen, and aluminum panels to create a large-scale sculpture that almost resembles a sunburst. He is also known for his series Dumpster Drawing, which shows various photographs of dumpsters mounted onto aluminum panels. Some of his pieces are now in the permanent collections at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY; the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, CA; the Manfred Wandel/Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst in Reutlingen, Germany; and the Oakland Museum in Oakland, CA. Beech currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is represented by Pete Blum in New York City.