Bill Beckley

(American, born 1946)

whatever will become of me? by bill beckley

Bill Beckley

Whatever will become of me?, 2006

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Biography

Timeline

1946
Born in Hamburg, PA
1968
BFA Kutztown State University, PA
1970
MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University
1979
National Endowment for the Arts
1986
New York Council of the Arts
1997
Pollack-Krasner Grant

Exhibitions

2006
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
2004
Studio Trisorio, Rome (solo)
Studio Trisorio, Naples (solo)
2003
Gallery Park Ryu-Sook, Seoul (solo)
Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf (solo)
2001
Fourteen Stations, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (solo)
New Works, Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin (solo)
2000
Selected works 1970-1999, John Gibson Gallery, New York (solo)
Critic as Grist, curated by Michael Portnoy and Marianne Vitale, White Box Gallery, NY
Narrative, Studio G7, Bologna

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Tate Modern, London, UK
Daimler Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin, Germany

Literature

2000
Bill Beckley, 'Sticky Sublime', Introduction for Sticky Sublime, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, New York
Bill Beckley, 'All Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Innocent', Afterward of Dialectic of Decadence by Donald Kuspit, Allworth Press, NY
1999
Bill Beckley, 'Sublimitas Mobilist', Introduction to Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, NY,
Bill Beckley, 'Doubting Thomas', Introduction to Sculpture in the Ager of Doubt by Thomas McEvilley, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, NY
1998
Tony Godfrey, Conceptual Art, Phaidon Press, London
Bill Beckley, 'The Beginning of the Art World', Introduction to The End of the Art World by Robert C. Morgan, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, New York
1997
Bill Beckley, 'Generosity and the Black Swan', Introduction to Uncontrollable Beauty (Edited by Bill Beckley), Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, NY