About Ericka Beckman
Over her three-decade career, Ericka Beckman’s playful yet formally demanding films challenge traditional aesthetic, and cultural values, that mix games with fairytales to create hybrids with new rules. Beckman uses play in every sense to shape her message.
The result is a ‘satisfying, even delightful slipperiness of meaning, a mental vertigo induced by the changefulness of contexts and rules in regard to a given word or object.
—Sally Banes, Millenium Film Journal, 1984
Beckman’s work has been shown at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. Her one-woman shows include: Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, the Tate Modern, London, MOCA, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, Washington,D.C., and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. She has been in four Biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her works are in the film collection of the Whitney Museum, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, The Walker Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, plus the British Film Institute, and the Zabludowicz Collection. Amongst the numerous awards received for her work are: Two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two New York State Council on the Arts grants, one from Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and a residency from the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
[dticon ico=”icon-doc-inv” size=”size-sm”][/dticon] CV & Selected Bibliography
Ericka Beckman: The Game Changer, Interview with Pablo Larios, Frieze, March 26, 2018
Ericka Beckman Masterclass Lecture, Zabludowicz Collection, January 2018
Un-Private Collection: Ericka Beckman + Matt Mullican, 2017
Playing by the Rules: Ericka Beckman in Conversation with Mary L. Coyne, Art Journal, March 2017
Ericka Beckman on You the Better, Walker Art Center, 2016
Excerpt from “Ericka Beckman” by John Beeson, Monograph published by jrp|ringier, 2015
Ericka Beckman on collaborations with Mike Kelley, MOCA U, 2014
Salon | Artist Talk | Ericka Beckman: Sports, Rules and Musicals, June 2013