Bill Beckley has been widely recognized as an important photographer for more than three decades, both in the United States and abroad. Born in Hamburg, Pennsylvania in 1946, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Kutztown State University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Beckley achieved recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979. Seven years later, his career was further distinguished by his service on the New York Council of the Arts. He was awarded a grant from the prestigious Pollack-Krasner Foundation in 1997. Since that time, his work has been placed numerous prestigious collections, including that of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art.
| Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2004 |
Studio Trisorio, Rome Studio Trisorio, Rome |
| 2003 |
Gallery Park, Ryu-Sook, Seoul |
| 2001 |
Fourteen Stations, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York |
| 2001 |
New Works, Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin |
| 2000 |
Selected works 1970-1999, John Gibson Gallery, New York |
| 1999 |
Anouk Tache and Carole Levy Gallery, Brussels |
| 1998 |
Galerie Milano, Milan Galeria Trisorio, Naples Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf |
| 1997 |
John Gibson Gallery, New York |
| 1996 |
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1995 |
Five Easy Pieces, Ace Gallery, New York |
| Selected Exhibitions |
| 2000 |
Critic as Grist, curated by Michael Portnoy and Marianne Vitale, White Box
Gallery, New York
Narrative, Studio G7, Bologna
Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin
Daimler-Benz collection, Berlin |
| 1999 |
Sammlung Falckenberg Museum de bildenden Kunst, Leipzig
17 Contemporary Artists from America, Italy and Mexico, The Menile
Collection, Texas |
| 1998 |
Heroines and Heroes, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
Americans in France, The Fish Market, Perpignan
Fotoz, Siquieros Koll Gallery, Los Angeles
Project Plans, John Gibson Gallery, New York |
| 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’,
Afterword of Dialectic of Decadence, by Donald Kuspit, Allworth Press,
New York |
| 1999 |
Bill Beckley, ‘Sublimitas Mobilist’, Introduction to Beauty and the
Contemporary Sublime, by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Allworth Press, and the
School of Visual Arts, New York
Bill Beckley, ‘Doubting Thomas’, Introduction to Sculpture in the Age of
Doubt, by Thomas McEvilley, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual
Arts, New York |
| 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,
New York |
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