Born 1964 in Winchester, England
Lives and works in New York
Education
1986 B.A., University of California, Berkeley, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Ever, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2019
John Beech: In Site, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2018
Under Way, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, USA
John Beech: Outside the Drift, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2017
Silent Articles, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2016
Object in Place, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, France
John Beech: New Work, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2015
Frieze New York, Peter Blum, New York, USA
2014
Galerie M & R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
viewpoint, Haus Der Kunst St.Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
John Beech: Small Wall Objects, Concept Space, Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan
2012
Time Expanded, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Space Surrounding, Peter Blum Soho, New York, New York, USA
Likelihood / Unlikelihood, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, France
2011
85-87 FBG. St. Martin (with Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire), Paris, France
Door to the Window, Haus Der Kunst, Solothurn, Switzerland
John Beech, A Selection of Recent Work, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
John Beech, Portland Art Museum, (Curator: Bruce Guenther) Portland, Oregon, USA
The State of Things, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, New York, USA
2010
John Beech: Works for a Wall, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Incidents: Drawings and Sculpture, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
John Beech & John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
2008
Obscure / Reveal, John Beech & Edward Albee, Peter Blum Soho, New York, New York, USA
Nohow, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2007
That and This: New Work, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, New York Galerie, USA
Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2006
John Beech New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
John Beech: Project Space, G Fine Art, Washington D.C., USA
John Beech New Work: Sculpture and Drawings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2005
Recent Sculpture and Large Scale Drawings, Peter Blum, New York, New York, USA
New Sculpture made on Site and Drawings, Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
COSE NATURALI das Wesen der Dinge/the nature of things, M&R Fricke, Berlin
2020
A Space full of Drawings and a Drawing in Space, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2019
Dazwischen, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Memento Mori, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2018
Subvert City, Minus Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Artissima 2018, Dialogue section, Artissima 2018, Torino, Italy
Backstage, curated by Burkhard Brunn at Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2017
Unique and Multiple: Selections from Smith Andersen Editions, the Legacy of Paula Z. Kirkeby, (Curator: Robert Conway) de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA
2016
Brasserie, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
Radical: Monochrome Paintings from the Goodman Duffy Collection, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Dumbball: David Ireland and his Circle,’Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Collect: Works from the Secondary Market, William Campbell Contemporary Art Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, USA
2015
Kabinettstücke / Sammlung Gabriele Kuebler, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Peter Blum Edition: Books and Prints, Peter Blum, New York, New York, USA
Retrospective Paule Anglim 1923- 2015, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
Quand fondra la niege, où ira le blanc, (Curator: Bernard Marcelis), Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Concrete Post 3, raum2810, Bonn, Germany
Concrete Post 2, (Curator: David Thomas), PSSR Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2014
Gauguin to Warhol: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
Hunting + Gathering: New Additions to the Museum Collection, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Ellipse, (Curator: Erin Lawlor), A3 Municipal Gallery, Moscow, Russia
30 Jahre, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Regular John, (Curator: Jim Lee) Junior Projects, New York, New York, USA
Traces, Peter Blum, New York, New York, USA
CCNOA 30/30 Image Archive Project: A Collective Collection, A/B/Contemporary, Zürich, Switzerland´
2013
Brasserie, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
Histoires et Géographies: Acquisitions récentes du Frac Bretagne, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
Coluna 2, Vienne, France
Unruly, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
Six Memos for the Next…, Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2012
CCNOA 30/30 Image Archive Project: A Collective Collection, 71BD Richard Lenoir, Paris, France
Brasserie, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
Hibernation, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Art on Paper 2012, (Curator: Xandra Eden), Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Pink, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Virtual Insanity, Fiedler Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Drawing a Line in the Sand, Peter Blum, New York, New York, USA
Eretai (John Beech, Lael Marshall, David Rabinowitch, Michael Voss), Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, USA
2011
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
The Long Curve. 150 years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Carte Blanche à Clare Kenny: Odds and Ends, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Paper Variables, Dieu Donné, New York, New York, USA
John Beech & Kathrin Kunz, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2010
Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Human Rites, (Curator Silvia Karman Cubïná & Steve Holmes) The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Living in Two Worlds, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Artist & The Photograph, (Curator: Clare Kenny), Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
Metropolis, Galerie M & R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
Reflection, Peter Blum Soho, New York, New York, USA
My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble, (Organized by CCNOA, Brussels), La Station, Nice, France
Quantos Queres, Marz-Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
Des Mondes Voisins, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Common Ground: Color, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Glissements de Terrain, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
30 x 30 cm Project, Mcnay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Yellow, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Projet 25 une exposition pour Gisèle, (Curator: Friederike Stangier), Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Art Unlimited 10, Art Basel 40, Basel, Switzerland
PS 1999-2009, PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prints, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2008
Miniaturization, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Paper, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Begin Again Right Back Here, (Curator: B.Wurtz), White Columns, New York, New York, USA
Summer 2008, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble, (Organized by CCNOA Brussels), Sydney College of the Arts Gallery (SCA), Sydney, Australia -traveled to: The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
+ de réalité, École Régionale des beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Annual Invitational Exhibition of Visual Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, USA
Awards
1999 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1998 The Chinati Foundation, Residency, Marfa, Texas
1992 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1986 Maybelle Toombs Award for Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Publications
2017
’John Beech. Works on Paper 1984 – 2017. 315 drawings, monotypes, and collages,’ Essay by Marcus Verhagen, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2015
’John Beech. An overview of 25 years of work, including new work made in Solothurn 2014,’ Essay by Kenneth Baker, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Germany / Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2014
’Lone Rail. A portfolio of 13 lithographic prints and 6 individual lithographic prints,’ Essay by Steel Stillman, Arber & Son Editions, Marfa, Texas
’Bridged Field: Found-Photo Drawings. 92 drawings on discarded photographs by anonymous photographers,’ Foreword by Alexander Nagel, powerHouse
Books, Brooklyn, New York
2013
’IT IS. John Beech Photographs 1984 – 2013. 160 color and black-and-white photographs,’ Harrison Place Press, Brooklyn, NY
2012
’The Space Surrounding. 31 collages and 17 black-and-white photographs (all works made while traveling in India),’ Peter Blum Edition, New York
’Door tot he Window. Exhibition catalog in color,’ Text by Michael Babics, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2008
’Obscure / Reveal. 40 Drawings on photographs with words by Edward Albee,’ Peter Blum Edition, New York
2005
’Works 1989 – 2004. Exhibition catalog in color,’ Essay by Gabriele Kübler, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany / Navado Press, Trieste, Italy
2000
’John Beech. An overview of recent sculpture and drawing,’ Interview by Alexander Nagel, Gallery Anglim, San Francisco / Stark Gallery, New York
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