Ericka Beckman b. 1951 in Hampstead, NY

Game is the central theme of this year’s Foto/Industria festival in Bologna, Italy. Exhibitions present a varied selection of artists and projects exploring the subject:...

Ericka Beckman and Pat O'Neill are included in LACMA's current exhibition Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising which is on display until...

Monday, October 17 8:30 p.m. PST at REDCAT, with a Q&A to follow For over four decades, the pioneering work of Ericka Beckman was developed...

Artforum lists Ericka Beckman’s exhibition, “Fair Game,” as a Must-See for Hanover’s artguide. The exhibition, which features two films and the installation, “Nanotech Players,” (1989)...

October 29, 2021 - October 30, 2021 Performa 2021 Biennial Brooklyn Bridge Park Brooklyn, NY 11201 Press Release: 'Ericka Beckman will create her first live...

Since the 1980s, Ericka Beckman (New York, 1951, lives in New York) has been considered a pioneer in the use of video as electronic reworking...

September 12, 2021 - January 9, 2022 Kestner Gesellschaft Goseriede 11, 30159 Hannover, Germany Press Release: 'A world governed by structures and systems in which...

Jan Braet looks at art and life, in bloom and decline, like roses. This week: the exhibition Fair Game by Ericka Beckman at Museum M,...

Fonds d'art contemporain (FMAC) of Geneva, Switzerland acquires work by Ericka Beckman. The acquistion includes 'Cinderella' (1986). Beckman's work will be included in Festival Les...

Purchase Here Press Release 'Since the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, Hampstead, NY) has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography....

October 9, 2020 - February 7, 2021 Curated by Valerie Verhack 'A world ruled by structures and systems where performance is key, optimisation forms a...

On view August 30 - November 10, 2019 Artists in the exhibition: Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Ericka Beckman, Ross Bleckner, Barbara Bloom, Troy...

When Ericka Beckman, internationally exhibited artist and professor at MassArt, began her career in the early 1970s, her driving quest was to bring abstract thought...

When artist Ericka Beckman premiered the first of her two partially animated tech-oriented 16mm musicals about gaming and labor, You the Better (1983), audiences were...

Cinderella had a rough life until she was found by her prince. Things look even worse for her in Ericka Beckman’s short 1986 film “Cinderella.”...

June 29, 2019 - September 22, 2019 in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries. Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World brings together...

For the past four decades, the New York- and Boston-based artist Ericka Beckman has centred her video work on the visual language of games, fairy...

May 24 - July 28, 2019 Since the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. Often shot...

In Ericka Beckman’s video “Tension Building,” we hear the rat-a-tat-tat of a marching drum as the camera pans briskly around stadium seats. Every so often,...

March 29 - June 16, 2019 'Opening in March, our new exhibition features two female artists who both use technology and classic tropes of fairy...

January 23 - May 19, 2019 Invited to present her work, the American artist Ericka Beckman (b. 1951) occupies an entire floor of the KANAL...

Emily Watlington speaks with three pioneering women media artists who have been working since the 1970s: Ericka Beckman, Dara Birnbaum, and Lynn Hershman Leeson. Though...

Everyone had that favorite fairy tale growing up, one that enthralled and engrossed us almost to the point of unhealthy obsession. It was the bedtime...

In her new series for Roman Road Journal, Philomena Epps explores various facets of contemporary performance and video art by women artists through the lens...

Pablo Larios Virtualization, interfaces, shifts in agency and the ‘rules of the game’ – these aspects of even your early works seem remarkably prescient today....

'This installation of the Un-Private Collection series features a conversation with Broad collection artist Ericka Beckman and visual artist Matt Mullican. Both Beckman and Mullican...

Secession, Vienna is exhibiting Ericka Beckman's, 'Game Mechanics.' The film and video work of the American artist Ericka Beckman focus on games and sporting competitions...

Ericka Beckman interviewed by Emily Watlington Spectacle sports have been the subject of Ericka Beckman’s work since the 1980s, but the recent US election has...

(Cherry and Martin archive - Cherry and Martin is now Philip Martin Gallery.) Ericka Beckman’s Cinderella, 1986, a 16-mm rendering of the fairy tale, is...

The list of all solo exhibitions by New York underground film artist Ericka Beckman is long. And also those of the collections in which her...

Despite a 30-plus-year filmmaking career that has earned her numerous awards as well as inclusion in various art biennials and film festivals—and the admiration of...

Apart from a few years in the 1960s when the New York culture czar Henry Geldzahler tossed some stardust around, the Metropolitan Museum was a...

For its next biennial, the first to be held post-pandemic, Performa will stage all of its signature cross-disciplinary projects outside—and it’s moving the event up...

Somewhere around 1989, the story of Jack and the Beanstalk really stuck with me. The reason being that the fairytale ending was very unfulfilled. What...

It felt fitting to catch up with the artist Ericka Beckman in a black box theater, since that’s where the Pictures Generation filmmaker has shot...

September 12, 2021 - January 9, 2022 Kestner Gesellschaft Goseriede 11, 30159 Hannover, Germany Press Release: 'A world governed by structures and systems in which...

For more than forty years, Ericka Beckman has coaxed viewers to assume the perspective of a child. Her earliest films, in 8 and 16 mm,...