KATE BECK
EDUCATION
Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont Master of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Art
Columbia University, Department of Art History & Archeology, and Institute of Latin Studies Post-doc spring seminar: Decoloniality: The Politics of History -post-doc seminar
Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center Post-doc, round table seminar: Beyond Settler Colonial & Racialized Ecologies
Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine Bachelors of Fine Art - Painting, Art History (attended)
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont Bachelors of Fine Art - Drawing, Sculpture, Poetry (scholarship awardee)
University of Maine, Orono, Maine Bachelors of Art - Liberal Studies
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Daphne:art, CT 2015 Kate Beck - New Paintings, Masters Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Field Guide to Getting Lost, Masters Projects, New York, NY 2013 Drawing Black + White, Kate Beck, ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME 2013 Accumulations - Kate Beck, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FRAN 2011 Poëma, Kunst-Element, Waalre, NETH 2011 New Work - Kate Beck, ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME 2010 Conditions of Existence, Masters & Pelavin, New York, NY 2009 Liminal Thinking - Kate Beck, ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
TWO-PERSON & SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Put Together, Daphne:art, CT 2024 Faculty Exhibition, Maine Media College, Rockland, ME 2023 Thought Forms, Daphne:art, CT 2023 Unconventional Landscape, Daphne:art, CT 2022 Katherine Bradford’s Inaugural Dance Hall Show, Brunswick, ME 2019 Drawings, Space Gallery, Denver, CO 2019 Painting Black, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, GER and Vienna, AUST 2018 Newlyn Gallery + Exchange, Cornwall, GRBR 2018 ENGINE Portland, ME 2018 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 2017 Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, GER 2017 SEPTEMBER gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 Space Gallery, Denver, CO
SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 Zeitgeist, Nashville, TN
Brito.Rodriguez Arquitectura, Lisboa, PORT
2014 Masters Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, NETH
PIT Project Initiative, Tilburg, NETH
Space Gallery, Denver, CO
ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2012 d’Art Reductif, Grenoble, FRAN
ParisCONCRET, Paris, FRAN
2011 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
Kent State University Galleries, OH
Zeitgeist, Nashville, TN
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Masters + Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
2010 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA
2009 Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
American Contemporary Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2008 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
Museum of West Bohemia, Pilsen, CZE
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2007 New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Holyoke Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2005 Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Boston, MA
2004 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Covid-19 Artist Relief Fund Grant
2018 Adolf & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Support Grant, New York, NY
2018 Newlyn Gallery & Exchange, Cornwall, GRBR
2012 Fellowship, BAU Institute, (NY, ITLY)
2008 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013 Oakes Creek Ranch Master Printmakers, Clarendon, TX
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2025 Visiting Critic Senior Capstone Students, Professor Bradley Borthwick, Colby College, Waterville, ME
2018 – 2010 Visiting Critic Painting, Professor Mark Wethli, Bowdoin College Department of Art, Brunswick, ME
2012 – 2002 Guest Artist Interview, The Peter Puluska Show, Bowdoin College Radio, Brunswick, ME
2015 Visiting Artist & Conference Lecturer, Fine Art & Architecture, Brito-Rodriguez Arquitectura, Lisboa, PORT
2014 Lecturer, The Question of Drawing ,Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2014 Visiting Artist & Lecturer, Contemporary Drawing & Painting, Montserrat College of Art, MA
2012 Lecturer, Kate Beck: Art on the Edge New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Lecturer, Fuzzy Logic: Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art, Cambridge School of Weston, MA
COLLECTIONS
2019 Raum Schroth Collection, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, GER
2014 Brad Ford Collective, New York, NY
2011 Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2010 New York Trust for Public Space New York, NY
2010 Urban Zen Foundation, New York, NY
2001 Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa AZ
Private Client Collections Worldwide
COMMISSIONS
2017 Courthouse Press Bldg.9, large-scale entry painting, Architectural Renovation Project, Boston, MA
2011 West Village Restoration Project, Drawings, Flank Architects, New York, NY
2010 Mulberry Installation Project, Paintings, Flank Architects, New York, NY
Private Client Commissions Worldwide
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2023 Red, Tracy Silver, American Musical and Drama Academy, LA
2022 Take All of Me, Tracey Franklin, Chicago School of Fine Arts
2015 Brito.Rodriguez Arquitectura, Lisboa, PORT
2013 Modern Structure:100 Drawings,100 Gestures Berg, Jones & Sarvis Dance, Portland Museum of Art, ME
2013 P.I.T Project Initiative, Linda Arts, Tilburg, NETH
2012 Ensemble et al, Ron Tucker, New York, NY
2010 Peter Foolen, Peter Foolen Editions, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NETH
2010 Thomas A Clark, Poet, Scotland, GRBR
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS
Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Painting Black, Soest, GER. December 2017
Annie Godfrey Larmon, “Good Vibrations: Kate Beck’s Abstract Minimal Drawings and Paintings Hum”, The Phoenix, Portland, ME. July 2009.
FOCA, The Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Art on the Edge, catalogue, Santa Fe, NM. March 2010
Brent Hallard, “Drawing Lines – Kate Beck”, Visual Discrepancies, Interview, Tokyo, JPN. Feb. 3, 2009
Britta Konau, “Drawing is a way of life...”, Essay, Poëma - Kate Beck, published by Peter Foolen Editions, NETH. 2012
___________, “Critical Lines”, Maine Home + Design Magazine, Architecture Issue, Portland, ME. 2011
___________, “Art Current: Graphite at ICON Contemporary”, The Free Press, Rockland, ME. August 31, 2011
Center for Maine Contemporary Art. 2008 Biennial, Custom Museum Publishing, LLC. 2008
Daniel Kany, “Exquisite Works with Graphite and Paper,” Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, ME. September 4, 2011
___________, “…Quiet blocks of subtle gradients evolve from quiet lines…”, Modern Structure: Kate Beck, Portland Museum of Art, Portland Press Herald, October 13, 2013
___________, “Kate Beck’s elegant black abstractions…”, Maine Arts Journal. December 28, 2017
Diane Armitage, “Critical Reflections: Art on the Edge”, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. May 2010
Piet Augustijn, Curator of Contemporary Art Emeritus, “The Paintings of Kate Beck,” Gorcums Museum, NETH, 2011
Fiona Robinson, “Kate Beck”, Writings on Art, London, GRBR. October 2010
Frank Eerhardt, “Kate Beck by Frank Eerhardt,” The Art Section, C4RD London, GRBR. October 2011
Gorcums Museum. Zwart & Wit/ Black & White, exhibition catalogue, Gorinchem, NETH, 2013
Joanne Mattera, “Awash in Color: Roy G Biv & Friends”, Joanne Mattera Art Blog, New York, NY,. May 2008
Kathleen Roberts, “On the Edge”, Venue Magazine, Santa Fe North, NM. April 16, 2010
Laura Addison, “Art on the Edge of a New Decade”, El Palacio, Spring Edition, Santa Fe, NM. March 2010
Piet Augustijn, Curator of Contemporary Art Emeritus, “Kate Beck and the Potential of Line,” Peter Foolen Editions, Poëma - Kate Beck, Lecturis, Eindhoven, NETH. 2012
Maine Home + Design Magazine, Art Issue. Kate Beck, by Britta Konau, Portland, ME, April 2014
New Mexico Museum of Art. Art on the Edge, exhibition catalogue, published by FOCA, 2012
New York Magazine, “Tips & Picks: Kate Beck”, New York, NY. October 2005
Nicholas Schroeder, “More than Black and White”, The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME. May 19, 2010,
OK Harris Press Release, “No Chromophobia”, OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY June 2008
Peter Foolen Editions. Poëma - Kate Beck, published by, printed by Lecturis, Eindhoven, NETH. 2012
Philip Isaacson, “Kate Beck Pencil Drawings at Icon”, Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, ME. July 19, 2009
Portland Museum of Art. PieceWorks, exhibition catalogue, Custom Museum Publishing, September 2013.
Rob DeWalt, “Blurred Edges”, The New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM. April 16, 2010
Roberta Burnett, “Eyes Have It”, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ. May 2001
Sharon L. Butler, “Flying Colors at OK Harris”, Two Coats of Paint. New York, NY. June 16, 2008
Shawn Hill, “Last Blast of Summer Heat”, Berkshire Fine Arts, On-line. August 2007.
Steven Alexander, “Beauty in Black & White”, Steven Alexander Journal, New York, NY. On-line. July 13, 2008
___________, “Kate Beck at Pelavin Gallery”, Steven Alexander Journal, New York, NY. November 10, 2010,
___________, “No Chromophobia at OK Harris”, Steven Alexander Journal, New York, NY. On-line. June 6, 2008
Thomas A Clark, “in the grey shoreward…”, a poem for the painter, Kate Beck, Peter Foolen Editions. Poëma - Kate
Beck, published by, printed by Lecturis, Eindhoven, NETH. 2012
University of Western Bohemia. International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2008, exhibition catalogue, University of Western Bohemia Press, CZEC, 2008
UMVA Winter Magazine. “Lines of Thought, Kate Beck.” 2017