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Bill Beckley    (American, 1946)

 Bill Beckley - Dervish 3, Rosy Crucifixion (Photographs) h: 77 x w: 48 in / h: 195.6 x w: 121.9 cm
Bill Beckley
Dervish 3, Rosy Crucifixion 2008
 
 Bill Beckley - Maybe I Do, Maybe I Don't (Photographs) h: 77 x w: 48 in / h: 195.6 x w: 121.9 cm
Bill Beckley
Maybe I Do, Maybe I Don't 2008
 
 Bill Beckley - Shall I at Least Get My Lands in Order (Photographs) h: 96 x w: 140 in / h: 243.8 x w: 355.6 cm
Bill Beckley
Shall I at Least Get My Lands in Order 2005
 

Biography
1946 Born Hamburg, PA
1979 National Endowment for the Arts
1986 New York Council of the Arts
1997 Pollack-Krasner Grant
BFA Kutztown State University, PA
MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Collection: Museum of Modern Art, NY
Collection: The Guggenheim Museum, NY
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Exhibitions
2006 Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
2004 Studio Trisorio, Rome (solo)
2004 Studio Trisorio, Naples (solo)
2003 Gallery Park Ryu-Sook, Seoul (solo)
2003 Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf (solo)
2001 Fourteen Stations, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (solo)
2001 New Works, Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin (solo)
2000 Selected works 1970-1999, John Gibson Gallery, New York (solo)
2000 Critic as Grist, curated by Michael Portnoy and Marianne Vitale, White Box Gallery, NY
2000 Narrative, Studio G7, Bologna
2000 Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin
2000 Daimler-Benz collection, Berlin
1999 Sammlung Falckenberg Museum de bildenden Kunst, Leipzig
1999 17 Contemporary Artists from America, Italy and Mexico, The Menile Collection, TX
1999 Heroines and Heros, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
1999 Americans in France, The Fish Market, Perpignan
1999 Anouk Tache and Carole Levy Gallery, Brussels (solo)
1998 Fotoz, Siqueiros Koll Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 Project Plans, John Gibson Gallery, New York
1998 Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf (solo)
1998 Galerie Milano, Milan (solo)
1998 Galeria Trisorio, Naples (solo)
1997 John Gibson Gallery, New York (solo)
1996 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1995 Five Easy Pieces, Ace Gallery, New York (solo)

Literature
2000 Bill Beckley, 'Sticky Sublime', Introduction for Sticky Sublime, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, New York
2000 Bill Beckley, 'All Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Innocent', Afterward of Dialectic of Decadence by Donald Kuspit, Allworth Press, NY
1999 Bill Beckley, 'Sublimitas Mobilist', Introduction to Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, NY,
1999 Bill Beckley, 'Doubting Thomas', Introduction to Sculpture in the Ager of Doubt by Thomas McEvilley, Allworth Press, and the School of Visual Arts, NY
1998 Tony Godfrey, Conceptual Art, Phaidon Press, London
1998 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, NY
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