JOHN BEECH
Born

1964 Winchester, England

Education

1986 B.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2006 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 "Recent Sculpture and Large Scale Drawings," Peter Blum, New York, NY
2005 "New Sculpture Made on Site and Drawings," Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
2004 "John Beech Works 1989-2004," Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2004 "John Beech from the Collection," Albright Knoz Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2004 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Sante Fe, NM
2004 Stifung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2004 Peter Blum, New York, NY
2004 Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2003 Peter Blum, New York, NY Archive Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Brooklyn Library, Grand Army Plaza, New York
2002 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 "Rotating Paintings," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Recent Work," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Built on Site: New Sculpture + Photo-drawings," TD 156, San Francisco, CA
2000 Alexander Nagel, Toronto, Canada
2000 Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1998 The Locker Plant, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
1997 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1997 Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1996 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994 Miles Bellamy-113 Crosby, New York, NY
1993 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Sculpture Built on the Premises", Upaya Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1990 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1989 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 "New Order," Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 "Spring Fever," Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2006 "Two Step," Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2006 "Eccentric Abstraction," Galerie M+R Fricke, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006 "Minimalisms," Gallery W52, New York, NY
2006 "Painted Objects," CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2006 "Artists for Chinati," Phillips de Pury, New York, NY
2006 "Spectrum," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2005 "Painted Objects," PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 "I Remain the Same: Changed," Center Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2005 "Extreme Abstraction," Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2005 "The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2005 "Beyond Monochrome," Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 "MinimalPop," Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium
2005 "Variations on Yellow," Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 "Drawings," Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2004 "Molti Multipli," CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2004 "Von a bis 2: Editionen," Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2004 "20 Years: Multiples," Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2004 "In Focus: Themes in Photography," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2004 "John Beech/David Thomas, Foreign Affairs 3," Proximus, Bonn, Germany
2004 "MinimalPop," Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "Void," Educational Alliance Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "Large Format Works on Paper," Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2003 "Multiples," Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2003 "Selections from the Natalie and Irving Forman Collection," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2003 "24." Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX
2003 "Modelle des Konkreten," Stiflung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2003 "Small Colours," Galerie Eva Mack, Stuttgart, Germany
2003 "New Acquisitions," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2003 "Real Red," Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2003 "John Beech, Simon Lee, Christopher Lesnewski, Collaborative Drawings, 1998-2003," Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2003 "John Beech / Stephanie Brooks," Peter Blum, NY
2002 "Las Vegas Collects," Goodman-Duffy Collection, Las Vegas Art Museum, NV
2002 Drawing Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition, New York, NY
2002 "Five," Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2002 "XXL1," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2002 "In a Silent Way," Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2002 "Two Step, Video / Sound" CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2002 "Benefit Exhibition," Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2001 "Fifteen Years of Painting," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "Surfaces & Support Systems," 123 Watts, New York, NY
2001 "El Paisano Hotel," Rudolph Projects, Marfa, TX
2001 "Anymore," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2001 "Art Brussels," CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2000 "The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions," Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Trajectories," Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn , NY
2000 "From Rags To Riches," Foundation de la Tapisserie de Arts, Tournai, Belgium
2000 "From Idea to Matter: Nine Sculptors," Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (Edward Albee, curator)
2000 "Minimalism Then and Now," UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2000 "Industry," Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
1999 "Six Person Exhibition," Petra Bungert Projects, Brussels, Belgium
1999 "John Beech & Christopher Lesnewski: Sculpture and Collaborative Drawings," The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1999 "Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green?" Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Horizontal Vertigo," Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
1999 "Material Issues: Recent Gifts from the Katherine and James Gentry Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1999 "Of ten," Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, New York
1999 "Fetes de Saint Martin Tourinnes La Grosse," near Brussels, Belgium
1999 "Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1998 "The Art of Collaborative Printmaking," Smith Andersen Editions, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
1998 "9 + 1," Petra Bungert Projects, Brussels, Belgium
1998 "All That is Solid," Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
1998 "Blunt Object," Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
1998 "Seven Year Itch," Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
1998 "Here & Now," Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1998 "Escape Velocity," Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
1997 "Pierogi 2000 'The Flatfiles Drawings'," The Gasworks, London, England, traveled to Manchester, England
1997 Momenta Art, Brooklyn , NY
1997 "Aspects of Space," Trans Husdon Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "The Substance of Painting," Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (two person show)
1995 "Gridluck," Marge Goldwater Inc., New York, NY
1995 Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1995 "Into a New Museum, Part II," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Plastic," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 "20th Anniversary Exhibition," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 "Traction," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1994 "The Gluers," Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
1993 "Edward Albee's Other Eye, Sculptural Objects from the Edward Albee and Edward F. Albee Foundation Collections," Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University', Brookville, NY
1993 "Objecthood," Mills College, Oakland, CA
1993 "Still Lives," Zen Center Hospice Volunteer Program Guest House, San Francisco, CA
1992 "SECA Award Exhibition," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1992 "Re*Generation," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1991 "Towards a New Museum," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Gallery II," (3-person show), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Selections San Francisco/Bay Area," The Drawing Center,New York, New York; traveled to Pro-Arts, Oakland, CA
1990 "(CON-TEXT)," Richard/ Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "The Store," Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Summer 91," Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Re: Imperfect Affinities" (3-person show), XS Gallery, Carson City, NV
1989 "Introductions '89," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1988 "Chain Reaction IV," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Graduation Exhibition, White Room, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Grants and Awards

1999 The Pollack-Krasner Award
1998 The Chinati Foundation, Residency, Marfa, Texas
1992 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1985 Maybelle Toombs Award for Practice in Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Selected Collections

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Laguna Art Museum, CA
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Natalie and Irving Forman, Santa Fe, NM
Robert Dunn, San Francisco, CA
Bank of America , Los Angeles, California
Edward Albee, New York, New York
Agnes Bourne, San Francisco, California
Steven Oliver, Orinda, California
Martin Margulies, Coconut Grove, Florida
Matthew & Nancy Browar, La Jolla, California
Robertson Stevens & Co., San Francisco, California
Roselyne C. Swig, San Francisco, California
Sidley and Austin, New York, NY
Pfizer Corp., New York, NY
Maria Panza, Switzerland