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Tad Beck (b. 1968, Exeter, New Hampshire) received a B.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1991, and an M.F.A. in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, in 2003. He lives and works in New York City and Vinalhaven, Maine.
Beck has had solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (artist's monograph with texts by Brian T. Allen and Michael Ned Holte) and Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Beck's work has also been exhibited on the west coast at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles; the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside; Krowswork, Oakland, California; the Sheppard Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno; and Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles. In 2012, Beck presented a large body of collaborative works made with the artist Jennifer Locke at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions entitled Capsize, for which a catalogue was produced in conjunction with the University of Nevada, Reno with texts by Marjorie Vecchio, Robert Crouch, Jennifer Doyle, and Grant Wahlquist.
Beck has been the subject of solo exhibitions on the east coast at Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York; Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York; Gleason Fine Art, Portland, Maine (catalogue with text by Kelly Wise); the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine; and Spectrum Gallery, Boston. Beck has also exhibited at the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Ogunquit Museum of Art; Apex Art, New York; the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York; Debs & Co., New York; Castelli Gallery, New York; and Dru Arstark, New York.
Beck was previously faculty at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts. Beck's work has been written about in The Huffington Post, Art Scene, LA Weekly, the East Bay Express, Art Practical, Aspect: the Chronicle of New Media Art, Art New England, The Boston Globe, and Time Out. His work is represented in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Fisher Landau Center for Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Sweeney Gallery at the University of California Riverside, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, among others. |