Julie Becker

1972 Born Los Angeles, CA

1993 BFA, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia

1995 MFA, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia

1998 Artist in Residence, Stiftlung Laurenz-Haus Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

Solo Exhibitions

2003 Sightings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2000 In Sync: Cinema and Sound in the work of Julie Becker and Christian Marcaly, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1997 Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland, curated by Bernhard Burgi

Group Exhibitions

2007 - The Shapes of Space. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2006 - 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain.

           The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society

2004 - Strawberry Fields, La Colleccion Jumex, Guadalajara, Mexico

           Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York

2003 - Sodium Dreams, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2002 - Julie Becker, Padraig Timoney and Kelley Walker, Greene Naftali, New York

Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop Music, Tate Liverpool, England

2001 - Casino, curated by Jeanne Greenberg, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

The Slide Area, curated by Terry Myers, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels

2000 - Julie Becker / Dan Graham, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA

SHOCKWAVE, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Napoli, Italy

Trailer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

1999 - Peace, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich, Switzerland

A Place Called Lovely, Greene Naftali Gallery, NY, curated by Sima Familant

Another Girl Another Planet, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, NY,

curated by Jeanne Greenberg & Gregory Crewdson

Cinema Cinema - Contemporary Art and the Cinematic Experience,

Van AbbeMUSEUM, The Netherlands

Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

1998 - L.A. Times: Art from Los Angeles in the Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection, Italy

LA or Lilliput?, Long Beach Museum of Art, California, curated by Michael Darling

1997 - Model Terrains, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Carnegie Museum of Art,

Pittsburgh, PA

Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, curated by Douglas Fogle

Defamiliar: Julie Becker, Miles Coolidge, Thomas Demand, Regen Projects,

Los Angeles

Broken Home, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, curated by Meg O’Rourke & Caroline Schneider

Gothic, ICA, Boston, Portland Art Museum, Washington, curated by Christoph

Grunenberg

New Works: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, curated by

Gary Garrells

Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York, curated by Thomas Lawson,

1996 - Universalis: 23. Bienal Internacional Sao Paolo, North American Section, Sao

Paulo, Brazil, curated by Paul Schimmel, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo & Parque

do Ibirapuera

Summer Group Show, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

1995 - Dave Mueller’s Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles

1993 - L.A. La Land, NewSpace, Los Angeles

Bibliography

2002 Smith, Roberta, Review, “Julie Becker, Padraig Timoney, Kelley Walker” New York Times, Friday, September 27, 2002.

2001 von Schlegell, Mark, “Sparkle Girl”, artext, February – April, p. 44-49.

2000 Muller, Markus, “Julie Becker: The Invisible is Real (Walter De Maria)”, Afterall,

Issue 2.

Wollen, Peter, “Julie Becker”, Afterall, Issue 2.

1999 Henry, Max, Review, “Another Girl Another Planet”, Flash Art, May-June, p. 61.

Arning, Bill, “The Sisters from Another Planet”, TimeOut New York, April 8-15.

Gibbs, Michael, Review, “Cinema, Cinema”, Art Monthly, no. 225, April, p. 24-26.

de Mol, Paul, “Cinema Cinema in Van Abbemuseum”, Brabant Cultureel, vol. 48,

no. ½, Jan/Feb, p. 31-33.

Barragan, Paco “Cinema, Cinema”, El Periodico del Arte, Abril de 1999, p. 18

1998 Wilson, William, “ ‘Lilliput’: Small Art in the Big City of L.A.”, L.A. Times

Baltin, Brian, “Small is Psychedelic: Los Angeles under a microscope”, LA Weekly,

November 27-December 3

Hauptman, Jodi, “Imagining Cities - Julie Becker’s Metropolitan Labyrinths”,

Fernand Leger, Museum of Modern Art, exhibition catalogue, p. 91-97, ill.

Darling, Michael, L.A. or Lilliput?, Long Beach Museum of Art, exh cat.

1997 Julie Becker; Researchers, Residents, a Place to Rest, Interview with

Bernhard Burgi, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland, exhibition catalogue.

Greene, David A., Review, “Hot Coffee”, Frieze, May, pp. 76-77.

Grunenberg, Christoph, editor, “Unsolved Mysteries”, Gothic Transmutations in Late Twentieth Century Art, ICA-Boston, Spring, p. 190-191, exhibition catalogue.

Kurjakovic, Daniel, Geister in den Wanden:Absalon und Julie Becker in der Kunsthalle, Neue Zurcher Zitung, June 10.

Lauter Whonungen und einige Spuren von ihrer Bewohnung,Vorarlberger Nachrichten, June 21-22, ill.

Leffingwell, Edward, “Report from San Paulo: Nationalism and beyond”,

Art in America, March, p. 35-41.

Maureer, Simon, Behausungen ur Korper und Geist Zuriptip, May 30, p.65, ill.

Myers, Terry R. “Julie Becker: un lieu ou sejourner/A Place to Rest”, Art Press,

No. 223, April, pp.42-46.

Rugoff, Ralph, “LA’s Female Art Explosion”, Harper’s Bazaar, April p.204-205, 246.

Saltz, Jerry, “Regular, No Sugar”, TimeOut New York, February 27-March 6.

Schjeldahl, Peter, “La-La Band”, Review of "Hot Coffee" at Artists Space, The Village Voice, February 18, vol. XLII, No. 7.

Smith, Roberta, “The Horror: Updating the Heart of Darkness”, The New York Times, June 1.

Wuest, Karl, Reale und mentale Raumbjekte als Lebensmetapher Neue Luzerner Zeitung, June 2.

1996 Kraus, Chris, catalogue essay, Universalis: 23. Bienal Internacional Sao Paolo,

North American Section, curated by Paul Schimmel, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo

& Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 5-December 8, p.160-161,

exhibition catalogue.

Saltz, Jerry, Review, “Summer Group Show”, TimeOut New York, July 24-31.

Schimmel, Paul “Fool's Gold”, Universalis - 23. Bienal Internacional Sao Paolo,

North American Section, curated by Paul Schimmel, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo

& Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 5-December 8, p. 134-135.

Public Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Denver Art Museum

Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich, Switzerland