DAVID BECK CHRONOLOGY
1953-2018
Born in Muncie, Indiana
EDUCATION
1971–1972
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1973–1976
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, B.F.A.
EXHBITIONS
2020
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
The Art of David Beck: A Memorial Exhibition, Hackett Mill, New York, NY (solo)
2019
Window to Other Worlds: Box Assemblages from the Allan Stone Collection, Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
2018
Grand Salon: The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone, Allan Stone Collection, Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY
Draughtsmanship: Selected Drawings from the Allan Stone Collection, Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
Exposition Chicago, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, Chicago, IL
2017
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
Exposition Chicago, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, Chicago, IL
2016
David Beck, Alligator Maintenance and Other Esoterica, Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY (solo)
Small Scales: Lands of Enchantment, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Exposition Chicago, Hackett Mill, Chicago, IL
2015
Dancing with Dystopia, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Exposition Chicago, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, Chicago, IL
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
2014-2015
The Singing and The Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2014
Exposition Chicago, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, Chicago, IL
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
2013
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
2012
David Beck and Robert Schwartz Exhibition, Hackett Mill, San Francisco, CA
SF ArtMRKT, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, San Francisco, CA
The Armory Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, New York, NY
2011
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, Art Fair, Hackett Mill, San Francisco, CA
2008
Gallery Group, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2006
MVSEVM, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2004
La Naturecanique, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000–2002
Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. Traveled to: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ; MoMA P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Queens, NY; Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona Spain; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott and Lea Rosson DeLong, organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.
1999
Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Neshui Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1989–1999
L’Opera, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.(solo)
1998
L’Opéra, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1993–1996
Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY
1994
Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY (solo)
Darwin and Darwinism: Exhibition on Natural and Cultural History, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
1993
Fauna & Figures: The World According to David Beck, National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (solo)
The Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (solo)
1990–1992
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1990
Iridescence, The Bruce Museum Greenwich, CT1977–1987
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1986
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Homage to Joseph Cornell, Silvermine Art Center. New Canaan, CT
1985
This Is Not a Pipe Organ, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Last Prom, Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY
1984
Momentary Indescretions, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
ID, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Nocturne, Siegel Contemporary art Gallery, New York, NY
Works of Fantasy & Imagination, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Peekskill, NY
1982
An Orchestra, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Dodo Museum, Betsey Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
Box Constructions, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Recent Pigs, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1979
A Rhinoceros & Other Creatures, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Thirty Years of Box Construction, Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1978
Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1977
Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Recent Constructions, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1976
New Talent Show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Bergman Collection, Chicago, IL.
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
SELECTED ARTICLES, REVIEWS, AND CATALOGS
Remembering the Curious Worlds of Sculptor David Beck, by Oriande Stender, Hyperallergic, November 8, 2018
A Many-Splendored Ode to the Dodo, by John Yau, Hyperallergic, January 31, 2016
David Beck and Robert Schwartz, Reviews, ARTnews, P.113, October, 2012
ART: CLOSE READING; Behind Miniature Doors, an Exotic World, by Kattryn Shattuck, The New York Times, October 29, 2006
ART IN REVIEW; David Beck -- ‘La Naturecanique’, by Grace Glueck, The New York Times, February 6, 2004
David Beck at Allan Stone, by Michaël Amy, Art in America, Vol. 87, No. 4, April, 1999
ART IN REVIEW, by Grace Glueck, The New York Times, October 30, 1998
David Beck, L’Opéra, Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer, John A. Parks, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1998
DAVID BECK: ‘FAUNA’ AND GAMES’, by Hank Burchard, The Washington Post, March 4, 1993
Between Painting and Drawing, by Denise Bibro, ARTSPEAK, Vol. 3, No. 16, P. 3, New York, NY, April 9, 1981
REVIEW: David Beck, by John Deckert, ARTS MAGAZINE, P. 15, April, 1980
FILM
2015
CURIOUS WORLDS: The Art and Imagination of David Beck Written by Jody Becker, Directed by Olympia Stone.Produced by Jody Becker, Marie Chao, Matthew J. Siegel.Executive Producer: Olympia Stone, Floating Stone Productions. Cinematographer: Marie Chao, Matthew J. Siegel. Composer: William Noertker
