Born in Columbus, Ohio 1952. Currently working in Connecticut.

Ford Beckman has mounted one-person exhibitions in New York, Dusseldorf, Rome, Milan, Los Angeles, and many other international art centers. His work is found in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modem Art; the Panza Collection, Italy; the Saatchi Collection, London; the Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano and many others.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2002 Galerie Brennecke, Berlin

2001 Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Koln

1999 Galerie Academia, Salzburg
Galerie Brennecke, Berlin
Robert McClain & Co., Houston

1998 Galerie Baumler, Regensburg

1997 Kunstverein, Augsburg
Galerie Hachmeister, Munster

1996 Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica
Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville am Rhein
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
Galerie Academia, Salzburg

1995 Galerie Baumler, Regensburg
Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville am Rhein
TransArt, Koln

1994 Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville am Rhein
Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Galerie Buchmann, Basel

1993 Galerie Buchmann, Basel
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Galleria Il Ponte, Roma

1992 Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund
Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
Galerie Hans Mayer (Pop Show), Dusseldorf
Lindblad Thorden Gallery, Goteborg

1991 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

1990 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Schmidt/Markow Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Scott Hanson Gallery, New York

1988 Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2002 La Collezione Panza di Biumo, Gran Guardia Palace, Verona
Works on Paper 8.3.2002-2.5.2002, Galerie Baumler, Regensburg
Small Works Show, McClain Gallery, Houston
Gallery Artists, McClain Gallery, Houston
2001 Pop Paintings: Andy Warhol/Ford Beckman, Galerie ATN, Hannover
I Love New York, McClain Gallery, Houston
2000 Beckman, Malone and Twombly, Robert McClain & Co., Houston
Beckman, Fleck, Palavrakis, Strawalde, Zimmer, Galerie Brennecke, Berlin
1999 New Work - New York , Robert McClain & Co., Houston
25 Years of Galerie Baumler, Regensburg
Geometry as Design-Structures of Modern Art from Albers to Paik,
Neue National Galerie, Berlin
Ford Beckman: New Works, Robert McClain & Co., Houston
1998 Art is Fun, Life is Serious, Artscope, Bruxelles
Master Drawings of the 20th Century, Galerie Baumler, Regensburg
La Collezione Panza Di Biumo, Palazzo Ducale of Gubbio, Italy
Small Works, Robert McClain & Co., Houston
1997 Abstraction Paintings and Sculpture, Robert McClain & Co., Houston
Galerie Academia, Salzburg
LICHT - RAUM - SCHWARZ, Ford Beckman, Antonio Catelani, Manfred Egender, Jonathan Lasker, Gunter Umberg, Berufsvereinigung Der Bildenden Kunstler Vorarlbergs, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn Und Taxis
1996 America Meets Europe, Galerie Baumler, Regensburg
La Collezione Panza di Biumo, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto
Kulturzerehen Krenz, Drozesan Museum Obermunster, Regensburg
1995 Andoe - Baechler - Beckman: Recent Editions, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Pierrot, Melancholie und Maske, Haus der Kunst, Munchen
Colour aund Paint, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
A Passion For The New, New Art in Tel Aviv
Collections, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
(W)ho (W) are you? Anders Tornberg Galleri, Lund
Glaube Hottnung Laebe Tod, Kunsthalle Wien
1994 Le Cirque, Renee Fotouhi Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Art & Jeans Matier, Memoire, Idee, Passage de Retz, Paris
20 Jahre Galerie Baumler. “Ein Blick zuruck und nach vorn,” Galerie Baumler, Regensburg
1993 Paint and Painted, Fisher Landau Center, New York
1992 American Art Today: Surface Tension, The Art Museum, Florida
International University, Miami
Theoretically Yours, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Aosta
The Eighties and the Nineties from the Collection of Count Panza di Biumo, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
Who’s Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism and Passport Photography? Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1991 Outside America . . . Going into the 90’s, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Who Framed Modern Art or The Quantative Life of Roger Rabbit,
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
After Reinhardt/The Ecstasy of Denial, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York
A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi,
New York
18 x Kunst aus New York, Galerie Lohrl, Monchengladbach
1990 With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut
Summer Exhibit, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
Garage, Curated by Alan Jones, New York
Clyfford Still: A Dialogue, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York
1989 Surface & Intent: Joseph Amar, Ford Beckman, Carole Seborovski, Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University and Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Richmond, Virginia
Group Show, Baghoomian Gallery, New York
Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Black & White Paintings, Schmidt/Markow Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1988 Primary Structures, Gilbert Brownstone Gallery, Paris
Off White, Diane Brown Gallery, New York
Route 27, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Group Show, Baghoomian Gallery, New York
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmo
Color Alone: The Experience of Monochrome, Musee St. Pierre, Art
Contemporain, Lyon
The New Poverty II, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York
The New Poverty, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Material Art, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York

PUBLICATIONS:
1996 Am Rande des Scheiterns, Kestner-Gesellschaft zeigt den Maler Ford
Beckman, Alexandra Glanz, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 7. 5. 1996
Ford Beckman laBt die Clowns traurig grinsen, Peter Winter, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, 28. 5. 1996
Lacheln hinter schwarzen Mauern, Hannovers Kestner-Gesellschaft zeigt
Beckmans “Abstract & Pop Paintings” Karm Dzionara, 7.5.1996
Durchknallte Clowns and Comics und sundige, schwarze Bilder, Kestner- Gesellschaft prasentiert umfassend den US-Maler Ford Beckman, Henning Queren, 4. 5. 1996
Ford Beckman - Maler und Jongleur mit Stilen, Gottes Werk und des Kunstlers Beitrag, Martin Tschechne, ART Das Kunstmagazin, Hamburg, November 1996
1995 Ford Beckman: Die Nasen so rot und die Wunden so tief, Joseph Berlinger, Mittelbayerische Zeitung Regensburg, 16 January 1995
Das Lachen uber der Wunde, Ford Beckman’s “Popworks” in der Galerie Baumler, Helmut Hern, Die Woche. Regensburg, 19 January 1995
Andoe - Bacchler - Beckman Recent Editions, Robert W. Duffy, St. Louis Post
Dispatch, March 16, 1995
Heute in die Galerie: Ford Beckman’s Clowns. Dorothee Baer-Bogenschutz, Frankfurter Rundschau, 11 April 1995
Das nicht Greifbare wird sichtbar. Ulrike Eldracher. Wiesbadener Tagblatt,\
21 April 1995
Schlussel zum Himmel, Constanze Cruwell, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Kunstmarkt, 15 June 1995
Der Maler Ford Beckman, Die besten Maler sind in New York, Marianne Hoffmann, Kunst Koln 2/95
Lustiger Clown, trauriger Clown, Beathe Eickhoff, Kolner Stadtanzeiger, 7 June 1995
1994 Ford Beckman, Jonathan Turner, Next, Winter 1993/94
Ford Beckman, Come One Come All Children of All Ages to the Greatest Show on Earth, Interview with Ford Beckman by Mario Codognato, Catalogue essay Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milano 1994
Made in the USA- Statgion di un Clown, Quadri come autoritratti di
Beckman, Sebastiano Grasso, Il Corriere della Sera, March 20, 1994
Ford Beckman, Roberto Vidali, Juliet Art Magazine, October, n. 66 February - March 1994
Ford Beckman, Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea/Milano, Eugenio Gazzola,
Segno, March 1994
Ford Beckman at Gian Ferrari, Maria Grazia Torri, Flash Art Italia,
March 1994
Und immer wieder grinst der Clown, Wiesbadener Tagblatt, Rhein-Main-
Presse, 30 Marz 1994
L’inventiva Privata fa la Mostra, Roberto Vidali, La Cronaca del Nord,
April 9, 1994
Beckman l’alfiene di Minimal e Pop Art, Galleria gian Ferrari, Marinella Paterniti, Lombardia oggi, April 17, 1994
Ford Beckman, Review, Il Giornale Dell’Arte, April 1994
Ford Beckman: Pop Show-Clown Portraits, Roma in Mostra, May 1994
Ford Beckman, Elena di Raddo, Tema Celeste, Summer 1994
Ford Beckman at Galleria Gian Ferrari, Elisabeth Hellman Minchilli, Art News, September 1994
Ford Beckman, Maria Campitelli, Juliet Art Magazine, Oct. - Nov. 1994
Face Value, exhibition catalogue essay by Charles A. Riley H Ph. D., Galerie Ribbentrop 1994
1993 Der Clown als Ikone unserer Zeit, Sabine Gebhardt, Basler Zeitung (Feuilleton), 28 Januar 1993
Ford Beckman, Basel Review, Gerhardt Mack, Kunst-Bulletin Nr. 1/2, Januar- Februar 1993
Ford Beckman, Roberto Vidali, Juliet Art Magazine, October 1993
Skin Deep exhibition catalogue essay by Jonathan Turner, Galleria Il Ponte, Roma 1993
1992 Ford Beckman, Joan Snitzer, Tema Celeste, January, March 1992
The Paris Review, Spring 1992, No. 122, Table of Contents illustration (Reproduction of “Pop Painting” 1991)
En alldeles egen Pop Konst, Maria Werner, Sydvenska Dagbladet, March 7, 1992
Bildtext, Jelena Zetterstrom, Sydvenska Dagbladet, March 23, 1992
The Eighties and the Nineties from the Collection of Count Panza di Biumo, essay by Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, exhibition catalogue, April 1992
American Art Today: Surface Tension, Stephen Westlall
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Who’s Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism and Passport Photography?, Annina
Nosei Gallery, New York, exhibition catalogue, 1993
1991 Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit, essay by
Collins & Milazzo, exhibition catalogue, January 10 - February 9, 1991
Dossier: New York! New York!, ed. Horst WInz with Rainer Gross and
Clemens Weiss, Juni, Edition 2.3/1991
Outside America. . . Going into the 90’s, essay by Collins & Milazzo, exhibition catalogue, Fay Gold Gallery, 1991
Recalling others’ works: Why?, Roberta Smith, The New York Times,
November 29, 1991
1990 Minimalism on the March More and More, Less and Less Roberta Smith, The New York Times, January 26, 1990
Existential Blocks Ford Beckman, Collins & Milazzo, Tema Celeste, January -
March 1990
Talk of the Trade, Charles A. Riley II, Art & Auction, March 1990
Buena Vista, Alan Jones, Tema Celeste, January - March 1990
Ford Beckman, Gnostic Painter: The New Suprematism of Surface and Light, exhibition catalogue essay by Donald Kuspit, Tony Shafrazi Gallery,
New York, 1990
A Curatorial Project: Ford Beckman, Collins & Milazzo, Scott Hanson Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 1990
Ford Beckman at Tony Shafrazi and Scott Hanson, Sandra Goldman, Art
News, April 1990
Painters Embracing Wood, Vivian Rainor, The New York Times,
April 29, 1990
Ford Beckman at Tony Shafrazi and Scott Hanson, John Zinsser, Art in
America, July 1990
Past, Present, Future: Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, Stuart Morgan, Artscribe, Summer 1990
A Black and White World, Joan Levinson, The Riverfront Times, October 1990
The Varnished Truth, Alexandra Bellos, The Riverfront Times, October 1990
1989 Surface and Intent: Joseph Amar, Ford Beckman, Carole Seborovski, Essay by Steven High, Virginia Commonwealth University, exhibition catalogue,
1988 Color Alone The Experience of Monochrome, Musee St. Pierre, exhibition catalogue, 1988
Art at the End of the Social, essay by Collins & Milazzo, Rooseum
exhibition catalogue
Kunst vid Samhallets Slut. Britt Yngveson, Sydvenska Dagbladet, July 1988
The New Poverty, Essay by Collins & Milazzo, John Gibson Gallery,
exhibition catalogue, 1987

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Thomas Ammann, Zurich
Peter Brant, New York
Emily Fisher Landau, New York
: Janet Green, London
Panza Collection, Italy
Saatchi Collection, London
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Israeli Museum, Jerusalem
The Chrysler Museum, Virginia
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
Städl Museum, Frankfurt
DaimlerChrysler Collection, Stuttgart
Kunstverein Augsburg E.V.
Fondo Per l’Ambiente Italiano
Museo Canonale d’Arte, Lugano
Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio
Essl Collection, Vienna