Claire Beckett’s photographs have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum and Carroll and Sons Art Gallery, and in group shows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass MoCA, the National Portrait Gallery, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Aperture Foundation, and FOTODOK (NL), among others. She has been awarded an Artadia Award and was artist-in-residence at Light Work. Her work has been featured in Artforum, American Art, Public Culture and The Boston Globe.
A monograph of her work, Defense Language, will be published by GOST Book in November 2025.
Collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. Claire Beckett earned a BA in Anthropology from Kenyon College. She then worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, before going on to earn an MFA in Photography at Mass Art.
Claire Beckett is based in Boston, Massachusetts.