BIOGRAPHY

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Born 1953, Shelbyville, Indiana; based in Central California since 1978.
BA in Architecture, University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art & Architecture, 1977.
Collections
Amblin Entertainment
Amnesty International
Apple Computers
Bank Boston
Chubb & Son Inc.
Compaq Computer
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
The Dayton Art Institute, OH
Delta Airlines
Eli Lilly & Co.
Hewlett Packard
Mandarin-Oriental Hotels International
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Lucas Film Enterprises
J.P. Morgan
Microsoft
Monterey Museum of Art
The Octagon Museum of the American Institute of Architects
Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, KY.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame
University of California at San Diego
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Colors of India, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA.
2013
Since Before the Moon Appeared: The Painted Legacy of Latin America, Museum of Monterey, Monterey, CA.
2011
Colors of India, Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, CA.
Becom's World of Color, Jennifer Katz Gallery, Los Angeles.
In the Footsteps of Father Serra, 1750-1758: The Five Folk-Baroque Mission Churches of Mexico's Sierra Gorda. Carmel Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio, Carmel, CA.
Mirage: Images of India, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX.
2009
Painted Shadows: Images of India; Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA.
2007
Mexico Revisited; John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX.
En Vista Llana / In Plain Sight: Weston Gallery, Carmel, California.
2006
New Color: Mexico & Peru, Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma.
2005
In Peruvian Time, Verve Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Outside of Time: New Work from Peru, Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA.
The Art of Travel: Photographs and Paintings, The Overlook Gallery, Nicholson Ranch / Barry Singer Gallery, Sonoma, California
Treinta Momentos: New Photographs from Peru, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas
Peruvian Tales: New Work, Weston Gallery, Carmel
2004
Nuevas Vistas: New Photographs and California Oil Paintings, Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, CA.
Near from Afar: New Paintings, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove,CA.
Fotoseptiembre: Maya Color, Rendon Photography & Fine Art, San Antonio, TX.
2003
Mediterranean Color Revisited, Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA.
Architect of Colors, Color Photographs and Oil and Wax Paintings by Jeffrey Becom, Verve Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
From the Mediterranean to Mexico, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX.
2000
The Maya and their Color Cosmos, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN.
Jeffrey Becom: Twenty Years-From the Mediterranean to Mexico, Weston Gallery, CA.
1999
Santos y Almas (Saints and Souls): Recent Images of Devotion, John Cleary Gallery, TX.
Mexico Central: 25 New Images, Weston Gallery, CA.
1998
Maya Color: House/Church/Tomb, American Architectural Foundation, Washington, D.C.
So That the Souls May Sing, Center for Photographic Art, CA.
Devotion: New Works, Weston Gallery, CA.
1997
Maya Color: Inaugural Exhibition, Weston Gallery, CA.
Maya Color, Lee Marks Fine Art, IN.
1996
Old World / New World Color, Weston Gallery, CA.
1995
New Photographs: Mesoamerica, Weston Gallery, CA.
1994
Images of Veracruz, Weston Gallery, CA.
1993
Architectural Journeys for the Colors, Octagon Museum, Washington, D.C.
Architect of Color, G. Gibson Gallery, WA.
1992
Jeffrey Becom: Color Photographs, Root Gallery, Tokyo.
1991
Paredes Pintadas: New Photographs and Paintings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, CA
1990
Mediterranean Color, Evans Gallery, ME.
Mediterranean Color, Susan Spiritus Gallery, CA.
1988
Photographs & Watercolors, Susan Spiritus Gallery, CA.
1986
Frescoed Walls: Recent Watercolors, Gallery Site 311, CA.
Introductions'86, Photographer's Gallery, CA.
1985
New Photographs: Portugal, Spain, Italy, David Scott Meier Gallery, CA.
1983
Italian Walls, Recent Watercolors, Gallery Site 311, CA.
1982
Watercolors of European Architecture, The Bruised Reed Gallery, CA.
Jeffrey Becom: Aquarellen, Galerie de Vries & Roeloff, Rotterdam.
1981
Watercolors of European Architecture, Philippe Bonnafont Gallery, CA.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
"Photography Through Time," Dayton Art Institute, Ohio.
2017
New Works Catalog Exhibtion, Carmel Art Association, CA.
Image Makers at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
Contemporary Realism, New Oil & Wax Paintings, with Pamela Carroll, Carmel Art Association, CA.
2016
Loteria Series, ambrotype in the 8 x 10 Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel.
2014
In the Footsteps of Legacy, Carmel Art Association at the Museum of Monterey, CA.
Heavenly Bodies, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA (catalogue).
@MOM: Imagemakers at the Museum of Monterey.
Color Squared, New Oil & Wax Paintings, with Melissa Lofton, Carmel Art Association.
2013
Figures Studied, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM.
2012
Photo Alchemy: Alternative Processes in Photographic Media; Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA.
2011
About Face: Peculiar Portraits; Garvey/Simon Art Access & Lee Marks Fine Art, Carmel, IN.
Fur, Fins & Feathers; Columbus Museum of Art, OH.
6IX, with Lucas Blok, Charlie Craddock, Nancy Rawls Roberts, Meredith Stricker and Thom Cowen, M42 Studio/Gallery, Carmel Valley, CA.
Horizons 20/21, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN.
2010
Saturated with Color, with photographers Maggie Taylor and Nevada Wier, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM.
2009
Yesterday & Tomorrow: Issues in Contemporary Photography, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis.
Luminosity: The Art of Image Making, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
2008
Photographs: In Conversation with Robinson Jeffers, curated by Kim Weston, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
2007
Forty Years of Fine Art Photography, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel.
2006
Alternative Processes: Tintypes, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA.
2002
Dias De Los Muertos, with mixed media artists, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA.
Publications
2009
In the Footsteps of Father Junipero Serra: The Five Folk-Baroque Mission Churches of Mexico's Sierra Gorda; with photographs by Jeffrey Becom, drawings by Richard Perry and text by Dr. Julianne Burton (Anthony's Gate Publications, Monterey).
2003
One Planet (Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria, Australia), selected images.
1997
Maya Color: The Painted Villages of Mesoamerica (Abbeville Press, NY) co-authored with Sally Jean Aberg; French edition: Villages peints des Mayas (Paris).
1992
Mediterranean Color Postcard Book (Abbeville Press, NY).
1990
Mediterranean Color (Abbeville Press, New York), with foreword by Paul Goldberger
Films
2012
Interview subject of the Mark Baer film "100 Stories Project," for Museum of Monterey, CA.
2010
Interview subject of the Douglas Ethridge video "The Colors of Culture," for Verve Gallery of Photography.
2009
Subject, writer and narrator of a segment in the hour-long documentary "Craco: Journeys Through Time," produced by The Craco Society.
1990
Subject, writer and narrator of the hour-long BBC/PBS documentary "For the Colors, A Journey Through Italy.”
Awards
2012
Juried into the legendary Carmel Art Association as a painter.
2002
Pacific Grove Heritage Society Architectural Design award, Craftsman cottage, 115 14th Street.
1999
Outstanding Achievement award, City of Pacific Grove Arts Commission.
1998
Lowell Thomas gold award for "Best Travel Book, 1997," Society of American Travel Writers.
1995
Rotarian Arts and Humanities award, Shelbyville, Indiana.