Becky Brown was born in Manhattan and currently lives in the Bronx. She works between painting, drawing, sculpture and installation using found images, objects and texts.
Becky received her MFA from Hunter College and a BA from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Drawing Center, NYC; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; Fort Gondo Complex for the Arts, St. Louis, MO; YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL; Cleopatra’s Berlin, Germany; and Religare Arts Initiative, Delhi, India.
She has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, I-Park Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, among others. Brown has written art criticism for Art in America since 2014, and for the Brooklyn Rail since 2007 and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College.