Becky Brown works between painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation using found images, objects, and texts. Both 2D and 3D compositions depend on a logic of density, excess, and squishing things together. Diverse materials inform her practice, including pre-modern poetic forms, current headlines, photo-journalism, and discarded appliances. Her work has been exhibited at venues including The Drawing Center, New York; Dixon Place, New York; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York; Fort Gondo Complex for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri; and Religare Arts Initiative, Delhi, India.
She has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Saltonstall Foundation, among others. Her art criticism has been published in Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail. She received her MFA from Hunter College and her BA from Brown University.
She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College.