Artist Statement
I am an artist-photographer deeply engaged by what it means to be a 21st-century American. My most recent project, "The Converts" (2011-present) explores the experiences of individual Americans who have converted to Islam. "Simulating Iraq" (2007-2010) is a project that deals with American military training for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Born and raised in Chicago, Claire Beckett earned a BA in Anthropology at 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 College of Art.
Claire Beckett is represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston. Her photographs have been featured in solo exhibitions at Carroll and Sons, Bernard Toale Gallery, the University of Rhode Island, and the Wadsworth Atheneum and in group shows at Mass MoCA, the Chelsea Museum of Art, the Haggerty Museum, the deCordova Museum, the Photographic Resource Center, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Hendershot Gallery, FOTODOK (NL), and the Noorderlicht Festival (NL), among others. She is a recipient of an Artadia Award, a Blanche Coleman Award, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and has been artist-in-residence at Light Work.
Claire Beckett resides in Boston, where she is a full-time visiting faculty member in photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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