Tommy Becker
2001 MFA – Film, Video, Performance | California College of the Arts, SF CA
1998/99 - Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies | San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA
1994 BA - International/Japanese Regional Studies | University of the Pacific, Stockton CA
1992 - Kwansei Gakuin University | Osaka, Japan
2013
OPTRONICA, "Song for Primary Colors", Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA | video poem reading | curated by Craig Baldwin
2012
17 Days | "Song for the Movement of Snow Angels" | Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University | http://17days.wordpress.com/ | curated by Adriane Little
Strange Beauty Film Festival | "Song for Bobby XP1 & Song for the Collectors" | Man Bites Dog Theater, Durham, NC - January 24-26th | curated by Jim Haverkamp & Joyce Ventimiglia
Visible Verse - "Song for Elliott Jaques" & "Song for
Disobedient Youth", Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC | curated by Heather Haley
Shapeshifters Cinema, Arbor, Oakland CA | TAPE NUMBER ONE | video poem reading | curated by Gilbert Guerrero and Kathleen Quillian
The 31st Black Maria Film Festival | “Song for Hellos and Goodbyes” - Jury’s Citation | touring experimental film festival
2012
Crossroads Film Festival - San Francisco Cinematheque, Victoria
Theater, SF, CA | video poem reading | curated by Steve Polta
Royal
Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA | “Pages of Video, TAPE NUMBER ONE: side
one” | print work, single channel video & video poem reading
2011
AMP art micro patronage | Material Motion | online exhibition | curated by Sarah Klein presented by The Present Group artmicropatronage.org
ATA Film and Video Festival 2011, SF CA | video poem reading
Basement Media Fest, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, New York | TAPE NUMBER ONE side one | screening
Krowswork, Oakland CA | “2011 Summer of Video Art” | video poem reading | curated by Jasmine Moorhead
Other Cinema, SF CA | Avant to Live, New Experimental Works | video poem reading | curated by Craig Baldwin
Temescal Street Cinema, Oakland CA | “Experimentation + Animation” | screening | curated by Kathleen Quillian
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee WI | TAPE NUMBER ONE side one | screening
E6 Gallery, SF CA | “Say Something!” | video poem reading | curated by Ashley Lauren Saks
Roxie
Theater, SF CA | “Playback 2006-2010” A five year retrospective of
ATA’s Film & Video Festival | video reading | curated by Isabel Fondevilla & Shae
Green
MICROWAVEFEST, Hong Kong Space Museum, China | Selected Shorts From ATA’s 4th Film & Video Festival | screening
2008 - 2010
ATA FIlm and Video Festival 2009, SF CA | “Stories We Tell Ourselves” | screening
Manresa Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA | “The Icon & The Iconic” curated by James Blaettler & Lynn Kirby | video installation
Climate Theater, SF CA | “TAPE NUMBER ONE” - Night Visions Series curated by Kaliisa Conlon, & Brendan Leonard | video poem reading
HALLWALLS Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY | “TAPE NUMBER ONE” | solo installation / video poem reading
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery | “Poems to be Read With Small Stones” part of the series, “A Grass Mound” curated by Anthony Marcellini | instructional poetry reading
Electric Works Gallery, SF CA | Stop & Go Film Festival, traveling festival curated by Sarah Klein
2006 - 2007
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, SF, CA | “Inchoate”, a multifaceted show celebrating the California College of the Arts Centennial | installation
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA | Film and Video at California College of the Arts: Performative, Gestural, Collaborative Work -
celebrating the CCA Centennial | video poem reading
Artists’ Television Access Second Annual Film & Video Festival, SF CA | screening
De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands | screening
The Portland Documentary & Experimental Film Festival | screening
Freewaves’ 10thBiennial Film, Video & New Media Art Festival, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles | “Too Much Freedom?” | installation
Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX | Media Archeology Festival: Software Cinema | video poem reading
Best of Aurora Picture Show, Volume 3, touring show U.S. | screening
Artists’ Television Access First Annual Film & Video Festival, SF CA | screening
TART, San Francisco CA | “The Lords, Notes on Vision” | installation & video poem reading
Ninth Annual Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada | screening
Ampersand International Arts, SF, CA | “Interior Life” | installation
2004 - 2005
Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SF CA | “Bay Area Now 4” | installation & video poem reading
Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA | Artist in Residence
Art in General, New York, NY | “Audio in the Elevator” | installation
PlaySpace Gallery, SF CA | “Evidence Is Everywhere”, curated by Tanya Zimbardo, | installation
Invisible Venue | “You Don’t Know San Francisco”, curated by Christian L. Frock | on-line video
Oliver Art Center, Oakland CA | “Advance To Go” selected works from recent CCA alumni | installation
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF CA | “DEFUNCT” curated by SF Media Arts Council | installation
White Columns Gallery, NY NY | “Score: Action Drawing” curated by Marisa Olson | installation
San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA | The 11th SFAI Film & Video Festival | screening
2001 - 2003
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF CA | “Adventures in Video” | video poem reading | curated by Total Mobile Home
Catherine Clark Gallery, SF CA | “Introductions 2003” | installation
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA | Recent Revelations, “New Social Modeling” | screening
Video 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA | “Video Shorts by Tommy Becker” | solo screening
Southern Exposure, SF CA | Temporary Services “Audio Relay” | recorded spoken/music
Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, UW Seattle WA | “Signal 2 Noise” | screening
It Can Change, www.itcanchange.com| “Free Record Label”/“Clothing Project” | recorded spoken/music
Ampersand International Arts, SF CA | “Daily Docudrama” | solo installation
SF Camerawork, SF CA | “Same/Difference” | installation
WORKS, San Jose CA | “What Is Now” - Performance Art Festival | installation
SF Cinematheque @ Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley CA | “The Short & Shorter of It” | screening
Boston Underground Film Festival | “A Celebration of Alternative Visions” | screening
Film Fest New Haven | “7th Annual Film Fest New Haven” | screening
ATA @ Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA | “2002 Best of Open Screening” | screening
San Francisco Independent Film Festival | “Digital Underground” | screening
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA | “Alternative Requirements” | screening
WORKS, San Jose CA | “Viva la Video” a showcase of emerging Bay Area video artists | installation
Refusalon, SF CA | “Introductions 2001” | installation
GenArtSF, Herbst Int’l Exhibition Hall, SF CA | “New Fangle 2001” | installation & performance
Pond, SF CA | “Face II Face To Face”, curated by It Can Change | installation
ART RELATED SERVICE | AWARD & HONORS
San Francisco Cinematheque | Board of Directors (2002-2005)
Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA | Artist in Residence | 2005
“All College Honor Award” | California College of the Arts | Graduate Program Scholarship
Jurors’ Citation | The 11th San Francisco Art Institute Film & Video Festival
2001 MFA Commencement Speaker | California College of the Arts
GUEST ARTIST | TEACHING
Gateway High School, San Francisco, CA | visual arts/video instructor (2004-continuing)
JFK University, Berkeley, CA | Introduction to Video Art - MFA Studio Arts | adjunct professor (2006-2009)
Writing For the Moving Image, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Jeanne Finely | visiting artist (2012)
4D: Image, Motion & Process, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Aaron Gach | visiting artist (2012)
Beginning Video Production Class, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Lydia Greer | visiting artist (2009)
Senior Seminar, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2007)
Intro to Video, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Desiree Holman | visiting artist
Headlands Center For the Arts | “Inquisitive Machines & Melodramatic Scenes” | lecture (2005)
Reading and Writing About Visual Experience, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Marisa Olson | visiting artist (2005)
Writing For the Moving Image, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2005)
Media Arts, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2005)
New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, SF CA - Jon Rubin | visiting artist (2005)
Momentary Academy, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts curated by Ted Purves | visiting artist (2005)
Intro to Film/Video/Performance, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Jeanne Finely | visiting artist (2004)
San Francisco Media Arts Council, SF CA | visiting artist (2003)
Graduate Seminar, California College of the Arts, SF CA | visiting artist (2003)
Intro to Film/Video/Performance, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Jeanne Finely | visiting artist (2003)
Color Theory, California College of the Arts, SF CA - Lynn Kirby | visiting artist (2003)
REVIEWS | ARTICLES
Artvoice | “Artshorts Mixed Colors” by Lucy Yau - 2008
NY ARTS | ArtLA by Fette - 2006
Artweek | “Bay Area Now 4” by Marisa Olson - 2005
Rhizome, Net Art News | “Lovin’ an Elevator” by Marisa Olson - 2005
LA Weekly | Pick of the Week “Signal to Noise” by Holly Willis - 2003
Stretcher.org | “Introductions 2003” by Olaniyan Adams - 2003
SF Gate | Epicks – “Shocking Social Graces” by Alison Bing - 2003
Artweek | “Off Site” by Alison Bing - 2002
Bay Area Guardian | "Critic's Choice" by Lindsey Westbrook - 2002
Digital City | “Same/Difference Art Without Reservation” by Julie Ross - 2002
San Francisco Art Magazine.com | “Register This” by DeWitt Cheng - 2002
SF Station.com | Art Reviews by Sarah Lidgus - 2001
The Golden Gate [X] Press On-Line | "Less Is More Even With Films" by Sonia Weiland - 2001