BIO+CV
Beck+Col are a Los Angeles based artist duo who have been working exclusively in collaboration since 2014.
Beck+Col have performed at numerous venues including the Hammer Museum, REDCAT, and JOAN Los Angeles. They have had multiple solo exhibitions at Human Resources and their work has been exhibited worldwide including the Royal College of Music in Sweden, Colección AMALITA in Buenos Aires and at Biquini WAX EPS in Mexico City.
In Spring of 2020, Beck+Col were the artists in residence for the San Diego International Airport Performing Arts Residency and represented LACE at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair. Cohosts of ART TALK Talk talk, created while Beck+Col were in residency at UNLV in 2021. B+C were one of LAPP's Research and Development artists in Residence in 2022. In 2023, they had solo shows at Woodbury University, The Art Room and Angels Gate Cultural Center.
Their first feature length film Red Night was screened at Festival de Sci-Fi Terror y Fantasía in Bogota, Columbia, Another Hole In the Head Festival in San Francisco, CA and Bizarroland Festival in Orlando, FL, and will have its Los Angeles Premiere with LACE in 2024.
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Beck received an MFA from CalArts in 2019 and Collin received an MFA from CSULA in 2014.
Education
Beck (b. 1987) Col (b. 1985)
BA UCLA 2010 BA CSUN 2010
MFA CalArts 2019 MFA CSULA 2014
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OTIS COLLEGE Part-time Faculty
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​Solo
2024 Red Night, Screening presented by LACE at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles
2023 Red Night, The Art Room, Los Angeles, CA
Part Two! a shadow out of the light, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Part One! a shadow out of the dark, Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University, Los Angeles
2021 The Revolting Lumpen! lumpen station, Adams Square Gas Station, Glendale, CA
2020 The Revolting Lumpen! a smaller classical opera, presented by LACE at ALAC, Los Angeles
2019 The Revolting Lumpen! a classical opera reboot, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles
The Revolting Lumpen! a classical opera, D300 CalArts, Valencia, CA
2018 The Monstern! Live, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles
2017 Monster Romp! Live, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles
The Monstern! Live, D301 CalArts, Valencia, CA
2015 Monster Mash!, Project Space 2920, Inglewood
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Selected Group Exhibitions+ Performances
2024 Cantadora Shamana de Cabaret, Collaboration with Carmina Escobar, LACE, Los Angeles
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2023 Red Night Portals, OOZE, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
Part Two! a shadow out of the light, PAA Fringe Benefit, Art Center, Pasadena, CA
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2022 Triad Revolutions to Gurdjieff, Tertium Organum, Center for Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
REDCAT Gala, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2021 Bend, ESMOA, El Segundo Museum of Art, El Segundo, CA
Horror Without End! doubling portals, Geffen Playhouse Lobby, Los Angeles
Horror Without End! doubling, Performance at Torrance Art Museum
Horror Without End! parasitic symbiosis, Kleur Bekennen at PLAY room, Zaandam, Netherlands
Virtual Exhibition at Coastline College, Newport, CA
2020 Malignant Accumulation, S.O.S fundraiser to get out the vote, Track16, Los Angeles, CA
Horror Without End! trespass, CALARTS Halloween Alumni showcase
Horror Without End! Parasitic Symbiosis, Operational Statements booth, OPAF, Los Angeles
Monstern Saloon, Dramas de Otro Mundo, Colección AMALITA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 The Revolting Lumpen! a procession, COAST, Santa Monica, CA
Spectre of Lost Futures! an undead aria, Haunts, JOAN Gallery, Los Angeles
Lumpy Song, Elliot Reed Brunch Construct: Shifting Variable Options Welcome, 123
Astronaut Gallery, Los Angeles
Lumpy Song, 18th St Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Monstern Saloon, Video in Site: The Action Film, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Lumpy Scream, Project Scream (link), curatorial sound project by Carmina Escobar, Fy
and Tom Leeser
2018 Passively Rotting Mass, Super Flexible, graduating MFA group show, CalArts
Runaway Puppet!, Hallow's Eve Artists Maze, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles
Pink Lumphoma, Fundraiser for Swing Left, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Rainbow Face! on Vacation, Desert Daze Music+Art Festival, Lake Perris, CA
Monstern Saloon, Videohouse 3, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles; Deslave, Tijuana, Mexico
and Biquini WAX EPS, Mexico City, Mexico
Nah Oblivion (collaboration with Elliot Reed), Touch Me Cut Me Feel Me Volume II, Wild
Embeddings, Brooklyn, NY​
2017 Monstar Smash, Desert Daze Music+Art Festival, Joshua Tree, CA
Rainbow Face!, Coast Festival, Santa Monica, CA
Monster Mass, Third Shift Festival, St. John, NB, Canada
Monstar, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden
MonsterRock, Tote Your Float, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Monster Romp Live!, In Real Life: Studio, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Monster Mass, In Real Life: Studio, Hammer Museum
Rainbow Face Live!, Gong Show CLUB PRO Edition, Club Pro Los Angeles
Rainbow Face Live!, Third Shift Festival, St. John, NB, Canada
Monster Mass, Global Village 2016, Landshut, Germany
Monster Mass, KunstSalon, Kasteel Daelenbroeck, Netherlands
Rainbow Face, MANPOWER Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Rainbow Face Live!, REDCAT, Los Angeles
​2015 Monster March, Perform Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Monster Smash, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
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Residencies
2022 Los Angeles Performance Practice Research & Development Residency
2021 ART TALK Talk talk, UNLV Virtual Artist in Residence, Las Vegas, NV
2020 Davyd Whaley Foundation Desert House Residency Grant, Joshua Tree, CA
The Revolting Lumpen! a series, San Diego International Airport Performing Arts
Residency, San Diego, CA​
2017 Rainbow Face! on Vacation, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, CA
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Film Festivals
2023 Red Night, 3rd Place Terror Feature Film, Festival de Sci-Fi Terror y Fantasía, Bogota, Columbia
Red Night, Another Hole In the Head Festival, San Francisco, CA
Red Night, Winner Golden Tentacle Award, Bizarroland Film Festival, Orlando, FL
Red Night, quarter finalist, Zed Film Festival, Burbank, CA
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Press, Publications, Awards + Grants
2024 10 Offbeat Art Events During LA's Fair Week hyperallergic
2023 Ruffled muppet slaughterhouse? Another Hole in the Head still stocks the campiest of gore 48hills SF
10 Art Shows to See in LA This June Hyperallergic
Meet The Mannerist Monsters of Beck+Col LAWEEKLY
2022 Beck+Col Bathe Their Critique of Capital in Buckets of Blood Hyperallergic
2021 SCVTV interview and feature for their Finding Art series
2020 Rema Hort Emerging Artist Grant Nominee
Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
2019 Haunts, CalArts MFA 2019 Graduate Catalog
CalArts Interdisciplinary Grant
The Monstern!, Emergency Index, Vol. 8
​2018 Interview for Third Shift Catalogue
​2017 Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
Rainbow Face Live!, Emergency Index, Vol. 6