Claire Becker

Of all the art disciplines I practice, sculpture is where I can best develop the sense of harmony and conflict between our human nature and our spiritual nature. Thus, using matter to manifest the spirit has been my first and most important motive as an artist, whether it is pure matter shaped in my hands, like in my Involutati series, or elements of the material world used to re-signify and re-dimension our relationship to it.
My work has a conceptual, playful and critical side, and a more abstract, sensual and lyrical side; however, the two coincide in my main theme, which is exploring the intimate motivations of human behaviors, in particular to question what we assign to fate in order to disengage ourselves from our responsibility (such as the institutionalization of violence, greed and destruction of our own habitat).
Understanding our essence to be divine, our nature to be imperfect, and our main goal to experiment the divine through the material creation, I am fascinated by the complexity of contradictions we face as humans in our search for happiness. No matter how diverse, my work is always a reflection of my philosophy of life, consequence of what I have learned from it so far, by living in many external places and prac...

From very early on, classes and workshops in arts and crafts.
High school with art major in Strasbourg, France. Literature and art history degree at the Human Science University of Strasbourg.
Classical guitar and acting classes at the National Conservatory of Strasbourg.
Dance studies in classical, contemporary and jazz ballet in Strasbourg, Paris, Washington DC and New York City (with several scholarships)
1996-97 - Scholarship from the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, The Art Student League, New York, USA
1994-97 - Apprenticeship for Sculpture, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Greg Wyatt studio in the St. John The Divine cathedral, New York city, NY, USA

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024 - Todos llegaremos al cielo (We’ll All Make It to Heaven), Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City
- Love Is in the Air we Breathe, Club France, Mexico City

2023 - Líneas de vida (Life Lines), instalación colgante, Museo Archivo de la Fotografía (MAF), Mexico City
- Love Is in the Air we Breathe, Senado de la República Mexicana, Mexico City
- Love Is in the Air we Breathe, Auditorium Gota de Plata, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico

2022 - The Table is Set, Public Art Gallery in the Tacuba Subway Station, Mexico City

2020-21 - Todos llegaremos al cielo (We’ll All Make It to Heaven), History Museum of Tlalpan, Mexico City

2019 - States of Consciousness, Isabelle Serrano Fine Art Gallery, Mexico City

2018 - Tiempos simultáneos (Simultaneous Times), Casa del Parque 158 gallery, Pachuca, Mexico

2016-17 - Vuelos revueltos (Scrambled Flights), 90º gallery, Mexico City

2016 - La mesa puesta (The Table is Set), The woman’s Museum, Mexico City
- De boca en boca (From Word of Mouth), Corsica gallery, San José del Cabo, Baja California, Mexico

2015 - Ciel mes casseroles (Miss Burnt Pots and Pan), sculpture and photography, Alliance Française gallery Polanco, Mexico...