About

CONTACT • @maryclairebecker • becker.maryclaire@gmail.com • maryclaire.becker@okstate.edu •

BIO

Mary Claire Becker is a printmaker whose work rearranges and re-contextualizes human-made depictions of Nature. She grew up in Raleigh, NC and currently lives in Stillwater, OK, where she works as Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Oklahoma State University. She holds an MA and MFA from the University of Iowa, a Certificate of Book Arts from the UI Center for the Book, and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Mary Claire was the 2019 Stephen L. Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. She has also attended residencies at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Jentel Arts, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center and served as a studio assistant at Penland School of Crafts. She has shown internationally at venues including Changsha Normal University (Changsha, Hunan, China), Tippetts and Eccles Gallery at Utah State University, the Stanley Museum of Art’s First Friday series (Iowa City, IA), the New York Center for Book Arts, and Blue Spiral 1 (Asheville, NC), and Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH). Awards include the Curator’s Choice Award in Mid-America Print Council’s 2018 Members Juried Exhibition, as well as the Best in Show Award in Paducah School of Art and Design’s 2022 International Juried Print Biennial.