Education
1976 MA, Graphic Design, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA                                                    
1970 BA History, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2024 New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Maine, USA
2023 Photo London, London, England
2022 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, USA 
2020 Koman Fine Art, Vero Beach, Florida, USA
2018 Looking Out. Looking In, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, USA
2017 The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye), Daura Gallery, Lynchburg University Museum of Art, USA
2017 The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye), Vero Beach Museum of Art, USA
2016 The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye), Ewing Gallery at University of Tennessee Museum of Art, USA 
2015 The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye): Photographs by Jeffery Becton, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, USA 
2015 Border World, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, USA 
2015 Jeffery C. Becton, Maine State House, Augusta, Maine, USA 
2014 A Singularity of Place, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Glickman Library, Portland, Maine, USA 
2007 Interiors, Domaine Gallery, Portland, Maine, USA
2006 Jeffery Becton Photographs, Marine Environmental Research Institute, Blue Hill, Maine, USA
2004 Clark House Gallery, Bangor, Maine, USA
2001 Interiors, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, USA
1995, ‘91, ‘85, ‘81 Deer Isle Artists Association Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, USA
1980 Gallery One, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1979 Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, Maine, USA 

Group Exhibitions
2023 Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine, USA
2022 Sept 7— Oct 15 Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine, USA
2022 Summer Exhibition, The Gallery at Green & Stone, London, UK 
2022 Between Two Worlds, The Poetics of Coastal Places: Jeffery Becton & Andrea Hamilton, AH Studio, London, UK
2022 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2020 New Work, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, USA
2020 Art in Bloom Brooklin Garden Club Blue Hill, Maine, USA
2016 An Ordinary Day: Seeing the Unseen, Fernald Gallery, University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Belfast, Maine, USA
2015 Directors’ Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
2015 Inside/Out, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, Maine, USA
2014 CMCA 37th Annual Exhibition/Auction, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, USA
2014, 2004, 2002, 1998 Biennial Juried Exhibitions, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, USA
2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006,1999, 1997, 1986 Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, USA
2013 CMCA 36th Annual Exhibition/Auction, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, USA
2012 In Your Dreams, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
2012 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, USA
2012 Figurative Landscapes, Shaw Jewelry, Northeast Harbor, Maine, USA
2012 Around The House, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine, USA
2011 PhotoNational 2011, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine, USA
2011 Four Photographers, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, USA
2010 Ten Years Later, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, USA
2010 Capture, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine, USA
2009 Photography, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine, USA
2009 A Picture’s Worth, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine, USA
2008 Home and Away, Munson Williams Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, New York, USA
2008 An Other World, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, USA
2007 Altered Nature, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, USA
2006 Underexposed, Center for Maine Contemporary, Art June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine, USA
2005 48th National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, USA 
2004 National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, New York, USA
2004 30th Westmoreland Art Nationals, Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival, Pennsylvania, USA
2003, 1998 Biennial Exhibitions, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
2003 Manifest 2003, The Copley Society of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2003 Deer Isle Artists, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, Maine, USA
2000 43rd National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, USA
2000 Photographing Maine 1850-2000, Center for Maine Contemporary, Rockport, Maine, USA
1995, ’94, ’93, ’90, ’89, ’86, ’84, ‘83 Annual Juried Exhibitions, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine, USA 
1985 Maine Photography Biennial, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA  

Teaching 
1982 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Deer Isle, Maine, USA
1978 Visiting Lecturer in Photography, Yale College, New Haven, USA 

Museum Collections 
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, USA
Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine, USA
Munson Williams Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, New York, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine, USA
University of New England Museum of Art, Biddeford, Maine, USA 

Corporate Collections
United Technologies, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Becton-Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA
Damariscotta National Bank, Damariscotta, Maine, USA
Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

Private Collections
Bruce Brown, Curator, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, USA
Judith Glickman, Photographer, Portland, Maine, USA
Elena Kubler, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, USA
Michael and Karin Wilkes, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, USA

Awards

2023 selected as a winner for Open Walls Vol. 4 by The British Journal of Photography and 1854 prize committee
2023 Shortlisted Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2023 Honorable Mention Natural Cycles Center for Fine Art Photography
2023 Online Inclusion Photo Place Gallery
2022 Accepted into Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London, England
2022 Honorable Mention online Center for Fine Art Photography (Un)Natural Cycles: Air, Water, Land 2022 Honorable Mention Px3 Prix de La Photographie Paris, France
2013 Honorable Mention, Spirit of Place Award, Maine Media Workshops 40th Anniversary Competition, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, Maine, USA
2005 Purchase Prize, Portland Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
2005 Huntington Prize, 48th National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, USA
2004 First Place, Black and White Photography 30th Annual Westmoreland Art Nationals, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA
2000 First Place, Millennial Images, world wide web-based Juried Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA
2000 Third Place, National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie Arts Council, Cobleskill, New York, USA
1998 Pix Digital Annual Awards, Photo District News, New York, New York, USA  
1976 Alice G. K. Garland Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Publications

Christopher Crosman, “Jeffery Becton: Passages”, Maine Arts Journal Winter 2023
Thomas Connors, “Jeffery Becton Dream State”, Interiors Oct/Nov 2020
Island Journal, “Jeffery Becton’s Altered Realities”, 2018 
Keyes, Bob, “Becton’s Metaphorical Maine, Portland Press Herald, November, 2015
Little, Carl, “Jeffery Becton: The Farthest House, Marshall Wilkes, Ellsworth, Maine, 2015 
Konau, Britta, Maine Home +Design, The Canvas, “Staying Home,” Portland, Maine, March 2014
Maine Home + Design, Showcase, “2014 CMCA Biennial,” Portland, Maine, September 2014
Little, Carl, “Jeffery Becton’s Border World”, Glickman Library, Portland, Maine, 2014
Maine Home + Design, Showcase, “2014 CMCA Biennial”, Portland, Maine, September 2014
Bowman, Leslie, “Perspectives: Jeffery Becton”, Bangor Metro, Bangor, Maine, 2006
Andersen, Kristen, “Becton Digital Montage Weaves Media”, Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine, 2004
Isaacson, Philip, “Taking Pictures: Photography”, Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, Maine, 2003
Lacey, Joel, The Complete Guide to Digital Imaging, Watson – Guptill, New York, 2002
LiPetri, Joe, “Application Spotlight: Fine Art”, digitalFoto Magazine, February 2001
LiPetri, Joe, “Application Spotlight: Fine Art”, Micro Publishing News, November 1997
Telford, Anne, “The Evolution of Nash Editions, Online Design”, Aural/Visual Fusion, 1995

Illustrations
Connors, Thomas, “Jeffery Becton: Dream State”, Interiors Magazine, October/November, 2020 
Island Journal, “Altered Realities, Jeffery C. Becton”, Vol. 34, 2018
Portland Press Herald, “Art Review: Born from a rich history, Maine photography shows continued strength in three coastal galleries”, August 26, 2018
Vero Beach Magazine, Quarterly (cover), Vero Beach, Florida, Spring, 2017
Kany, Daniel, “Bates awash in Jeffery Becton’s unique imagery”, Maine Sunday Telegram, Sunday, January 10, 2016
Thompson, Jaime, Maine Home + Design, Breaking Boundaries, “Depth in Feet”, Portland, Maine, April 2015
Kany, Daniel, “Photographed to Abstraction”, Maine Sunday Telegram, Sunday, November 29, 2015
Down East Magazine, Altered Estates, November, Rockport, Maine, 2015
Bangor Metro, “Jeffery Becton, August 2015 
Nash Editions, “Photography and the Art of Digital Printing” (frontispiece), Peachpit Press, San Francisco, California, 2007 
Gutcheon, Beth, “More Than You Know” (cover art), William Morrow, New York, 2005
Andrews, Philip, “Better Photography Magazine”, India, 2002
Andrews, Philip, “Digital Imaging and Design”, Australia, 2002
Digital Imaging Guide “Pro Portfolio,” Popular Photography, 2001
“Pix Digital Annual Awards: Runners Up, Digital Enhancement,” Photo District News Vol. XVIII Issue12, New York, 1998

Grindstone – 2016 – digital montage realized as archival pigment print

Grindstone – 2016 – digital montage realized as archival pigment print