Benjamin Beker was born in 1976 in Bonn, Germany and grew up in Hong Kong, China and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He studied Photography at the BK Art Academy in Belgrade and graduated in 2001. Beker moved to London in 2005 and a year later started a MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2008.
He received the National Magazine Award in 2007 and for his final exhibition piece War & Liberation Monument Installation, receiving the Painters and Stainers Award, RCA Society and Thames & Hudson Art Book Prize and was short-listed for the Conran Award.
He now lives and works in London and has been exhibiting in various group shows, such as “Feel the Force” at the CGP Gallery, “Farmers Market”, at the Handel Street Project Gallery and “Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed” at the Photographers Gallery in London.
After winning the ArtSway Open 08. Beker was given a solo exhibition at ArtSway Gallery, New Forest, Hampshire in September 2009.
Beker had a solo exhibition in the Flowers Gallery in April 2010 and has been selected for reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne in which he was shortlisted for the Lacoste Elysee Prise 2010. The group exhibition is travelling in cities on 5 continents for which an accompanying publication has been published by Thames and Hudson.
