Martin Beck’s work has recently been presented in solo exhibitions at Frac Lorraine, Metz, France; at Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway (both 2018); at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Austria; at The Kitchen in New York; and at Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig, Germany (all 2017).
Previous exhibitions include Program at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge (2014–16); The thirty-six sets do not constitute a sequence. at 47 Canal, New York (2015); and contributions to the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014) and the 29th São Paulo Bienal (with Julie Ault) (2010). Beck’s publications include About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (2007), The Aspen Complex (2012), Last Night (2013), An Organized Systems of Instructions, and rumors and murmurs (both 2017).

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