BIO
Becky Behar is a photo-based artist born in Bogota and now residing in the suburbs of Boston. Her richly choreographed photographs explore themes of motherhood, the passage of time, and the legacies carried across generations. Blending embellished autobiographical and fictional narratives, her compositions evoke the luminous quality of Dutch oil paintings, with incandescent subjects emerging from deep shadows and symbols of transience, family, and faith woven throughout. Behar punctuates her portraits with still lifes that anchor her work in the present, where home is less a place and more an idea.
Behar has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including a pop-up exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) and solo exhibitions at Kniznick Gallery (Waltham, MA), The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), Workspace Gallery (Lincoln, NE), and Concord Free Public Library’s Munroe Gallery (Concord, MA). Her work has been featured in prominent publications such as A Photo Editor, Float Photo Magazine, Fraction Magazine, The Boston Globe, Jewish Boston, and What Will You Remember? and Lilith Magazine.
She is a 2026 Polly Thayer Starr Visiting Studio Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a JOTA Artist Fellowship recipient, and a participant in the Charles River Composition, a collaborative project bringing together artists to create new work inspired by the Charles River. Her honors include the Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award (2025), a Combined Jewish Philanthropies Arts & Culture Community Impact Grant (2023), a Concord Cultural Council Grant (2022), the 16th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers (2021), recognition as a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 finalist (2020), and finalist status for the Griffin Museum of Photography John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship (2020). She is also a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center, where she is conducting research to further develop her photographic portfolios.