BIO
Becky Behar is a photo-based artist born in Colombia 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 solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), Kniznick Gallery (Waltham, MA), The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), Workspace Gallery (Lincoln, NE), and Concord Free Public Library (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 has received numerous accolades, including being a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 finalist (2020), a finalist for the Griffin Museum of Photography John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship (2020), and an awardee of the 16th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers (2021). Her recent honors include the 2025 Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award, a Concord Cultural Council Grant (2022) and a Combined Jewish Philanthropies Grant (2023). She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center, where she is conducting research to further develop her photographic portfolios.