Bekka Teerlink has no hometown; she moved frequently as a child which led her to escape into daydreams and build a sense of home in her mind to take wherever she went. She was always the outside observer which allowed her to see things fresh, and make connections in her mind between very different places, things, experiences that she collected along the way. In her work, she creates magical realist landscapes full of symbolism and suggestions of narrative and commentary on the world around her.

Teerlink has a BA from Brandeis University in Studio Fine Arts Painting with a minor in Creative Writing Poetry and an MFA in Cinema-Television Production/Cinematography from the University of Southern California. She currently lives in Medford MA, and has a studio at Vernon Street Studios in Somerville, MA, and works at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Artist Resume

Education

2003 MFA, Cinema-Television Production, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2000 BA, Studio Fine Arts, Creative Writing (Poetry) minor, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
1999 Yale Summer School of Art at Norfolk, Norfolk CT

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Among the Stars Within, Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 The Danforth at Framingham State University, Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition 2024, Framingham, MA
2024 Kingston Gallery, Too Hot!, Boston, MA
2024 Aplomb Gallery, Challenge the Norm, Dover NH
2024 Juniper Rag, Pulp, Online Exhibition
2023 Bromfield Gallery, Smallish Works, Boston, MA,
2023 Cambridge Art Association, BLUE, Cambridge, MA
2023 Somerville Art Museum, Blue: The Celebration of a Color, Somerville, MA
2023 13FOREST Gallery, As Luck Would Have It, Arlington, MA.
2023 Cambridge Art Association, Pulse of the Making, Cambridge, MA.
2023 Cambridge Art Association, National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
2023 ArtsWorcester, The Twentieth ArtsWorcester Biennial, Worcester MA
2023 Workshop 13, Red, Ware, MA.
2022 Inside-Out Gallery, Somerville Arts Council, Dark Tales, Familiars and Object of Divination, Somerville, MA
2022 Arlington Center for the Arts, Courageous Colors, Arlington, MA
2022 Cambridge Art Association, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge, MA
2022 Cambridge Art Association, National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
2022 Artist Group of Charlestown, VIVID: Expressions of Intense Color, Charlestown, MA
2021 Inside Out Gallery, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA
2021 Bow Market, SOS: Small Works Show, Somerville, MA
2010 Brandeis University, Alumni Exhibition, Waltham MA
2009 Bunker Hill Community College, Art Gone Green, Charlestown, MA
2008 The Loft at Liz’s, Diverted Destruction, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Spring Arts Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Art Slave Gallery, Persons of Interest, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Cannibal Flower, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Create:Fixate, Transformations, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Spring Arts Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Gallery at the End of the World, Altadena, CA

Awards / Grants / Recognitions

2023 Best in Show, Red, Workshop 13, Ware, MA
2022 Honorable Mention, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2018 June Artist of the Month, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA
2012 LCC Visual Artist Fellowship, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA
2000 Paul Caine Memorial Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Award, Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
1999 Remis Grant, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Publications

2025 Create! Magazine, Issue 48
2024 Chenoa Baker, “Five Artists for Apocalyptic Times,” Artscope Magazine, January/February 2024

Artist Talks

2024 Sunday Spotlight Series, The Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
2023 Artist Talk, “Blue: Forms of Portraiture,” Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA, November 28.