About Ruth

Ruth Becker is a multidisciplinary artist whose dimensional, layered works function as both structure and lens — material explorations that engage distinct ways of knowing and seeing. Her current body of work, Suspensions, combines hand-painted plexiglass, laser-cut wood, and painted grounds to create sculptural wall pieces that shift with changing light and perspective.

Her work has been recognized with top honors at major juried art festivals, including Best in Show at the 2023 Bethesda Fine Arts Festival and First Place in Mixed Media at the Creative Crafts Council 34th Biennial. She was named a finalist for the FY2025 DC Art Bank Program and the 5th Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Exhibition, and was recently selected by the Washington Nationals as a featured artist for Jewish Heritage Day. An Artists & Scholars Project Grant recipient, Ruth is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

A DC native recently returned to the region, Ruth lives and works in Maryland after extended time in California and Israel. She holds degrees in rhetoric and law from UC Berkeley and Columbia Law School, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Tel Aviv. Her background in language and legal theory informs her commitment to clarity, structure, and conceptual depth.