Julie Becker lived and worked in Los Angeles (d. 2016). Solo and two-person exhibitions include I must create a Master Piece to Pay the Rent, presented at MoMA PS1, New York (2019) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2018); Greene Naftali, New York (2016); Seville Biennial, Seville (2006); Sightings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2003); Greene Naftali, New York (2002); In Sync: Cinema and Sound in the work of Julie Becker and Christian Marclay, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2000); and Julie Becker: Researchers, Residents, a Place to Rest, Kunsthalle Zurich (1997).

Her work is in the collections of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Denver Art Museum; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others.