Claire Beckett is an American artist based in Boston. Her photographs seek to understand notions of citizenship and belonging within the United States. This project, "The Converts," look at the experience of American converts to Islam. Claire Beckett's photographs have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Carroll and Sons Art Gallery and the University of Rhode Island, and in group shows at Mass MoCA, the National Portrait Gallery, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Aperture Foundation, and FOTODOK (NL). She has been awarded an Artadia Award, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and was artist-in-residence at Light Work. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Public Culture and The Boston Globe.

Born and raised in Chicago, Claire Beckett earned a BA in anthropology at Kenyon College and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Benin before going on to earn an MFA in photography at Mass College of Art.