Rebecca Ness

Rebecca Ness was born in Salem, MA in 1992 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from Boston University and MFA from Yale School of Art.

Her recent oils on canvas and gouaches on paper captured everything from the months of social distancing, over weird moments of studio life, to depictions of personal moments with her girlfriend. She elevated the portrayal of her surrounding to providing us a focused insight into the most personal, and literally locked away parts of life.

Interested in personal belongings, objects which we associate with value, and in particular collecting mentality, she has painted everything from her family basement, over a pile of books on sale, to the mundane, yet personally significant snapshot of her life. Careful about rendering and recreating all the labels, logos, cover graphics, patterns, signs of wear, and the ways they're organized, these cultural relics of a suburban Americana are telling stories within stories while being transformed into unconventional still lives of the present day.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1992

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education

2019	MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art
2015	BFA, Painting, minor in History of Art and Architecture, Boston University

Solo Exhibitions

2022	Morgan Presents, 'Studio Visitor: Rebecca Ness & Joel Shapiro’, New York, USA
2021	Galerie Marguo, 'Stepping Out', Paris, France
2021	Carl Kostyal Gallery, 'Windows and Worlds', London, UK
2020	Nino Mier Gallery, 'Pieces of Mind', Los Angeles, USA
2019	1969 Gallery, 'Twice Over', New York, USA
2018	Yale Slifka Center for Jewish Life, 'Buttoned Down', New Haven, USA

Group Exhibitions

2022	Akron Art Museum,'Reflections on Perception', Akron, OH
	Nassima Landau, 'do-mes-tic-i-ty', Tel Aviv, Israel
	Alexander Berggruen Gallery, 'The Natural World', New York, NY
2021	Friends Indeed, 'Mother and Child, San Francisco, CA
	Harper’s Books, '36 Paintings', Hamptons, USA
	Anton Kern Gallery, '11', New York, USA
2020	Blum & Poe, 'Show Me The Signs', Los Angeles, USA
	Alexander Berggruen Gallery, 'Katherine Bradford, Hulda Guzman, Rebecca Ness', New York, USA
2019	New Release Gallery, Yale MFA Painting, New York, NY
	Richard Heller Gallery, Group show with Martin Gordopelota, Andrew Chuani Ho, Ana Benaroya, Anna Valdez, Los Angeles, CA
	Yale MFA Painting/Printmaking Thesis Exhibition, New Haven, CT
	Monya Rowe Gallery, 'On The Inside, Kate Klingbeil and Rebecca Ness', New York, NY
	Galleria Acappella, MIART Art Fair booth with Daphne Ahlers and Kajsa Nylander, Milan, Italy
	Gildar Gallery, A Little Tenderness, Denver, CO
	Danese/Corey Gallery, Personal Spaces, New York, NY
	Agency Gallery, Uncanny Tales, New York, NY
2018	1969 Gallery, 'Now You See It', New York, NY
	Green Hall Gallery, 'Words Cannot Express', Yale School of Art Second Year Show, New Haven, CT
	Readywipe Gallery, 'Human Shape', curated by Katherine J. Kim, Holyoke, MA
	808 Gallery at Boston University, 'A Few Conversations Between Women', Boston, MA
	Brilliant Champions Gallery, 'Bodies of Work', Brooklyn, NY
2017	Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, 'You Can Get In And Not Do Anything, Yale MFA First Year Show', New Haven, CT
	How's Howard?, 'Garbage Necklace and Other Things', Boston, MA
	41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, 'Reconstruir', New York NY
	Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 'Anachronism and Liberation', Philadelphia, PA
	W Hotel and Residences, 'One Night Stand', curated by Brigitte Mulholland and Ryan Michael Ford, New York, NY
	Boston Center for the Arts, 'Boston Center for the Arts Ball', pop-up exhibition curated by Robert Moeller, Boston, MA
	Field Projects Gallery, '#38, Body/Head', pop up show at Be Fluent NYC, New York, NY
	Copeland Gallery, 'B L O O M', London, UK
	Distillery Gallery, 're_vol_ting: an art show in protest', Boston, MA
	Bergen Street Studios, 'Brooklyn Lime', Brooklyn, NY
	How's Howard?, 'Queer Painting', Boston, MA
2016	Hojoko, 'Preview', Boston, MA
	Field Projects Gallery, '#35, Jenny spoke softly under her long skinny nose', curated by Paulina Bebecka, New York, NY
	Miishkooki Art Space, 'Sweet Spoils', curated by John Maloof and Rich Szczepanksi, Chicago, IL
	galleryELL, 'Three Rooms', curated by Fiona Buchanan, New York, NY
	Hip To Be Square, Boston, MA
	The Gallery at Porter Mill, 'Colorblind', Beverly, MA
2015	The New York Studio School, 'Living Threads', New York, NY
	Gallery 18, The Chautauqua Institution, NY
	Annual Student Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, The Chautauqua Institution, NY
	808 Gallery at Boston University, '54: The Boston University BFA Thesis Show', Boston, MA
	Copley Square offices, Fuel Education Exhibition, Boston, MA
2014	Gallery 5, 'Where is My Cow?', Boston, MA
	Open Studios, Venice, Italy
2013	808 Gallery at Boston University, Arches Student Print Exhibition, Juried exhibition, Boston, MA
	808 Gallery at Boston University, Visual Art Undergraduate Student Showcase, Boston, MA
	Boston University Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, Group show, Boston, MA
2012	808 Gallery at Boston University, Visual Art Undergraduate Student Showcase, Boston, MA
	Residence of BU President Robert Brown, Sloane House Art Exhibition, Boston, MA
	Boston University Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, 'Explorations of Sexuality', Boston, MA

Residencies

2019	Salon Nino Mier, Cologne, Germany
2016	New York Studio School Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson, New York, NY
2015	The Chautauqua Institution, Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY
2014	Venice Studio Arts Program, Boston University, Venice, Italy

Collections

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection

Long Museum, Shanghai, China

Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway

Dangxia Art Space, Beijing

M Art Foundation, Shanghai

Recharge Foundation, New York/Singapore

Asymmetry Art Foundation, London/Hong Kong

Rebecca Ness: Stepping Out

Paris Exhibition Full Film

7 Oct 2021