BIO
Rebecca Farr
(b. 1973, Glendale, California)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Rebecca Farr (b. 1973, Glendale, CA) was raised in the Pacific Northwest, and lives and works in Los Angeles. She has exhibited in Los Angeles at Klowden Mann, Five Car Garage, Maiden LA, ForYourArt and PØST, in Seattle at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, SAW Gallery and Velocity Studio, along with presentations at multiple art fairs throughout the United States. From 2015-17 she was a faculty artist in the education department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, overseeing multiple public projects. Her recent residencies include Kaus Australis in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Les Laboratories Aubervillers in Paris, France.
Education
| 1996 | Bachelor of Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College |
Artist Residencies
| 2017 | The Ark: Center of Plural Disciplinary Experimentation, Les Laboratories Aubervillers, Paris, France |
| 2015 | Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2019 | Animal Love Thyself, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California |
| 2017 | Seattle Art Fair, Klowden Mann, Seattle, Washington |
| 2016 | Out of Nothing, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California |
| 2014 | Sweet Broken Now, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California |
| 2012 | edge, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, California |
| 2010 | RELAY, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, California |
| 2005 | The Follies, Washington Center For the Performing Arts, Olympia, Washington |
| 2002 | Slip, SAW Gallery, Seattle, Washington |
| 1999 | She Knows, Velocity Studio, Seattle, Washington |
Group Exhibitions
| 2019 | Barely Fair, Serious Topics, Chicago, Illinois EROTIC-VULVIC-PHALLIC, PØST, Los Angeles, California Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Klowden Mann, Santa Monica, California |
| 2018 | Vibrant Matter: Artworks Refiguring Form, Maiden LA, Beacon Arts Building, Inglewood, California |
| 2017 | Material Performance, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, Washington The Ark procession, Paris, France Blue, Kamizake exhibition curated by Gary Brewer, PØST, Los Angeles, California |
| 2016 | Elysian Passage, Maiden LA, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California |
| 2015 | Passengers, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands Source Amnesia, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California |
| 2014 | Thanks for the Mammaries, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, California UNESCO International Art Exhibition, Instanbul, Turkey |
| 2013 | Miami Project, Klowden Mann, Miami, Florida Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Klowden Mann, Houston, Texas ArtPadSF, Klowden Mann, San Francisco, California |
| 2012 | Were Not Now, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Los Angeles, California Miami Project, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Miami, Florida ArtMRKT, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), San Francisco, California |
| 2006 | 5th Anniversary Create:Fixate, Los Angeles, California |
| 2005 | Ancestories, Color Graphics Gallery, Seattle, Washington |
| 2004 | Figures, Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, Washington |
| 2003 | Thirteen Days in France, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, Washington |
| 1998 | Rouge, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington |
Public Art
| 2017 | Young Wave, WCAB, Van Nuys, California |
| 2016 | libraryword mural, Davis Middle School, Compton, California Secret garden install and video, Davis Middle School, Compton, California and Hull Middle School Torrance, California |
| 2014 | Of Self Installation, Hull Middle School, Torrance, California |
| 2005 | YMCA Mural, YMCA Youth Outreach Program, Olympia, Washington Stonewall Youth Pride Parade Project,Stonewall Youth, Olympia, Washington |
| 2004 | Latino Youth Summit Mural, Centralia Community College, Centralia, Washington |
| 2003 | Latino Youth Conference Mural, Community Cultural Center, Shelton, Washington |
| 2002 | Santo Tomas Community Mural, Olympia Food Cooperative, Olympia, Washington |
Selected Collections
Maya Magub and Alex Heffes, London, England
Sean Whitesell and Maria Quiban, Los Angeles, California
Azadeh Shladovsky, Los Angeles, California
Katherine Holland, Los Angeles, California
Heidi Lender, Sebastopol, California
Eileen Uy, Los Angeles, California
Michael Plump, San Francisco, California
Douglas Collins, Los Angeles, California
Yolande York and Lee Dixon, London, UK
Bibliography
| 2019 | Caldwell, Ellen C., “Into The Mythic With Rebecca Farr’s Animal Love Thyself,” Riot Material, May 30. “Meet Rebecca Farr“, VoyageLA, January 14. |
| 2018 | “‘SuperpowerShadowWoman’ at Give Car Garage,” ARTnews, August 8. |
| 2017 | Brewer, Gary, “Studio Visit: Rebecca Farr, The Spiritual Embodiment of Empathy,” Art and Cake, December 22. Nguyen, Ren, “Material Performance: Part II at the Jacob Lawrence features candy, makeup, and physics,” The Daily of the University of Washington, November 13. “Young Wave: The Power of a Young Public Work,” LACMA Unframed, August 2. “NOH/WAVE Podcast,” March. |
| 2016 | Hagler, Josh, “How to Give a Shit No 7,” Venison Magazine, December. Caldwell, Ellen, “Rebecca Farr’s “Out of Nothing” is Everything,” New American Paintings, November 26. Chunara, Nazish, “Out of Nothing,” Venison Magazine, October 25. Chunara, Nazish, “Elysian Passage,” Venison Magazine, August 10. Gray, Emma, “Out of Nothing Introduction,” catalogue essay. Anderson-Pugliese, Claressinka, “Out of Nothing,” catalogue poem. |
| 2015 | McMahon, Catherine, “Source Amnesia at Klowden Mann,” ARTNews, July 23. |
| 2014 | Caldwell, Ellen, “Rebecca Farr’s Sweet Broken Now,” New American Paintings, November 5. Schad, Ed, “For Spacious Skies Rebecca Farr’s New Work,” Catalogue Essay. Williams, Maxwell, “Westward Abstraction: Rebecca Farr’s “Sweet Broken Now” at Klowden Mann,” Artsy Editorial, October 15. Schad, Ed, “For Spacious Skies,” catalogue essay. |
| 2013 | Fitzpatrick, Kyle, “Combining Influences: An Interview with Rebecca Farr,” Los Angeles, I’m Yours, April 1. |
| 2012 | Spitz, Sarah, “On the Edge,” Santa Monica Daily Press, February 23. |