Rebecca Bird

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015     William Holman Gallery, New York, NY, Fall 2015

                Niagara Falls, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 10 - February 28

2011     Interiors, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 9 - July 9, 2011

2009     Everything that ever existed still exists, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008     Extracting the Exquisite, The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Bronx, NY

2003     Other Taxonomies: Rebecca Bird, Wave Hill House Gallery, Bronx, NY

2001     Matter and Fecundity: Rebecca Bird, Cooper Union Humanities Gallery, New York

1997     13: Rebecca Bird, Collusion Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995     Peculiar Objects: Rebecca Bird, Co-motion Studios, Seattle, WA

 

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2014     Homeland: Rebecca Bird & Tom Judd, William Holman Gallery, New York, NY

2008     Anti-Matter Alma Mater: with Matthew Thurber, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                Anti-Matter Alma Mater: with Matthew Thurber, Fumetto Comix Festival, Luzern, CH

2005     Winter Indoors: Rebecca Bird & Ellen Takata, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                Rebecca Bird & Thad Simmerly, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, NY

Lower East Side Printshop Permanent Collection, NY

Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman, New York, NY

Capital Group Collection

Jamaica Hospital Medial Center, NY

 

EDUCATION    

Fulbright Fellowship to Japan, 2000- 2001        

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art , BFA 2000

Yale Summer School of Music and Art, 1999

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS              

2014     Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation

                Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant

2013     Change, Inc. Grant

                Max's Kansas City Foundation Grant     

                Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant

                Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant

2012     Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency

                Triple Canopy Special Commission

 

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2014     Mining the Moon, theatrical play at the Brick Theater, Brooklyn; artistic director

2007     Ambergris Performance, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY

2006     We Share a Happy Secret (Ambergris performance), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

                Landy Coloring Station, The Armory Show, New York, NY

                 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Tomato House; Since 2012 has co-operated  an art project space in Brooklyn, NY

Interesting Gallery; from 2010-2011 operated an apartment gallery in Brooklyn, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015     The Third Bronx Biennial, The Bronx Museum, July - September, 2015

                The Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY, February 7

                Cardiovascular, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA,

                Winter Drawing Show, William Holman Gallery, New York, NY

2014     D-Day 1944, The Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA 

2013     Draw Gym, Curated by Brian Bellott: 247365

                Reunion, Annex, Cherry Valley, NY

                Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Curated by Jayson Keeling:

                Lower East Side Printshop, NY

                New Artists, William Holman Gallery, NY

                Part of the Story, Curated by Julian Kreimer: Lower East Side Printshop, NY

2012     You and Me, C-space Gallery, Beijing, PRC,

                Pig Party, Curated by Gina Beavers: New York City Gallery, New York

                The Cat Show, Tomato House, Brooklyn, NY

2011     Ex Libris,  Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY

                The Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY

2009     Reaccessioned, Flag Art Foundation, New York

                Sync Space, Los Angeles, CA 

                The Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY

2008     Back to the Drawing Board: 17 Women Artists,  Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY

                Road Works,  Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY

                Blank2008,  Beijing, China

                Selected Works, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2007     Micronauts, Andeas Melas Presents, Athens, Greece

                Drawn to the Edge,  Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY

2006     Fine Line,  Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY

                New Views,  Gallery Joe, Philadelphia

2005     In a Series, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY

                Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX

2004     Sadie Hawkins Dance,  Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                Pretty Bird (not a love story),  Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY           

                The Watercolor Show, Guild and Greyshkull, NY

                Works on Paper,  Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2003     Aron Packer Fine Art, Chicago,IL

2002     Today,  Swiss Institute, NY

2001     Silent Pictures,  Oxidol Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan

 

ART FAIRS

Salon Zurcher, Paris, October 2014

Miami Project, Kopeikin Gallery,  December 4 - December 9, 2012

Pulse Miami, Kopeikin Gallery, November 3 - November 6, 2009

Pulse New York, Kopeikin Gallery, March 5 - March 8, 2009

The Dark Fair, The Swiss Institute, NY 2008

Aqua, Miami, Kopeikin Gallery, December, 2008

The Armory Show, The Swiss Institute, March 2006

Art Chicago, Southfirst Gallery, April 27 - April 30, 2005

 

FILM AND ANIMATION PROJECTS

"Studies for Spontaneous Generation" short animated film

"Swimmer" animation, The New York Times online, February 21, 2014

"Drops" projected video installation, The Everhart Museum, February 17 - June 10, 2014

"Occluded Man" animation, New York Times Anxiety Blog, 2013

"Danny Boy," Triple Canopy, 2013

Chairlift "Amaneamonesia" music video, 2011 (collaboration with the band Chairlift et al.)

"Star Farmer" animation, 2006 (with Matthew Thurber and Raven Burnett)

“Seeing and Believing” 2000, Screened at Consolidated Works, Seattle (with Matthew Thurber)

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ellen C. Caldwell, "Frozen Time: Rebecca Bird's "Niagara Falls" at Kopeikin Gallery", New American Paintings, February 19, 2015

Artweek.LA, featured articles, "Rebecca Bird: Niagara Falls", January 26, 2015

Christian Rattemeyer, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection Catalogue Raisonne, MOMA, NY, 2009. 92.

Katy Donoghue, "New Artist Profile," Whitewall Magazine, September, 2009

Guilliam Wolff, Live interview, Whitewall Magazine online, April 2009

Kimberly Brooks, "Rebecca Bird Paints the Explosion," Huffington Post, March 2009

Holland Cotter, "Sadie Hawkins Dance," New York Times online, June 2004

Troy Swain, "Winter Indoors" Artslant blog, January 2005

Paige West, Art Addict blog, April, 2004

"Critics Picks; Works on Paper, Southfirst Gallery," ArtForum Online, March 2004

 

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR

"Bill Griffith, Lost and Found: Comics 1969-2003," The Comics Journal, April 6, 2012

"The Riddle of the Traveling Corpse" Triple Canopy, June, 2008 (collaboration with Jenni Knight)

The Ganzfeld Magazine #7, Picturebox, 2008

Otherthings serial comic strip 2007              

Landy coloring book (with Matthew Thurber) the Swiss Institute, March 2006             

Easter Special comic book (with Matthew Thurber). April 2002

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The Ghetto Film School, two-week workshop in animation for high school students, 2014

New York City Housing Authority, After School Program in Writing for pre-teen girls, 2012

Parsons The New School for Design, Adjunct faculty, 2011

Wave Hill, Continuing education workshop in watercolor, 2003

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

The Metropolitan Museum of Art:  Archeological illustrator, 2007 - 2011

Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY:  Gallery Associate, 2004 - 2011

Jeff Koons, New York, NY: Studio assistant, 2003

Fabricon Carousel Company, carousel painter: 1997-1999

Eastlake Galleries, Seattle, WA: Sculpture restorer, 1992-1997

Everett Community College Playhouse, Everett, WA: Set painter, 1989 - 1991