About Rebecca Perez
I am a Washington, DC-based artist of Puerto Rican heritage who has been making art for 20+ years. My art is about exploring the trauma and body connection.
Trauma has had a huge impact on my life, but so has the process of healing. Both have taught me to be attentive and attuned to what’s happening inside me. I am interested in how trauma changes the body, as well as the changes that take place in relationships and communities.
The result is art that changes a personal and private discourse into a public one.
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Group Exhibitions
2023: Intersection: Identity and Culture, Falls Church Art Gallery. Falls Church, VA
(SOLO) Notes on Lasting Change, Rhizome. Washington, DC
Upbringing, Rhizome. Washington, DC
2022: Here Not Here, Brentwood Arts Exchange. Brentwood, MD
Human Nature, DC Arts Center. Washington, DC
2021: 1460 Wallmountables; DC Arts Center. Washington, DC
2019: 20th Annual Will Creek Exhibition of Fine Art; Juror: Jack Rasmussen, Director & Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Allegany Arts Council. Cumberland, MD
2017: Third Annual Athenaeum Invitational: Glow, The Athenaeum Gallery. Alexandria, VA
2009: Abstraction Now, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery. Nassau Community College. Garden City, NY; Juror: Franklin Hill Parrell, Chief Curator, Nassau County Museum of Art
23rd International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. Summit, NJ Juror: Adelina Vlas, Assist. Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Private Arts: A Designer’s Art Exhibition, Artery 717, Alexandria, VA
2002: National Juried Competition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, NJ; Juror: Maria-Christina Villasenor, Assoc. Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Reflections of Life, West Side Arts Coalition, New York, NY
Publication
“Maternal Journal,” a publication of Artist Mother Studio, editors: Amy Hughes Braden and Raina Martens, 2018
Press
“In the Galleries,” Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, January 13, 2023
“East City Art Reviews,” East City Art, Eric Celarier, January 17, 2023
“National Juried Competition,” Times-Beacon, Linda Reddington, July 24, 2002
The Sandpaper, Pat Johnson, 2002
Southern Ocean Reporter/Asbury Park Press, Brian Prince, July 18, 2002
Residencies & Awards
2023, Juror’s Choice Award, Intersection: Identity and Culture, Falls Church Art Gallery, Falls Church, VA
2021-2023, Sparkplug Artist Collective, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
2002, Achievement Award, National Juried Competition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, NJ
Education
2008, M.S., Communications Design, Pratt Institute
1997, B.F.A., Illustration, Syracuse University