Exploring peace after pain through art
Making art about trauma, motherhood, and healing is how I make sense of my most powerful and even scary emotions. When I allow myself to look deeply at things like love and pain I can see what connects us all, and I feel less alone.
As the Founder and Creative Director of Tendrils Journal, I help others use art to foster healing and build community.
Exhibitions
2025:
• Gift of Life, Artists & Makers Studio. Rockville, MD
2024:
• Sanctuary: Reflections on Home. Umbrella Art Fair. Washington, DC
• Between, Through, Across, DC Arts Center. Washington, DC
• Roots & Routes, DC Arts Center. Washington, DC
2023:
• Intersection: Identity and Culture, Falls Church Art Gallery. Falls Church, VA
• (SOLO EXHIBITION) 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
2 021:
• 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
Publication
“Maternal Journal,” Artist Mother Studio, editors: Amy Hughes Braden and Raina Martens, 2018
Press
“Wound Work,” The Art Pusher, Fabiola R. Delgado, Nov. 19, 2025
“D.C. artist Rebecca Perez champions motherhood and mental health in her deeply personal work,” Hola Cultura, June 24, 2025
“Between, Through, Across: Exploring Migration at the DC Arts Center,” BmoreArt, Dereck Mangus, June 19, 2024
“In the Galleries,” Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, January 13, 2023
“East City Art Reviews,” East City Art, Eric Celarier, January 17, 2023
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2025, Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program Grant, DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities
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
Education
M.S., Communications Design, Pratt Institute
B.F.A., Illustration, Syracuse University