Studio practice
Artist bio
Rebekah Flake is a Canadian-American artist using lens-based media and curation to explore migration narratives and the psycho-social effects of borders. Raised in Mississippi, she references the inescapable persistence of history in the forms of public memorials and personal reflections. Her practice also expands to Berlin, where she was awarded a DAAD fellowship, and to South Africa, when she and her colleagues at Temple University received an EPPY Award for media work in Johannesburg in 2013. She enjoys working collaboratively and has been a member of the artist-run curatorial collectives Little Berlin, Gravy Gallery and Misbits. Flake holds an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. She is based in Austin, Texas.
Exhibitions & Projects
2020
Bless Your Heart, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Solo.
8th Annual International Combined Caucus Exhibition, Society for Photographic Education, BOX13 Artspace, Houston TX
Vertical by Misbits, The Powerhouse, Oxford, MS
2019
Breathe, Cathedral Village, Philadelphia, PA. Solo.
“Look Away, Dixieland” screening, Mississippi Museum of Art Center for Art & Public Exchange, Land & Power: The Summit, Abbeville, MS
Silent Reflections, Oxford Film Festival Media Arts Exhibition, The Powerhouse, Oxford, MS
“Continental Divide,” Official selection at Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS
Society for Photographic Education Media Festival, Cleveland, OH
New Faculty, Gallery 130, University of Mississippi Department of Art & Art History
Porches (RGB,) Walton Young House, Univ. of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS. 2-person.
PROJECT(ions,) Oxford Fringe Festival, Oxford, MS
2018
How Wide is the Gulf?, curatorial project, Gravy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Solo.
Little Berlin: Geology, The Front, New Orleans, Louisiana
Art All-State Exhibition, University of Massachusetts—Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
Artfull, Mural Arts Tacony LAB, Philadelphia, PA
2017
The Canada Option, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE. Solo.
Legendary Tacony, Mural Arts Tacony LAB, Philadelphia, PA. Solo.
Poetics of Space, Gravy Gallery @ Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
(Photo)synthesis: from Wood to Paper, The Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Art All-State Exhibition, University of Massachusetts—Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
10 Years, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2016
SWING STATE, curatorial project, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA. Solo.
Appetite for Destruction, Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition, Wassaic, NY
Art All-State Exhibition, University of Massachusetts—Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
2015
Niagara, video & performance series, Niagara Falls, Canada; Philadelphia, PA; Oxford, MS
75ºWest/75º Oeste [Philadelphia-Medellín Free Trade Agreement], Medellín, Colombia
“The Stars and Stripes Forever in the Eternal City,” Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS
2014
Anniversary, The Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Till Death Do Us Part, Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Solo.
Identity (curator: Jake Weigel), Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Semi:Colon, New Boone Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Catalog.
2013
Prop, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Johannesburg: New Geology, Market Photo Workshop Participant Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Cultural Constructs (curator: Shana Cooperstein), Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
2012
Local Tourist, The Basement Gallery, Oxford, MS. Solo.
Uptown Photogravures,The Oxford EAGLE Newspaper Museum, Oxford, MS. Solo.
Juried Summer Exhibition (juror: Maude Schuyler-Clay, photographer), Gallery 130, University of Mississippi Department of Art, Oxford, MS
25th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition (juror: Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY), Shearman Fine Arts Center Annex and Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA. Catalog.
Alternate Voices (curator: Brooke White, Professor of Digital Imaging, University of Mississippi), Sarah Isom Center for Women’s Studies, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Navigating Currents, Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
RESIDENCIES
2020
Red Window Communications Creative Residency, Oxford, MS
2017
Tacony LAB, MuralArts Program, Philadelphia, PA
Delphi Art Futures Residency, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, NY
2015
The Wassaic Project Artist Residency, Nov / Dec, Wassaic, NY
2013
Market Photo Workshop Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012
Artist in Residence, The Oxford EAGLE Daily Newspaper, Oxford, MS
2006-7
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/ DAAD Fellowship:
Kunsthistorisches Institut der Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany