NAME: Rebecca Hackemann
BIRTH PLACE: Karlsruhe West Germany/BRITISH
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Rebecca Hackemann is a British conceptual artist whose studio was recently relocated from New York, NY to a barn on a large piece of land in Waverly, Iowa. Ms Hackemann has also lived in San Francisco, CA, London, England and Philadelphia, PA and was was born, raised and educated in West Germany, England and America. She has been based in America since 1994.
Hackemann holds an MFA from Stanford University, CA (1996) and received her BFA (Hons) from the University of Westminster (then PCL), London in 1994. In 2000/2001 she was a Whitney Museum ISP Program fellow in New York (2000). She is currently working on registering for one of the new practice-based PhD's in London, UK.
Her work consists of stereoscopes containing her constructed photographs, anamorphic drawings, both on paper and on walls as installations, artist books and most recently interactive public art. Her art practice challenges existing media categories, such as the flat image on the wall and is mostly concerned with issues of perception, representation, and the intersection between language and image and in the public realm history and public space.
Ms Hackemann recently made her funded 2009 public art project "Visionary Sightseeing Binoculars" permanent in Philadelphia, PA. She has in addition exhibited her works with Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta (2007), at the 5th Biennial of Contemporary Art in Novosibirsk, Siberia (2007), Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY, Sotheby’s New York, Printed Matter and at LMCC, New York, NY. The work is in the artist book collection of MOMA New York, Musée Français de la Photographie, France; the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany; the Museum für Fotografie, Germany and in private collections in New York and England.
Rebecca currently lives “off the grid” in an old farmhouse with her husband and two children in Waverly, Iowa and travels extensively.
She is Assistant Professor of Art at Wartburg College, Waverly, IA, since 2008.
Recent press:
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2009/janfeb/show/binoculars.html
For more information, please go to her website www.rebeccahackemann.com.
