Rebecca Hackemann's dreamlike images oscillate between present and past, liberation and repression, beauty and the bizarre. Views from the perspective of a child comfortingly crouched under a woman's skirt, for instance, turn to nightmare visions of the maternal body. A tongue doing weight training curls out from the picture plain. A tea-tray emulating the hoopskirt turns punny and funny. These imgage text combinations, be they within her photographic books or her stereoscopic 3-d photographs challenge and trick the viewer both visually and intellectually not to accept the world at face value and to question 'fact', 'history', 'social norms' as well as 'phantasy norms'. Influenced by such figures as Hieronymous Bosch, William Kentridge, John Heartfield, Oscar Wilde and fairy tales, her images are haunting, beautiful, sometimes disturbing, but uniquely humorous, intellectually sharp and recognizable.



Born in Germany, educated in England and America, Rebecca Hackemann (an English national) graduated with her BFA (Hons) from the University of Westminster in London, England in 1994 and with her MFA from Stanford University, CA, USA in 1996 and has lived in New York City since 1997. In 2001 she completed a one year residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP. Her work is in the collections of private collectors and in the collections of the Musée Français de la Photographie , France, Fondation Suisse pour la Photographie, Switzerland, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, Museum fuer Moderne Kunst, Germany and others.

Text by Carie Lambert

Born: Karlsruhe, Germany, Uk national, based in New York
2000 - 01 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program (studio), New York, NY
1994 - 96 Stanford University, MFA Studio Art, Stanford, CA
1991 - 94 University of Westminster, BFA (Honors) Photographic Arts, London, England
1990 - 91 Cambridge Arts, Art Foundation, Cambridge, England
1989 and prior Gymnasium Lindau B-II, Lindau, Germany

2002 California Museum of Photography UC Riverside, Illusions, contemporary stereo photography artist shown together with historical optical illusion imagery, traveling exhibition in possible conjunction with Eastman House, Riverside, CA
1999 Sightings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 E3 Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Sightings Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002 Hallwalls, Members' exhibition, Buffalo, NY
2001 Sara Metzler Gallery, Visual Aids, Postcards from the Edge, New York, NY
2001 Parson's Fifth Benefit Photography auction for WTC victims, Aronson Galleries, New York, NY
2001 Whitney Museum of American Art ISP exhibition, New York, NY
2001 CAB benefit auction 5th Avenue, New York, NY (11/01)
2001 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
2001 Open Space Gallery, “Fractured Family”, Allentown, PA
2000 Photo Metro Magazine, Honorable mention, editor: Bill Hunt/Ricco Maresca Gallery, NYC
2000 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, curator: Dan Cameron/New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, Summit, NJ
1999 Clement Gallery, "Dinner with Dali", Toledo, OH
1999 Fraser Gallery, "Homage to Dali", Washington, DC
1998 Open Space Gallery, "Awkwardology", Allentown, PA
1997 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1997 Highland Cultural Center, curated by Paul Kasmin Gallery, Highland, NY
1997 Denise Bibro Fine Art, curator: Judd Tully, New York, NY
1997 Nexus Gallery, "New Artists", NY
1997 ARTernatives, San Luis Obispo, CA
1997 Works Gallery, "Evoking the Unexpected", San José, CA
1997 Sightings Gallery, "Small Works - Big Ideas", San Francisco, CA
1996 Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Photo Metro Gallery, "Annual Group Showcase", San Francisco, CA
1996 Stanford University Museum of Art, MFA Exhibition, Stanford, CA
1996 Central Arts Collective, "Merged Realities", Tucson, AZ
1995 Photo Metro Gallery, "Annual Group Showcase", San Francisco, CA
1995 Woman Made Gallery, "Experiments in Book Art", Chicago, IL
1995 City of Brae Gallery, "Carte Blanche", Los Angeles, CA
1995 National Congress of Art and Design, Salt Lake City, UT
1995 Woman Made Gallery, "Women and Surrealism", Chicago, IL
1994 University of Westminster, BFA Exhibition, London, England
1994 Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), London, England

Museé Français de la Photographie, Bievres, France
Fondation Suisse pour la Photographie, Zürich, Switzerland
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Special Collections, Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Sightings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Printed Matter, New York, NY
Shazia Ahmad, London, UK
Carie Lambert and Colin Beatty, New York
Mr. Darrill Rosen, South Africa

2000 - 01 Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP, studio space for one year in Manhattan, NY
2000 Photo Metro Magazine, 17th Annual Photo Contest, juror: Bill Hunt/Ricco Maresca Gallery, Honorable Mention and publication, San Francisco, CA
2000 New Jersey Center for Contemporary Art, curator: Dan Cameron/New Museum of Contemporary Art, Honorable Mention, Summit, NJ
1994 - 96 Stanford University, graduate tuition, stipend, studio space, Stanford, CA
1997 Women's Studio Workshop, Artists' Residency, Rochester, NY
1994 University of Westminster, funding for thesis research on "Diableries” Stereo Photographs, London, England

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