Biography
Rebecca Weisman
b. 1982 USA
Rebecca Weisman is a conceptual artist working at the intersection of moving image and sculpture. She has twenty years of experience producing time-based installations and films, often in unlikely venues and locations (the Oregon desert, vacant urban buildings, an abandoned orphanage, a Vermont mountaintop, her own home) as well as for more traditional gallery settings. Weisman is currently a National Artist at A.I.R. Gallery and has shown work nationally and internationally, including recent screenings of her newest film project Mother Island, at Toronto Women’s Film Festival, Cine Salon Experimental Film Festival, and Sunview Luncheonette in Brooklyn, NY, and a solo exhibition, Skin Ego, a sculpture and video installation at Burlington City Arts. She has published articles in Namarupa magazine, C Magazine, and the International Journal for Zizek Studies. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Reed College and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. Weisman has taught courses in video art, installation, conceptual art, and art theory and history at Saint Michael’s College, Burlington College, University of Vermont, and the Global Center for Advanced Studies. She lives and works in Vermont, USA.