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Rebecca Cummins | rcummins@u.washington.edu
MA University of New Mexico
PhD University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Education

2002 Doctorate in Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
1982 Master of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1979 Bachelors of Fine Art and Bachelor of Art, Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Solo Exhibitions (includes commissioned exhibitions)
2003 The University of Washington Summer Arts Festival
2002 The University of Washington Summer Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
2001 Bergen Hall, Savannah College of Art and Design,
2001 Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Savannah, GA
2000 Elastic Gallery, Sydney, NSW. Aust.
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
1998 Hull Time-Based Art at Sewerby Hall, Bridlington, UK. (Public Sitings UK Year of Photography and Electronic Image.)
1996 Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, NSW, Australia
1995 Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo, NSW, Australia
1994 Commission/exhibition, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge. In conjunctions with Signals: 1994 Festival of Women Photographers in the UK Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Ft. Dodge, Iowa
1993 Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
1991 First Draft WEST, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
1990 Signalbox Gallery, Museum Station, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
1988 Photospace, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT., Aust.Performance Space, Sydney, NSW., Aust.
1987 Praxis Gallery (ARX'87), Fremantle, WA., Aust.
Avago Gallery, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
1985 Harkness Center for the Arts, New York, NY.
W.O.W. 330, New York, NY., USA.
1984 Dance Theatre Workshop Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA.
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1982 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
1981 Education Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Sioux City Art Centre, Sioux City, IA.
1979 Gallery 217, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
Group Exhibitions / Commissions
2004 I Space, University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Ill.
2003 Yuma Symposium Exhibition, Main St. Gallery, Yuma, Arizona
2002 ConVerge: where art and science meet,
The 2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide. ICOLS (International Corporation for Lost Structures), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. ICOLS [art meets archive], Juxtaposed with State Archives Collection, Sydney Records Centre, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
2001 School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Jacob Laurence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
From Pinhole to Pixel, Stills Gallery at Herman Black Gallery, Uni. of Sydney
2000 Triggered, First Draft, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
Tower of Babylon, Suburbia, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
The Politics of Fear, Artspace, Sydney, NSW.
1999 Trigger, First Draft, Sydney, NSW, Aust. 700 Million Miles an Hour: Journey Through the Centre of the Earth, commissioned for Ideal Works, Published by Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA.
1998 The Canberra Sculpture Forum, Canberra, ACT. Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, NSW. Root, Hull Time-Based Art, Hull, UK. (Public Sitings: UK Year of Photography and Electronic Image.) Commission.
1997 Lawyers, Guns & Money,Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. Envisioned- Rebecca Cummins and Rosemary Laing, Monash Uni., Melbourne, Vic.
1996 In Stable Image atBimbi, WW W site, http://www.ozemail.com.au/-bimbi, Performance Space launch. Compressions 100/Sydney, collaboration with performersTess DeQuincy and Stuart Lynch, Hyde Park Barracks, Sdney, NSW.
Tamworth by Bus, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, NSW. From Strength and Hope, Amnesty International, The Gunnery, Sydney ' '95 and Albury Regional Art Centre, Albury, NSW, '96.
1995 Commision/exhibition. Down the Drain, Fine Rats Internat’l, Birmingham, UK. Artful Park II. Centennial Park Authority, Sydney, NSW, Aust. Art Aids Link, International Computer Network Exchange. Commission, Internet exhibition, organized by Central London College and Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, UK., http:///artaids.dcs.qmw.ac.uk:8001/entrance/entrance.html
1994 International Symposium for Electronic Art Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland. Maximum Exposure, The Photographer's Gallery, London , The Museum of
Science and Industry , Manchester, England.
1993 Luminaries, Monash University Gallery, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial Associated Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, Aust. Via Crucis Australis (An Australian Journey of the Cross), Sydney Metropolitan Opera and ART HOTLINE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
1993 Nature and Art: Survival in a Technological Age, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Ft.Dodge, IA, USA.
1992 Zylvia Auerbach/Rebecca Cummins, 106 Kassenrollen, Frankfurt, Germany
1991 Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art, Artspace atThe Wharf, Sydney, NSW.
First Draft 1985-1991, First Draft WEST, Sydney, Aust.
1990 The Ready-Made Porcelain, Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
1989 Passion, The Bulletin/Mumm Cordon Rouge Photographic Award Exhibition, Rex Irwin Woolahra, NSW., Aust. Tower of Babel, organised by Vivienne Binns, Frank Watters Gallery, Sydney, Bellos Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland. Bald Archie Portrait Prize (Most Humorous Award), Artspace, Sydney, NSW., Aust.
1988 Tower of Torture, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
1987 Colorado Open, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO., USA. Environments: Real and Imagined, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA., USA.
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Contemporary Photoworks, Albuquerque United Artists, Albuquerque, NM., USA.
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New Photographics, Central Washington State University, Ellensburg, WA., USA.
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Alternatives, University of Ohio, Athens, OH., USA. M.A. Graduating Exhibition, Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM., USA.
1983 University of New Mexico Traveling Exhibit: Rudolph E.Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. University Galleries, University of Wisconsin, Superior, WI. Art Gallery, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA., USA. Photographic Gallery, Odessa College, Odessa, TX., USA. Teaching Gallery, Uni. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 3rd Fl. Gallery, No. Kentucky Uni. Highland Heights, KY. Educational Galleries, Internat'l Center for Photo., NY,NY. William Whipple Gallery, SW State University, Marshall, MN Conceptions Southwest, Student Association Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM., USA.
1983 Centennial Invitational Alumni Art Show, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA., USA. Hand-painted Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
1981 New Photographics Traveling Exhibition: College of the Redwoods, Arcata, CA., USA. East Tennessee University, Johnson City, TS., USA. Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA., USA. Iowa Art Salon, Brunnier Galleries, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Selected Awards
2003 Seattle Arts Commission, Montlake Library, Seattle, WA. Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Oberman Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Donald E. Peterson Endowed Fellowship for Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2000 Teaching and Development Fund Grant, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Aust.
1998 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board New Works Project Development
Grant, Australia Council for the Arts.
1996-97 Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Technology, Sydney
1995 Art, Research & Development Grant, ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology), Adelaide, SA.
1994 Maximum Exposure Competition/Ideas Category Award, The Photographer's Gallery, The Times Magazine, London, UK. The British Council Visitation Grant for Australian Researchers. Sydney College of the Arts Research Grant, University of Sydney. University Research Grant, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
1993 Women and Art Scholarship, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Sydney College of the Arts Research Travel Grant, University of Sydney, Sydney. Art, Research and Development Grant, ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology), Adelaide, SA. National Staff Development Grant, University of Sydney, Sydney.
1992 Personal Development Leave /Research Travel Grant, Uni. of Sydney. Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board Overseas Development Grant/1993-94
1991 London Studio Residency. Pat Corrigan Artist’s Exhibition Grant, NAVA (National Advocacy for the Visual Arts), Sydney, Australia.
1984 Artist's Exhibition Grant, Artist's Space, New York, NY.
Selected Publications and Catalogs
2003 M-1000, "SCI-ART: The Science and Psychology of Color in Artwork", NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, January
2003, http://nyartsmagazine.com/72/sciart.htm
2002 Wendy Walker, "Converge: Where Art and Science Meet", The Advertiser, 3.4.02. Andrew Bock, The Age Saturday Extra, Melbourne, Victoria, November 8, 2002. Stephanie Radock, "Now I Talk Like This", Australian Art Monthly, 4.2002:9-12, cover image.
Converge: where are and science meet, cat. The 2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide.
2001 "From Pinhole to Pixel", Sandy Edwards, cat., Stills Gallery at Sir Herman Black, 2001.

"From Pinhole to Pixel", The University of Sydney News, University of Sydney, 2001:7.

2000 Leah McLeod, "Elastic Contemporary Art Projects", Globe E Journal of Contemporary Art, ed.by Blair French, Pub. by Monash University, Melbourne, VIC. 12.2000.
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visarts/globe/index.html "Artists’ Pages: Rebecca Cummins", Photofile #60, 8.00, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. 42-43.
"All Eyes Heavenward", Robert McFarland, Sydney Morning Herald, 22.3.00, p 12.
1999 Photo Files, ed. By Blair French, Australian Centre for Photography, 1999:38-47.
Ideal Work, published by the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA, 1999.
1998 Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, 1998. Catalogue. "Canberra Sculpture Forum", Deb Brown, Art Monthly, 5.1998.
1998 Canberra Sculpture Forum, Catalogue, Canberra, ACT. 1998 "rebecca cummins and rosemary laing: envisioned", Anne Marsh, Eyeline, #35,97/98
1997 Lawyers, Guns and Money, cat. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA, 1997. Envisioned: Rebecca Cummins and Rosemary Laing, cat. Monash Uni. Gallery, 1997
1995 Immersed in Technology, ed. Mary Ann Moses, essay by Erkki Hutamo, MIT Press, 1995
"Phantasmagoria", Rebecca Cummins, Photofile #48, Australian Centre for Photography, 8.1996:38.
Down the Drain: An exhibition which explores those spaces no one ever likes to talk about, (catalogue), Fine Rats International, Birmingham, UK. 7.1985.
"The Art Aids Link", Net, #5, 4.1995:46.
"AidsLINK", Camerawork, London, UK. 3.1995.
"Spreading Awareness: Art Aids",Wired, 7/8.1995:80.
1994 "ISEA 94, Interaction of colour and cybernauts", Form, Function, The Finnish Society for Art and Design/Design Forum Finland, Helsinki, Finland. #3, 1994:31.
"Maximum Exposure", London Times Magazine, London, England, 4.7.1994.
International Sumposium on Electronic Art Catalogue, University of Design, Helsinki, Finland.
"The Family Shoots", Cambridge Times, 28.7.1994.
"Artists and Guns", Christopher Chapman, World Art, Sydney, Aust., Summer 1994.
1993 "Facing Texts Striking Resemblances", ARM (Art Reading Material), ed. by George Alexander, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 10.1993.
Luminaries, catalogue, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Sept. 1993.
To Fall Standing, catalogue essay by Paul DeMarinis, Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Aust.
1991 "The Politics of Metaphor, Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art", Meredith Morse, Eyeline, Brisbane, Qld, 12.1991.
Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art, cat., Artspace, Sydney, NSW, 1991.
"Between the Acts: Rebecca Cummins", Brigette Carcenac de Tourne, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW, No. 33, 10.1991:30-35.
1988 "Self-portraits: Video and Photography", Lisa Waller, Canberra Times, 25.8.1988.
"A Pilgrim of the Absolute and Other Subjects", Christopher Allen, Australian and International Art Monthly, Fine Art Press, Ltd., Sydney, NSW. Issue 12, 7.1988.
"Self-Imaging: Portraits by Families and Students", Carole Hampshire, East Sydney Morning Herald, 8.5.1988.
Major Teaching Affiliations
2001-present School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
1987-2001 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia