Box 353440
Seattle, WA. 98195-3440
206.778.7521
2004 Rebecca
Cummins: Light Work, Jacob Lawrence
Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Slow Light, I Space, Chicago Gallery for The
2003 Where is Noon? Giant Sundials at the University of
Washington in Spheres, The UW Summer 2003 ARTS Festival (in collaboration with Astronomer
Woodruff Sullivan)
2002 In the
Library, University of Washington Summer
2002 ARTS Festival, Seattle, WA
2001 Liquid Scrutiny, Simply Smashing, Bergen
Hall, Savannah College of Art and Design,
2001 Society for Photographic
Education National Conference, Savannah, GA
2000 Simply Smashing, Elastic Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Liquid Scrutiny, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1998 Hull
Obscured /Liquid Scrutiny,
1996 Tamworth by Bus, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, NSW,
Australia
1995 The Traveling Camera Obscura, Dubbo Regional
Gallery, Dubbo, NSW, Australia
1994 The Family Shoots,
Commission/exhibition, Cambridge
Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge.
In conjunctions with Signals: 1994 Festival of Women
Photographers in the UK
The Traveling Camera Obscura,
Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Ft. Dodge, Iowa
1993 To Fall Standing, Artspace,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991
Apparent Line, First
Draft WEST, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006
Contrasting Objectives: Fifteen Pacific Northwest Photographers, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Seeing
the Light, Solway Gallery, Cincinnatti,
OH
Through
the Oatmeal Box, Texas Tech University Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
Restating Empire, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2005 Annual Pilchuck Glass Exhibition, William Traver Gallery,
Camera Obscurists:
The Camera Obscura in Contemporary Photography, Alan Klotz Gallery, New York
London: Looking East, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia*
Hot Air: National Strategy to Combat WMD’s, ICOLS Strategy Defense & Arms Fair
in RISK: Creative Action in Political
Culture, Centre for Contemporary
Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Hot
Air: National Strategy to Combat WMD’s, ICOLS
Strategy Defense & Arms Fair in Who’s Afraid of
the Avant-Garde?
Performance Space, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
2004 Light
Rain (collaboration with Paul DeMarinis), Wireless Experiences,
KIASMA,
International Symposium for Electronic Art, Helsinki, Finland*
Society for Photographic Education
Northwest Regional Conference Juried Exhibition, Gallery of Visual
Art, Missoula, MT
Simply
Smashing in Cutting Edge: Artists
Experiment With Glass, Exploratorium: The Museum of Art,
Science
and Human Perception, San Francisco, California
2003 Yuma Symposium Exhibition, Main St. Gallery, Yuma, Arizona
2002 ConVerge: where art and science meet, The 2002
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Museum of
Contemporary
Art,
Adelaide, SA, Australia*
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
2001 From
Pinhole to Pixel, Stills Gallery at Herman
Black Gallery, Uni. of Sydney, NSW, Australia*
2000 Australia
Live in Triggered, First Draft, Sydney, NSW, Australia*
1999 Trigger, First Draft, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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 Rainbow Machine, in The
Bird's
Eye View in
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, NSW,
Australia*
Root,
Image.)
Commission.*
1997 Liquid Scrutiny / Descending Metaphors in Lawyers,
Guns & Money, Experimental Art
Found.,
Envisioned - Rebecca Cummins and Rosemary Laing, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic*
1995 Commission/exhibition. Down the Drain, Fine Rats International, Birmingham, UK*
Centinels in Artful Park II. Centennial
Park Authority, Sydney, NSW, Australia*
Art
Aids Link,
International Computer Network Exchange. Commission, Internet
exhibition, Central London College / Cambridge Darkroom Gallery,
1994 International Symposium for
Electronic Art Exhibition, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FIN.*
Maximum Exposure, The Photographer's Gallery,
Manchester,
UK.
1993 Luminaries, Monash Uni. Gallery, 5th Aust.
Sculpture Triennial Assoc. Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC.*
Via
Crucis Australis (An
Australian Journey of the Cross),
Sydney Metropolitan Opera
and ART HOTLINE,
1991 Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art, Artspace at The
Wharf, Sydney, NSW.*
*catalogue
available
2003-05
1998 Ideal
Works, curated by Richard Grayson, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide,
SA. Commissioned artwork for book project
.
1998 Root, Hull
Photography and Electronic Image).
1997 Art
Aids Link,
International Computer Network Exchange. Commission, Internet
exhibition, Central
London College / Cambridge Darkroom Gallery,
1995 Commission/exhibition. Down
the Drain, Fine Rats International,
Birmingham, United Kingdom
1994 The Family Shoots, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge. In conjunction
with Signals: 1994
Festival of Women Photographers in the
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Pilchuck Glass School,
Stanwood, WA.
2004 The Chancellor’s Award
for the outstanding 2003 PhD ,
2003 Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Oberman Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
IA.
Donald E. Peterson Endowed
Fellowship for
Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences,
1998 Australia Council, Visual
Arts/Craft Board New Works Project Development Grant
1995, 93 Art, Research & Dev. Grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology),
1994 Maximum Exposure Competition/Ideas Category
Award, The Photographer's Gallery, The
London.
The British Council
Visitation Grant for Australian Researchers. London, UK
1993 Women and Art Scholarship, New
South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Sydney, AUS
1991 Australia
Council,
Visual Arts/Craft Board Overseas Dev. Grant (’94 London residency).
1991 Pat
Corrigan Artist’s Exhibition Grant, NAVA (National Advocacy for the Visual
Arts),
Sydney, Australia
1985 Artist's Exhibition Grant, Artist's Space,
New York, New York
2005 Cummins, Rebecca, “Light Work: Contemporary Artists
Consider the Sun” in Orchiston, W. (ed.), The New
Astronomy:
Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding our View of Planet Earth. Dordrect, Kluwer. 2005:293-310
2004 “I Space offers a daring, must-see show”, Alan G. Artner, Art Critic, Chicago
Tribune, Chicago, IL, 6.11.04
“Down Under and Back”, Thomas Gearty, Teachingphoto.com: A
Journal for Photography and
Imaging Educators,
http://teachingphoto.com/teachRC.html
2003 M-1000, “SCI-ART: The Science and Psychology of Color in Artwork”, NY Arts Magazine,
8.1.03
“According to George: It’s 3 PM”, A
& S Perspectives, College of Arts & Sciences,
2002 Andrew Bock, The Age Saturday Extra,
Stephanie Radock,
“Now I Talk Like This”, Australian Art Monthly, 4.2002:9-12, cover image
Wendy Walker, “Converge: Where
Art and Science Meet”, The Advertiser, 3.4.02:1,
Weekly
Converge: where are and science meet, The 2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian
Art, Adelaide.
2001 “From Pinhole to Pixel”, The
University of
2000 Leah McLeod, “Elastic Contemporary Art
Projects”, Globe E Journal of Contemporary Art,
ed.
by Blair French,
“Artists’ Pages: Rebecca Cummins”, Photofile 60, 8.00, Australian Centre for
Photography,
“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
1998 "Canberra Sculpture Forum", Deb Brown, Art
Monthly, 5.1998. (cover image).
"rebecca cummins and
rosemary laing:
envisioned", Anne Marsh, Eyeline,
#35,97/98.
1996 "Phantasmagoria: Pre-Cinema to Visuality", Rebecca Cummins, Photofile #48, Australian
Centre
for Photography, 8.1996:38-39
1995 “
Cambridge:
MIT Press, 234, 264
1994 “Maximum Exposure”, London
"Artists and Guns",
Christopher Chapman, World Art,
1991 “The Politics of Metaphor, Frames of
Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art”,
Meredith
Morse, Eyeline, Brisbane, Qld,
12.1991
“Between
the Acts: Rebecca Cummins”, Brigette Carcenac de Tourne, Photofile, Australian Centre
for Photography,
2003
Doctorate in Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney,
New
South Wales, Australia. Dissertation: Necro Techno:
Examples from an Archeology of Media
1982 Master of Art, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1979 Bachelor of Fine Art,
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
2001-04
1986-2001 Senior Lecturer, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia