Rebecca Memoli, American, born 1985
Rebecca Memoli is a Chicago-based visual artist. She received her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute (2006) and her MFA in Photography from Columbia College (2017). She co-founded the Blood Dumpster artist collective from 2007-2014 and has been the curator of several exhibitions throughout the United States. The Feeling Is Mutual has received national success and received funding from the Weisman Award through Columbia College.
As an artist Memoli has exhibited internationally and has participated in groups exhibitions and events including Satellite Art Show in Miami, 2017. Solo exhibitions include a feature at the New York Public Library on Mulberry Street and Decadence and Dirt at Local Project in Long Island City.
Currently Memoli works as a teaching artist for several organizations including Beverly Arts Center, Chicago High School for the Arts, and Lillstreet Art Center. With a fully functioning print studio, Memoli provides custom prints, framing, consulting and editing services for artists and amateur photographers.
Art criticism and writing have become another outlet for Memoli’s work. She has participated and led several panel discussions and works as a contributing editor for The New Art Examiner.
photo by Mary-Claire Runchey 2019
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2014-2017 MFA Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002-2006 BFA Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Professional Experience
Present Teaching Artist, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
Teaching Artist, Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Resin Artist, Studio K Creative, Chicago, IL
2017-2019 Teaching Artist, Advanced Arts Program, CPS, Chicago, IL
2018-2019 Art Instructor, SAE Institute, Chicago, IL
2017-present Gallery Reviewer, New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL
2016-present Teaching Artist, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
2011-2012 Local Project, Artist Advisory Board Member, New York, NY
2007-2011 The Blood Dumpster Artist Collective, Co-Founder, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Evaluation , New York Public Library Mulberry Street Branch, New York, NY
2010
Decadence and Dirt , Local Project, Long Island City, NY
2006
Counting on You , Pratt Institute Steuban Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curatorial Exhibitions
2018
The Feeling Is Mutual, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
The Feeling Is Mutual, Open House, Kansas City, MO
2017
The Feeling Is Mutual, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Feeling Is Mutual , Rangefinder Gallery, Chicago, IL
Animal Other, Hummingbird Studios, Chicago, IL
2013 Turned On, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
2012
Still Living, Pratt Institute Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Short Order , Local Project, Long Island City, NY
2009
Visions, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
2007
Post Apocalypse , Pochron Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Pushed Processes, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
SPECTRA , Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
Chimera, 22 North Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
Persist: Columbia College MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Hoax! , Columbia College Library, Chicago, IL
Animalia, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
2016
Animal Instinct, Lovecraft, New York City, NY
In Progress, Atrium Gallery, UNM Taos, Taos, NM
2015
Spring Group Exhibition , Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013
Amorphous , Pratt Institute Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Seattle Erotic Art Festival , Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA Collaborative project with performance artist Coralee Lynn Rose Dirty Show, Bert's Warehouse Theater, Detroit, MI Collaborative project with performance artist Coralee Lynn Rose
2008
Phone Sex: Real and Imagined , Pochron Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Two person exhibition with photographer Phillip Toledano
Collections
2016 Flat File Collection, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Scholarships and Awards
2017
Albert P. Weisman Award, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2016
John Mulvany Scholarship, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Lectures and Panel Discussions
December 1st, 2017, Chimera Artists Talk, 22 Nor th Gallery , Ypsilanti, MI
October 6th, 2017, Editing Your Photographs and Telling a Story , Leica Historical Society Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
August 4th, 2017, Reflection of Kindness (Moderator), Rangefinder Gallery, Chicago IL
March 30th, 2017, Hoax! , Columbia College Library, Chicago, IL
September 27th, 2016, Uncanny Specimens , Columbia College Library, Chicago, IL
Selected Press and Publications
September/October, 2019, Memoli Rebecca, New Art Examiner, Volume 34 No. 1, “Figures of Speech” Probes Junction of Art and Design, p27-28, www.newartexaminer.org/virgil-abloh.html
March/April 2019, Memoli, Rebecca, New Art Examiner, Volume 33 No. 4, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time", p27-28
January/February 2018, Memoli, Rebecca, New Art Examiner, Volume 32 No. 3, Bill Walker “Urban Griot”, p34-36
December 14, 2017, Rowan Fulton, BmoreArt.com, Proving Ground: Miami’s Satellite Art Show,
http://www.bmoreart.com/2017/12/proving-ground-miamis-satellite-art-show.html
August 31st, 2017, Jonathan Blaustein, A Photo Editor, This Week in Photography Books: Rebecca Memoli,
http://aphotoeditor.com/2017/08/11/this-week-in-photography-books rebecca-memoli/
August 2nd, 2017, Lise McKean, Bad At Sports, Thinks: The Feeling Is Mutual at Rangefinder Gallery in Chicago,
http://badatsports.com/2017/thinks-the-feeling-is-mutual/
October 14, 2016, Jonathan Blaustein, A Photo Editor, Filter Photo Festival 2016 – Part 2 ,
http://aphotoeditor.com/2016/10/14/filter - photo - festival - 2016 - part - 2/
May, 1, 2015, Matt Morris, New City online, “Review: Showcase/Schneider Gallery”,
https://art.newcity.com/2015/05/01/review-showcaseschneider-gallery/
August 3, 2013, Sy Bean, Seattle Pi, Erotic Arts Festival , http://www.seattlepi.com/local/slideshow/Erotic - Arts - Festival - 67529/photo - 4998725.php
March 9, 2012 Sherri Machlin, New York Public Library Blog, Meet the Artist: Rebecca Memoli
August 26, 2012, Larry Getlin, NY Post, Pulse, Call Girls , p 39
October 30, 2008, Andy Seccombe, Brooklyn Paper, Sex, Lies and Audiotape ,
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/4/31_43_as_phone_sex.html