Rebecca Reeve was born in London, England. Educated at Central Saint Martins, Bath Spa University and the University of South Wales, Australia, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Masters of Visual Arts. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally including La Biennale de Montreal, (Canada), Freies Museum, Berlin, (Germany), Museum of Latin American Art, (Buenos Aires), EFA Project Space, (NYC) and the Masur Museum of Art, (Louisiana). In 2013, she was Artist in Residence at Everglades National Park and was the recipient of the Artist in Exploration grant underwritten by Rolex. In 2016 she was the Artist in Residence at Joshua Tree National Park and included as part of the Hermès artist in window program series. She was Artist in Residence at Stoneleaf Retreat, NY from 2018-2019. In 2021 she returned to the Everglades National Park as an alumni Artist in Residence. Numerous publications have featured her work, including The New Yorker, Vogue, Whitewall Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Oxford American, L’official Italia, Wall Street International, Lenscratch and Aesthetica Magazine. She lives and works in New York City.
Installation, Bath Spa University, 1995
Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, 2022
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land on which I have made much of my work has been made on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the following tribes: In the Hudson Valley, the ancestral homelands of the Lenni-Lenape people. In the Everglades National Park, the ancestral homelands of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. In Joshua Tree National Park, the ancestral homelands of the Maara’yam (Serrano), Nüwü (Chemehuevi), and Kawiya (Cahuilla) tribes. In Canyonlands National Park, the ancestral homelands of the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute tribes. In the Olympic Peninsula, the ancestral homelands of the Hoh, Jamestown S'Klallam, Elwha Klallam, Makah, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Quileute, Quinault and Skokomish tribes. I wish to pay respect to the Elders, past, present and future, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations and the continuing relationship of these peoples with their territories.