Rebecca Morrison is a Boston-based multimedia artist whose work explores the intersection of social ritual and digital culture. Her practice incorporates video, photography, installation and animation, and combines techniques of direct observation with performance and mixed media collage. Her recent multi-channel video projects consider the implications of digital technology for the body, language, and family bonding. Often situating her camera in spaces purposed for entertainment, she examines themes of spectatorship, intimacy, alienation, voyeurism, disguise, and public vs. private space. A native of Boston, she has worked for more than a decade as a photographic educator for students of all ages. She holds a BFA in Photography and Art History and an MFA in Film & Video from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design.
Recent Exhibitions/Screenings
- 2018 MassArt Film and Video Graduate Thesis Screening
- 2018 MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2018 Transitions, Survival, Resilience, group exhibition, MassArt Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2017 Ritual: A Collaborative Video and Sound Installation, MassArt Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2017 Glass Half Thawed at Boston CyberArts Gallery Art on the Marquee
- 2016 Once In A Lullaby solo looped screening, The 53rd “Window on the World” Video Art Program,
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- 2016 Boston Biennial IV, juried group exhibition, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2016 The Portrait, juried online exhibition, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, juror: Amy Arbus
- 2016 Culture, juried group exhibition, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT, juror: Peter Turnley
- 2016 Paine Scholarship Exhibition, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, curated by Christopher Bedford
- 2015 Family Matters, juried group exhibition, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, juror: Anne M. Jastrab
- 2012 Faculty Exhibition, Chester Gallery, New England College, Henniker, NH
Lectures, Symposia, and Artist Talks
- 2019 MassArt Think Thursdays: "Photo Film Video: Media Matters" Panel Moderator
- 2019 Greene Charter School, West Greenwich, RI, Guest Talk: A Brief History of Photography and How to Read a Photograph
- 2016 Third Annual History of Art Research Symposium, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Presentation: Walid Raad: Fiction’s Truth, form Archive to Imagination
- 2014 New England College Art Department Guest Lecture: Cross-media Expressive Color: Photography, Painting, and Cinema
Curatorial and Juries
- 2017 Curator and exhibition designer, The Outermost Cape: Encountering Time, photographs by Vivien Goldman and text by Marian Knapp, Ph.D, Eastham Public Library, Eastham, MA
- 2017 Curator and exhibition designer, Somatic Circuits, MassArt Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2010-2012 Juror, Undergraduate Art Exhibition, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH
Publications
- 2008 “Portraits”: Entelechy International, A Journal of Contemporary Ideas, Number 6
Teaching
Massachusetts College of Art & Design | Boston, MA | 2017-Present
Courses Delivered:
- MPPH308 - Advanced Digital Photography
- MPPH301/501 - Introduction to Digital Photography
- MPPH336/536 - From Still to Moving Image
New England College Department of Art & Art History | Henniker, NH | 2009-2013
NEC Photo Web Archive
Courses Delivered:
- AR1710 – Photography I
- AR3710 - Photography III
- AR3260 - Survey of the History of Photography
- AR2420 - Design and Illustration
- AR4830 - Independent Study in Motion Graphics
- AR4830 - Independent Study in Web Design
