Rebecca Hackemann grew up in Bavaria Germany, spent a short time in a British Boarding School (where she got a key to the darkroom) until going to Art School in England. Schooled by Laura Mulvey and Victor Burgin, she holds a PhD from Chelsea College of Art (2019), an MFA from Stanford University in California and received her BFA (Hons) in Film Video and Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster, London, UK. (1994). She lived in New York City for 11 years where she was a Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Fellow. Hackemann is now based in Kansas City and London. Dr Hackemann is Professor of Art/Photography at Kansas State University.
Hackemann’s art practice consists of photographic / optical work, social practice and public art in cities and Drawing / installation. Her works commonly challenge existing media categories and formats, such as the flat photographic image on the wall, the flat drawing or the static aesthetic object as public work. Her interest in philosophy and theory have been a steady influence in her works, which are concerned with issues of perception, representation, and the intersection between language and image, public and private space.
Hackemann’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with recent solo projects at the Springfield Art Museum (2021), Museum für Photographie Brunswick (2021). Her exhibition record is extensive and begins in 1996. Fotofocus Biennial Cincinnati at Wave Pool Gallery (2018), the Bemis Center for Art (2018), the Whitney Museum ISP exhibition downtown (2001) and group exhibitions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn (2016, 2018), Foley Gallery (2017), San Francisco Camerawork (exhibition, auction and catalogue, 2018) and Center Santa Fe (Conjured Futures exhibition 2017). In 2021 53 of her works are being exhibited at the Museum für Photographie in Germany as part of the “True Pictures?” exhibition. Her tintype photograms of old technology were selected as finalist of the lensculture “Art Photograph Awards 2019” and the Fresh 2021 awards at Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, selected by photography curators from the Tate Britain, Museum de la Photographie and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She was nominated for a USA Artist Fellowship in 2017 and also presented lectures at various conferences including the College Art Association National Conference in Los Angeles (2012), SECAC (2017 and 2021), Society for Photographic Education (national, 2014 and 2020) and Psi20 in 2015. In 2011 she received a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and from NYCDOT for a photographic public art project “The Urban Field Glass Project”, a metal stereoscope that stood on sidewalks and showed the past and future of the site at which it stood. In late 2020 for 3 months her work will be part of a biennial commission at the Springfield Art Museum entitled “Four by Four 2020”, an exhibition with four other artists - she will be the first ever photographer in this exhibition series (catalogue).
Her work is held in several significant collections including the MOMA artist book collection, Printed Matter, NY, Yaddo Corporation, Fondation Suisse pour la Photographie, Zürich, Switzerland and Museé Français de la Photographie, Bievres, France, Springfield Art Museum and Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Hackemann has completed residences at the Fondation Valparaiso (2020), Banff Center for Creativity (2018), Headlands Center for the Arts (2005), Yaddo (2003) and Light Work Syracuse (2002).
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Dr. Hackemann is available for
- Art Commissions (public art, photography, installations, drawings)
- Keynote speaker and speaker engagements
- Workshops on wet collodion printing in the darkroom using pictorico film or in camera.
- Alt process workshops or teaching prep
- Arts Related Research
- Consulting, Art Career Consulting, Career Advice, Tenure Track, research positions in America
- Juror for exhibitions in Galleries and public art / social practice works
- Peer Reviewer of academic papers or books
- Grant reviewer
- Academic Career and Art Career Consultation
- Writing in the arts
- Proof Reading
Expertise in the following areas: Photography, Alternative Processes in Photography, Stereo 3D Photography, Public Art, Social Practice, Public art in New York, Public Art in General (subject of PhD), Professional Practice as an Artist or Photographer, PhD in the Arts Debate in the US