rebecca copper
about
Rebecca’s work is lens-based and intersects personal inquiry with social research. She works with various forms of preservation: photography; education; textbooks; archiving. Interested in how the framing of what is perceived can alter as the protocols to preserve time shift, she considers the politics of vulnerability and care as central to her approach. She involves the process of creating a photograph or other media as a point of personal exploratory research, a threshold of developing relationships and learning. Often, she begins with the camera, then replicates her process removing the camera, thus becoming unguarded with a different kind of attention to what is being exchanged. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice: Art and Social Practice through Portland State University.
Recently, her short film, Colitis (2021), was screened for the Film Diary NYC 2.0 2022 film screening in Bushwick, NY and she was awarded the 2023 curatorial residency at Wave Pool in Cincinnati, OH. Her project Waterways (Ohio) was exhibited as part of Ohio’s Foto Focus 2024 Biennial and included in Tributaria: Poetry, Prose, & Art Inspired by Tributaries of the Ohio River Watershed, edited by Sherry Cook Stanforth and published by Dos Madres.
Rebecca resides in the Midwest, on the occupied and ancesteral lands of Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe peoples. There she teaches as a lecturer for the Ohio State University and works as a media designer for an educational publisher.
---
rebeccalcopper@gmail.com