Rebecca Salmon was born and raised in New York. She received her MA in Art Education from New York University in 2017. She recently graduated with a BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2016 with a concentration in sculpture. Her sculptures and sound installations explore body perception, gender rituals, and the objectification of the human form. Rebecca makes realistic, abject works, which act as physical, semi-living hosts for her own bodily unease. By working with different fleshy materials such as wax, clay, and gelatin and distorting the body’s familiar forms and textures, she projects her disquietude onto the audience.
In the summer of 2016, Rebecca spent time at the Siena Art Institute (Siena, Italy) and the Prattsville Artists Residency (New York). Rebecca has presented her work in galleries such as Art Centro (New York) and the National Arts Club (New York). Her art has recently been exhibited at 80WSE Gallery (New York) in a production of The Magic Flute in association with CHEAP Kollektiv and in Language of the Birds, Occult and Art, curated by Pam Grossman. She has also shown her works at the Commons and Rosenberg galleries at NYU. Rebecca, an interdisciplinary artist, has studied special effects makeup and is also a vocalist and actor. In the summers of 2015 and 2016, Rebecca taught a ceramics class at NYU's High School Summer Art Intensive and co-curated and installed the end-of-program show with her colleagues and students.
