REBECCA DEANS (b. 1982, Massachusetts, USA)
Stockholm, Sweden | [email protected] | +46 70 382 78 87
CURRENT
May 11-23, 2015 – Vårutställning, Konstfack University College of
Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
UPCOMING
May 23-30, 2015 – 67 Facets, SNAG 2015, Massachusetts College of
Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
June 27-July 4, 2015 – Tool Jewelry Weapon, 8th Annual International
Deleuze Studies Conference, Stockholm, Sweden (co-curator +
participating artist)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 – Feeling Tone, The Bedfellows Club, Oakland, California
2014 – What Is a Box?, Konstfack Biblioteksgatan, Stockholm, Sweden
2014 – The Talking Table, Konstfack at Salone Internazionale de Mobile, Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy
2011 – Conspicuous, Monday Spaces, San Francisco, California
2011 – SF Open Studios Exhibition, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, California
2011 – Marlen Lugo, Hannah Keefe, Rebecca Deans, Gallery Lulo, Healdsburg, California
2010 – Noumenon: New Works by Walter James Mansfield, Jewelry by Rebecca Deans, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, California
2009 – From Minimal to Bling, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 – Featured artist, Gallery Lulo, Healdsburg, California
2008 – The Earring Show at SNAG, Savannah, Georgia
2008 – New West Coast Design, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California
2007 – The Earring Show, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California
2007 – MassArt Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 – MAG Members Exhibition, Oakland Museum Collector’s Gallery, Oakland, California
2005 – California Art Metal Now, The Blue Room Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 – Terminus: MassArt Metals Thesis Exhibition, The Gallery at Green Street, Boston, Massachusetts
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 – Lark Studios Series: Earrings, Lark Books
2007 – The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellers, Darling Publications, inclusion in MassArt section
2007 – 500 Earrings: New Directions in Contemporary Jewelry, Lark Books
EDUCATION
Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden. Master of Fine Arts, Jewellery +
Corpus, 2015 (anticipated). Studying with Karen Pontoppidan and David Clarke.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Metals, 2004. Studied
with Joe Wood and Heather White.
Various jewelry workshops, including: please be afraid of being understood with Iris Eichenberg, Alchimia
Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy (2011); ContacT with Fabrice Schaefer, MassArt, Boston,
Massachusetts (2004); Cow Now with Ruudt Peters, Opere Jewellery School, Ravenstein, The Netherlands (2003)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Director (2008-2013), Executive Assistant (2005-2008) Association of Independent Colleges of Art and
Design, San Francisco, California + Providence, Rhode Island, 2005-2013
Co-President (2011-2012), Board Member (2006-2012) and Resource Center Chair (2006-2011), Metal Arts Guild,
San Francisco, California