Rebecca Pristoop
rpristoop@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MA, Art History, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY, May 2008
BA, double major, Art History/Dance, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, May 2004
HONORS: Magna Cum Laude, Periclean Society, High Honors, Department Honors
S.A.C.I. (Studio Art Centers International), Florence, Italy, Spring 2003
No Longer Empty, Curatorial Lab, Jamaica, Queens, October 2017 - April 2018
AWARDS
Queens Art Intervention Grantee, Rego Park Green Alliance, February 2019
Micro Grant, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, September 2016
Haddasah-Brandeis Institute Research Award, Brandeis University, December 2014
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, July 2013
Shelby White and Leon Levy Travel Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, April 2006
S. Michael Eigen ’87 Prize in Art History, Skidmore College, May 2004
Student Opportunity Fund, Skidmore College, September 2003
PANELS
Violence Against Women in Genocide, Representations in Art, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, January 8, 2020
Mind Crossing, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, NY May 5, 2017
Art/Gender/Judaism: Transforming Identities, The Jewish Theological Seminary, NY April 11, 2016
Destruction: Objects & Materials, Dorsky Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY March 13, 2016
Material/Gender/Labor, Dorsky Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY February 28, 2016
Fragile Territories, LaunchPad, Brooklyn, NY August 4, 2013
Robert Moses, He Knows Us, flatbreadaffair, Brooklyn, NY February 9, 2011
The Art of John Coplans, Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, March 25, 2004
EXHIBITIONS
Artistic Director, Art Connects New York, October 2018 – October 2019
Director of Programs, Art Connects New York, November 2016 – September 2018
Associate Curator, VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide, April 12 – May 12, 2018 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Co-Curator, Inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial, February 8 – April 21, 2018 York College Art Gallery + Queens Central Library
Curator, Never on Our Plate, October 7 – November 4, 2016 A.I.R. Gallery + Repair the World, Brooklyn, NY
Curator, Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance, January 18 – March 27, 2016 Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
Curator, Traversing Tradition: Transformation and in and of Contemporary Jewish Life, November 2014 – June 2016
The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
Research Assistant + Curatorial Assistant, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, October 2013 – April 2015
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY + Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Curator, Fragile Territories, July 14 – August 4, 2013 LaunchPad, Brooklyn, NY
Leon Levy Curatorial Assistant, Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries + Daniel Libeskind: Line of Fire, October 2010 – October 2012, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Curator, flatbreadaffair, September 2010 – April 2011 Brooklyn, NY
- Sourced Material: Wool
- Beastly Habits
- Robert Moses, He Knows Us
Research Assistant, Kirchner and the Berlin Street + Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, 2007 – 2008
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Curator, Pilgrimage: An Exploration of Collective Memory, January 25 – March 6, 2006
The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU, New York, NY
Curator, Counter Pointe: Perceiving the Body in Ballet Photography, January 24 – May 23, 2004
Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
PERFORMANCE
The Moving Company, New York, NY (director since 2018, originally founded + directed by Tamar Ettun)
Whose is a Place (Pace University, 10/15/19, Art Lot, 9/15/19, Elmhurst Sculpture Garden, 9/7/19)
Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly:
Part PINK (Katonah Museum, 11/5/17, Fridman Gallery, 10/1/17, Battery Park, NY 5/24/17)
Part YELLOW (Revolve Performance Art Festival, Uppsala, Sweden 5/13/16, Bryant Park, NY 4/8/16)
Part BLUE (The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY 3/22/15, Knockdown Center, NY 11/7/15)
Solo
Alternative Currencies (in collaboration with Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Alternative Currencies: An Archive and a Manifesto, November 21 (w/ Tina Wang) + 23 (solo), 2019 (The Eighth Floor, NY)
Conversations, January 22 + 26, 2016 (Flux Factory, NY)
Boxed In, October 8, 2016 (Art in Odd Places Festival, NY)
Soap Box, October 23, 2015 (Fridman Gallery, NY)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
200 RYT, Jaya Yoga Center, Brooklyn, NY March 2013
Museum Guide, Fall 2011 – Fall 2013 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art Teacher, Spring 2009 Hannah Senesh Community Day School, Brooklyn, NY
Weekly Mentor, CAMBA PS269, Fall 2008 – Spring 2009 Free Arts NYC, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
Independent
Remember the Women Institute, Catalogue Essay, April 2018: "Reflections on Art and Genocide"
A.I.R./Repair the World, Press Releases, October 2016: "Never on Our Plate”
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Exhibition Brochure, January 2016: "Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance”
The Jewish Theological Seminary, Exhibition Brochure, September 2015: “Traversing Tradition: Transformation in and of Contemporary Jewish Life”
Slag Contemporary, Press Release, January 2014: “Always on Our Plate”
LaunchPad, Exhibition Catalogue, July 2013: “Fragile Territories”
flatbreadaffair, Exhibition Brochures: December 2010, ”Robert Moses, He Knows Us”;
November 2010, ”Beastly Habits”; September 2010, ”Sourced Material”
The Jewish Museum
Art, Culture + News, Fall 2012: “Recycling Righteousness: Harriet Estel Berman’s Tzedakah, 1999”
Art, Culture + News, Spring 2011: “Weaving Tradition into Trend: A Turkish Torah Ark Curtain”
Blog Post, February 1, 2012: “For Tu B’Shevat: Seeing Jewish Farming”
Blog Post, January 9, 2012: “Saying Goodbye in 2011: Lucian Freud and Tsirl Waletzky”
Blog Post, December 4, 2010: “Behind the Scenes of A Hanukkah Project: Daniel Libeskind’s Line of Fire”
REVIEWS
Boxed In
Meier, Allison. "A Monument to Henrietta Lacks in Union Square and Other Art in Odd Places," Hyperallergic, October 11, 2016
Devotion/Destruction
Sandry, Etta. “Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance at Dorsky Gallery,” Textile Arts Center Blog, March 21, 2016
Bardo, Jeannine. "Devotion/Destruction," galleryELL, February 8, 2016
Fragile Territories
Shemesh, Yasmin. “Artists in Conflict,” Yediot America, July 19, 2013 (in Hebrew)
Flatbreadaffair
Volner, Ian. “At Home with Moses,” The Architect's Newspaper, February 16, 2011
Alk, Nell. “The Art of the Meal: A Grass Roots Gallery Grows in Brooklyn,” NBC Niteside, November 2010
Cotel, Orli. “Jake Levin, Sourced Material,” Sierra Club Radio, October 2, 2010 (audio, start 18:34)
Jones, Beckie. “The flatbreadaffair,” Her Circle: a magazine of women’s creative arts and activism, June 1, 2011