Rebecca Pristoop
[email protected]
EXHIBITIONS
Curator with ArtBridge Soft Energy, February 20 - June 7, 2025 Studio 502, New York, NY
Curator with ArtBridge Painters Progress, October 17, 2024 - January 9, 2025 Studio 502, New York, NY
Curator Do Less, September 13, 2023 - June 7, 2025 Affective Care, New York, NY
Curator The Way You Want It, June 13 - July 27, 2024 EFA Project Space, New York, NY
Curator Un-Impress, January 18 - March 17, 2024 Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY
Curator with ArtBridge Present Power/Future Hopes, July 8 - 23, 2022 The Clemente, New York, NY
Co-Curator Summer Showers: The New York Flowers Festival, August 14 - 28, 2021 Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Curator Return to the Source, August 1- 30, 2021 Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY
Co-Curator Shared View, April 15 - June 2, 2021 COLLECTIVE_VIEW, New York, NY
Co-Curator Private View, August 3 ≅ October 16, 2020 COLLECTIVE_VIEW, New York, NY
Co-Curator Confidence in the Future, March 18 – May 27, 2020 Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
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
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
Laura Bernstein's Miracle Tapestries Project, 6/25/22 (Hatch, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NY) Co-Director/Performer
Laura Bernstein's Miracle Tapestries: A Stage for Imagination and Invention in a New Age, 5/1/21 (Fort Greene Park, NY)
Vernal Equinox, 3/21/21 (Virtual)
Deep Winter Healing, 1/24/21 (Virtual)
Celebrating Slowness, 12/6/20 (Virtual)
Whose is a Place, 10/15/19 (Pace University, NY) 9/15/19 (Art Lot, NY) 9/7/19 (Elmhurst Sculpture Garden, NY)
Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly:
Part PINK, 11/5/17 (Katonah Museum, NY) 10/1/17 (Fridman Gallery, NY) 5/24/17 (Battery Park, NY)
Part YELLOW, 5/13/16 (Revolve Performance Art Festival, Uppsala, Sweden) 4/8/16 (Bryant Park, NY)
Part BLUE, 3/22/15 (The Watermill Center, NY) 11/7/15 (Knockdown Center, NY)
Solo
To be held, 8/27/22 (Essex Flowers Gallery, NY)
Another Box, 7/30/22 (Five Myles Gallery, NY)
Paradise Lost, a movement activation of Katya Grokhovsky's installation, 7/31/21 (The Six Foot Platform, Presented by THE DUMBO IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL, NY)
Alternative Currencies, in collaboration with Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Alternative Currencies: An Archive and a Manifesto, 11/21/19, 11/23/19, 2/29/20, 3/7/20 (The Eighth Floor, NY)
Conversations, 1/22/16 + 1/26/16 (Flux Factory, NY)
Boxed In, 10/8/16 (Art in Odd Places Festival, NY)
Soap Box, 10/23/15 (Fridman Gallery, NY)
218-RP-2 (in collaboration with Rachel Rabhan)
Defining Space, 7/2018 – ongoing (Mexico, New York, and Instagram)
Los Muros de Mexico, 7/2018 – ongoing (Mexico, New York and Instagram)
Ramaz Mural Project, 8/2017 – ongoing (Ramaz High School, NY)
INSTITUTIONAL ROLES
Curator and Senior Program Manager, ArtBridge Projects, November 2021 – Present
Artistic Director, Art Connects New York, October 2018 – October 2019
Director of Programs, Art Connects New York, November 2016 – September 2018
Research + Curatorial Assistant, The Jewish Museum + Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, October 2013 - April 2015
Leon Levy Curatorial Assistant, The Jewish Museum, October 2010 - October 2012
Research Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art, February 2007 - August 2008
SELECT WRITINGS
"Do Less" Affective Care, 2023-2025
"Soft Energy" Studio 502, 2025
"The Way They Want It" in The Way You Want It, EFA Project Space, 2024
"UN-IMPRESS," Lower East Side Printshop, 2024
"City Artist Corps: Bridging the Divide," an ArtBridge Public Art Exhibition 2021-2022, ArtBridge 2022
"Reflections on Art and Genocide" in VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide, Remember the Women Institute, 2018
"Never on Our Plate," A.I.R. / Repair the World, October 2016
"Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance,” Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 2016
“Traversing Tradition: Transformation in and of Contemporary Jewish Life,” The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2016
“Fragile Territories,” LaunchPad, 2013
“Recycling Righteousness: Harriet Estel Berman’s Tzedakah, 1999” in Art, Culture + News, The Jewish Museum, 2012
“For Tu B’Shevat; Seeing Jewish Farming,” Blog Post, The Jewish Museum, February 1, 2012
“Saying Goodbye in 2011: Lucian Freud and Tsirl Waletzky,” Blog Post, The Jewish Museum, January 9, 2012
“Behind the Scenes of A Hanukkah Project: Daniel Libeskind’s Line of Fire,” Blog Post, The Jewish Museum, December 4, 2012
“Weaving Tradition into Trend: A Turkish Torah Ark Curtain” in Art, Culture + News, The Jewish Museum, 2011
”Robert Moses, He Knows Us,” flatbreadaffair, December 2010
”Beastly Habits,” flatbreadaffair, November 2010
”Sourced Material,” flatbreadaffair, September 2010
SELECT REVIEWS
Collective View
“Private View from Home to Home,” Art Spiel, William Corwin, January 7, 2021
Art Connects New York
“Teens in Chelsea unify and unveil public art murals,” Spectrum News, NY1, June 1, 2019
“Community center celebrates new office with art,” Caribbean Life, October 31, 2017
Remember the Women Institute
Unger-Sargon, Batya. “Can We Talk About Rape in the Holocaust Yet?” Forward, April 25, 2018
Southeast Queens Biennial
Carrigan, Margaret. “Pushing the Limits of NYC’s Periphery at the Southeast Queens Biennial,” Hyperallergic, March 30, 2018
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
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
SELECT PANELS
Artist Talk | Davina Hsu and Hanna Washburn, Studio 502, April 26, 2025
The Future of Public Space and Art: Trends, Craft, Technology, AIA NY|Center for Architecture, November 8, 2024
Gabrielle Mertz and Shared View, COLLECTIVE_VIEW, NY May 19, 2021
Sara Shaoul and Shared View, COLLECTIVE_VIEW, NY May 5, 2021
Gabriela Salazar and Collective View, COLLECTIVE_VIEW, NY September 3, 2020
Confidence in the Future, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY May 27, 2020
Violence Against Women in Genocide, Representations in Art, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, January 8, 2020
Notations in Passing, Central Library of Queens Library, Queens, NY April 21, 2018
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
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Reiki Level II, February 2019
200 RYT, Jaya Yoga Center, Brooklyn, NY March 2013 (with ongoing certifications)
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
[email protected]
EXHIBITIONS
Curator with ArtBridge Soft Energy, February 20 - June 7, 2025 Studio 502, New York, NY
Curator with ArtBridge Painters Progress, October 17, 2024 - January 9, 2025 Studio 502, New York, NY
Curator Do Less, September 13, 2023 - June 7, 2025 Affective Care, New York, NY
Curator The Way You Want It, June 13 - July 27, 2024 EFA Project Space, New York, NY
Curator Un-Impress, January 18 - March 17, 2024 Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY
Curator with ArtBridge Present Power/Future Hopes, July 8 - 23, 2022 The Clemente, New York, NY
Co-Curator Summer Showers: The New York Flowers Festival, August 14 - 28, 2021 Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Curator Return to the Source, August 1- 30, 2021 Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY
Co-Curator Shared View, April 15 - June 2, 2021 COLLECTIVE_VIEW, New York, NY
Co-Curator Private View, August 3 ≅ October 16, 2020 COLLECTIVE_VIEW, New York, NY
Co-Curator Confidence in the Future, March 18 – May 27, 2020 Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
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
Laura Bernstein's Miracle Tapestries Project, 6/25/22 (Hatch, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NY) Co-Director/Performer
Laura Bernstein's Miracle Tapestries: A Stage for Imagination and Invention in a New Age, 5/1/21 (Fort Greene Park, NY)
Vernal Equinox, 3/21/21 (Virtual)
Deep Winter Healing, 1/24/21 (Virtual)
Celebrating Slowness, 12/6/20 (Virtual)
Whose is a Place, 10/15/19 (Pace University, NY) 9/15/19 (Art Lot, NY) 9/7/19 (Elmhurst Sculpture Garden, NY)
Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly:
Part PINK, 11/5/17 (Katonah Museum, NY) 10/1/17 (Fridman Gallery, NY) 5/24/17 (Battery Park, NY)
Part YELLOW, 5/13/16 (Revolve Performance Art Festival, Uppsala, Sweden) 4/8/16 (Bryant Park, NY)
Part BLUE, 3/22/15 (The Watermill Center, NY) 11/7/15 (Knockdown Center, NY)
Solo
To be held, 8/27/22 (Essex Flowers Gallery, NY)
Another Box, 7/30/22 (Five Myles Gallery, NY)
Paradise Lost, a movement activation of Katya Grokhovsky's installation, 7/31/21 (The Six Foot Platform, Presented by THE DUMBO IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL, NY)
Alternative Currencies, in collaboration with Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Alternative Currencies: An Archive and a Manifesto, 11/21/19, 11/23/19, 2/29/20, 3/7/20 (The Eighth Floor, NY)
Conversations, 1/22/16 + 1/26/16 (Flux Factory, NY)
Boxed In, 10/8/16 (Art in Odd Places Festival, NY)
Soap Box, 10/23/15 (Fridman Gallery, NY)
218-RP-2 (in collaboration with Rachel Rabhan)
Defining Space, 7/2018 – ongoing (Mexico, New York, and Instagram)
Los Muros de Mexico, 7/2018 – ongoing (Mexico, New York and Instagram)
Ramaz Mural Project, 8/2017 – ongoing (Ramaz High School, NY)
INSTITUTIONAL ROLES
Curator and Senior Program Manager, ArtBridge Projects, November 2021 – Present
Artistic Director, Art Connects New York, October 2018 – October 2019
Director of Programs, Art Connects New York, November 2016 – September 2018
Research + Curatorial Assistant, The Jewish Museum + Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, October 2013 - April 2015
Leon Levy Curatorial Assistant, The Jewish Museum, October 2010 - October 2012
Research Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art, February 2007 - August 2008
SELECT WRITINGS
"Do Less" Affective Care, 2023-2025
"Soft Energy" Studio 502, 2025
"The Way They Want It" in The Way You Want It, EFA Project Space, 2024
"UN-IMPRESS," Lower East Side Printshop, 2024
"City Artist Corps: Bridging the Divide," an ArtBridge Public Art Exhibition 2021-2022, ArtBridge 2022
"Reflections on Art and Genocide" in VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide, Remember the Women Institute, 2018
"Never on Our Plate," A.I.R. / Repair the World, October 2016
"Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance,” Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 2016
“Traversing Tradition: Transformation in and of Contemporary Jewish Life,” The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2016
“Fragile Territories,” LaunchPad, 2013
“Recycling Righteousness: Harriet Estel Berman’s Tzedakah, 1999” in Art, Culture + News, The Jewish Museum, 2012
“For Tu B’Shevat; Seeing Jewish Farming,” Blog Post, The Jewish Museum, February 1, 2012
“Saying Goodbye in 2011: Lucian Freud and Tsirl Waletzky,” Blog Post, The Jewish Museum, January 9, 2012
“Behind the Scenes of A Hanukkah Project: Daniel Libeskind’s Line of Fire,” Blog Post, The Jewish Museum, December 4, 2012
“Weaving Tradition into Trend: A Turkish Torah Ark Curtain” in Art, Culture + News, The Jewish Museum, 2011
”Robert Moses, He Knows Us,” flatbreadaffair, December 2010
”Beastly Habits,” flatbreadaffair, November 2010
”Sourced Material,” flatbreadaffair, September 2010
SELECT REVIEWS
Collective View
“Private View from Home to Home,” Art Spiel, William Corwin, January 7, 2021
Art Connects New York
“Teens in Chelsea unify and unveil public art murals,” Spectrum News, NY1, June 1, 2019
“Community center celebrates new office with art,” Caribbean Life, October 31, 2017
Remember the Women Institute
Unger-Sargon, Batya. “Can We Talk About Rape in the Holocaust Yet?” Forward, April 25, 2018
Southeast Queens Biennial
Carrigan, Margaret. “Pushing the Limits of NYC’s Periphery at the Southeast Queens Biennial,” Hyperallergic, March 30, 2018
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
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
SELECT PANELS
Artist Talk | Davina Hsu and Hanna Washburn, Studio 502, April 26, 2025
The Future of Public Space and Art: Trends, Craft, Technology, AIA NY|Center for Architecture, November 8, 2024
Gabrielle Mertz and Shared View, COLLECTIVE_VIEW, NY May 19, 2021
Sara Shaoul and Shared View, COLLECTIVE_VIEW, NY May 5, 2021
Gabriela Salazar and Collective View, COLLECTIVE_VIEW, NY September 3, 2020
Confidence in the Future, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY May 27, 2020
Violence Against Women in Genocide, Representations in Art, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, January 8, 2020
Notations in Passing, Central Library of Queens Library, Queens, NY April 21, 2018
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
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Reiki Level II, February 2019
200 RYT, Jaya Yoga Center, Brooklyn, NY March 2013 (with ongoing certifications)
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