Rebecca Kaufman is a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area working primarily in painting. She earned an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, where she was the recipient of a 2015-2017 Graduate Fellowship Award and a Cadogan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Kaufman was featured in the Pacific Coast Issue No. 133 of New American Paintings, and was recently selected as a finalist for the TOSA Studio Award at Minnesota Street Projects in San Francisco. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions in 2019 at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco and the Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland.

EDUCATION:

2017 MFA, Studio Art, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2012 BFA, Studio Art, Painting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

 

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS:

2020 TOSA Studio Award Finalist, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco

2019 Hopper Prize Finalist, hopperprize.org

2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, San Francisco Art Institute

2016 Edwin Anthony & Adalaine Bourdeaux Cadogan Scholarship, San Francisco Foundation

2015 MFA Fellowship Award, San Francisco Art Institute

2010 Dorothy Dile Materials Grant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2019 Memorized Emotions, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA

2019 Non-Consensual Paintings, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2020 Until It Shatters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA *on view now until November 30, 2020*

2020 10xTEN, Faultline Artspace, Oakland, CA *on view now until February 20, 2021*

2020 Metronome City, The Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 Secret Santa, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 Misfit Makers Factory, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2019 Root Division's 18th Annual Live Art Auction, San Francisco, CA

2019 Art Auction to Benefit the Artist #4, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 Open Book Show 6, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA

2019 More Than 700 Years, SFAI PreCollege Faculty Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 Allowance for Form, Fundraiser for Creative Writing at St. Mary’s College, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 Push it Forward 4, SF Skate Club Fundraiser + Auction, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 An Italian AffairIndex of Venice, Nido Living, San Francisco, CA

2019 Reality Under Construction, The Collective Gallery, Denver, CO

2018 Misfit Makers Factory, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2018 Diagonal, Shotwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 Root Division's 17th Annual Live Art Auction, San Francisco, CA

2018 Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2018 Taste, Root Division Fundraiser and Silent Auction, San Francisco, CA

2018 Opticks + Alchemists, Black Serum, San Francisco, CA

2018 Push it Forward 3, SF Skate Club Fundraiser + Auction, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017 Delusions of Fear, Swell Gallery, SFAI Fort Mason Graduate Center, San Francisco

2017 SFAI Alumni Courtyard Exhibition for the naming of the Osher Lecture Hall, San Francisco, CA

2017 East Meets West / West Meets East, Archivi Della Misericordia, Venice, Italy

2017 The Original Disruptor, SFAI Gala Courtyard Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

2017 Future Conscious, The Laundry Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017 Push it Forward 2, SF Skate Club Fundraiser + Auction, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017 Alternative Dementia, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

2016 Psychedelia, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016 Reconciling Madness, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015 FRIENDS, Mulberry Gallery, Richmond, VA

2014 Across the Short Divide, Vacuum Shop Gallery, Knoxville, TN