Rebecca Ness
Biography
Rebecca Ness (b. 1992, Salem, MA) received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Major examples of the artist’s work are held in the collections of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Speed Art Museum, Louisville; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana; Zuzeum Art Centre, Rīga, Latvia; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong. Paintings by the artist have also recently been included in exhibitions at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA, and the Akron Art Museum in OH.
Select Works
Exhibitions
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Fugue States
26 Jun - 29 Jul 2025Morgan Presents is thrilled to announce Fugue States , featuring new works by Maria Haag, Sam Jablon, Rebecca Ness, Terry Rosenberg, Mike Shultis and Willie Stewart, alongside a significant historical...Read more -
Rebecca Ness: Memories of Daydreams
24 Oct - 14 Dec 2024These paintings by Rebecca Ness are pictures of quotidian life. Together they present a portrait of our societal moment and document our time: an age that Ness understands as constituted...Read more -
Figures and Faces
11 Jul - 2 Aug 2024Morgan Presents is thrilled to announce Figures and Faces , featuring a group of defining works from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Examining the relationship between subject and artistic...Read more -
American Portraiture: Selling the Self
12 May - 15 Jun 2023Alex da Corte, Andy Warhol, Ernesto Renda, Jeff Koons, Leon Golub, Mario Ayala, Mike Shultis, Rebecca Ness, Red Grooms, Sylvia Sleigh, Walter Robinson This exhibition examines two elements constitutive to...Read more
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Janus
30 Jun - 26 Jul 2022The ancient Roman god Janus embodied beginnings and endings, transitions and time, as well as doorways and passages. Depicted with two faces, one looking towards the future and one back...Read more -
Studio Visitor: Rebecca Ness & Joel Shapiro
24 Feb - 14 Apr 2022Studio Visitor presents a new body of paintings by Rebecca Ness in dialogue with a singular Joel Shapiro sculpture installed in the center of the gallery. These monumental works by...Read more

