Artist Statement

I am a NYC-based visual artist, curator and arts educator. My interdisciplinary work combines ceramic sculpture, drawing, costumery, and performative film/video to explore the power dynamics inherent to gender and sexuality, celebrating sex positivity while simultaneously examining the psychology of sexual violence. I embody a broad range of characters in an ongoing series of psychosexual scenarios, acting as both director and protagonist. As Ghost Bitch, I recount psychosexual Puritan dramas of my direct ancestor, Rebecca Nurse, hanged as a Salem witch. I enact the mating dance of a lobster as a costumed Lobsta Queen provocateur. Inspiring adult play, ancestral healing and social critique, my ceramic God/ess Power figures are displayed in bizarro Americana dioramas and altars.

As an Educator and Independent Curator for NYC leading cultural institutions including Museum of Modern Art, Kaufman Studios/Museum of Moving Image and the Museum of Sex, I have collaborated with diverse communities to develop innovative public programming including experimental films, artist-led symposiums, live performances and large-scale installations, painting, sculpture and multimedia conceptual art. In 2018, I started Makers Magic LLC, to share my interdisciplinary practices based on daily artmaking and ritual work, engaging various communities through a process of artistic alchemy. Currently, I am developing a body of ceramic sculptural works and studying comedy writing with Upright Citizen’s Brigade, and working on my next art film.

Bio

Rebecca Goyette is represented by Freight and Volume Gallery, NYC.  She has exhibited internationally with solo shows at Freight and Volume, Museum of Sex, NYC, Spektrum: Art, Science and Community, Berlin, Germany, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ and Galerie X, Istanbul, Turkey and group shows at  Kyung-In Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, Museum of Sex, NYC, the Berlin Porn Film Festival, House of Yes, NYC, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Queens Museum of Art, NYC, KARST, Plymouth, England and Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark, amongst others.   Her work was reviewed on European television Arté and in Village Voice, Vice Magazine, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Newsweek Magazine and Ms. Magazine.  Goyette has lectured at  the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pratt Institute, SVA, NYU Cooper Union, Eyebeam and the New School.  Goyette is currently leading a series of adult education workshops called “Maker’s Magic” that focuses on the intersections between art making, sexuality and ritual.

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EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts, Master’s Degree of Fine Arts, 2009.
Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts, Painting, 1993.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Shelter Gallery, NYC, “Parlor Tricks: A Self-Service Social Space,” featured as a TOP Booth in Art News. New ceramics, drawings, collaboration and quilts by the artist’s mother, Louise Goyette. Included was the People’s Parlor series of interactive experiences: “Beat Poetry & Bibliomancy hosted by artist Bridget Carey, “Movements Our Mothers Gave Us” organized by curator/dancer Derrick Leôn Washington and “Sovereignty Stories” facilitated by Abortion Stories 2022.

2021    Freight and Volume Gallery, NYC, “My Snake is Bigger Than Your Snake,” catalog available.

2020    Wedge Studio, NYC, “Goddess Power.”

2019    Shelter Gallery, NYC, “Fortuna’s Wheel.”

2019    Huam-Garok, Seoul, South Korea, “Forever Animal,” curated by Yeu & Me. 

2017    Spektrum-Art, Science and Community, Berlin, Germany, “LOBSTAPORN,” a video retrospective curated by EVBG. 

2016    Freight and Volume Gallery, NYC,  “Ghost Bitch U.S.A.” 

2015    Arts and Leisure Gallery, NYC, “Sausage Party Bride,” catalog available.

2014    Slag Gallery, NYC, “Surf and Turf,” with Julia Oldham.

2013    Freight and Volume Gallery, NYC, “Masshole Love.”

2012    Airplane Gallery, NYC, “Lobsta Porn Theater.”

2006    Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, “4-Eva.” 

2003    Galeri X, Istanbul, Turkey, “Union/Bulusma.” 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021    Shelter Gallery, NYC, “Shake the Pattern.”

2021    New Filmmakers NY Festival, Anthology Film Archive, official selection.

2021 Queens World Festival, Museum of Moving Image, official selection.

2021    Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, “porntopia revised.”

2021 The National Arts Club, NYC, “Everyday Magic: Artistic and Gnostic Impulses.”

2020 Christie’s Auction House, NYC, “Vice and Virtue.”

2020 Monica King Contemporary, NYC, “Spring to Action,” benefit  for “Feed The Frontlines.”

2020 Freight and Volume, NYC, “Pungent Dystopia,” catalog available.

2020 Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, FLA, “(Dis)obedient: Redefining Feminism in a Fractured Reality.”

2019 BravinLee Programs, NYC, “Ho Hum All Ye Faithful.”

2019 Kyung-In Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, “[Do You Have Any Idea?],” curated by Yeu & Me.

2019 Berlin Porn Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.

2019 Loophole Berlin, Berlin, Germany, “Sex, Erotica and Fetish by Women Filmmakers,” curated by Grrlhaus Cinema. 

2019 House of Yes, NYC, "Pass the Porn: A Cinematic Social Experiment - Food and Mess Play."

2019 Wallplay, NYC, “A Body of Work,” curated by Ali Edelson.

2019 Grace Exhibition Space/Live Performance Art in NYC, “Lucy, I’m Home,” live performance. 

2019 Russell Janis Gallery, NYC, “Your Hands Were Making Artifacts,” catalog available. 

2019 Spring/Break Art Show, NYC,  “Eden,” with The Untitled Space.

2018 Karst Gallery, Plymouth England, “I Am My Own Primal Parent,” curated by Katie Cercone.

2018 Freight and Volume, NYC, “Summer of Love.”

2018 Dromos Festival,“68/Revolution: Memorie, Nostalgie, Oblii,” Sardinia, Italy.

2017 Museum of Sex, NYC,  “NSFW: Female Gaze.” 

2017    Freight and Volume, NYC,  VOLTA Art Fair, “Golden Showers: A Sex Hex.”

2017    Spring/Break Art Show, NYC, “Milk and Night,” curated by Coco Dolle.

2017    Mulherin New York, NYC, “Old Glory.” 

2016    Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC, “Why I Want to Fuck Donald Trump.”

2016    Mark Borghi Fine Art, NYC, “Beyond Secretary,” curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman.

2016 Shin Gallery, NYC, “Smile,” curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman.

2016    White Box Gallery, NYC, “#makeamericagreatagain.” 

2016    Superchief Gallery, NYC, “The F Word Immersive.” 

2015    Satellite Art Show, Miami, FLA, Premiere of “Ghost Bitch: Arise from the Gallows.” 

2015    Arts and Leisure Gallery, NYC, “Your Bad Self,” catalog available.

2015    Select Fair, NYC, “Dentata Umbrella Lounge,” invited guest artist, solo project booth.

2015    The Lodge Gallery, NYC,  “Alterity.”

2015    Fine and Raw Exhibition Space, NYC,  “A Variant Of Lust,” curated by Ella Joyce Buckley

2014 Whitney Museum of Art, NYC,  “Clitney Perennial,” Live performance.

2013    Flux Factory, NYC, “Carne Valle.”

2012    Freight and Volume Gallery, NYC, “Double Dirty Dozen,” catalog available.

2012    Slag Gallery, NYC, “Undercover.”

2011    Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Bitches Brew.”

2010    Winkelman Gallery, NYC, “#Class,” performance “Market U”.

2009 Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, “My Heroes.”

2008 Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN, “American Political Sideshow.”

SELECTED PUBLISHED REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

2022    Art News, See the Best Booths at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, 2022,  by Tessa Solomon.

2022 Hyperallergic, Connecticut Museum Accused of Censorship After Removing an “Inappropriate” Video by Billy Anania.

2022 National Coalition Against Censorship, Lyman Allyn Art Museum Removes Art Deemed Inappropriate, including an open letter to Museum Director, Samuel Quigley in opposition to the censorship of “My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake” film.

2022    Art News, Artists and Activists Banned Together to Tell Abortion Stories at an Impassioned New York City Event, featured article by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei.

2022 Hyperallergic, Lower East Side Gallery Highlights Untold Abortion Stories, review by Elaine Velie.

2021 EV Grieve, “Gallery Watch: ‘My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake’ at Freight and Volume, a review by Clare Gemima.

2021    It’s a Woman’s Thing, “Five Female Art Shows to See in May, 2021,  by Morgan Everhart.

2021    Artnet, “Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week,” by Sarah Cascone.

2021    Elephant Magazine, “Hocus Focus: What Happens When Art and Sorcery Intersect? Meet the artists using “everyday magic” of rituals to negotiate the pandemic,” review featuring  my artwork by Emily Gosling.

2019    Elephant Magazine, “Reconsider the Lobster: The Enduring Symbolism of the Humble Crustacean,” review by Octavia Bright.

2019 Artnet, “Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” review by Sarah Cascone.

2019    Arcade Project, “Fortuna Wants Steak: MC Stevens in Conversation with Rebecca Goyette,” interview with M.C. Stevens.

2019    Artnet, “7 Outrageous Spring/Break Installations,” review by Sarah Cascone.

2019    Free Muse,  “‘Forever Animal’ gallery exhibition censored in Seoul, Korea,” article defending Rebecca Goyette’s work from censorship.

2018    Art 511 Magazine, “We Carry Our Mother’s Pain,” Artist Rebecca Goyette Unfolds Louise Bourgeois,” article by Katie Cercone. 

2018    Cagliari Art Magazine, “68/Revolution,” review by Pinacoteca Carlo Contini.

2017    Arte Television, Tracks, Aired in Germany and France, Featured special on Rebecca Goyette, representing the future of feminist art, interviewed by Marion Desmaret.

2017 Playboy Magazine, “The Allure of NSFW: An Exclusive Preview of The Museum of Sex’s Newest Show,” Review by Liz Suman. 

2017 Juxtapoz Magazine, “The Museum of Sex Presents NSFW: A Femaie Gaze,” a feature in Painting.

2017    Whitehot Magazine, “NSFW: Female Gaze at The Museum of Sex,” review by Kurt McVey.

2017    Resource Magazine, “Museum Of Sex’s “NSFW: Female Gaze” Is Redefining The Boundaries Of Sexuality,” review by Kristie Kamjuly.

2017    Artnet, “Is This Armory Week’s Most Outrageous Artwork? (Hint: It Involves Donald Trump) It Also Involved  Witches,” review by Sarah Cascone.

2017    Artnet, “Catch These Breakout Stars at the Volta Art Fair,” review by Sarah Cascone.

2017    DRailed Magazine, “Through the Looking Glass: Innovative Women Artists Who Reclaimed the Gaze At New York Armory Art Week,” review by Audra Lambert.

2017 Forbes Magazine, “Feminism Takes Many Forms In Coco Dolle's Milk And Night Curatorial Project,” review of Spring Break group exhibition featuring work by Rebecca Goyette, Leah Schrager, Maria Tomanova and more, by Adam Leher.

2017    Studio Potter Magazine, “Rock Hard Feminism,” review by Dani Sigler.

2016    Art F City, “Girl Power is Back: Top Ten Shows for Women in 2016,” review, by Emily Colucci.

2016    Hyperallergic, “Modeling the Modern Witch in the Age of Trump,” review by Zachary Small.

2016    Village Voice, “Rebecca Goyette: Ghost Bitch U.S.A.,” review by Jessica Dawson.

2016    Vice Magazine, “Psychosexual Fantasy Art Recasts the Salem Witch Trials,” review by Francesca Cacaposella.

2016    Arte Fuse, “Making America Great Since 1692: Rebecca Goyette’s Ghost Bitch U.S.A.,” review by Jennifer Wolf.

2016    Huffington Post, “Why Porn is the Perfect Weapon To Fight Hatred, Fear and Trump: Artist Rebecca Goyette and her Alter Ego ‘Ghost Bitch’ are Taking No Prisoners,” review by Priscilla Frank.

2016    Arcade Project, “Ghost Bitch: Join The Coven,”  review by M.C. Stevens.

2016 Art F City, “Is 2016 the new 1994? Feminism in the Art World,” review by Emily Colucci.

2016    Hyperallergic, ArtRx NYC, “Trump/Palin Performance Art Rally,” review by Jillian Steinhauer.

2015    The Huffington Post: “17 Visual Artists You Should Know in 2016,” by Katherine Brooks. 

2015    Art F City, “The Terrifying Experience of Extra Teats,” an interview with Irena Jurek.                                       

2015    The Huffington Post, “14 Fourth-Wave Feminist Artists Kicking A** And Showing It Too: A look inside Robert Adanto's documentary "The F Word," reviewed by Priscilla Frank.

2015    Gothamist, “Photos, Video: Select Art Fair's Brash Installations Take Over Chelsea,” by Scott Lynch.

2014 Slutist Magazine, “Creating Confrontational Characters and the Art of Lobsta Porn,” review by Kristen Sollée.

2014 Hyperallergic, “Feminist Protest Disrupts the Whitney Biennial,” review by Jillian Steinhauer.

2014 Culture Crux, “Art Review: Two Visions of Feminism at Gitana Rosa and The Hole,” by Coral Silverman.

2013 Posture Magazine, "The Lobsta Pussy Summit: A Dialogue with the Performance Artist," interview with Go! Push Pops. 

2012    Whitehot Magazine, “The Lobsta Girl,” interview with Joe Heaps Nelson.

2012    New York Times, “The Double Dirty Dozen and Friends,” review by Ken Johnson.

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS AT MAJOR INSTITUTIONS

2022 LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC, Abortion Stories USA, Interactive exhibition where Raleigh community shared/record abortion stories and add to a wall of political expression. Artists included: Jaishri Abichandani, Abortion Stories 2022, Wildcat Ebony Brown, Christen Clifford, Nadine Faraj, Rebecca Goyette, Michelle Hartney, Amy Khoshbin, Shireen Liane, Yvette Molina, Lydia Nobles and Viva Ruiz, founder of Thank God for Abortion.

2021    SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, “#PleasureReClaimed,” multisensory installation by artist Qinza Najm.  “Magic Hour” interactive rituals included spells to release the collective shame driven by social media, dissolve personal pain and reclaim pleasure. 

2021    National Arts Club, NYC, “Everyday Magic: Artistic and Gnostic Impulses,” co-curated with Jenny Mushkin-Goldman. Featuring 21 artists with ritual-based practices including  Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Jaishri Abichandani, Jesse Bransford, Kenya (Robinson), Alejandro Guzman and Kay Turner.  Included in the exhibition is a “Magic Hour” series of experiential rituals, performances and artistic dialogue.  “Magic Hours” include:

• “Offerings to God Herself,” with Everyday Magic artist, and creator of Dust to Onyx: A Melanated Tarot,  Courtney Alexander.

• “Healing Persephone’s Wounds, with Everyday Magic Folklore Scholar, and author of Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women’s Altars,” and Everyday Magic artist Elizabeth Insogna.

• “Intuitives and Intention Setters,” an evening of  performance and ritual  featuring Jane Ursula Harris representing Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with readings from the “Psychick Bible,” and Everyday Magic artists Tamara Kostianovsky, Clarina Bezzola and Alexis Karl.

• (God)ess Power Magic Hour with Arcade Projects, featuring Everyday Magic artists Jaishri Abichandani, Staver Klitgaard and Sahana Ramakrishnan and co-curators Rebecca Goyette and Jenny Mushkin-Goldman.

• “Everyday Magic and the Art of Ritual: What Is It All About?,” Panel Discussion with Everyday Magic artists Jaishri Abichandani, Jesse Bransford, Qinza Najm and  co-curators Rebecca Goyette and Jenny Mushkin-Goldman.

2019 Museum of the Moving Image, NYC, “Tableaux Vivants,” a theatrical  history-reimagined fashion show using the TDF costume collection, co-curator with Raxann Chin, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow and Alexis Karl. Performance art tableaux I directed included No More Suffering’ Suffragettes, and Lobsta Pajama Party, directing 25 performers in a historic fashion show featuring  85 performers.

2019    Le Petit Versailles Park, NYC, “Impeach My Bush,”  performance art and video screening. 

2018    Museum of Sex, NYC, “Araki: from Conceptual to Practical: Rope Bondage 101.”

2018    Museum of Sex, NYC, “Midori’s Passage: Make Art with Rope and Meet the Artist.”

2017     Museum of Modern Art, Cullman Education Gallery, “Dear Mr. President,” a mail art and political portrait collaboration with Y.A.I. Arts, a group of visionary, neurodiverse artists.

2017    Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Cullman Education Gallery, “The Inspirations,” video installation about communal joy and health benefits of daily line-dancing practice  with Midwood Senior Center.

2015    Satellite Art Show, Curator of Digital Art, “Extra Teats: Puritan-Purging DIgital Art,” Miami, FLA.

2015 Museum of Modern Art, Cullman Education Gallery, NYC, “Televisionary” music video, book art and costumery collaboration with L.A.N.D. Gallery Artists.

2012 Museum of Modern Art, Cullman Education Gallery, NYC, “Masters of Puppets,” music video, puppetry and soft sculpture collaboration with L.A.N.D. Gallery artists.

2008 School of Visual Arts  Flatiron Gallery, NYC, "Reconstructing Destruction" Exhibition, featuring interdisciplinary works by Liberty Partnership  Program artists.                       

1997    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Pure Vision: New England-Based Outsider Art, Assistant Curator for Margaret Bodell. featuring visionary  artists from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

1993-96 Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Cork Gallery, NYC, Annual Independent Arts Gallery Exhibition, featuring multimedia artworks created by artists with disabilities.

PRESS RECEIVED FOR CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2022 INDY Week, Raleigh, NC, Abortion Stories USA at LUMP Gallery Is a Powerful Affirmation of Reproductive Rights, article by Sarah Edwards.

2021 Hyperallergic, “With A Medieval Flair, SPRING/BREAK Art Show Celebrates Eccentricity,” by Hrag Vartanian, featuring curatorial project #PleasureReClaimed, a multisensory installation by Qinza Najm.          

2021 Gothamist, “The Riotous SPRING/BREAK Art Show Takes Over Midtown Office Building,” by Scott Lynch, featuring #PleasureReClaimed.

2021 IFA Contemporary, “At SPRING/BREAK, Smartphones Become Sacred and Free Weights Grow Fur,” by Goldie Gross, featuring #PleasureReClaimed.

2021    Art Forum, “MUST SEE- Everyday Magic: Artistic/Gnostic Impulses.”

2021    Elephant Magazine, “Hocus Focus: What Happens When Art and Sorcery Intersect? Meet the artists using “everyday magic” of rituals to negotiate the pandemic,” review by Emily Gosling.

2021    Art Zealous, “Everyday Magic at the New York National Arts Club,” article and video interview with Co-Curator Jenny Mushkin-Goldman and Art Zealous reporter Michael Wolf.

2021    ANTE Mag, “The Power of Everyday Magic: Artistic/Gnostic Impulses,” interview and review by Audra Lambert.

2021    Create! Magazine, “Artistic Creation As Ritual and a Vessel for Personal Transformation and Unadulterated Magic,” review by Natalie Levey.

2018    Departures Magazine, “Nobuyoshi Araki's NYC Retrospective Weaves a Captivating Web at the Museum of  Sex,” review by Laura Feinsten.

2017    Huffington Post, “The Outsider Art Fair Is The Right Art World Event For Inauguration Weekend: Making apolitical art is a privilege, one that outsider artists do not have,” featuring YAI Art’s Dear Mr. President, review by Priscilla Frank.

2017 MoMA Blog, “Dear. Mr. President,” featuring my partnership with YAI Arts.

2017 MoMA Blog, “Prime Time: The Inspirations,” featuring my partnership Midwood Senior Center.

2016 MoMA Blog, “What if We…,” Expressions of Violence and Hope in Our 2016 Community Partner Art Show, featuring my partnership with Friends of Island Academy.

2012    MoMA Blog, “Masters of Puppets,” featuring my partnership with L.A.N.D. Gallery.

2012 MoMA Blog, “My Fake ID: Teens Create Art as Invented Characters,” featuring MoMA Teen Program I led.  

2011     MoMA Blog, “ Stop or I’ll Shoot! Performance and Photography,” featuring MoMA Teen Program. 

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/PERFORMER/VIDEOGRAPHER

2021    My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake, Director and Producer, short film, a kink comedy about the death of a parent, examining our current ethos of loss, with hand-painted animation and live action starring an ensemble  cast: Rebecca Goyette, Johnny Sagan, Olive Hui, Joanne Leah, Lena Chen and Brian Andrew Whiteley.

2021    Dreams and Defiance: Latin Dance Vs. The World, Directed/Produced by Derrick Léon Washington for The National Jazz Museum, NYC, feature-length film about NYC’s Latin dance community’s adapted practices during the pandemic.  Videographer and Assistant to Director.

2019    Golden Showers: A Sex Hex, Director, Co-Produced with Brian Andrew Whiteley,  A short film starring Brian Andrew Whiteley as Donald Trump, Rebecca Goyette and an ensemble cast.

2018    Crustacean Temptation, Director, Co-Produced with EVBG Berlin, short film starring Rebecca Goyette and an ensemble cast of 20 performers, a Lobsta Porn adventure, shot in Berlin, Germany, featuring Berlin’s famed electronic music including D.J. Shadow. 

2018    Rat Woman, with support from Museum of Modern Art and Kennedy Center’s Maggy Daly Art Cooperative in Bridgeport, CT.  Music Video collaboration with MDAC’s Ouch Band.

2017    The Inspirations, Director and Producer, with support from Museum of Modern Art, An immersive video installation about the community-building and  health benefits of daily line dancing  practice in collaboration with Midwood Senior Center.

2016    Ghost Bitch U.S.A., Directed and Produced with support from Moon Church, Woodstock, NY. Brian Andrew Whiteley as Donald Trump, Rebecca Goyette, Ella Joyce Buckley and Dulce Avila Romero.

2016 Ghost Bitch: Arise From the Gallows, Directed and Produced with support from Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, DNA Residency in Provincetown, MA and  Freight & Volume Gallery,  NYC. A short film as homage to direct ancestor, Rebecca Nurse, falsely accused and hanged as a Salem Witch. Rebecca Goyette stars as a  Salem-based historic hanging-scene performer by day, a Ghost Bitch dominatrix  by night with a large ensemble cast in Salem, MA.

2015    Bjork Street Station, Directed and Produced with support from Museum of Modern Art, A music video inspired by Bjork, with improvisational music, costumes and performance art L.A.N.D. Gallery visionary artists.

2014 Surf and Turf, Directed and Co-Produced with Julia Oldham, with support from Opossum House Residency, Eugene, Oregon. A short road movie starring Rebecca Goyette and Julia Oldham as Lobstapus and Wolf Woman.

2013    Masshole Love,  with support from DNA Residency in Provincetown, MA and Freight & Volume Gallery,  NYC.  A Lobsta Porn love story of healing ancestral and sexual  trauma, shot in Provincetown, MA. Starring Rebecca Goyette and Cesare DeCredico.

2013 Lobstapus/Lobstapussy, Director and Produced in Kardamyli, Greece with support from the Offshore Project, Kardamyli, Greece. A residency/theoretical project with invited visual artists, political theorists, philosophers, architects and  musicians to create society-funded Utopia in the face of Greek economic collapse on an uninhabited Greek Island. Lobstapus/Lobstapussy is a Lobsta Porn Travel Sex film starring Rebecca Goyette with an all-Greek cast.

2012    Master of Puppets, with support from the Museum of Modern Art, music video with a puppet show and live action, in collaboration with L.A.N.D. Gallery artists.

2012 Fuck Platter, Director and Producer. A short Lobsta Porn film starring Christopher Carr as the Marquis de Sade with Rebecca Goyette and an ensemble cast of lobsta in a boiling pot. 

2011    Touch My Hull, Director and Producer.  A short Lobsta Porn film taking over the East River, NYC from Duke Riley’s illegally docked sailboat.  Starring Rebecca Goyette with Artist Duke Riley.

2011    Lobsta Explanation, Director and Producer. A short film starring Rebecca Goyette as Lobsta Girl, explaining how lobsta have sex.

2011    Lobsta Rollin’, Director and Producer, with Support from Jack the Pelican Gallery. Starring Rebecca Goyette and Ben Sargeant, Lobsta Roll Chef and Creator and Star of Hook, Line and Dinner on the Cooking Network. The first Lobsta Porn film in series, describing how lobsta have sex.

2009    Anything for Max, Director and Producer, with Support from School of Visual Arts. An “I Love Lucy” era date night with a hand-sewn life sized boyfriend doll, Max starring Rebecca Goyette and burlesque dancer Amber Ray.

2008    Onward Christian Soldiers, Directed and Produced, Lyrics, music video in collaboration with Missile Dick Chicks, anti-war feminist activist group, made in opposition to Sarah Palin and John McCain in the lead-up to Obama’s election.

EDUCATOR/LECTURER

2020-Present    Maker’s Magic, LLC.  Small business owner, art/healing consultancy and workshops.

2019-Present    Pratt Institute, School of Continued and Professional Studies, Instructor, Video and Combined Media.  

2007-2018    Museum of Modern Art, Lead Museum Educator for Community and Access and Teen Programs, and Curator of Exhibitions for Cullman Education Center Gallery and Celeste Bartos Theater.

2011-2014    Montclair State University, Professor for BFA and MFA Departments, Combined Media.

2000-2010    School of Visual Arts, Art Instructor and Curator.

2006-2008    Brooklyn Museum,  Museum Educator.

2005-2007    Studio Museum in Harlem, Lecturer.

2002-2003    Newark Museum of Art, Artist-in-Residence.. 

VISITING ARTIST & EXPERT GUEST LECTURER

2021 The City Reliquary Museum, NY, “Show and Purell,” live performance curated by Tasha Lutek, Photography Dept at MoMA.

2021 Rhode Island School of Design, RI, Visiting Artist Lecturer.

2020 Montserrat College of Art, MA, Visiting Artist Lecturer. 

2020 Pratt Institute, NYC, Career Day, Visiting Artist.

2018/19/20    New York University, Gallatin School, NYC, Visiting Artist Lecturer.

2019 School of Visual Arts, NYC, “Gender Trouble: Triple Goddess” lecture/performance.

2014/16/19 The New School for Social Research, NYC.

2019 Pratt Institute, NYC, “#MeToo: Launching An Ethical Future”

2019 Catland Books, “Symbol Selves: Sigil Drawing and Sex Magic.”

2019 Academie Gnostique, New Orleans, LA, “Drawing Sigils.”

2018 Museum of Sex, “NSFW: Female Gaze: Artists’ Long Table,” NYC.

2000-2018 Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

2017 Muhlenberg College, Martin Art Gallery, Allentown, PA.

2016-2017 NYCMER, Museum Educators Roundtable, NYC.

2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, International Institute for Conservation: Dialogues for the New Century: “Viral Images: Exploring the historic & conservation challenges of objects created for social protest & solidarity.”  Rebecca Goyette was the featured artist presenting activist, protest-related artworks.                                                                                         

2017 Soho 20, NYC, “Game Night #6: Feminist Politics.”

2015/2017    School of Visual Arts, NYC.

2016 Eyebeam Art and Technology Center NYC, “Cosmologies Shaped by Trauma.”

PUBLISHED WORK

2020    The Art Story, “Brave New World: Examining the Zeitgeist at The Art Story,” by Rebecca Goyette.

2020    Arcade Project, “The Governed Body: Laia Abril’s On Abortion at the Museum of Sex,” by Rebecca Goyette.

2017    Arcade Project, “Betty Tompkins’ Provoking Paintings,” by Rebecca Goyette.

2016    Arcade Project, “Meka Jean: Schooling Us All with Ivy League Ratchet,” by Rebecca Goyette.

FEATURED ARTIST IN MAJOR BOOK & FILM PROJECTS

2017    Subject of “Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring The Sex Positive” by Kristen Sollee, a book with a chapter dedicated to my artwork, “Ghost Bitch” series and ancestral work.

2015    Subject of “The F Word,” A documentary by Robert Adanto featuring fourth wave feminist performance-based art.

2009 Cited for my work as a Community/Access Educator in published book “Meet Me: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia,” Edited by Ron Broadhurst with Rebecca Roberts.

2008 Subject of “Trail of Feathers: Missile Dick Chicks Take on America,” documentary by Randi Cecchine. 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2016 EVBG Video Residency, Berlin, Germany.

2015/13 DNA Gallery Summer Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA.   

2014 Opossum House Residency, Eugene, OR.

2012 Offshore Project, Residency with Omada Filopappou, Kardamyli, Greece.

2008/2010 Ceramic Residency, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY.

2006-2008 Artist-in-Residence, School of Visual Arts Ceramic Department, NYC.

1999-2001 Artist-in-Residence, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC.