Rebecca Goyette | Email: rebogallery@gmail.com
Education
School of Visual Arts, Master’s Degree of Fine Arts, 2009.
Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts, Painting.
Solo and 2-Person Exhibitions
2016 Freight and Volume Gallery, “Ghost Bitch U.S.A.”
2015 Arts and Leisure Gallery, “Sausage Party Bride,” catalog available.
2014 Slag Gallery, NYC, “Surf and Turf,” a 2-person exhibition 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.”
2006 NY Studio Gallery, NYC, “Delicious.”
2003 Galeri X, Istanbul, Turkey, “Union/Bulusma.”
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Freight and Volume, VOLTA Art Fair, solo project, “Golden Showers: A Sex Hex.”
2017 Spring/Break Art Show, “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,” curated by Alfred
Steiner.
2016 Mark Borghi Fine Art, NYC, “Beyond Secretary,” curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman.
2016 Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology, Santa Barbara, CA, “Running for Office.”
2016 Shin Gallery, NYC, “Smile,” curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman.
2016 Lodge Gallery, NYC, “Roasted.”
2016 White Box Gallery, NYC, “#makeamericagreatagain.”
2016 Superchief Gallery, NYC, “The F Word Immersive.”
2015 Satellite Art Show, Miami, FLA, “Extra Teats: "A Screening of Bad Ass Puritan-Purging
Digital Artwork" featuring premiere of “Ghost Bitch: Arise from the Gallows.”
2015 Arts and Leisure Gallery, “Your Bad Self,” catalog available.
2015 Select Fair, “Dentata Umbrella Lounge,” invited guest artist, solo project booth.
2015 The Lodge Gallery, “Alterity.”
2014 Penelope, NYC, “Static Cling,” catalog available.
2014 Gitana Rosa Gallery, NYC, “The New Bitch", twilight of the idols, curated by Michele Basora.
2014 Whitney Museum of Art, “Clitney Perennial,” Live performance.
2014 Dixon Place, NYC, “Calendar Girl” with Performance Artist Enid Ellen.
2013 Miami Projects, Freight and Volume, “Masshole Love” video.
2013 Flux Factory, LIC, “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.”
2011 Spectacle Theater, NYC, “Do Me,” video art exhibition.
2011 Camel Art Space, NYC, “48 Hours.”
2010 Winkelman Gallery, SEVEN fair, Miami, FLA, “#Rank.”
2010 Winkelman Gallery, NYC, “#Class,” performance “Market U”.
2009 Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, “Art Neighborhood.”
2009 Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, “My Heroes,” curated by David Gibson.
2009 Stux Gallery, NYC, “Low Blow.”
2009 Queens Museum of Art, NYC. "Those About To Die Salute You."
2009 “A New Currency,” 55 Delancey Street, NYC, curated by Dan Cameron.
2009 Visual Arts Gallery, NYC, “Cardsharper,” curated by Lauren Ross.
2008 Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN, “American Political Sideshow.”
Published Articles, Reviews and Interviews
2017 Artnet, “Is This Armory Week’s Most Outrageous Artwork? (Hint: It Involves Donald
Trump) It also involved witches,” by Sarah Cascone.
2017 Artnet, “Catch These Breakout Stars at the Volta Art Fair, Discover these Nine Great
Artists,” by Sarah Cascone.
2017 DRailed Magazine, “Through the Looking Glass: Innovative Women Artists Who
Reclaimed the Gaze At New York Armory Art Week,” by Audra Lambert.
2017 Forbes Magazine, “Feminism Takes Many Forms in Coco Dolle’s Milk and Night
Curatorial Project.
2017 Studio Potter Magazine, “Rock Hard Feminism,” by Dani Sigler.
2016 Art F City, “Girl Power is Back: Top Ten Shows for Women in 2016,” Emily Colucci.
2016 Huffington Post, “What it Means to be an Artist in the Time of Trump,” by Priscilla
Frank.
2016 Gothamist, “Vent Your Election Frustrations At the Anti-Trump Art Show, “Why I Want
To Fuck Donald Trump,” by Ben Yakas.
2016 Hyperallergic, “Modeling the Modern Witch in the Age of Trump,” by Zachary Small.
2016 Village Voice, “Rebecca Goyette: Ghost Bitch U.S.A.,” by Jessica Dawson.
2016 Vice Magazine, Creator’s Project, “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,” by Priscilla Frank.
2016 YUNTOO, Bejing China, “Lobsta Girl Makes a New Porn to Honor her Ancestor,” by
Mophis Zhao.
2016 Ms. Magazine, “Q&A: Mushkin Goldman’s Art Exhibition Smile! is Taking on the
Catcall,” by Emily Colucci.
2016 Art F City, “Is 2016 the new 1994? Feminism in the Art World,” by Emily Colucci.
2016 Huffington Post, “These Feminist Artists Are Tired of Being Told to Smile,” by Priscilla
Frank.
2016 Newsweek Magazine, “NYC Art Exhibit Responds to ‘2016 Presidential Election
Charade’,” by Stav Ziv.
2016 Hyperallergic, ArtRx NYC, “Trump/Palin Performance Art Rally,” by Jillian Steinhauer.
2015 The Huffington Post: “17 Visual Artists You Should Know in 2016,” by Priscilla Frank and 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," by Priscilla Frank.
2015 Vice Magazine, “‘Hot Girl Art’ Turns Heads at Art Basel Miami,” by Rachel Rabbit
White.
2015 Dazed Digital, “Instagram is a new gallery space for these U.S. female artists,” by
Ashleigh Kane.
2015 The Huffington Post, “The 10 Most Crazy/Beautiful Art Happenings This Most Wild Of
Frieze Weekends,” by Priscilla Frank.
2014 Slutist Magazine, “Creating Confrontational Characters and the Art of Lobsta Porn,” by
Kristen Korvette.
2014 Slutist Magazine, “August Sluts of the Month: Wolftits and Octopussy.”
2014 Hyperallergic, “Feminist Protest Disrupts the Whitney Biennial,” by Jillian Steinhauer.
2014 Posture Magazine, “Clitney Perennial #Real Talk.”
2013 Posture Magazine, "The Lobsta Pussy Summit: A Dialogue with the Performance Artist" interview with Go! Push Pops.
2013 Revolt Magazine, Volume 1, issue #3, " Top Ten Artists Now."
2012 Whitehot Magazine, “The Lobsta Girl,” interview with Joe Heaps Nelson.
2012 Art Review, “Lobsta Porn Theater at AIRPLANE,” James Kalm.
2012 Bushwick Daily. “10 Mindblowing Female Bushwick Artists.”
2012 Arte Fuse, “The Dirtier the Better at Freight + Volume.”
2012 New York Times, “The Double Dirty Dozen and Friends,” review by
Ken Johnson.
Artist Residencies
2015/13 DNA Gallery Summer Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA.
2012 Offshore Project, Residency with Omada Filopappou, Kardamyli, Greece.
2010 Artist Residency, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY.
1999-2001 Ceramic Residency, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC.
Curatorial and Collaborative Projects
2015 Curator of “Extra Teats: A Screening of Bad-Ass Puritan-Purging Digital Works,” North
Beach Bandshell, Satellite Art Show, Miami, FLA.
2015 Subject of “The F Word,” A documentary by Robert Adanto featuring Fourth Wave
Feminist Performance-based Art.
2008 Subject of T”rail of Feathers: Missile Dick Chicks Take on America,” a documentary by
Randi Cecchine.
Professional Experience
2007-Present Lecturer and Museum Educator, Museum of Modern Art.
* Guest Artist/Presenter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, School of Visual Arts, The New School, Montclair State University, Transformer in Washington D.C. and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center.
Education
School of Visual Arts, Master’s Degree of Fine Arts, 2009.
Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts, Painting.
Solo and 2-Person Exhibitions
2016 Freight and Volume Gallery, “Ghost Bitch U.S.A.”
2015 Arts and Leisure Gallery, “Sausage Party Bride,” catalog available.
2014 Slag Gallery, NYC, “Surf and Turf,” a 2-person exhibition 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.”
2006 NY Studio Gallery, NYC, “Delicious.”
2003 Galeri X, Istanbul, Turkey, “Union/Bulusma.”
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Freight and Volume, VOLTA Art Fair, solo project, “Golden Showers: A Sex Hex.”
2017 Spring/Break Art Show, “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,” curated by Alfred
Steiner.
2016 Mark Borghi Fine Art, NYC, “Beyond Secretary,” curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman.
2016 Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology, Santa Barbara, CA, “Running for Office.”
2016 Shin Gallery, NYC, “Smile,” curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman.
2016 Lodge Gallery, NYC, “Roasted.”
2016 White Box Gallery, NYC, “#makeamericagreatagain.”
2016 Superchief Gallery, NYC, “The F Word Immersive.”
2015 Satellite Art Show, Miami, FLA, “Extra Teats: "A Screening of Bad Ass Puritan-Purging
Digital Artwork" featuring premiere of “Ghost Bitch: Arise from the Gallows.”
2015 Arts and Leisure Gallery, “Your Bad Self,” catalog available.
2015 Select Fair, “Dentata Umbrella Lounge,” invited guest artist, solo project booth.
2015 The Lodge Gallery, “Alterity.”
2014 Penelope, NYC, “Static Cling,” catalog available.
2014 Gitana Rosa Gallery, NYC, “The New Bitch", twilight of the idols, curated by Michele Basora.
2014 Whitney Museum of Art, “Clitney Perennial,” Live performance.
2014 Dixon Place, NYC, “Calendar Girl” with Performance Artist Enid Ellen.
2013 Miami Projects, Freight and Volume, “Masshole Love” video.
2013 Flux Factory, LIC, “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.”
2011 Spectacle Theater, NYC, “Do Me,” video art exhibition.
2011 Camel Art Space, NYC, “48 Hours.”
2010 Winkelman Gallery, SEVEN fair, Miami, FLA, “#Rank.”
2010 Winkelman Gallery, NYC, “#Class,” performance “Market U”.
2009 Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, “Art Neighborhood.”
2009 Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, “My Heroes,” curated by David Gibson.
2009 Stux Gallery, NYC, “Low Blow.”
2009 Queens Museum of Art, NYC. "Those About To Die Salute You."
2009 “A New Currency,” 55 Delancey Street, NYC, curated by Dan Cameron.
2009 Visual Arts Gallery, NYC, “Cardsharper,” curated by Lauren Ross.
2008 Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN, “American Political Sideshow.”
Published Articles, Reviews and Interviews
2017 Artnet, “Is This Armory Week’s Most Outrageous Artwork? (Hint: It Involves Donald
Trump) It also involved witches,” by Sarah Cascone.
2017 Artnet, “Catch These Breakout Stars at the Volta Art Fair, Discover these Nine Great
Artists,” by Sarah Cascone.
2017 DRailed Magazine, “Through the Looking Glass: Innovative Women Artists Who
Reclaimed the Gaze At New York Armory Art Week,” by Audra Lambert.
2017 Forbes Magazine, “Feminism Takes Many Forms in Coco Dolle’s Milk and Night
Curatorial Project.
2017 Studio Potter Magazine, “Rock Hard Feminism,” by Dani Sigler.
2016 Art F City, “Girl Power is Back: Top Ten Shows for Women in 2016,” Emily Colucci.
2016 Huffington Post, “What it Means to be an Artist in the Time of Trump,” by Priscilla
Frank.
2016 Gothamist, “Vent Your Election Frustrations At the Anti-Trump Art Show, “Why I Want
To Fuck Donald Trump,” by Ben Yakas.
2016 Hyperallergic, “Modeling the Modern Witch in the Age of Trump,” by Zachary Small.
2016 Village Voice, “Rebecca Goyette: Ghost Bitch U.S.A.,” by Jessica Dawson.
2016 Vice Magazine, Creator’s Project, “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,” by Priscilla Frank.
2016 YUNTOO, Bejing China, “Lobsta Girl Makes a New Porn to Honor her Ancestor,” by
Mophis Zhao.
2016 Ms. Magazine, “Q&A: Mushkin Goldman’s Art Exhibition Smile! is Taking on the
Catcall,” by Emily Colucci.
2016 Art F City, “Is 2016 the new 1994? Feminism in the Art World,” by Emily Colucci.
2016 Huffington Post, “These Feminist Artists Are Tired of Being Told to Smile,” by Priscilla
Frank.
2016 Newsweek Magazine, “NYC Art Exhibit Responds to ‘2016 Presidential Election
Charade’,” by Stav Ziv.
2016 Hyperallergic, ArtRx NYC, “Trump/Palin Performance Art Rally,” by Jillian Steinhauer.
2015 The Huffington Post: “17 Visual Artists You Should Know in 2016,” by Priscilla Frank and 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," by Priscilla Frank.
2015 Vice Magazine, “‘Hot Girl Art’ Turns Heads at Art Basel Miami,” by Rachel Rabbit
White.
2015 Dazed Digital, “Instagram is a new gallery space for these U.S. female artists,” by
Ashleigh Kane.
2015 The Huffington Post, “The 10 Most Crazy/Beautiful Art Happenings This Most Wild Of
Frieze Weekends,” by Priscilla Frank.
2014 Slutist Magazine, “Creating Confrontational Characters and the Art of Lobsta Porn,” by
Kristen Korvette.
2014 Slutist Magazine, “August Sluts of the Month: Wolftits and Octopussy.”
2014 Hyperallergic, “Feminist Protest Disrupts the Whitney Biennial,” by Jillian Steinhauer.
2014 Posture Magazine, “Clitney Perennial #Real Talk.”
2013 Posture Magazine, "The Lobsta Pussy Summit: A Dialogue with the Performance Artist" interview with Go! Push Pops.
2013 Revolt Magazine, Volume 1, issue #3, " Top Ten Artists Now."
2012 Whitehot Magazine, “The Lobsta Girl,” interview with Joe Heaps Nelson.
2012 Art Review, “Lobsta Porn Theater at AIRPLANE,” James Kalm.
2012 Bushwick Daily. “10 Mindblowing Female Bushwick Artists.”
2012 Arte Fuse, “The Dirtier the Better at Freight + Volume.”
2012 New York Times, “The Double Dirty Dozen and Friends,” review by
Ken Johnson.
Artist Residencies
2015/13 DNA Gallery Summer Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA.
2012 Offshore Project, Residency with Omada Filopappou, Kardamyli, Greece.
2010 Artist Residency, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY.
1999-2001 Ceramic Residency, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC.
Curatorial and Collaborative Projects
2015 Curator of “Extra Teats: A Screening of Bad-Ass Puritan-Purging Digital Works,” North
Beach Bandshell, Satellite Art Show, Miami, FLA.
2015 Subject of “The F Word,” A documentary by Robert Adanto featuring Fourth Wave
Feminist Performance-based Art.
2008 Subject of T”rail of Feathers: Missile Dick Chicks Take on America,” a documentary by
Randi Cecchine.
Professional Experience
2007-Present Lecturer and Museum Educator, Museum of Modern Art.
* Guest Artist/Presenter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, School of Visual Arts, The New School, Montclair State University, Transformer in Washington D.C. and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center.
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Artist Statement
"For Goyette, sex is one gateway into the rich territory of psychology and human interaction, into the remotest ranges of the subconscious mind. [...] Goyette’s characters wreak havoc with traditional sexual mores in a playland where there are no experts and no actors."
Rebecca Goyette creates persona-based works that poke holes in Puritanical sexual mores. Working in a wide variety of media, her extensive artillery features figurative drawing, video, performance, and handmade sculptural elements made from fabric, clay and found materials used in a ritual fashion. Many know her as Lobsta Girl, and Goyette has filmed her interspecies
pornos detailing the sex lives of lobsters internationally. Originally, Goyette adopted the sexually aggressive female lobster as a primary character she performed live to promote female agency. Another alter ego to Goyette is the ghost of her direct ancestor, Rebecca Nurse hanged as a Salem witch, who is re-imagined cycling through repetitive power dynamics in fits and foibles in the "New World."
Situated within a largely queer, fantasy paradigm, her work is able to embrace a fruitful multiplicity of sexual desire and engage a panoply of non normative gender roles. As Judith Butler has articulated, in fantasy gender boundaries are transgressed with ease, there is no “single position within a fantasy; the identification is distributed among various elements of the scene.”
For Goyette, sex is one gateway into the rich territory of psychology and human interaction, into the remotest ranges of the subconscious mind. Her schematic Lobsta Porn video series explores sexual fantasy scenarios with people playacting the magical sex lives of lobsters. Female species lobsters, for instance, approach and corner the strongest males, squirt them with aphrodisiac drugs out of their foreheads, and get inside their lobsta man-caves where they molt their shells in order to have sex. The males have two "dicks" that can impale the vulnerable lady flesh, meaning the female’s entire body sans shell functions as a threshold of sexual potentiality. By developing complex characters based partially in the real (scientific fact, Puritan history, herstory, the annals of witchcraft, Goddess worship and the paranormal) and partially in fiction – Goyette is reality seamstress par excellence. With climactic wit she recounts the psychosexual dramas of time immemorial.
Goyette is as shameless about her characters’ voracious sexual appetite as she is about connecting the female subject to nature and an animalistic lost Eden of sorts. Her videos function as titillating vignettes of a bawdry heroine in hot pursuit of total Love. Uncovering the truth of the mercurial nature of desire as she seeks blissful and eternal union with the “Other,” Goyette peppers her colorful imaginary worlds with complicated personal memories and whenever possible, willing participants in the flesh. Working with a gender fluid, multiracial cast of personae as collaborators and accomplices, her live action performances and performance videos feature human sexuality unleashed. Goyette’s work is a perfect illustration of how, as expressed by theorist Elizabeth Cowie desire “is most truly itself when it is most ‘other’ to social norms.”
Ornately adorned in the absurd skins of her hand-sewn costumes, Goyette’s characters wreak havoc with traditional sexual mores in a playland where there are no experts and no actors. Their performative gestures and actions shine light
on the myriad of curiosities lurking in truly intimate encounters – raw, vulnerable and at times, otherworldly.
"For Goyette, sex is one gateway into the rich territory of psychology and human interaction, into the remotest ranges of the subconscious mind. [...] Goyette’s characters wreak havoc with traditional sexual mores in a playland where there are no experts and no actors."
Rebecca Goyette creates persona-based works that poke holes in Puritanical sexual mores. Working in a wide variety of media, her extensive artillery features figurative drawing, video, performance, and handmade sculptural elements made from fabric, clay and found materials used in a ritual fashion. Many know her as Lobsta Girl, and Goyette has filmed her interspecies
pornos detailing the sex lives of lobsters internationally. Originally, Goyette adopted the sexually aggressive female lobster as a primary character she performed live to promote female agency. Another alter ego to Goyette is the ghost of her direct ancestor, Rebecca Nurse hanged as a Salem witch, who is re-imagined cycling through repetitive power dynamics in fits and foibles in the "New World."
Situated within a largely queer, fantasy paradigm, her work is able to embrace a fruitful multiplicity of sexual desire and engage a panoply of non normative gender roles. As Judith Butler has articulated, in fantasy gender boundaries are transgressed with ease, there is no “single position within a fantasy; the identification is distributed among various elements of the scene.”
For Goyette, sex is one gateway into the rich territory of psychology and human interaction, into the remotest ranges of the subconscious mind. Her schematic Lobsta Porn video series explores sexual fantasy scenarios with people playacting the magical sex lives of lobsters. Female species lobsters, for instance, approach and corner the strongest males, squirt them with aphrodisiac drugs out of their foreheads, and get inside their lobsta man-caves where they molt their shells in order to have sex. The males have two "dicks" that can impale the vulnerable lady flesh, meaning the female’s entire body sans shell functions as a threshold of sexual potentiality. By developing complex characters based partially in the real (scientific fact, Puritan history, herstory, the annals of witchcraft, Goddess worship and the paranormal) and partially in fiction – Goyette is reality seamstress par excellence. With climactic wit she recounts the psychosexual dramas of time immemorial.
Goyette is as shameless about her characters’ voracious sexual appetite as she is about connecting the female subject to nature and an animalistic lost Eden of sorts. Her videos function as titillating vignettes of a bawdry heroine in hot pursuit of total Love. Uncovering the truth of the mercurial nature of desire as she seeks blissful and eternal union with the “Other,” Goyette peppers her colorful imaginary worlds with complicated personal memories and whenever possible, willing participants in the flesh. Working with a gender fluid, multiracial cast of personae as collaborators and accomplices, her live action performances and performance videos feature human sexuality unleashed. Goyette’s work is a perfect illustration of how, as expressed by theorist Elizabeth Cowie desire “is most truly itself when it is most ‘other’ to social norms.”
Ornately adorned in the absurd skins of her hand-sewn costumes, Goyette’s characters wreak havoc with traditional sexual mores in a playland where there are no experts and no actors. Their performative gestures and actions shine light
on the myriad of curiosities lurking in truly intimate encounters – raw, vulnerable and at times, otherworldly.
