Bio

Rebecca Rose Cuomo is an independent curator, writer, consultant, and producer based between New York and Italy.

For the past decade, Rebecca has closely collaborated with artists to research, develop, produce and present ambitious exhibitions and performances at institutions and galleries globally. She has generated and assisted curatorial projects at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Frieze London; ArtBasel Miami Beach; ARCOmadrid; Fabienne Levy, Lausanne; Mattatoio Roma; and Galería CURRO, Guadalajara; among others. Most recently, she facilitated Andrea Galvani: The Void Migrates to the Surface, an immersive multichannel video and sound installation at Fotografiska Shanghai (2025-2026).

From November-December 2025, Rebecca is curator-in-residence at Ateliê Fidalga in São Paulo, Brazil. Her residency is dedicated to researching and developing her long-term, ongoing curatorial project To See the Earth at the End of the World, inspired by Ed Roberson’s similarly-titled poetry collection. Rebecca’s work reflects on how artists imagine futures and build new worlds, exploring connections and tensions between man-made systems in the context of environmental, ecological, geological transformation and renewal. At the end of her residency, Rebecca will present the results of her research in a show spanning across three galleries at Ateliê Fidalga.

Rebecca received an MA in Art History with Honors from the Institute of Fine Arts NYU, where she presented her thesis on contemporary performance art by Brazilian women of African descent. Her writing is published on platforms including Frieze, BOMB, ARTnews, and more. As a critic and researcher, she has collaborated with the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, New York; Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, Rome; and New York University. Rebecca is on the board of Lacasapark Art Residency in Upstate New York and LONESOME, an interdisciplinary journal and in-person salon series for poetry, arts, and music created and led by Monique Erickson.

Rebecca’s work at large coalesces around art and the human condition—centering the natural world, social justice, and processes of transformation. Her research interests are cross-disciplinary, combining insights from science, art history, performance studies, feminist and queer theory, philosophy, Afrofuturism and world-making. She is fluent in English, Italian, and Spanish.