Rebecca Rose Cuomo
Rebecca Rose Cuomo

Bio

Rebecca Rose Cuomo is a writer, curator, art consultant, and producer based in New York.

Rebecca’s 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. She has assisted curatorial projects at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne; Lacasapark Artist Residency, New York; and others. Rebecca has worked as a consultant with Blank Projects, Cape Town; Revolver Galería, Lima and Buenos Aires; Fridman Gallery, New York; as well as private clients internationally.

She 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. Rebecca is on the board of Lacasapark Artist Residency and LONESOME PRESS, an interdisciplinary journal and in-person salon series for poetry, arts, and music created and led by Monique Erickson. She was invited to be the November 2025 Curator-in-Residence at Projeto Fidalga, São Paulo—an international residency for artists, writers, and curators founded and directed by Sandra Cinto and Albano Afonso.

Rebecca’s research interests are cross-disciplinary and her work combines insights from nature, performance studies, feminist and queer theory, science, philosophy, and world-making. She speaks English, Spanish, and Italian.

Work

Selected Writing

Dietmar Busse: Fairytales 1991-1999 at Amant Brooklyn
LONESOME PRESS
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“Marie Watt Sews Stories of Indigenous Wisdom”
Frieze
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Featured in Frieze Critic’s Guide “The Best Shows to See in the US This April”

“The Miner’s Magic of Diana Al-Hadid”
Frieze
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“Sung Tieu Interviewed by Rebecca Rose Cuomo”
BOMB Magazine
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“Jace Clayton’s Immersive, Interactive Sound Installations Open Up New Worlds”
ARTnews
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“Rachel Whiteread Mummifies Memory and Time”
Frieze
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Featured in Frieze Critic’s Guide “The Best Exhibitions to See in New York This April”

Christopher Knowles / STAND at The Watermill Center
Frieze
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“Il potere dell’incertezza / The Power of Uncertainty”
Andrea Galvani: La sottigliezza delle cose elevate
Quodlibet, 2022
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“Sandra Cinto’s Constellations of Cosmic Skyscapes”
Frieze
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“Andrea Galvani Uses Time as Raw Material”
Frieze
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Teresita Fernández: Maelstrom at Lehmann Maupin
Frieze
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“The Poetic Synthesis of Ficre Ghebreyesus”
Frieze
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“Transformation as a Common Theme: Billie Zangewa Interviewed by Rebecca Rose Cuomo”
BOMB Magazine
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“Saul Melman’s Theater of Experience”
JUGULAR Issue 3
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Lorna Simpson: Darkening at Hauser and Wirth
Frieze
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“Andrea Galvani: ‘The Blue Sky is a Mirage, the Sunrise is an Illusion’”
JUGULAR Issue 2
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“Unstable Solids: Diana Al-Hadid’s Delirious Matter”
BOMB Magazine
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“Approaching The End”
Andrea Galvani Monograph
Mousse Publishing, 2018
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“To the Limit”
Frieze
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“‘The Image is a Consciousness’: Enlightenment in Shadows”
SFAQ International Arts and Culture
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“Andrea Galvani’s The End Trilogy: Prologue to Epílogo”
SFAQ International Arts and Culture
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“Jesús Rafael Soto & The Potential of Kinetic Energy”
SFAQ International Arts and Culture
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Selected Projects

Curator-in-Residence
Projeto Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil
November 2025

Transforming Texts: An experimental reading group
Department of Transformation | The Clemente Center, New York
March 2025 - ongoing
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Andrea Galvani: The Void Migrates to the Surface
Galería CURRO, Guadalajara, México
31 January - 2 May 2025

Liz Magic-Laser and Cori Kresge: Clench
Ongoing Participational Performance

LONESOME Nº1
Inaugural Issue Printed April 2024
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Andrea Galvani
Lacasapark Art Residency, NY

Juliana Cerqueira Leite and Georgia B. Smith: Contraction
Lacasapark Art Residency, NY

Andrea Galvani: Elevation
Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Herman Mbamba and Kyle Moreland at The Armory Show 2019
Blank Projects | Presents P12

Andrea Galvani: Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth
Audemars Piguet Prize | ARCOmadrid 2019

Billie Zangewa at ArtBasel Miami Beach 2018
Blank Projects | Nova N14

Advisory Board
Lacasapark Art Residency, NY
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Andrea Galvani at Frieze London 2018
Revolver Galería | Focus H17

Approaching The End
Rebecca Rose Cuomo in conversation with Andrea Galvani
ArtMag by Deutsche Bank, Frieze New York

Crossing Boundaries Workshops
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
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Education

MA, Art History
The Institute of Fine Arts
New York University

BA, Art History
Hunter College
City University of New York

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