Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf is an artist and co-founder/ director/ creative producer of Infems : Intersectional Feminist Art Collective. She is of mixed european heritage and works across a range of media including painting, photography, printmaking and film.
Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf is an artist and co-founder/ director/ creative producer of Infems : Intersectional Feminist Art Collective. She is of mixed european heritage and works across a range of media including painting, photography, printmaking and film.
Fontaine-Wolf’s work is primarily figurative, focusing on self-portraiture and depictions of women in her direct surroundings. Through this subjective lens Fontaine-Wolf creates an intimate exploration of the lived experiences of womanhood, both in terms of their immediate visceral reality as well as their societal implications.
Her work explores concerns around the mediated relationship to the body and self-image as experienced in contemporary digitised culture whilst drawing on themes and imagery inspired by mythology, mysticism and the occult.
The tension present in the duality of opposites as found in so much female symbolism forms an important element within Fontaine-Wolf’s working method. She uses physi-digital processes whereby traditional media and techniques are used alongside digital and experimental uses of materials. These continually feed back into each other creating multiple layers. A process of creation and destruction, using both chance and control, figuration and abstraction.
Working in this cyclical manner allows the themes of desire and mortality to play out in the working method itself, often resulting in works which are beautiful and disquieting at once.
EDUCATION
2013 - 2015 Wimbledon College of Art (UAL) MFA Fine Art
2000 - 2004 University for the Creative Arts (UCA) BA (Hons) Fine Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Natureza Morta , Casa Dell’Arte , Lisboa
2019 Daughters of Medusa, Zebra One Gallery at Koppel Project, London
2018 The Moon’s Animal, Someth1ng Gallery, London
Dreams, Promise and the Divine, Gallery Different, London
Dreams, Promise and the Divine, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2016 Der Tod und das Mädchen/Death and the Maiden, Gallery Different, London
Cycles of Desire, Someth1ng Gallery, London
2014 Searching for Continuity, Gallery Different, London
2012 The Scaffolding Series, 10 Grosvenor Street, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Bodies in Trouble, Infems Art Collective, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin
Dominado, 2 person show with Thiago Gadelha , MAD Marvila Art District, Lisboa
5 Needle, 5 Wire, Infems Art Collective, Thamesside Gallery, London
One Planet,One Chance, Zebra One Gallery at Koppel Project, London
Nightclubbing, Infems Art Collective, M&C Saatchi, London
A Nova Femilidade, Curated by Girls, Thirdbase , Lisbon
2021 The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
No Reserve, Infems Art Collective, Leicester Contemporary, Leicester
Biting Back and Enjoying the Taste - Infems Art Collective, PADA, Lisbon
Every Woman Biennal, My Love is your Love , Copeland Gallery, London
New Era for Humanity, MAD (Marvila ARt District) Movart, Lisbon
Azan Residency show, Lisbon
Choose to Challenge, Zebra One Gallery, London
RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2020 ING Discerning Eye, Online
Caput Mortuum, PADA Galleries, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Daughters of Medusa, 20:20 at House of the Nobleman 12 Hay Hill, London
Society of Women Artists 158th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2010- 2019)
Here We Go Again, Stour Space, London
Curated, Amar Gallery, London
Kiss, Gallery Different, London
Reconstructing Reality, 20:20 at Payer Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2018 Muse ,Model or Mistress? , Gallery Different, London
Reconstructing Reality, 20:20 at D10 Art Space, Geneva, Switzerland
100 Years on, Zebra One Gallery, London
Kiss – Masquerade, Gallery Different, London
2017 The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
Places, Faces, Things, NoFormat Gallery, London
Good Nature, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
Artrooms London, Melia White House, London
Kiss, Gallery Different, London
2016 ICON, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
FACE, Gallery Different, London (2013)
2015 Young Masters:Dialogues, Sphinx Gallery, London
Chelsea Arts Club Trust Award recipients Exhibition, Chelsea Arts Club, London
MFA Degree Showcase, Wimbledon College of Art, London
Art Nexus II, Lucia Mendoza Gallery, Madrid
Good Figures, Candida Stevens Gallery, The Mall Galleries, London/Jerwood
Gridshell, West Sussex
2014 The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
Winter Pride Awards, Lacey Contemporary, London / CHART Gallery, Chelsea, London
Art Gemini Prize, Trispace Gallery, Bermondsey, London
The Interim, The Crypt Gallery, London
2013 I love you because, Aside Bside Gallery, London
Heroes & Villains, Chelsea Arts Club, Charity auction, London
Tender, Gallery Different, Group show, Fitzrovia, London
Cork Street Open Exhibition for Charity, 28 Cork Street, London, (2010, 2008)
The National Open Art Competition, The Prince’s Drawing School, London/
2012 Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Mothers, Group show, Contemporary Art Space Chester, Chester
The Scaffolding series, The Meller Merceux Gallery, Oxford
2011 Show me the Monet, Finalist/Winner BBC2 show, The Henry Moore Gallery RCA, London
2010 40 Years of Page 3, Charity Auction, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2009 London versus New York, Æ Studios LIC, New York
NYAXE Gallery Autumn Exhibition, NYAXE Gallery, Palo Alto, California
British Art in the XXI. Century, Group Show, The Opera Gallery, Budapest
2008 HinkyPunk, The Paintworks, Bristol
Spectacles of the Metropolis, Zooks Art Collective, The Spitz Gallery, London
2007 Daydream Exhibition, Group show, M&C Saatchi, Soho, London
Resident Talent, The County Hall Gallery, London
AWARDS/HONOURS
2018 Special Fine Art Award
2015 The Artist, Editor’s choice Award
2014 Finalist for the Winter Pride Awards
2013 Chelsea Arts Club Trust Award
2012 The Catherine Petitgas Award Chichester
2011 Winsor & Newton Young Artists Award
Winner/Finalist in BBC ‘Show me the Monet’
2009 Finalist for the London Calling Competition at the Scream Gallery
CURATION
2021 Biting Back and Enjoying the Tatse, co-curator, PADA Galleries, Lisbon
2018 Muse, Model or Mistress? co-curator, Gallery Different, London
2016 - 2019 Juror and co-curator for The Society of Women Artists’ Annual show, Mall Galleries, London
LECTURES & TALKS
2022 Curatorial Feminism, Artpool & Bigorna Art, Lisbon
International Womens Day, Infems x Equals networks at M&C Saatchi, London
2019 Hauser & Wirth, Herstory: Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, Somerset
The Art Academy: Guest Artist/Tutor
2018 The Ned, Creative Meetup, London
RESIDENCIES
ongoing MAD , Marvila Art Distrcit, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Azan Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 Pada Studio Residency , Barreiro/ Lisbon, Portugal
COLLECTIONS
Norlinda & José Lima Collection, Standard Chartered Bank (UK), Elizabeth and Alain Pacquement Collection (France), Von Gemmingen Family Collection (Germany), 100 Mothers Collection (UK), Landmark Collection (UK) Private collections - Sir Tim Rice (UK) , The Earl of Mornington & Jemma Kidd (UK)
PRESS
2019 AESTHETICA MAGAZINE - ING Discerning Eye: Expanding Perceptions
BRENDA MAGAZINE - Brenda with Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf
FORBES MAGAZINE - The (Male) Art Entrepreneur Exhibiting Female Artists
I-D / VICE MAGAZINE - The Best Things to watch, see and do this week – Daughters of Medusa
The National Student - Meet the Artist breaking Taboos around Menstruation.
2018 FAD MAGAZIE – Top 7 Exhibitions in London this week – The Moon’s Animal
BRENDA – Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf - Feature, December 2018
2017 EXECUTE MAGAZINE – Artists Interview Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf
AVERAGE ART MAGAZINE – May edition, Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf
2016 CREATIVPAPER – Journal Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, December
THE ARTIST – Focus on Faces Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, May Feature
ART REVEAL -14th Issue, Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf Feature, March
2015 WONDERLAND MAGAZINE – Grey Area, December
NEXT UP MAGAZINE – Interview: Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf , June
HUNGER MAGAZINE – Young Blood Stephanie G-M – February
2013 THE GUARDIAN – The art of alternative investment – June 2013
ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS – How to Buy Graduate Art – May
2012 ART OF ENGLAND – The Society of Women Artists – 31 May 2012
2011 TV BBC2 – ‘Show me the monet’ finalist – 18
2010 THE REBEL MAGAZINE blogspot – Art auction in aid of the breast Cancer charity Break Through
14 December 2010
2009 STELLA MAGAZINE (THE TELEGRAPH) – Stella competition win ‘Golden Geisha’ – 13 Dec
2009 URBAN JUNKIES – New Blood Art, Top five picks for the future
2009 MAGYAR HIRLAP – Contemporary British painters in Opera Galeria – 28 June
2009 LE COOL – London Edition – The Alopecia Series – 11-17 June
