Rebecca Goyette’s interdisciplinary practice combines video, performance art, costuming, ceramic sculpture, drawing and painting to reflect on fantasy and fulfillment from a feminist perspective. Her practice explores the power dynamics and oppression inherent in gender and sexuality, drawing from personal narrative, her own ancestral Puritan history and global goddess histories. She embodies a broad range of characters in an ongoing series of psycho-sexual scenarios, acting as both director and protagonist in these vignettes. Goyette reflects on her direct ancestor, Rebecca Nurse - who fell victim to the gallows in the Salem Witch Trials - in her body of work titled “Ghost Bitch Dramas.” She enacts the mating dance of lobster in costumed satirical “Lobsta Porns.” Both of these primary characters are reflective of her small town Massachusetts roots, which play out in her eccentric personal mythology.  

Rebecca Goyette has exhibited her interdisciplinary artwork and films internationally with solo exhibitions at Freight and Volume, Huam-Garok Gallery (Seoul, South Korea), Shelter Gallery (NYC), Slag Gallery (NYC), Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ) and Galerie X, (Istanbul, Turkey) and group exhibitions at Museum of Sex, (NYC), Kyung-In Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea), Whitney Museum of Art (NYC), KARST, Plymouth (England), Shin Gallery (NYC), Josh Liner Gallery (NYC), BravinLee Programs (NYC) and Gallery Poulsen, (Copenhagen, Denmark), amongst others. Goyette’s short films have been screened in the New Filmmakers NYC Festival at Anthology Film Archive (NYC), the Berlin Porn Film Festival, Spektrum: Art, Science and Community (Berlin, Germany), Dromos Festival (Sardinia, Italy) and House of Yes (NYC).Goyette’s work has been featured on Arté Television (broadcast in Germany and France), and reviewed in Vice Magazine, Elephant Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artnet, Artsy, Huffington Post, Village Voice and Ms. Magazine, amongst others.

Past Shelter Exhibitions:

Fortuna’s Wheel

A solo exhibition of new work by Rebecca Goyette

September 25 - November 10, 2019