Artist in Residence, Stockholm 9 September 2024 – 15 November 2024

Becca Albee (b. Portland, Maine, US) is an artist based in New York City. Anchored in photography, her conceptual, research-based work adapts itself to each subject and often includes video, sculpture, performance, scent, or printed matter. The projects are frequently initiated by an interest in an overlooked subject, and bear witness to a constellation of histories, many underrecognized or forgotten, puncturing and complicating dominant narratives. Her work draws on an array of sources, culled from personal archives or official repositories, with an equal interest in how photographs operate and the images themselves. Albee frequently shifts the context and content of the source materials, interweaving disparate visual narratives to imagine new readings. Her recent work considers ecological vulnerabilities, interspecies dependence, survival, blood, and questions of care.

Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view, List Projects 20: Becca Albee, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2020.

Albee’s work has been presented in exhibitions at institutions including TULCA (Galway, 2022), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA, 2020), Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME, 2018), and Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, 2014). Fellowships and residencies include Emily Harvey Foundation (Venice, 2023), Siena Art Institute (Siena, 2023), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, 2022, 2010), MacDowell (Peterborough, NH, 2019, 2012), and Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY, 2016, 2012). Albee received an MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, where they were active in a feminist queer punk music community in the Pacific Northwest US and in the band Excuse 17. Albee is currently a Professor of Art at The City College of New York, CUNY.