Rebecca Cairns

Rebecca Cairns

Born 1991, November 8, (Toronto)
Website rebeccacairns.ca

Rebecca Cairns is a Canadian photographer currently based in Belfast. She studied photography in Toronto from 2009-2013 and now has an MA in Photography Preservation and Collections Management. She uses analogue materials and processes in her practice to explore themes of intimacy, transience and loss. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has been featured in numerous online and print publications.

Publications

Appears in

Photography books by the artist

2012, BELGRADE, Toronto: Self Published
2018, BOREAL, St. John’s, Newfoundland: Self Published
2021, ENDINGS, Dublin: Self Published

Photography books with contribution by the artist

2018, Russell Joslin, Series of Dreams, US: Skeleton Key Press, ISBN: 978-0-9997553-0-3,
2015, Chen Jibao and Fox Chen, Sometime Else, Taiwan: Publisher, ISBN: 9789866179945
2013, Shauba Chang, SEN/SEN, Hong Kong: Waterfall, ISBN: 978-986-89725-0-6

Awards and honours

2013, Canadian Winner, Magenta Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada
2013, Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Canada
2013, Finalist in Juried Competition, FotoFilmic, Vancouver, Canada

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2018, Remnants of Light, The Kickplate Project, 76m2, Pontypool, Wales
2014, Adumbration, The Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2013, Belgrade: Book Launch & Solo Exhibition, The Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2013, The Past, Daguerre, Brno, Czech Republic
2012, Inchoate, Akasha Art Projects, Toronto, Canada

Group exhibitions

2021, HALFTONE, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland
2021, Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2017, Longitude, The Kickplate Project, 76m2, Pontypool, Wales
2016, Pulp, Fotofilmic, Bowen Island, Canada
2016, Botanica, Docks Art Fair, Lyon, France
2016, Black Mountain School, The Block, Asheville, US
2015, Delta: The Difference, Project Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015, Output, Twist Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014, Chaotic Forms, Nave Gallery, Somerville, US
2013, The End is the Beginning, Unit H Gallery: Market Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2013, Fotofilmic 2013, Positive/Negative Gallery, Fotofilmic, Vancouver, Canada
2013, SNAP!, Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2013, Self Portrait, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, US
2013, The Big Picture, Denver, US
2013, CAPIC: Xpose, Todmodern Papermill Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012, Splice, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2012, Splice, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
2012, Anonymia, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2012, Group Exhibition, Galerie Sakura, Paris, France
2012, Personae, Castell Photography Gallery, Asheville, US
2012, Two and a Quarter, Contact Photography Festival, The Lomography Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012, Modern Love, The Print Space, London, UK
2012, Feroces Festival de Photographie, Lyon, France