Rebecca Drolen

SA/VS Visiting Artist: Rebecca Drolen 
October 27th, 1PM 
SAVS Photo Classroom 

Rebecca Drolen (b. 1983) is an artist and educator working in Arkansas. Her photographs are concerned with how individuals visually assemble their identity and the constructed ideals placed on gendered bodily performance. Her work playfully explores the expansive nature of photography in contemporary art as it incorporates built spaces, assemblage, and performance.   

Drolen’s work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions on a national and international level, within noteworthy venues such as the Huffington Post, Oxford American’s “Eyes on the South,” the Light Factory, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Springfield Art Museum, The Oklahoma State Museum of Art, the CICA Museum in Gimpo, Korea, the Galveston Art Center, Filter Photo, and the Theory of Clouds Gallery in Kobe, Japan. Drolen has had work published in various art books, magazines, and blogs and has photographs held in private and institutional collections. 

Drolen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Art and the Program Director of Studio Art. She considers teaching a core priority within her art practice and is respectfully impacted conceptually and creatively by community shared with students.