Rebecca Potts Aguirre

Rebecca Potts Aguirre (she/her, b. 1982, Montana) is an artist based in Southern California whose practice centers around documenting daily life. Her work explores themes of feminism and gendered labor, memory and visibility, trauma and healing. With a background in printmaking, Potts Aguirre works across media as materiality is central to her concepts.

She is a member of Spilt Milk Gallery and is listed in the curated directories All She Makes and Visionary Art Collective. She was represented by Stay Home Gallery for 2021. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and in Europe and Australia at spaces including The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Zhou B. Art Center, New York Studio Gallery, Art Share L.A., and SoLA Contemporary.

In 2010, her essay on art and climate change, “Creating a Fourth Culture,” was published in 20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century. Rebecca’s MFA Thesis in 2009 also addressed the role of art and artists in addressing climate change. She earned her MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and her BA in Studio Art & Geography from Middlebury College.

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MFA, Visual Arts, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
BA, Studio Art & Geography, Middlebury College

2022 - Color 2022, CICA Museum (Czong Institute for Contemporary Art), South Korea *forthcoming
- Touch & Go 2.0, Altadena Library, Altadena, CA *forthcoming
- Metaverse, Schmetaverse, Doors, Los Angeles, CA
- 2022 Cellular Connection, Angelica Kauffman Gallery, River Forest, IL *solo
- Touch & Go, dA Center For The Arts, Pomona, CA
- The Bonds of Family, Santa Clarita Arts, Santa Clarita, CA

2021 - acting balance[d], Spilt Milk Gallery, Online
- Remembering Together, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
- COVEN, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
- Connections, Roaring Artist Gallery, Online
- Sleepwalker, Milcon Gallery, Online
- Hobson’s Choice 2.0, Torrance Art Museum, Online
- Group Show 4, Shrine, New York, NY, Online

2020 - Powerful Little Things, Roaring Artist Gallery, Online
- Hope/Revolution, Stay Home Gallery, Juror: Lauren Harris, Paris, TN
- Home-Works, Spilt Milk Gallery, Online (catalogue)
- Here, There, & Elsewhere: Exploring the Idea of Place, Visionary Art Collective, Juror: Svitlana Martynjuk, Online
- Beyond The Pretty Picture, P.S. Arts Faculty Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA, Online
- TOUCH, A Virtual Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Online
- Paper Mill, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA (Moved Onl...