Rebekah Rubalcava

Rebekah Rubalcava (born 1996 in La Jolla, California) is a self-taught painter currently living and working in Phoenix, Arizona.

Personally symbolic in nature, Rebekah Rubalcava’s paintings seep from the intrusive yet influential parts of her subconscious, gently divulging secrets of sexuality, rage, competition and social adversity within the feminine experience. Engaging with the hopes and fears from her religious upbringing in the Evangelical tradition, she traverses through themes of divine retribution, destiny, and devotion. The paintings are vulnerable and delicate, intertwined with feminist twists. Rubalcava dives into the serpent's coil of societal, social, religious and personal structures both abided by and rebelled against. She channels the inner rage felt within those confines, and the yearning to grapple at some semblance of heaven on earth. Rubalcava’s narrative practice explores herself and her subjects with sensitive sophistication, embracing inner truth no matter the consequence, revelations, or pain that come from the marriage of spirit and flesh.

Rebekah Rubalcava’s recent exhibitions include Beautiful Surrender, SoHo Revue, London (2023, solo); High Maintenance, Tchotchke Gallery, New York (2023); The Bioelectric Self, The Pit, Los Angeles (2023); It Hurts to Know, Rusha & Co. (2022, solo)’; Two Sisters (curated by Ariane Hughes), Roman Road, London (2022); Damned If I do Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London (2022); and Another Day in Paradise at Rusha & Co., Los Angeles (2022).