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Rebecca Cosenza (b. 1997) is a Jamaican-Italian American researcher, artist, and educator. She currently works with Oglála Lakȟóta artist Kite, Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI, and the Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College. Rebecca completed the Independent Study Program at Associação Maumaus and holds a BA in Cross-Cultural Relations, Visual Studies, and Performance (Flamenco) from Simon’s Rock.

Cosenza’s practice investigates poethics and peripheries within contemporary art practices and pedagogies. Her theses examine intimacies, relations, and disintegrations, exploring these interstices through performance, prose, poetry, painting, collaboration, and research creation. After studying art conservation at the Instituto Lorenzo de Medici, working as a cultural liaison at the University of Sevilla, and conducting ethnolinguistic field research in Ecuador, she developed place-specific, community-based learning experiences in the Hudson Valley. Former Director of Communication at Instar Lodge, Cosenza brought her creative background and experience in community development, digital communications, and storytelling to her role at Place Corps, developing residencies and fellowships.

Raised in valleys in France, Alabama, and New York, Rebecca now lives and works between Germantown, NY, and Lisbon, Portugal.

For inquiries about commissions, collaborations, and current exhibitions, please contact Rebecca here.