Rebecca Hackemann was raised and educated in Bavaria, West Germany, England and America (she is British. She completed her B.F.A (hons) at the University of Westminster, London, England and in 1996 received her M.F.A. in studio art from Stanford University, California. She is also a graduate of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program (2001). Her mini artists books (Scaled Down - a Handbook for Fishes about Humans, 1996) can be seen and purchased at Printed Matter, New York and are also in the art*o*mat machines. She recently completed residencies at Light Work, Syracuse, NY and Yaddo, Saratoga Spring, NY. Her work is in the collection of the Musée Français de la Photographie, France; the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany; the Museum für Fotografie, Germany an in private collections in New York and England.
