Qualifications/ Awards/ Grants
1998 BFA, Elam A+ major in photography
Exhibition Record
Solo exhibitions
2011 - Assume Nothing
Cultural Center F. Bonnemaison, Barcelona, Spain
2011 - Sweat
Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
2010 - Dying to Know
Whitespace, Auckland
2008- 2010 - Assume Nothing- celebrating gender diversity
Touring exhibition
TheNewDowse, Wellington (commissioning gallery)
MIC Toi Rerehiko, Auckland
Te Manawa, Palmerston North
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
Waikato Museum, Hamilton
2009 - Fabricated Truths
Whitespace, Auckland
2008 - Fabricated Truths
Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
2004 - Assume Nothing
The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2001 - Married Life
MIC, Auckland
1999 - Assume Nothing
George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
1996 - The Big C
Exhibition and book launch
Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland
1995 - The Big C
Watershed Media Centre
Bristol, England
1990 - New Moon Gallery, Wellington
(Sponsored by QEII Arts Council)
Group exhibitions
2010 - The Gaze
Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
2009 - <3%
Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
2008 - Maquette
Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
2008 - The Hand as Subject
Whangarei Art Museum, Te Wharetaonga o Whangarei
2008 - The Language of Touch
Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
2004 - Desires
Ardor Gallery, Auckland
2004 - Drag King Festival
V.C.A. Gallery, Melbourne
2002 - Go Drag
Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
2000 - The Supreme Photography Show
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
2000 - Mobile
Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
1997- 1999 - Cancer the Journey
National Gallery of Victoria
Toured Nationally throughout Australia
1998 - Blender
Art station, Auckland
1994 - Our Bodies, Ourselves
Out of the Blue Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1994 - Our Bodies, Ourselves
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, England
Selected Collections
2008 - TheNewDowse Collection
2004 - The Wallace Arts Trust
Publishing record
2010 - Assume Nothing, American edition
2004 - Assume Nothing, photographer and author.
A book exploring gender diversity through photographic portraits and interviews. Published by Boy Tiger Press in nine countries.
2002 - Mein Lesbisches Auge, photographic contributor.
Anthology of writing and photography. Published by Konkursbuch Verlag Germany.
1996 - The Big C, my experience with cancer, photographer and author.
Published by Hodder Moa Beckett, this is a book of self-portraits and diary extracts narrating diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cancer.
Films featuring Rebecca Swan
2009 - Assume Nothing
Feature film directed by Kirsty MacDonald
2006 - Black and White
Short film directed by Kirsty MacDonald