Reba Maybury

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Reba Maybury is an artist, writer and dominatrix sometimes working under the name Mistress Rebecca. Her work explores the tension between her perceived strength as an object of fantasy and how through the reality of sex work she attempts to turn this power into something tangible. Much of her art practice is physically created by her submissive’s through her direction as a way to further the complicated imbalances of labour under sex work, gender and entitlement and an attempt to empower her further than the mens desires, leaving her with more than just a payment from them. Her first novella is named ‘Dining with Humpty Dumpty’ (2017) and more recently she published 'Faster than an erection' (2021). Themes of capital, labour, sexuality, female perversion, desire, banality, pleasure, bureaucracy as torture and humiliation are essential themes to her practice.

She has exhibited at SIMIAN, Copenhagen, DK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, IT; Luma Westbau, Zurich, CH, HFKD, Holstebro, DK; Company Gallery, New York, US; Arcadia Missa, London, UK; and in group shows at Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL; Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA, Bordeaux, FR, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, DE, P.P.O.W., New York, US; and Karma International, Los Angeles, US. She has also given readings and talks at University of the Arts, Zürich, Switzerland, Company Gallery, New York, US, White Columns, NY, Tate Britain, London, UK, Bridget Donahue, New York; US, Camden Arts Centre, London UK, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR and Schloss, Oslo NO.

Maybury teaches a program at Central Saint Martins on MA Fashion in critical thinking and has taught at HEAD, Geneva, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Copenhagen Art Academy, Sculpture School.

Exhibitions

Solo Show

The Happy man

Apr26Jun82024

Selected Press

May 9 2024

Frieze

Reba Maybury Deconstructs the Sexual-Economic Contract

Feb 4 2024

Topical Cream

Reba Maybury’s Art Subverts the Patriarchy by Making Men Work for Her

Jun 6 2022

Mousse Magazine

Her Power: Reba Maybury

May 10 2022

Filthy Dreams

Reba Maybury Turns Eager Submissives Into Her Artistic Tools in “The Happy man”

Nov 3 2018

Office Magazine

Tit for Tat

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