Reba Maybury Explained

Reba Maybury
Birth Place:	Oxford, England
Years Active:	2015–present

Reba Maybury (born 1990),^[1] is a British-Pakistani artist, writer, lecturer, and dominatrix, sometimes known as Mistress Rebecca. Maybury's work has garnered international attention for the ways in which it deconstructs the economic-capitalist underpinnings of both sex work and the commercial art world.^[2] Maybury has exhibited internationally^[3] and describes men as her medium, reflecting that much of her artwork is made by her male submissives through her control and direction.^{[4] [5]}

Maybury describes men as her medium and 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. Themes of capital, labour, power, sexuality, female perversion, bureaucracy as torture and humiliation are essential themes to her practice, where the medium of the work ranges from installation, painting, photogrpahy, writing and drawing.

Early life and education

Maybury was born in Oxford in 1990^[6] to a Pakistani mother and a Welsh father and has a younger sister.^[7] She graduated in Fashion History and Theory in 2013 at the faculty of arts and design Central Saint Martins in London.^[8]

Exhibitions

Solo/duo exhibitions

• From Paris With Love, Treize, Paris, 2022
• Faster than an erection, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO), Rome, 2021
• Moralists at a Costume Party, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, Denmark, 2021
• A-good-individual, schwarzescafé LUMA Westbau, Zürich, 2019
• My Deep Secret (with Will Sheldon), Arcadia Missa, London, 2018
• Fish Wives (with Claire Barrow), Paramount Ranch (with Shoot The Lobster), United States, 2016

Group exhibitions

• SexKino Roland, NEXPO, Zürich, 2022
• In the Company of, Eden Eden Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2022
• The Puppet Show, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva, 2022
• Isabella, Associazione Barriera, Turin, 2022
• The Baroness, Mimosa House, London, 2022
• sub/dominium curated by SoiL Thornton, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, 2021
• Put A Sock In It!, Sophie Tappinier, Vienna, 2021
• Exhibition For Your Apartment, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, 2021
• In Excess, 3hD, Power Play, Berlin, 2021
• Witchhunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2020
• The Monstrous Bouquet, Omstand, Arnhem, 2020
• Do You Love Me?, P.P.O.W, New York, 2019
• Paint, Also Known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2019
• I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, ICA, London, 2019
• Putting Out, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, 2018
• Prick Up Your Ears!, Karma International, Los Angeles, 2018 ^[6]
• Hardcore, Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2023

Bibliography

• Faster than an erection, with a poem by Cassandra Troyan. Wet Satin Press and MACRO, 2021.
• BINTS! A Conversation Between Mistress Rebecca and the Elysium Harvester, Wet Satin Press, 2019
• Dining with Humpty Dumpty, Wet Satin Press, 2017 and Arcadia Missa, 2019
• The Goddess and the Worm, Wet Satin Press, 2015

Notes and References

1. Web site: A Basic HTML5 Template.
2. https://www.frieze.com/article/reba-maybury-happy-man-2024-review
3. https://companygallery.us/artists/reba-maybury
4. News: Jones. Jonathan. 2019-05-01. Kathy Acker review – a voyage to hell with the pirates of desire. en-GB. The Guardian. 2020-08-17. 0261-3077.
5. Web site: Toro. Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, Nick Scholl, David. Dining with Reba Maybury. 2020-08-17. DIS Magazine.
6. http://arcadiamissa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/REBA-MAYBURY-CV.pdf
7. Web site: jess and reba maybury are fashion's favourite twisted sisters. Lynette. Nylander. 9 May 2017.
8. Web site: 25 February 2021 . Reba Maybury CV . Arcadia Missa.