Rebeca Méndez

Rebeca Méndez is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator examining reciprocal relationships and environmental justice in a multi-species world amid climate change, mass extinction, and a ravaging extractivist society. Her fieldwork has taken her to vulnerable environments and communities in the Arctic and to threatened ecologies in the Pacific Ocean. Méndez’s diverse works are driven by her interest in perception and embodied experience. They develop across science and art, manifesting as immersive video and sound installations, public art, film, and performance. Bridging scientific and indigenous perspectives, Méndez has collaborated with major scientific institutions and with Acjachemen, Tongva, Ohlone, and Zapotec communities.

Exhibitions include Into the Time Horizon at the Nevada Museum of Art (2026); three PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibitions, including Storm Cloud: Picturing our Climate Crisis at the Huntington (2024–25); the 1st Gangwon International Triennale; and the 55th Venice Biennial. Her work has been included in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Oaxaca), and the El Paso Museum of Art.

Méndez is a professor in the Design Media Arts department at University of California, Los Angeles and the founder and director of the Counterforce Lab, a research studio that harnesses the power of art and design to engage with the reality of the global ecological crisis and its ties to environmental injustice. She is a 2019 Lucas Artists Fellow.  

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Programs:

• Marcus Exhibition The Art and Architecture of Maybe (2026)