Rebecca Matalon is Senior Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) where she serves on the Museum’s Senior Leadership team. At CAMH, Matalon has organized solo and group exhibitions by Garrett Bradley, Mariah Garnett, Leslie Hewitt, Lisa Lapinski, Leslie Martinez, Diane Severin Nguyen, Cauleen Smith, and Jordan Strafer. In 2021 she organized Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves, the first in a series of exhibitions bringing together the work of two artists across generations. She is currently at work on the second in the series, Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee (2026), as well as the first survey exhibition of work by Mary Ellen Carroll, for which she was awarded a Teiger Foundation Grant.
Previously, Matalon was Assistant Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized temporary and permanent collection exhibitions including Tongues Untied (2015), Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? (2016), Rick Owens: Furniture (2016), Welcome to the Dollhouse (2018), and Décor: Barbara Bloom, Andrea Fraser, Louise Lawler (2018). In 2018, she co-organized Zoe Leonard: Survey, a major mid-career retrospective of the work of Zoe Leonard, which debuted at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and traveled to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in November 2018. Matalon is a Co-Founder and, from 2015-2018, Curator at JOAN, a not-for-profit exhibition space in Los Angeles that is dedicated to presenting the work of emerging and underrepresented artists. At JOAN, she organized solo exhibitions with Nevine Mahmoud (2015), Aura Rosenberg (2016, with Adam Marnie), Roni Shneior (2017), and Harry Dodge (2018, with Adam Marnie), as well as the group exhibitions SYLVIA BATAILLE (2015, with Adam Marnie) and Spine: Madeline Hollander, Eva LeWitt, Ragen Moss (2018). Matalon has edited and contributed writing to multiple publications and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She currently serves on the board of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and was on the Steering Committee of Texas Talks Art, a multi-institutional initiative that supported artists, curators, and institutions impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic through weekly, free public talks.