Rebeca Mendez

Rebeca Méndez is an artist and designer living in Los Angeles, California, USA. Méndez is professor at UCLA Design Media Arts Department in Los Angeles, California.

Méndez was born and raised in Mexico City. She received her BFA (1984) in Communication Design and her MFA (1996) in media art and design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Her art and design work has been exhibited and collected by institutions such as the SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]), The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museo Jose Luis Cuevas in Mexico City, and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. She has her own studio RMCD: Rebeca Méndez Communication Design in partnership with writer and strategist Adam Eeuwens, who is also her husband. Through her studio, she has collaborated with video artist Bill Viola, architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis, architect Greg Lynn, GLFORM, artist Ruben Ortiz Torres, and with film director Mike Figgis.

Rebeca Méndez Communication Design’s clients include The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the Guggenheim Berlin, The Getty Museum and MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Los Angeles. As creative director of Brand Integration Group, Ogilvy & Mather, NY and Los Angeles (1999–2003), Rebeca lead global brand identity projects for clients such as IBM, Motorola, BP (British Petroleum), AT&T Wireless, and Mattel. In 2004, Méndez was invited to, and won, a competition to design the user interface to the Microsoft Home — the premier venue for communicating what Microsoft sees as possible for technology in the home of the future. In collaboration with architect and 2005 Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne of Morphosis, Méndez created two permanent installations for Mayne's new building: The Recreation Center at The University of Cincinnati. Her work was exhibited at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, France—as part of Thom Mayne and Morphosis retrospective: Morphosis: Continuities of the Incomplete in 2006. Her works have also been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, NY. In addition, Méndez recently designed a wayfinding masterplan for Caltech, with architect Richard Weinstein and Cooper-Robertson Architects.

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