Rebecca Kautz

Rebecca Kautz (b. Princeton, IL) is a Sun Prairie, Wisconsin–based artist, curator, and lecturer. She is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in performance, video, and painting and drawing, which is her current focus. Kautz is the recipient of the Midwest Regional Artists With Disabilities Award (2025) from Arts Midwest and the winner of the Dane County Forward Art Prize (2024), where she is also a two-time finalist. She holds an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kautz has an international exhibition record spanning more than three decades, and her work is held in public and private collections throughout the United States and Canada. Her work was recently published in Staring at the Sky: Essays on Art and Culture by Douglas Rosenberg (2024). Additional awards include the Award of Distinction from the 10th Annual International Drawing Exhibition, The Social Art Award, The Larry S. Tempkin Exhibition Award, and First Honorable Mention for the Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize. She is represented by Woodwalk Gallery in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, and is an art lecturer at Madison College.