Rebecca Hoyer was born in Chicago but has moved about, living in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, New York and now Wichita. She studied Graphic Design at Washington University in St. Louis (BFA 1980), then painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and with Knox Martin at the Art Students League in New York.
Since arriving in Wichita, she has been working with the Kansas landscape, trying to identify what makes it both distinctive and beautiful. She paints familiar things – trees and houses – in a style that is both pastoral and radical.
A College Hill resident for the past 17 years, she was one of the founding members of Wichita’s Acme Gallery. Her community projects include the KMUW mug and tee shirt for the Spring pledge drive, a painted violin for the Wichita Symphony, a portrait painting for the Komen Foundation "Art for the Cure" - a pairing of artists and patients telling their stories of breast cancer. She is working on shows in Wichita at Artworks and in Manhattan for the Strecker-Nelson Gallery.