Austin-Based Artist Rewon Opens “Suspended Belief” With 30+ Artworks at Future Front’s Community Studio

Oct 16

As part of Future Front’s ongoing Community Studio exhibitions, suspended belief reflects the journey of Austin-based multidisciplinary artists through the city. Rewon participated in Future Front’s 2024/25 Artist Residency program.

Open for eight days only, suspended belief is a coming-of-age story. Through 30+ pieces created over the last four years, the show chronicles Austin-based artist Rewon’s practice, as well as her nostalgic reorganization of identity and evangelical faith.

As Rewon’s second solo exhibition, suspended belief brings together paintings, drawings, poetry, and multimedia sculptures that reflect on her experience of leaving the evangelical Christian faith she was raised in. Organized into four chapters—Genesis, Exodus, Lamentations, and Revelations—the exhibition traces the arc of the artists’s religious deconstruction, from inherited belief to questioning, grieving, and rebuilding identity.

By holding nostalgia alongside critical curiousity, the exhibition explores what is gained and what is lost when we question narratives we inherit. While rooted in the artists’s experience, suspended belief invites viewers to imagine what could emerge if we allow ourselves to change.

BEHIND THE ARTIST

Rewon

REWON is an Austin-based artist who transforms personal memory into visual meditation. Using childhood photographs as source material, she creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that expand individual experience into broader social and systemic reflection. Each series unfolds like a visual journal, tracing explorations of identity, family, and inherited structures across time.

She holds a BA in Journalism from Baylor University, with minors in Religion and Studio Art. Her work has been exhibited in over a dozen Austin galleries, including her solo exhibitions “suspended belief” (2026) and "SPLIT: Portraits of the AAPI Diaspora” (2023).

Committed to community-building through art, Rewon has served as Director of Artistic Programs at The Gallery ATX and as editor of Mujer Manifesto Zine (2022–2024). She has participated in the Creative Futures Collective Fellowship (2022), Soho House Creative Mentorship (2023), and Austin Emerging Arts Leaders Mentorship (2024), and was an artist-in-residence at Future Front (2025). She was also named an “Austin Artist to Watch in 2026” by Austin Gallery.