BIO

Rachel (b. 1983) began photography while completing her undergraduate degree at Skidmore College, graduating in 2005.  In numerous group and solo exhibitions she has presented a series of projects exploring the photograph as object, often resulting in unique works incorporating a specialized transfer printing technique as well as other processes like encaustic wax and materials ranging from old envelopes to 19th century cabinet cards. A frequent theme in the work is a desire to “reanimate” the vernacular photographs and paper ephemera in her collection by reworking them in a variety of ways to create imagery that is resonant with the past yet has a new vitality and reflection of our own time and perspective.

In addition to photography, Rachel works in the San Francisco Bay Area as a tutor for children with learning differences, and served as the Executive Director of the community-based nonprofit PhotoAlliance from 2022-2024.

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EDUCATION, ARTS ADMINISTRATION & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Executive Director, PhotoAlliance, 2022-2024
Medium Photo, Board Member and Programs Chair, 2020-2023
San Francisco Camerawork, Board Member and Programming Committee Chair, 2018-2020
Skidmore College, BA, Creative Writing & Visual Art, 2005

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024
After Image, Andy Mattern and Rachel Phillips, Chung 24 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023
Holding Time, SDSU University Gallery, San Diego, CA

2021
Home from the Field, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX

2019
Ghost Light Theaters, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX

2015
From Time to Time, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX

2014
Paper and Silver, exhibition with John Hundt, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Vanishing Point, RayKo Artist in Residence Show, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013
Field Notes, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX

2012
Field Notes, Patty Look Lewis Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
The Book as Art V 10: Transformations, Decatur Public Library, GA
MCBA Prize Exhibition, Minnesota Center for the Book, MN

2021
Unbound Ten, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Photography is Dead/Long Live Photography, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Picture in Picture, Casselhaus, NC

A Yellow Rose Project

• The Faye G., Jo and James Stone Gallery, Boston University

• Stanier Gallery, Washington and Lee University

2020
8x10, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Picture in Picture, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
The Altered Image, Miami Design District, Dina Mitrani Gallery, FL

A Yellow Rose Project

• Boston University

• University of Indiana

• Spectra Gallery, University of New Mexico

• Colorado Photographic Arts Center

• The Front, New Orleans

• SugAR Gallery, University of Arkansas

Suffrage Now, Elisabet Ney Musueum, Austin, TX
Safe in the Studio, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston TX

2019
Present Objects, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Out of the Dark, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
In Memoriam, PennState
Pulse Art Fair, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami

2018
Unbound, Candela Books and Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016
Handmade and Heartfelt, Kirkpatrick, DePaul & Phillips, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL
Subject to Change, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Photo LA, Gallery 1/1, Los Angeles, CA

2015
Evidence: Seen and Unseen, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA
Diffusion Annual, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2014
Wordplay, Panopticon Gallery
Photo Objects, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2013
InFocus Exhibition, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
Made at RayKo, San Francisco, CA
Historic Process/Contemporary Visions, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL
Unbound2, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA

2012
Deck the Walls, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX
Made at RayKo, RayKo, San Francisco, CA
StoneCrop Gallery with Lindsey Beal and Heidi Kirkpatrick, ME
ArtPad SF at the Phoenix Hotel, Modernbook Gallery
AIPAD NYC, John Cleary Gallery
Processes and Dreams, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA

2011
Collect+Connect, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
ReGeneration, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Life Support Japan, online, Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Fieldnotes, Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Center for Photographic Art Juried Exhibition, Carmel, CA
Across the Divide: Critical Mass Top 50 (PCNW, Seattle, WA; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA)

2010
Holiday Show, Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Art Miami, Modernbook Gallery, Miami, FL
Por(trait) Revealed, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Affordable Art Fair, Modernbook Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Alumni Show, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Los Angeles Art Show, Modernbook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009
Magic in the Mix, PhotoCentral, Hayward, CA
It's Still Life, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fieldwork, Coupa Cosas Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
A River, Gallery One, Nashville, TN

2008/2007
Photography Annual, Filoli Estate, Woodside, California

2006
Spectrum 21: Stanford University, Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2005
Artists' Books: A National Juried Exhibition, University of Nebraska

GALLERY AFFILIATION
Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX
Chung 24 Gallery, SF
Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

TREADWELL PRESS PUBLICATIONS
Chain Mail: A 10 Artist Postcard Pack, 2024
Minted: The Nifty NFT Manifesto, 2022
Ghost Light Theaters, 2020
Divinations, 2015
FIXED, 2014

COLLECTIONS

Photographs
Candela Collection
Cassilhaus Collection
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
J.P. Morgan Chase

Artists’ Books
Arizona University
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (QPL project)
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Harvard University
MassArts
Museum of Fine Arts Houston Special Collections
Mills College
San Diego State University
SFMOMA Library and Archive
Skidmore College (circulating collection)
Smith College
Swarthmore College
Texas Women’s University
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Iowa
University of Utah
University of Miami
University of Minnesota
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yale University

SELECT PRINT AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
College Book Arts Association, 2021
Don’t Take Pictures, 2018
Harper’s Magazine, 2018
Miami New Times, 2016
InterArtive, article on Fixed, 2015
AIPAD blog, 2014
Don't Take Pictures, 2014
Light Leaked, 2013
Lenscratch, 2013
Huffington Post, 2013
Photo District News, July 2013
LensWork Extended, portfolio and audio interview with Brooks Jensen, 2013
Black and White Magazine UK, feature article by Susan Burnstine, December 2013
Diffusion Magazine, Volume III, 2011
COLOR Magazine Portfolio Issue 10, 2010
LensWork No. 85, Nov/Dec, 2009
Black & White Magazine Issue 60, 2008
American Photo On Campus 10th anniversary issue, March 2007

PUBLIC ARTIST LECTURES
Catherine Couturier Gallery, 2021 (view recording)
Cassilhaus, 2021
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, 2020 (view recording)
Napa Valley College, Napa, 2020
SF Camerawork, San Francisco
PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, 2015
Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego, 2015

AWARDS, TEACHING & RESIDENCIES
Work Trade Artist in Residence, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA, 2024
Artist In Residence, RayKo, San Francisco, 2014
Gelatin-Transfer Printing Workshops at PhotoCentral, RayKo and HCP
Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon, 2010