Rachel Frank is an American artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
Education:
2005 Masters of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
The Royal College of Art, Exchange Program, London, England
2003 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions and Performances:
2023 Vessels, (Public Participatory Performance), SkowheganPERFORMS Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2022 Rewilding the Prairie at Franconia Sculpture Park, (Public Participatory Performance), 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Rewilding Valley Creek at Belwin Conservancy, (Public Participatory Performance), 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial, Belwin Conservancy, Afton, MN
2021 Rewilding the Rattlesnake Creek Dam Site, (Public Participatory Performance), Rattlesnake Creek, Missoula, MT
2019 Rachel Frank: Thresholds, (Solo), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2018 The Sentinels, Rachel Frank and Heidi Lau, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
Rachel Frank: Landscapes of the Future Past, (Solo), Standard Space, Sharon, CT
2017 Rachel Frank: Vessels, (Solo), Thomas Hunter Projects, Hunter College, New York, NY
Rachel Frank: Past Future Tense, (Solo), SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Times Square, New York, NY
2015 Rewilding Stuyvesant Cove Park, (Performance), Solar One, Stuyvesant Cove Park, New York, NY
Rewilding Manhattan, (Performance), Presented by Franklin Furnace Archive and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, The Select Art Fair, New York, NY
Sleep of Reason, (Performance), The Marran Theater, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2014 Rewilding Socrates Sculpture Park SkowheganPERFORMS, (Performance), Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Rewilding Platte Clove, (Performance), Various locations in The Catskill Mountains, NY
2013 Bed on the Floor, (Collaboration with Matt Bollinger), Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
2011 Sleep of Reason, (Performance), HERE, New York, NY
Masks and Mirrors, (Solo), The Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2010 Sleep of Reason, (Performance), The Bushwick Starr and Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
Awards and Honors:
2024 NARS Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Brooklyn NY
2023 Montello Foundation, Artist-in-Residence, Montello, NV
Wave Hill, Winter Workspace Artist-in-Residence, Bronx, NY
2021 Socrates Sculpture Park, Emerging Artist Fellowship, Long Island City, NY
Open AIR MT, Artist-in-Residence at Rattlesnake Creek Dam, Missoula, MT
2020 Franconia Sculpture Park, Art-in-Residence, Shafer, MN
2018 Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Artist-in-Residence, Tucson, AZ
2017 Platte Clove, Catskill Center, Artist-in-Residence, Elka Park, NY
Museum of Arts and Design, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
2016 Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, Artist-in-Residence, Alaska
2012 Yaddo, Artist-in-Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY
BRIC Media Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., Grant Recipient, Brooklyn, NY
2010 The Women’s Studio Workshop, Bookmaking Residency, Rosendale, NY
The Puffin Foundation, Grant Recipient, Teaneck, NJ
2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., Grant Recipient, New York, NY
The Sculpture Space, Artist-in-Residence, Utica, NY
2006 Artist Alliance Inc., Studio Grant Recipient, New York, NY
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Grant Recipient, Quebec, Canada
2005 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Studio Grant Recipient, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 (Upcoming) Transcending Taxonomy, A/D Project Space, New Paltz, NY
(Upcoming) Thicket, Overlap Gallery, Newport RI
The Body Politic: Women, Earth, and the Environment, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Fauna, Flora and Fur, Geary, Millerton, NY
2024 Nexus, Echoes, and Connections, Sarah Crown Gallery, New York, NY
Nocturnes, Personal Space, Vallejo, CA
Allure of the Land, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Ends Well, Mother-in-Law Gallery, Germantown, NY
Growing, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Constellation Threads, curated by Elisa Soliven, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
SkowheganPERFORMS, (Performance, Temporal Vessels), Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Par-ley, Mother-in-Law Gallery for Upstate New York Weekend, Germantown, NY
Reimaging Conservation, Swale, Governor’s Island, NY
Animal People, Tappeto Volante Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Salve, Sanctuary, Seer, Spring/Break Art Show, NYC
Modular Mosaic, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Eco-Urgency: Artists Make the Case, Wave Hill and Lehman College, Bronx, NY
Sanctuary, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Why is Our Planet Green?, Project ARTspace, New York, NY
Skowhegan Artists, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME
2019 CORAL PROJECTS: Everglades Art Lab, UNTITLED, ART Fair, Miami, FL
KMAC Triennial: Crown of Rays, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Pool Party, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
Kiln It, Massey Klein, New York, NY
CORAL PROJECTS: Underwater Land Art Lab, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC
Ceiling underStood, Rockelmann & Partner, Albuquerque, NM and Berlin, Germany
Staging Ground, Curated by Lilly McElroy, La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
2018 Open World, Curated by Blair Murphy, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2017 Deep Time Rewilding (Performance collaboration with Robert Wilson), Fly into the Sun: 24th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
Contemporary Landscape, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2016 BRIC Biennial, Volume II: Bed Stuy and Crown Heights, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
Stages, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
Common Threads, Danese/Corey, New York, NY
2015 Feelers, Curated by Susan Metrican, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Works on Paper, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
At Land and Sea, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, Brooklyn, NY
In Search of…., Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Pagan Holiday, Field Projects, New York, NY
2012 In Search of…., Rhodes College, Memphis TN and The Art and Design Gallery, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
The Shadow Side, , Peru State College, Peru, NE
Creative Nonfiction, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Drawings Related to Performance Works, 92YTRIBECA, New York, NY
New Prints 2012/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Selected Press and Publications:
Shukeylo, Anna. “Nexus, Echoes, and Connections – Stefano Caimi, Rachel Frank, Gayoung Jun, Kirstin Lamb at SARAHCROWN Gallery” Art Spiel, June 20, 2024.
Brock, Hovey. “Rachel Frank: Ritual and Rehabilitation,” Art Spiel, December 11, 2023
Juliana Roth. “Rewilding New York” Conversations with Animals, May 10, 2023. (Podcast interview)
Frank, Rachel. “Sculptural Applications in Wildlife Rehabilitation” Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts, December 2022.
Gnadinger, L. Autumn. “Rachel Frank: Q & A” Ruckus, May 27, 2021.
Bury, Louis. "Take a Virtual Nature Walk at Wave Hill" Hyperallergic, August 8, 2020.
Sayej, Nadja. "'The idea is to help': how Art Basel Miami tackled the climate crisis" The Guardian, December 10, 2019.
Ruth, Kimberly. "Rachel Frank." ART UNCOVERED with Kimberly Ruth. BTRtoday. July 23, 2019, Radio Interview.
Frank, Rachel. “Kentucky and changes in environmental thinking” KMAC Museum Blog, November 14, 2019.
Lambert, Audra. "Fresh Approaches Feature at Spring/Break 2019" ANTE Magazine, March 9, 2019.
Drew, Clayton. "Impending Doom and Uncertainty: Rachel Frank and Heidi Lau’s “The Sentinels” Whitewall, June 19, 2018.
Jenkins, Mark. “In the galleries: Nine artists create worlds of their own for Arlington show” Washington Post, September 14, 2018.
ArtSlant Team. "Rachel Frank Answers 5 Questions" ArtSlant, November 27, 2017.
Schwarting, Jen, and Derek Stroup. "Rewilding: Rachel Frank in Conversation with Jen Schwarting" Field, Issue 1, 2017.
Mitter, Siddhartha. "At the BRIC Biennial, Dozens of Local Artists Shine a Light on Brooklyn" The Village Voice, November 23, 2016.
Frank, Rachel. In Draw it with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, edited by Paper Monument, 18. New York City: n+1 Foundation Inc., 2012.