Rachel Burgess is a visual artist based in New York. She makes autobiographical works-on-paper inspired by her day to day surroundings, blending historical and contemporary forms to explore the ways we document our lives, however imperfectly. Attracted by the accessible, democratic quality of printmaking and commercial illustration, she works primarily in monotype, straddling the divide between popular and elite forms of storytelling.

b. 1982, Boston, MA

Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION

2007   MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2004   BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT


SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022 Ingrained, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY (two-person show)

Ebb & Flow, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME (two-person show)

2020 50 Views of the Piscataqua, 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH

2019 A Sense of Place, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY (two-person show)

2017   A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Pictures, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT

In the Meeting of Rock and Sea, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY (two-person show)

2014 This Must Be the Place, FOLK, Kittery, ME

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Winter Dreams of Spring, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME

2022 To Knead a Knot, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY (curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone)

Atmospheric Moments, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

The Fierce Urgency of Now, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA

2021 Minted, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

WHO WHAT WHERE, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME

Mapping Narratives: New Prints, International Print Center of New York, New York, NY

This Land, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY

2020 Making a Way, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN

AMERICANA, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

2019 Building Power, Planthouse, New York, NY

Published by the Artist, International Print Center of New York, New York, NY

ARTPM, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME

Art on Paper, New York, NY (Susan Eley Fine Art)

2018 Taproot, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME

Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY (Ground Floor Gallery)

5th Floor, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2016    The Print Edition, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Life is More Than, Openhouse, New York, NY

FLUID 2015, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY

Locally Sourced, Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington, D.C.

2014    Made in New York/Made in Seoul, Korea Society, New York, NY and Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Drowning in a Sea of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Obsolescence, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ

Here by the Sea: Contemporary Art of the Piscataqua, Sarah Orne Jewett Museum, South Berwick, ME

2013    Spring Show, Recession Art, Brooklyn, NY

Enormous Tiny Art #14, Nahcotta, Portsmouth, NH

Pistol Packing Print!, EMOA Gallery, New York, NY

2012    Calicornucopia, Calico Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

Small Works, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY

2011    Carrier Pigeon Magazine, 20|20 Gallery, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

Visions in Print, Allegra La Viola Gallery, New York, NY

2010    Works on Paper, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS

2022 Moon Food Studio Grant, semi-finalist

2021 Artist Development Program Award, International Print Center of New York

2016    Artist residency, Zea Mays Printmaking

2014    Artist residency, Acadia National Park

2006    MFA Illustration scholarship award, School of Visual Arts

2004 Alvin B. Kernan Award, Yale University

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Artist Praxis podcast interview, Nov 8, 2022

Hyperallergic, “A View From the Easel” feature, Amin, Lakshmi Rivera, May 31, 2022

I Like Your Work podcast, Studio Visit Artist interview, March 3, 2022

Janet Turner Print Museum, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Socially Engaged Printmaking catalog, 2022

The Boston Globe, “What’s Happening (Digitally) in the Arts World: 50 Views of the Piscataqua”, McQuaid, Cate, August 6, 2020

Introspective Magazine, "13 Ways of Looking at an Artwork This Season", Mendelssohn, Meredith, September 25, 2017

The New York Times, "A Soothing Skyline and a Weimaraner, 'The Most Architectural of Dogs'", Loos, Ted, March 9, 2017

Drawing Magazine, “New and Notable” feature, Winter issue, 2015

Black Book, "Fresh New Way to Collect Art - The CoOp Gallery", Grumbach, Matthew, August 28, 2014

Curious Matter, Obsolescence catalog, 2014

Korea Society/Seoul Museum of Art, Made in New York/Made in Korea catalog, 2014

Carrier Pigeon Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2011

3x3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, Issue 5, 2009

Society of Illustrators Annual, No. 51, 2009

CMYK, Issue 37, 2007

COLLECTIONS

Capital One

CityMD

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Montefiore Medical Center

NYU Langone

University of Connecticut

ARTIST TALKS/TEACHING

2022 Artist talk, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2020 Artist talk, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2018 Artist talk, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

2014   Artist talk, Acadia National Park, ME

2013   Artist talk, Queens College, Queens, NY

2010   Adjunct Professor, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY