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⟞ EDUCATION ⟝
Center for Sacred Studies: Ministry Training Program. To be ordained as a Minister of Walking Prayer, Aug 2022.
MAPS MDMA Therapy Training Program, completed December 2021
Central Saint Martins: Practice-based fine arts PhD, Research, 2008-09 (discontinued)
Bard College: Stephen Shore Master Class '08-09
Bard College: MFA Program, photography coursework, 2008
School of Visual Arts: BFA Photography, 1998
St. Mary’s College of MD, coursework, 1994-95
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⟞ RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS & APPOINTMENTS ⟝
Explorers Club 50 June 2022 - July 2023
TED Resident, Sept - Dec 2016
Montalvo Arts Center: Residency. CA, Oct-Nov 2016
SETI Institute Artist in Residence, 2016
MASS MoCA/Assets for Artists resident artist, Fall 2015
Imagine Science Film Festival 2014 Judge
Guggenheim Fellowship, Photography, 2014
LACMA Lab Art + Tech grant, 2014
NYFA Fellowship, Photography, 2013
The MacDowell Colony: Residency, Summer 2013
A|R|C: ambient.space: Artist in Residence, London. Spring/Summer 2013
Artists’ Fellowship Inc: Grant recipient, Jan 2013
Change, Inc: Grant recipient, July 2012
MacDowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee, Officer, 2007-2012
Prix Pictet 2011: Nominated artist. London/Geneva, 2011
Sculpt the Future Foundation: Creativity for Change Grant recipient. July 2011
West Prize: 2011 Acquisition Award recipient. Jan 2011
AOL 25for25: $25,000 grant for innovative & groundbreaking work. Oct 2010
Montalvo Arts Center: Residency. Saratoga, CA, Nov 2010
Prix Pictet 2010: Nominated artist. London/Geneva, 2010
Prix Pictet 2009: Nominated artist. London/Geneva, 2009
British Council: Darwin Now Award: Finalist. London, 2009
University of Pennsylvania: Best in Show; Graduate Humanities Forum on Origins, Feb 2008
Rollins College: Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Artist, Fall 2007
Vermont Studio Center: Residency & Fellowship, Fall 2006
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, 2005
The MacDowell Colony: Residency, Fall 2005
Cooper Union: Artist in Residence, New York. Summer, 2004
Arkin-Medo Excellence in Photography Award, 1998
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⟞ PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & APPEARANCES ⟝
BBC World News "Global w/ Matthew Amroliwala" Oct 2014
BBC Radio 4 "Today Programme," Sept 27, 2014
The National Endowment for the Arts: private talk for the NEA Staff. Sept 2014
Office For Creative Research: Guest speaker. Feb 2014
A|R|C: resident artist lecture, London. Sept 2013
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology: Postdoctoral Retreat, Vienna/Brno. Sept 2013
TEDxEast: Speaker. The Art of Endurance. Summer 2013
TED Salon at Art Basel Miami: Art + Time. Dec 4, 2012
BBC World Service: Globally syndicated program The Forum. July 12, 2012
NCPR: Nationally syndicated program The Story. Jan 26, 2012
ABC Radio Australia: Nationally syndicated Breakfast Show. Live air, June 2011
United Nations/World Future Council: Future Policy Award featured artist. Sept 2011
UCLA: Lecturer, James Welling seminar. Mar 2011
TED Active: Speaker. March 2011
BBC World Service: One Planet, Jan 2011
The Long Now Foundation: Seminar. SF, Nov 02010
CreativeMornings: Speaker. Brooklyn, Aug 2010
CNN: Live international broadcast, World Report. Time Warner Center, NYC. July 28, 2010
TED Global Conference: TED Speaker. Oxford, UK July 2010
Johnson & Johnson Convergence Lab: Speaker. June 2010
WFMU: Too Much Information w Benjamen Walker. May 2010
GEL Conference: Speaker. TimesCenter, NYC, April 2010
NHPR: Guest on Word of Mouth. Live air, April 26, 2010
TED Prize Event: Featured Artist; Charter for Compassion Launch. Brooklyn, 2009
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⟞ SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS ⟝
Harvard Divinity School, Solo exhibition. November 2019 - 2021
Pioneer Works: Solo exhibition, Red Hook, NY, Sept 13th-Nov 2nd, 2014
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden: Site-specific solo exhibition. April – June 2012
Berlin Botanical Museum: Oldest Living Things in the World. Berlin, Nov 2010 – Feb 2011
Montalvo Arts Center: Oldest Living Things in the World. Saratoga, CA. Oct 2010– Jan 2011
Siamsa Tire: Un-Natural Selection. w/ John Holstead. Tralee, Ireland, Feb-Mar 2010
The Discovery Museum: The Oldest Living Things in the World. Bridgeport, CT. ’08-’09
Michael Steinberg Fine Arts: The Oldest Living things in the World. NYC, May ’08
Humble Arts Foundation: “Solo Show.” Jan-Mar ’08
Galapagos Art Space: Natural Selection, site-specific installation. Williamsburg, May 2006
School of Visual Arts Gallery on 6th: Recent Work. NYC March 2003
Galerie Engler & Piper: Recent Work. Berlin, Nov 2002
Salon Bob: Recent Work. New York, May 1997
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⟞ PUBLICATIONS ⟝
Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder, Catalog, MASS MoCA, Aug 2016
Imagining Deep Time: Catalog, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. August 2015
The Oldest Living Things in the World: University of Chicago Press. April 2014
Brainpickings: A Journey to the End of the World: Shackleton’s Footsteps a Century Later. April 2012
New York Times LENS Blog: Dispatches from Antarctica (Four posts). Feb-March 2012
Brainpickings: All the Time in the World. (Reprinted in Conservation Journal.) Dec 2011
Le Journal Spéciale’Z: Timescales. Issue #3. January 2012
Kunstverein Hannover: On the Metaphor of Growth Catalog. April 2011
West Collection: 2011 West Prize Catalog. April 2011
The Collectors Guide to Emerging Photographers: Humble Arts Foundation. March 2009
Christie’s: Picturing Central Park Catalog, May 2005
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⟞ AFFILIATIONS ⟝
Uprise Art
Climate Reality Leadership Corps
TED: Community member & TED Speaker
Guggenheim Fellow
NYFA Fellow
MacDowell Colony Fellow
Brooklyn Arts Council: Fiscal Sponsor
Pierogi Gallery Flatfiles, Brooklyn
Museum of Contemporary Photography: Fine Print Program
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⟞ PRESS ⟝
WIRED covers the destruction of the Cosmic Microwave Mandala at NuMu, 2017
Hyperallergic: An Artist Mends Cracks in the Sidewalk With Gold, February 2017
Nautilus: Take Me to Your Artist, December 2016
MASS LIVE: Review: MASS MoCA Art Exhibit a "Wonder" to Behold, Nov 2016
Business Insider: Review of (Selected) History of the Spacetime Continuum at MASS MoCA, July 2016
Boston Globe: At MASS MoCA, Wondering about Wonder, June 2016
The New York Times: Book review by Dana Jennings, Jan 2015
Marina Abramovic Institute journal, Immaterial: "The Deep Time Question" Oct 2014
The New Yorker. Talk of the Town, "Survivors" Sept 22, 2014
Republic (Sweden): Featured artist & profile. Nov 2013
LIFE (China): Empathy. Featured artist & interview. Jan 2013
La Repubblica (Italy): A lezione dagli alberi piu vecchi del mondo. April 2012.
Mother Nature Network: The Innovation Generation: 30 Fresh Thinkers. May 2012
Kunstforum (Germany): Uber die Metapher des Wachstums. May 2011
Arte e Critica (Italy): Ipotesi Decresciste de Scenario Post-Svilupposta. E L’arte? June 2011
O (The Oprah Magazine): Profile. May 2011
La Pura Vida Magazine: The Old, the Hidden and the Unknown, Bryan Formhals. Dec 2010
WIRED (UK): Interview & profile. Nov 2010
Der Speigel (Germany): Profile & gallery. Aug 2010
Ingeniøren (Denmark): Profile & gallery. Aug 2010
B.Z. (Germany): Profile & gallery. Aug 2010
BBC (Brazil): Fotógrafa registra seres mais antigos do planeta. Aug 2010
Wall Street Journal: Interview by Julie Steinberg, July 2010
CNN: Interview & profile by Dean Irvine. Capturing the world's oldest living things. July 2010
Pie Paper (New Zealand): Interview by Markus Hofko. Aug 2010
Trip Magazine (Brazil): Interview by Diogo Rodrigeuz. June 2010
Galileu Magazine (Brazil): Interview by Tatiana B. M. Oliveira. June 2010
The OUTLOOK Magazine (China): Interview by Pinko Chao. June 2010
New Scientist (UK): Profile by Jessica Griggs. Online & print edition, April 10, 2010
NPR: The Picture Show. Hunting For The Oldest Living Things In The World. Pricilla Villarreal. Mar 2010
The Long Now Foundation: Oldest Living Things in the World. Sept 2009
SwissMiss: Profile by Tina Roth Eisenberg. Sept 2009 & Mar 2010
iO9: Article by Lauren Davis. Sept 2009
The Atlantic: Daily Dose. Andrew Sullivan. Sept 2009
Kottke.org: Post by Jason Kottke. Sept 2009
El Pais: (Spain): Rachel Sussman. Carlos Alvarez. September 2009.
New York Magazine: Year End Culture Issue: Best of 2008, Jerry Saltz. Dec 2008
New York Magazine: Critics’ Pick and review, Jerry Saltz, May 2008
Museum of Natural History: Finding Life at the Frozen Poles, Jan 2008
The New York Sun: Arts as a National Value; Amanda Gordon. Dec 2007
Artworld Digest: #2,The Seed Issue; featured artist. Spring 2007
Chelsea Now: Group Show.com Goes Brick and Mortar, Tonia Steed. March 2007
Fast Company: Creative Confinement, Lucas Conley. Dec 2005
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⟞ SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ⟝
Cross Pollination, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas. Traveling from 2020 -March 2022
Tempo, Museum Sinclair-House, Bad Homburg, Germany. March 14 - August 22, 2021
The Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London, UK. March 4th-Oct, 2020
Taipei Biennial: Post Nature, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. Nov 17th, 2018 - March 10, 2019
Future Knowledge, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK. Sept 22nd -Oct 28th, 2018
Seeing is Understanding, Wayne State University, Detroit,Sept 7th - 28th, 2018
Alchemy: Transformations in Gold, Akron Art Museum, Sept 2017 - Feb 2018
Parallax/e, Forman Art Gallery, Bishop's University, Quebec. Jan 17 - March 17, 2018
In the Garden, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL, Feb - April 2018
Alchemy: Transformations in Gold, Des Moines Art Center. Feb 10 - May 5, 2017
Garage Inventors, Hosfelt Gallery, San Fransisco, May 6 - July 1, 2017
ARoS Triennial: THE GARDEN – End of Times; Beginning of Times, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark June 3 - July 30 2017
MASS MoCA: Rachel's (Selected) History of the Spacetime Continuum, a part of "Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder," on view through March 19, 2017
New Museum Los Gatos, Making Contact: SETI Artists in Residence. Rachel's Cosmic Microwave Mandala on view through March 5, 2017
NYU Gallatin Galleries: Another Green World. NYC, Sept 12th-Oct 15th
Real Imaginary Futures at Bureau Europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 24 May - 2 Aug, 2014
Underline Gallery/Gotham West: A Tree Within. Nov 2013– Nov 2014 NYC
Photoville: Dear Dave exhibition curated by Stephen Frailey, Sept 2013 Brooklyn, NY
Another Year in LA: Photography 2013. Los Angeles. Jan – March 2013
West Collection: 2011 West Prize Finalists Exhibition. Oaks, PA. April 2011 – Summer 2012
Museum of Contemporary Photography: Our Origins. Chicago. July – Oct 2011
Kunstverein Hannover: On the Metaphor of Growth. Hannover, Germany. April – June 2011
Paris Photo: Represented by The Empty Quarter, Dubai. Nov 2010
Gallery 2B: The World’s Neglected Corners (w/Bukta Imre & S. Nagy.) Budapest, Hungary. Sept 2010
Affirmation Arts: 31 Women in Art Photography. Curators: Charlotte Cotton & Jon Feinstein. NYC. March 2010
Bennington College: Usdan Gallery. VT. Mar 2009
University of Pennsylvania: Origins. Hosted by the Graduate Humanities Forum. Feb 2008
American Museum of Natural History: Finding Life at the Frozen Poles. NYC, Jan ‘08
Winkleman Gallery: The Seed Project. NYC, October 2007
Art Forum Berlin: Pierogi Gallery. Berlin, Sept - Oct 2007
Pierogi Leipzig: Hela Havet Stormar. Leipzig, Germany. Summer 2007
Gitana Rosa: In the Dirt: Young Photographers rethinking the Human Relationship to the Contemporary Landscape. Williamsburg, Jun-Jul 2007
Artnews Projects: Pierogi Flatfiling, Berlin, May-June 2007
Nurture Art/Cue Art Foundation: New ’07, curated benefit. NYC, June 2007
New Century Artists: Humble Arts Foundation show. NYC, March 2007
DOWNspace Gallery (LA Design Center): Stream, curated by Chris Sicat. LA, Spring 2007
D21 Kunstraum: Salon. Leipzig, Germany. Dec ’06 – Jan ‘07
Pierogi Brooklyn: Installation. Brooklyn, Sept – Oct 2006
Pace/MacGill: selfportraitr: curating the Flickr community. Aug 2006
Vox Populi: Voxumenta. Philadelphia, PA, May 2006
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago: Photography 2005. Chicago, Oct 2005
Jen Bekman Gallery: The PinUp Show. NYC, Sept-Oct 2005
The Central Park Conservancy/ Christie’s: Benefit auction, NYC, June 2005
Jen Bekman Gallery: Hey, Hot Shot; inaugural juried exhibition. NYC May 2005
Momenta/White Columns: Benefit Exhibition. NYC, April 2005
Stenersenmuseet: BoundLess. Oslo, Norway; Traveling in Norway 2005 - 2006
Cooper Union: Residency Exhibition. NYC, June 2004
Participant: Greatest Show on Earth (Lisa Kirk), Trapeze Performance. NYC, May 2004
450 Broadway Gallery: Seeing is Believing. Artist/Curator. NYC, May 2003
The Front Room: Towards a New Architecture. Brooklyn, Feb 2003
The Front Room: The Suffragette Show. Brooklyn, Jun-Jul 2002