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Artist Rachel Sussman aims to connect personal time to cosmic time as a means to activate long-term thinking. ​Through her ​ephemeral artworks about eternity, including a sand mandala of the Cosmic Microwave Background and a timeline of the history - and future - of the spacetime continuum​ stretching from before the Big Bang through to 10x101 billion years into the future​, ​Sussman ​​invites you connect with space and time in a whole new way.

http://www.ted.com Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

Exhibitions

→ Golden Veins: The Art of Kintsugi and Transformation, Alison Bradley Projects November 14, 2024 - January 11, 2025

→ Landscape As Identity, Brunnier Art Museum January 21 - July 27, 2025

RECENTLY CLOSED

→ 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

→ Oldest Living Things exhibition and lecture, Harvard Divinity School. November 2019 - 2022

→ Taipei Biennial: Post Nature, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. Nov 17th, 2018 - March 10, 2019  

 

News

→ Rachel ordained as a Minister of Walking Prayer by the Center for Sacred Studies, Aug 2022

→ Rachel named a member of the Explorers Club 50 class of 2022

→ Rachel earns the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies) MDMA Therapy Training program certificate

→ Rachel now represented by Uprise Art

→ Rachel awarded her third MacDowell Colony residency,  Summer 2017

→ WIRED covers the destruction of the Cosmic Microwave Mandala at NuMu

→ Sidewalk Kintsukuroi featured on Hyperallergic, Vice Creators Project, and Fast.Co Design

→ Rachel completes Fall 2016 TED RESIDENCY, in-house incubator at TED for breakthrough ideas

→ Rachel joins the 2016 INTO THE OKAVANGO expedition in Botswana! 

→ Rachel awarded an AWESOME WITHOUT BORDERS grant in support of Sidewalk Kintsukuroi at MASS MoCA

→ German, Korean, and simple & complex Chinese editions of The Oldest Living Things now available!

→ The Oldest Living Things in the World featured in the New York Times and New York Times Best Sellers list

→ Rachel featured in The New Yorker's Talk of the Town

→ Rachel named a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow

→ Rachel awarded a LACMA Lab Art + Technology grant