Rachel Ritchford

Lives in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION
2008 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004 BFA, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 New Paintings, The Yard, Brooklyn, US
2013 Parallels, The Yard, Brooklyn, US
2012 New Paintings, The Rathouse Presents, Berlin, DE
2012 Future Days, Mt. Comfort, Indianapolis, US

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Chasing Tail, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, QLD
2014 Multipoint II, Oravská Galéria, Dolný Kubín, SK
2013 STRATA, 50,000feet, Chicago, US
2013 Quietude, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, US
2012 First Contact, Field Projects, New York City, US
2010 I Want to Feel at Home Here, MP5 Project Space, Portland, US
2009 Multipoint, Gallery Univerzum, Nitra , SK
2009 Surface: Landscape Exhibition, BAG Gallery, Brooklyn, US
2009 Ship in a Bottle, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, US
2008 Cultivate Beauty, 930 Art Center, Louisville, US
2008 MFA Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago, US
2008 Bauhaus Art Show, Guertin’s Graphics, Chicago, US
2007 Targeting Johns, Gallery 2 Project Space, Chicago, US
2007 Food Fight, Wabash Food Court, Chicago, US
2007 Proof!, Big Car, Indianapolis, US
2007 Big Sky, Student Union Galleries, Chicago, US

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2014 Chashama Workspace Residency, New York, NY
2009 Multipoint International Painting Symposium, Nitra, SK
2008 Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, New York
2008 Graduate Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Award, Chicago
2006-2008 Trustee Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2000 Ellen Batell Stoeckel Fellowship Norfolk Summer Residency, Yale University School of Art
2000 Telefund Scholarship for Painting, Herron School of Art
2000 Herron Anniversary Award, Herron School of Art

LECTURES & CURATORIAL
2012 “Rachel Ruysch, 17th Century Dutch Painter”, The Beagle Symposium, Amsterdam, NL
2012 “HORBE” work by Lisa Holmgren, curated by Rachel Ritchford, The Rathouse Presents, Berlin, DE