Rachel Collier is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the release of internal visual language held in the emotional body resulting in imagery that is radically uplifting, riding the line between the mysterious and the familiar. Her materials are activated by a meditative and repetitive process rooted in non-representational painterly tradition.
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Chimera, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (group)
2023
The Otherwordly Gaze: Women Redefining Surrealist Art, Morlan Gallery, Lexington KY (group)
2023
First Light, Skye Gallery at Highline 9, NYC (group)
2023
Intervention, Night Club Gallery, Minneapolis MN (group)
2023
Intersect Aspen (with Skye Gallery), Aspen CO
2023
Foundations- Early-career artist fair (with Hair and Nails Gallery), Artsy.net
2023
Cross Country, Carolyn Glascoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai CA (group)
2022
NADA MIAMI (with Hair and Nails Gallery), Miami FL (group)
2022
Painting Show, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (group)
2022
Still Together, St. Kate's Arts Hotel, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2022
Nido, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy (group)
2022
Field Moves, Hair and Nails Gallery, MN (solo)
2021
Soft Landing , Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN (solo)
2021
The Human Scale, Rochester Art Center, Rochester MN (group)
2020
Something that I'm supposed to be, Waiting Room Gallery, St Paul, MN (solo)
2020
Right Now, Hair and Nails Gallery, Mpls, MN (group)
2020
Future Future, Hair and Nails Gallery, Mpls, MN (group)
2019
Almost Paradise, Ditch / Grey Ghost, Mpls, MN (3 artists)
2018
Taped Over, Riverland College: James Wagner Gallery, Austin MN (solo)
2018
Relief: Three Fresh Approaches to Building Surface, Hair and Nails Gallery, Mpls, MN (3 artists)
2016
Our Mothers and Daughters, Albert Lea Art Center, Albert Lea, MN (3 artists)
Residencies
2022
Anderson Ranch / Snowmass Village, CO
2022
Jerome Emerging Artist Residency at Anderson Center / Red Wing. MN
2022
Nido Invitational Residency and Exhibition / Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
2022
Wassaic Project / Wassaic NY (summer show session)
2021
Wassaic Project / Wassaic NY (winter session)
Press / Publications
2023
Artsy Platform / HAIRandNAILS is the Minneapolis Gallery for Artists by Artists by Maxwell Rabb
2023
New American Paintings, No. 167, Midwest Issue
2023
Artsy Editorial / 10 Small Galleries that are Spotting Emerging Talent
2023
The Jealous Curator / Featured Artist Newsletter by Danielle Krysa
2022
MinnPost / Twin Cities artists flocked to Miami to show at Art Basel, NADA and more by Sheila Regan
2022
Catalogue Zine for Field Projects at Hair and Nails Gallery with essays by Cameron Downey and Brooks Turner
2021
Star Tribune / Spring into spring at these four Twin Cities art exhibitions:
Still life, portraits, shag rugs and some hope for the future by Alicia Eler
2021
Northern Community Radio / Soft Landing: multidimensional exhibit inspired by far out journeys of the mind by Katie Carter
2021
Catalogue for Soft Landing at Nemeth Art Center with essay by Matthew Bakkom ,
2021
Featured Artist / Vast Magazine Issue #2
2020
Catalogue Zine for Right Now at Hair and Nails Gallery with essay by Brooks Turner
2020
Catalogue Zine for Future Future at Hair and Nails Gallery
2018
Catalogue Zine for Relief: Three Fresh Approaches to Building Surface at Hair and Nails with essay by Isa Gagarin
Education
2007
BFA / School of the Art Institute of Chicago