Curriculum Vitae
Gerri Rachins
Studio: 83 D Brookside Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone: (617) 645-3508
E-mail: gr@gerrirachins.com
Instagram: @gerrirachins
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Almost Everything Is Going Well, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2022 Gerri Rachins Retrospective, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2021 GERRI RACHINS: UNFAMILIAR CREATURES, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY (Virtual)
2020 In-Between, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2018 SEEN/UNSEEN, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2016 POPROCKS, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2014 A Regular Riot, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2009 Gray Matters/Primary Matter, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2004 The “S” Series: New Paintings by Gerri Rachins, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2004 Gerri Rachins: Rags-Painting-Rags, New England School of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2002 Gerri Rachins: Line Drawings and Paintings, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Two Person Exhibitions
2019 ColorBlast: Gerri Rachins and Chris Jeffrey, North Hill Gallery, Needham, MA
2017 Material Matters: Gerri Rachins and Stephanie Roberts-Camello, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2005 Nick Hollibaugh & Gerri Rachins, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2004 Repetition & Change: Gerri Rachins & Joanne Freeman, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 McNeese National Works on Paper, Lake Charles, LA
2022 In Praise of Form, Pell Lucy Artists, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 Visual Art Archive, Refrigerator Poetry (Virtual)
2022 Safekeeping the Not Knowing, SHIM Art Network on Artsy (Virtual)
2022 Arts Connect, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT
2021 Marking Lives COVID-19, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
2021 Summer Exhibition, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2021 - 2022 Holiday Art Show, BOOM Contemporary on Artsy (Virtual)
2021 First Show, BOOM Contemporary on Artsy (Virtual)
2021 Benefit Fundraiser, The Painting Center on Artsy (Virtual)
2021 Annual AIDS Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA (Virtual)
2021 Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY (Virtual)
2021 Drawing Challenge, XXI! XXI, XIX Exhibitions, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY (Virtual)
2021 #CollageBiennial Exhibition, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY (Virtual)
2020 70th A-ONE Exhibition, Silvermine Gallery, New Caanan, CT
2020 Postcards from The Pandemic, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2020 Ornamentation in the Age of Corona – Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2020 USA 35 x 35 ART PROJECT, Copelouzos Family Art Museum Exhibition, Athens, Greece
2019 – 2021 Art in Embassies Exhibition, United States Embassy Antananarivo, Madagascar
2019 Field Notes: Lovers, Teachers and Consciousness In Between-–26th Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery at Boston Center for Arts, Boston, MA
2019 From Bauhaus to Our House, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2019 New York Studio School Invitational Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2019 New England Collective X, Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 unfoldingobject, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA
2019 #CollageNow, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Wheaton Biennial: Brush Coat Cover, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2019 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2019 Arts Connect at Catamount Arts, Catamount Arts. St. Johnsbury, VT
2018 Mutual Aid, Kent State University at Stark-School of Art Galleries, North Canton, OH
2017 New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2017 Collectors/ArtPrize Show, The Venue Tower, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 13th Annual Blanche Ames National Art Exhibition, Ames Mansion, North Easton, MA
2016 Danforth Annual Exhibition, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2016 New York Studio School Invitational Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2016 Gravity, Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA
2015 Artifact, Northeast Regional, Artspace Gallery, Maynard, MA
2015 A Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2014 Off the Wall, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2014 A Collage Show, (Scene) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
2013 I-95 Triennial 2013: From Connecticut to Maine, The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2013 Strange Glue, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA
2012 Off the Wall, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2011 Everything But Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2008 LREI, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2007 Massachusetts College of Art Faculty Exhibition, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Gallery
2006 Cow Parade, Dana Farber Public Installation, Boston, MA
2005 Blue, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2005 Massachusetts College of Art Foundation Faculty Exhibition, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 MOD, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2005 I Protest, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 Boston High Tea, aRamona Studio, New York, NY
2004 SOFA Chicago, Mobilia Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 National Small Works Painting Show, New York Art Collection, Endwell, NY
2004 150 x 150, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 ARTcetera, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2003 Massachusetts College of Art Faculty Drawing Exhibition, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 The 17th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2002 Making A Mark, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2002 SOFA New York, Mobilia Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Soundscape: Music & Visual Art Interwoven, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2002 Works on Paper, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2002 ARTcetera, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2002 9/11 - A Memorial Exhibition, New England School of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2002 New Art 2002, MPG Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 National Small Works, Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Bloomingdale, IL
2001 Mixed Moxie, The Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
2001 Red, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2001 Frances N. Roddy Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2001 SOFA Chicago, Mobilia Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Annual Small Works Exhibition, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
2001 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bakalar Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2000 New Art 2000, MPG Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Works on Paper, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
2000 On the Side, Patricia Doran Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2000 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association at University Place, Cambridge, MA
Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA
The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Bain Capital, Boston, MA
Berkshire Partners, Inc., Boston, MA
Wingate Companies, Newton, MA
The Kamm Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Neiman Marcus Inc., Dallas, TX
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
North Hill Gallery, Needham, MA
New Bridge on the Charles, Dedham, MA
Numerous Private Collections in The United States and Europe
Service to The Field
2019 unfoldingobject Panel discussion, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA
2019 Gerri Rachins ColorBlast Exhibition Talk, North Hill Gallery, Needham, MA
2019 Contemporary Mixed Media Painting: An Artist Demonstration with Gerri Rachins, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2017 Material Matters: Exhibition Talk, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2016 Gerri Rachins: POPROCKS, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2014 Spotlight Talks, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2013 Wolf Forum, Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Mansfield, MA
2013 Bridging the Gap, Dana Faber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
2012 Contemporary Mixed Media Painting: An Artist Demonstration with Gerri Rachins, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2002 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2001 Cultural Agenda Fund Panelist, Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston, MA
2000 Program Educational Coordinator of In Your Face - Portraiture of All Time for the Boston Mayor’s Youth Arts Corps
Publications
2022 Pell Lucy: In Praise of Form, Exhibition Catalogue, Pell Lucy Artists, Boston, MA
2021 Marking Lives COVID-19 Exhibition Catalogue, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
2020 Art in Embassies Exhibition Catalogue, United States Embassy Antananarivo, Madagascar
2020 Local artists breathe creativity into decorative masks at Mobilia Gallery, MetroWest Daily News
2020 Where the masks are ‘art objects you can also wear, Boston Globe
2020 USA 35 x 35 ART PROJECT, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Greece, Exhibition Catalogue
2019 New York Studio School Invitational Alumni, Exhibition Catalogue
2019 unfoldingobject – the art of collage Exhibition Catalogue
2018 Gerri Rachins: At The Painting Center in New York, United States, Wall Street International Magazine
2017 #18 Gerri Rachins, 100days100women, Henry Martin, WordPress
2017 Gerri Rachins, Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 35, Open Studios Press
2013 University Maine Museum of Art’s I-95 Triennial, Yankee Magazine
2013 Strange Glue (Traditional & Avant-Garde College), Exhibition Catalogue,
2005 Arts Outlook: Gerri Rachins, Brookline Magazine
2004 The “S” Series Solo Exhibition Review, Shawn Hill, Art New England
Teaching Experience
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA, 2001 - Present
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2001 - 2014
New England Institute of Art, Brookline, MA, 2008 - 2010
New England School of Art & Design/Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2002 - 2004
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2001 - 2004
Residencies
Vermont Studio Center Residency, June 2017
Education
2001 Master of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1999 Post-Baccalaureate, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1977 New York Studio School, New York, NY