Installation for *Reading the Landscape* at Abel Contemporary, 2018.

Rachel Davis received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1992 and her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997.

Rachel’s paintings have been exhibited in national venues including the Holter Museum of Fine Art, Helena, Montana; Evergreen Galleries, Olympia, Washington; and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in Madison, Wisconsin.

Rachel teaches art to 1-8 grade at Prairie School of DuPage in Wheaton, IL and Nature Preschool at Lyman Woods Nature Center in Downers Grove, IL. Rachel divides her time between her home studio in Downers Grove, IL and the Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago.

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Sometimes Tethered, Sometimes Floating, Atrium Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

2018

Reading the Landscape, Abel Contemporary Gallery, Paoli, WI

2016

Air Travel, Rooftop Project, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Play is Work, Kohl Children's Museum, Glenview, IL

2009

Wetland, Schwalbach Gallery, College of Baraboo, Baraboo, WI

2008

Animals without Backbones, DeRicci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

2007

Play, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL

2002

Promise, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Here, Evergreen State College Galleries, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

2001

Topophilia, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Madison, WI

2000

Souvenir, CitiArts Space, 215 Martin Luther King Blvd., Madison, WI 1997
Family Affair, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (Catalog)

Selected GROUP SHOWS

2024

IRREGULAr, Project: ARTspace, NYC (Curated by Natasha Sweeten)

Drawing Water, Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland, WI

2023

Galex 56, Galesburg Community Arts Center, Galesburg, IL

2022

Patterns and Pictures: Assorted Approaches, Splendid Quilts, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake, NY
Our Shared Future, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Exhibition, Madison, WI
Seasonal Work, Quad City Arts, Rock Island, IL

2021

K.I.T. (Keep in Touch), Terrain and CNL Projects, Lombard, IL
Living with Dying, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake, NY

2019

Team Sport: Art from Collaboration, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL

2018

20/20, School of Education Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
Visual Ensembles, Treehouse Gallery, Downers Grove, IL
Soft Goods, VAE, Raleigh, NC

2017

Draw Attention to Trees, Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL and the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Produced over 100 drawings for the Arbor Day installation and event

2016

Connected, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Big Ten(t) Show, Art Helix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014

Scavengers, Goodman Center, Madison, WI

2010

Remarkable Women, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2009

Giant Snail, Sundance Cinemas Madison Art Gallery, Madison, WI

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Golda Meir Library, Special Collections, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Union Directorate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Awards and Honors

2007

Finalist, 8th Annual Young Painters Competition, Miami University, Oxford, OH

2005

Honorable Mention, 8th International Open, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003

Printmaking Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Education

1997. Master of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (Printmaking)

1993. New York University, New York, NY (Studied Color Viscosity Printing with Krishna Reddy)

1992. Bachelor of Arts, SUNY at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY

Residencies

2020-2023

Artist-in-Residence, Drawing Water, Trout Lake Station, Boulder Junction, WI

2019

Artist-in-Residence, Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation, Big Bay, MI
Artist-in-Residence, Let's Make a Cloth Sandwich, DuPage Children's Museum, Naperville, IL