Profiles

Rachel Wolfe (b. 1984) creates sublime timescapes for exhibitions, videos, public installations, performances, and apparel. She works internationally, primarily between the USA and Nordics, with photography, video, design, writing on culture and art, education, and textiles.

Seeing the body as the generative force in cognition, her multidisciplinary practice engages in ways places. Proprioception and biography informs the poetism in her work making the invisible, visible through dissolving myths of psychological and physical divides. As a descendant of Ellen Amman and Harriet Sundström, lineage emerges as a motor connecting artistic research developments through residencies in Oslo (Norway), Angelot-Trélex (Switzerland), Kjerringøy Land Art (Norway). Her award-winning work engages in the aesthetic ethics of beauty, and is held in private and public collections, including monolithic image and text, Omniscient, awarded 1st by the jury in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition, Gwangju (South Korea). Albumen Gallery (London) and The Print Atelier (Montréal) represent several of her photographic series.

Born and raised in the Midwestern United States, Rachel’s artistic training began in dance at 5, piano at 10, and voice at 12. She began studying philosophy, psychology, yoga and meditation, around 14 years of age. After completing high school early with honours and an independent study in fashion design, she studied interior architecture and completed a Bachelor in advertising. After working as a designer and copywriter, she worked at galleries while studying and working as a photographer for 22nd Century Media in the North Shore of Chicago. She became a YA certified yoga and meditation instructor in Crystal Lake, Illinois, studied social psychology in Matsuyama, Japan, and moved to Los Angeles, California, for graduate studies at Otis College of Art and Design. After completing a Master Fine Art, Rachel began working between the Nordics and the USA. She continued art and photography with public events and exhibitions, began making videos, developed artistic research projects, learning and healing methods, working with natural fibers and stones.