For A Sleep and a Forgetting:
“I understand the grid as an artist’s tool for design and structural support but also, more urgently, as a net cast into deep space, expanding and contracting presence and meaning, slicing through the atmosphere to become a two-dimensional framework that cradles the energy flowing through it. Through this lens, the grid becomes a place for magical thinking, beyond any sense of a fixed reality. Emotions and obstacles can be as powerful as deep space is infinite, and through their perspectival vantages, abstractions emerge. The grid measures my artistic impulse to describe explosive psychic landscapes while providing containment and constructing peaceful resolution, creating a tension which I endeavor to emphasize visually through color relationships, scale and material. These formal elements embody perseverance, and their rendering is delivered in the spirit of celebration.”
Rachel Collier / B. 1981 Minneapolis, MN
Recent Exhibitions
2025 A Sleep and a Forgetting, Hair + Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
2024 Look, Second Shift Gallery, St. Paul, MN (group)
2024 Feeling Minnesota, TOA Presents (pop-up), Cody, WY (group)
2024 Gone Fishin’, I Love You Too, Portland, OR (group)
2024 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, MN State Fair Fine Arts Building, St. Paul, MN (group)
2024 Hair + Nails Gallery Presents: Heat at Easy Does It, LA, CA (group)
2024 Felix Fair (with Hair + Nails Gallery), LA, CA (group)
2024 Foundations Fair (with Hair + Nails Gallery), Artsy.net (group)
2023 Chimera, Hair + Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (group)
2023 The Otherworldly 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 Foundations Fair (with Hair + Nails Gallery), Artsy.net (group)
2023 Intersect Aspen (with Skye Gallery), Aspen CO (group)
2023 Cross Country, Carolyn Glascoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai CA (group)
2022 NADA Miami, Hair + Nails Gallery, Miami, FL (group)
2022 Painting Show, Hair + Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (group)
2022 Still Together, St. Kate's Arts Hotel, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2022 Nido, International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy (group)
2022 Tournament of Lies, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (group)
2022 Field Moves, Hair + Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
2021 The Human Scale, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (group)
2021 Soft Landing, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN (solo)
2020 Future Future, Hair + Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (group)
2020 Something that I’m supposed to be, Waiting Room Gallery, St Paul, MN (solo)
2018 Relief: 3 Fresh Approaches to Building Surface, Hair + Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Residencies
2024 Roswell Artist-in-Residence (alternate), Roswell, NM
2022 Anderson Ranch Snowmass Village, CO
2022 Jerome Emerging Artist Residency, The Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
2022 Nido Invitational Residency and Exhibition, International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
2022 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2021 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Press / Publications
2024 Top 10 artworks to see at the Minnesota State Fair Fine Art Exhibitions, Alicia Eler, Minnesota Star Tribune
2024 The New Alphabet of Shapes, Emmy Smith, MN Artists
2023 HAIRandNAILS is the Minneapolis Gallery for Artists by Artists, Maxwell Rabb, Artsy
2023 New American Paintings, No. 167, Midwest Issue
2023 10 Small Galleries that are Spotting Emerging Talent, Artsy
2023 Kilbourne Building Dons Minneapolis Artist Rachel Collier’s Work, Josiah Kopp, Fargo Monthly
2023 Featured Artist Newsletter, Danielle Krysa / The Jealous Curator
2022 Twin Cities artists flocked to Miami to show at Art Basel, NADA and more, Sheila Regan, MinnPost
2022 Catalogue Zine for Field Projects at Hair and Nails Gallery with essays by Cameron Downey and Brooks Turner
2021 Spring into spring at these four Twin Cities art exhibitions:
Still life, portraits, shag rugs and some hope for the future, Alicia Eler, Star Tribune
2021 Soft Landing: multidimensional exhibit inspired by far out journeys of the mind, Katie Carter, Northern Community Radio
2021 Vast Magazine, Issue #2
2021 Catalogue for Soft Landing at Nemeth Art Center, Matthew Bakkom
2020 Catalogue Zine for Right Now at Hair + Nails Gallery, Brooks Turner
2018 Zine for Relief: Three Fresh Approaches to Building Surface at Hair + Nails, Isa Gagarin
Education
2007 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL