RACHEL RAMPLEMAN
r.rampleman@gmail.com
BORN Cincinnati, Ohio
LIVES/WORKS Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
MFA in Studio Art, May 2006, New York University; Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions, New York, New York
BFA in Fine Art (Electronic Media), June 2001, University of Cincinnati; College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning, Cincinnati, Ohio
RESIDENCIES
the cell, December 2022 - June 2023, New York, New York
Wave Pool Gallery, March - April 2022, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cheeks NYC at Satellite Art Club, October 2021, Brooklyn, New York
Bushwig NYC at The Knockdown Center, September 2021, New York, New York
Bloomfield Garden Club, June 2021, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
the cell, October 2020 - June 2021, New York, New York
3S Artspace, January - February 2020, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Life is Drag, Bushwig 13 at The Knockdown Center, September 2024, New York, New York
30 Years in 3 Hours: A One Night Only Retrospective, Satellite Art Gallery, April 2024, New York, New York
Life is Drag, Symphony Space, June 2023, New York, New York
Pride as Performance: Preserving the Ephemeral, the cell (with Franklin Furnace & CADAF), June 2023, New York, New York
Life is Drag, Wave Pool Gallery, March - April 2022, Cincinnati, Ohio
Life is Drag, Bloomfield Garden Club at Bunker Projects, June 2021, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Life is Drag: More Is Better And Never Too Much, 3S Artspace, May - June 2021, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Life is Drag & Life is Drag: LIVE!, the cell, February - June 2021, New York, New York
Life is Drag: Virtual Edition, 3S Artspace, June - July, 2020, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Oh! You Pretty Things, The Cincinnati Arts Association’s Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts, April - May 2019, Cincinnati, Ohio
Rebel Rebel, virtual early career retrospective presented by QUINNC, May - June, 2018
Dancing Backwards in High Heels, The Mini Microcinema, October 2017, Cincinnati, Ohio
TORRENT; New Works by Rachel Rampleman, The 42 Social Club, September - October 2017, Lyme, Connecticut
Glitter and Doom, The Neon Heater Art Gallery, June 2017, Findlay, Ohio
X CONTEMPORARY presents Rachel Rampleman, VOLTA NY, Pier 90, March 2017, New York, New York
Raw Power, These Things Take Time, March - April 2016, Ghent, Belgium
Burlesque Studies, Flint Art Institute, Fleckenstein Video Art Gallery, March 2016, Flint, Michigan
Rachel Rampleman, Carl Solway Gallery, October - December 2015, Cincinnati, Ohio
Baby's on Fire; An Early Career Survey Exhibition, The Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA Gallery), April - May 2015, Buffalo
Screen Play: Film Screening; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, July 2013, Hudson Valley, New York
Poison (My Sister Fucked Bret), Cynthia Broan Gallery, January 2007, New York, New York
American Vacation, Semantics, November 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio
eBay Project… L@@K!, SS NOVA, May 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
The Game is Not the Thing: Sport and the Moving Image, Walker Art Center, October 2024
Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection, Dayton Art Institute, June - September, 2024
MoDRAG, The Brick Auxiliary (BrickAux), October, 2023, Brooklyn, New York
Cheeks NYC, pop up strip club and exhibition at Satellite Art Club, October, 2021, Brooklyn, New York, curated/produced by Stephanie McGovern and Brian Andrew Whiteley
Life is Drag, Stairwell and Co. Microcinema, August 2021, Buffalo, New York, curated by David Mitchell
TQ LIVE!, The Carnegie Museum of Art, August, 2021, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Life is Drag, Bushwig NYC at The Knockdown Center, September 2021, New York, New York
Postscript to the Posttape, Satellite Art Club, March - April, 2021, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Kyle Marler and David Patrick Mitchell
Inaugural Exhibition, Satellite Art Club, July 2020 - April 2021, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Brian Andrew Whiteley
TIME LAPSE, streaming video exhibition presented by Auxiliary Projects, May 2020, Brooklyn, New York, co-curated by Jen Dalton, Cindy Pound, and Jenn and Kevin McCoy
It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine/Not Fine - The Fungus and The Future, 601 Artspace, April - May 2020, New York, New York
Satellite Art Show NYC (exhibition) & Performance is Alive at Satellite Art Show NYC (screening), The Pfizer Building, October 2019, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Brian Andrew Whiteley and Quinn Dukes
FOUND, the cell theatre, September - November 2019, New York, New York (an immersive theatre/art party experience in collaboration with Mikel Glass, the cell theatre, and Mason Holdings)
Bushwick Open Studios, September 2019, Brooklyn, New York
Inaugural E. Craig Wall Jr. Academic Center Video Wall Exhibition Project, Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, September - October, 2019, Davidson, North Carolina
100% Fun, Humble Arts Foundation, August 2019, New York, New York, curated by Jon Feinstein
ART HUSTLE!, Alumni Exhibition and Scholarship Fundraiser, University of Cincinnati's School of Art within the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, DAAP-Reed Art Gallery, August 2019, Cincinnati, Ohio
Hyper-muscularity & Femininity on Film; A Screening of Media Portrayals of Women Bodybuilders from the 1980s and 1990s aka The Most Awesome Female Muscle Celebration In The World, The Mini Microcinema, April 2019, Cincinnati, Ohio
Love and Confusion, Hopple Mansion, February 2019, Covington, Kentucky, curated by Andy Marko
Still They Persist: Protest Art from the 2017 Women's Marches, Pro Arts, January 2019, Oakland, California, curated by FemFour
Performance Video Art Evening, New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts, December 2018, New York, New York, curated by Sue de Beer
The Unspeakable, Re: Art Show in the Pfizer Building, September - October 2018, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Peter Clough
Bushwick Open Studios, September 2018, Brooklyn, New York
No Time for Utopia, Terasa, Pilsen, Czech Republic, August 2018, curated by Jan Van Woensel
Body Language, Memorial Hall, July - August, 2018, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Michael Solway, Carl Solway Gallery
American Splendour, Ilon Gallery, June - August 2018, New York, New York, curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel
NURTUREart’s Single Channel: Video Art Festival, Anthology Film Archives, May 2018, New York, New York, curated by Vanessa Albury
Altered Views: Experiencing the Contemporary Landscape, Lexington Art League at Loudoun House, May - July, 2018, Lexington, Kentucky, curated by Alice Pixley Young
20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts, March 2018, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, curated by Timothy Belknap and Ryan McCartney
Still They Persist: Protest Art from the 2017 Women's Marches, Salisbury University, March 2018, Salisbury, Maryland, LMAK Gallery, October - November 2018, New York, New York, curated by FemFour
CEPA's 14th Biennial Art Auction Exhibition, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA Gallery), March 2018, Buffalo, New York, curated by Lawrence Brose
A Non-Zero-Sum Game: Sports, Art, and the Moving Image, screening in conjunction with INCITE Journal of Experimental Media Issue #7/8: Sports, Other Cinema at Artists' Television Access, March 2018, San Francisco, California, curated by Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak
Transitions, Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, February - March 2018, Newark, New Jersey, curated by Adrienne Wheeler and Gladys Grauer
(Still) Life, Shoestring Press Arts Space, February - March 2018, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Lane Sell
HARD: Subversive Representation, University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston, January - March 2018, Boston, Massachussetts, curated by Samuel Toabe
Year in Reverse, Humble Arts Foundation, December 2017, New York, New York, curated by Jon Feinstein
Talks Back, Part Two, Spectacle, December 2017, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Angela Washko
Still They Persist: Protest Art from the 2017 Women's Marches, KMAC Museum, December 2017 - January 2018, Louisville, Kentucky, The Contemporary Arts Center, October 2017, Cincinnati, Ohio, Lexington Art League at Loudoun House, July - August 2017, Lexington, Kentucky, curated by FemFour
The Haunted Mill, Maxon Mills at The Wassaic Project, October 2017, Wassaic, New York
Nasty Women of the North, The Arts Center of the Capital Region and Collar Works, October 2017, Troy, New York, organized by The Feminist Art Project of Upstate NY
Bushwick Open Studios, September 2017, Brooklyn, New York
The Cass Project Benefit Exhibition, The Boiler Room, June 2017, Buffalo, New York, curated by Tina Dillman
Pop Press, Thunder-Sky, Inc., June - July 2017, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Scott Bruno
It Was a Pleasure to Burn - Black Mirror, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, 4 Times Square, March 2017, New York, New York, curated by Vanessa Albury, Jamie Diamond, Lauren Silberman, and Elisabeth Smolarz
VIDEONALE. 16, International Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts, Kunstmuseum Bonn, February - April, 2017, Bonn, Germany
Talks Back, The Andy Warhol Museum, February 2017, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by Angela Washko
Hacking / Modding / Remixing as Feminist Protest, the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, January - February 2017, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by Angela Washko
WE NEED TO TALK... Artists and the Public Respond to Present Conditions in America, Petzel Gallery, January - February, 2017, New York, New York
6°, 184 Project Space, January 2017, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Vanessa Albury, Hovey Brock, Simone Couto, Quinn Dukes, Alexandra Hammond, Rachel Jackson, Jesse McCloskey. Rachel Rampleman, David Willis
Oceanus, Secret Theatre, January 2017, Long Island City, New York, curated by Transborder Art: Graciela Cassel and Vanessa Albury of The Sun That Never Sets
Fashion TV Live, VOX Bizarre, December 2016, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Randi Shandroski of LACTIC Incorporated
X CONTEMPORARY, Nobu Hotel Miami Beach, Miami Art Week - December 2016, Miami, Florida, curated by Crystal Curtis
FORMAT, Hillyer Art Space, November - December 2016, Washington, DC, curated by Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah
Natural/Unnatural, Gowanus Swim Society, October 2016, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Joonhyun Hwang and Keun Young Park, Brooklyn Art Cluster/Square Dot Plus Studios
Auxiliary for Hillary, Auxiliary Projects, September 2016, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Jennifer McCoy and Jennifer Dalton
Late Summer Psychedelic Media Event, Carl Solway Gallery, August 2016, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Michael Solway
The Sound Behind You II, The Frank Institute @ CR10, August 2016, Linlithgo/Hudson, New York, co-curated with Vanessa Albury and Karsten Krejcarek
POP UP! The Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA Gallery's studio loft), May 2016, Buffalo, New York, curated by David Mitchell
Smack Mellon Kentucky Derby Benefit Exhibition, Smack Mellon, May 2016, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Jennifer McCoy
CEPA's 13th Biennial Art Auction Exhibition, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA Gallery), March - April 2016, Buffalo, New York, curated by David Mitchell
I See Myself in Your Eyes - ⌘COPY⌘PASTE, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Skylight at Moynihan Station, March 2016, New York, New York, co-curated with Vanessa Albury and Lynn Maliszewski
¡MANIFEST!, El Puente CADRE (Community Artists' Development & Resource Exchange), March 2016, Brooklyn, New York
Chennai Photo Biennale, presented by the Goethe-Institut Chennai and Travelling Lens, February - March 2016, Chennai, India, curated by Harsha Biswajit
Winter Pictures, Humble Arts Foundation, February 2016, New York, New York, curated by Jon Feinstein and Andy Adams
PULSE; PLAY, PULSE Miami Beach, Miami Art Week - December 2015, Miami, Florida, curated by Stacy Engman
The Show Me State, Auxiliary Projects, November - December 2015, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Jennifer McCoy and Jennifer Dalton
Etcetera III., S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), October 2015, Ghent, Belgium, curated by Young Friends of S.M.A.K.
In Your Room, 184 Project Space, September - October 2015, Brooklyn, New York, co-curated with Vanessa Albury
Une Nuit Parisienne, Maison Kitsuné Afterparty at Capitale, September 2015, New York, New York, hosted by MATTE Projects & Art Report
Governors Island Art Fair, Colonel's Row on Governors Island, September 2015, New York, New York, curated by 4Heads
Profiles, Shoestring Press Arts Space, August - September 2015, Brooklyn, NY
The Sound Behind You, Stonehaven, August 2015, West Kil, NY, co-curated with Vanessa Albury and Peter Clough
Peepshow; Dirty Thirty, Squeaky Wheel, August 2015, Buffalo, New York, curated by Tina Dillman
Three Rivers Arts Festival's Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Trust Arts Education Center, June 2015, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by Astria Suparak
Sight Unseen; SELECT Art Fair, VIP Preview Opening Performance by Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer, May 2015, New York, New York, co-curated with Vanessa Albury
Contemporary Hysteria, Art Cinema OFFoff, March 2015, Ghent, Belgium, curated by Godart Bakkers
The 27th Dimension - Transaction, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Skylight at Moynihan Station, March 2015, New York, New York, co-curated with Vanessa Albury and Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
(un)SCENE Art Show, March 2015, New York, New York, curated by Mikel Glass
Under the Surface, The Fountain Gallery at Purdue University, October 2014, Lafayette, Indiana, curated by Lisa Wicke and Liz Erlewine
Governors Island Art Fair, Colonel's Row on Governors Island, September 2014, New York, New York, curated by 4Heads
New Cats in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, August - September 2014, New York, New York, curated by Jon Feinstein
Folk, Gallery 263, July - August 2014, Cambridge, Massachusetts, curated by Kate McNamara
Set in Motion, The Fountain Gallery at Purdue University, June 2014, Lafayette, Indiana, curated by Lisa Wicke and Liz Erlewine
The Last Brucennial, March - April 2014, New York, New York, curated by Vito Schnabel and The Bruce High Quality Foundation
The Sun That Never Sets; Spectacle and Normalcy in Time - PublicPrivate, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Old School, March 2014, New York, New York, co-curated with Vanessa Albury
Flux Thursday, Flux Factory, December 2013, New York, New York, curated by Alex Young
Hyper-muscularity & Femininity on Film; A Screening/Study of Media Portrayals of Women Bodybuilders from the 1980s to the Present; in conjunction with Gymnasia, 4am, Cleopatra's, October 2013, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Goldberg/Hertz/Peters/Schrader
Sympathetic Overtones from the Will - a PORT ACTIF Hypermedia Encounter in Bangkok; JAM, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2013, hosted by Blu Simon Wasem and curated by Charlotte Van Buylaere
Screen Play: Hudson Valley Artists 2013; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, Hudson Valley, New York, June - November 2013, curated by Daniel Belasco
CKTV, Brooklyn; The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), March - May 2013, Tandem, September 2012, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Cleopatra's with Chris Rice
CKTV, Shanghai; The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Brooklyn: City Pavilion, October 2012 - March 2013, Shanghai, China, curated by Cleopatra's with Chris Rice
Die Fleischelust, The Secret Cabinet, March - July, 2012, Berlin, Germany, curated by An Paenhuysen and Cristina Navarro
Guns N' Fucking Roses, Monty Art Space, December 2011 – January 2012, Antwerp, Belgium, curated by Jan Van Woensel
Racialized and Gendered Bodies screening; Robert Mapplethorpe, Retrospective, C/O Berlin, March 2011, Berlin, Germany, curated by Aykan Safoğlu and Todd Sekuler
Art Barter New York, NP Contemporary Art Center, December 2010, New York, New York, curated by Lauren Jones and Alix Janta
Girls Girls Girls, Die Frühperle, August 2010, Berlin, Germany, curated by An Paenhuysen and Charlotte Friling
COME ON: Desire Under the Female Gaze, The Warehouse Gallery for International Contemporary Art, August – October 2010, Syracuse New York, curated by Astria Suparak
LIC, NYC Video, Socrates Sculpture Park, August 2007, Queens, New York, curated by Andrea Salerno
Grown Accustomed, Crawl Space Gallery, June 2006, Seattle, Washington
MFA Thesis Exhibition, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, May 2006, New York, New York
Outlaw, Art Gotham, November 2005, New York, New York
I’m a child of divorce Gimme a break, Cynthia Broan Gallery, September 2005, New York, New York
forget me not, Rosenberg Gallery, September 2005, New York, New York
Storefront/Forefront, Old Tower Video Space, June 2005, New York, New York
Turnover, The Commons, New York University Barney Building, April 2005, New York, New York
Now and Future, Cantor Film Center, February 2005, New York, New York
Accumulation, 1506 Projects, November 2004, Seattle, Washington
Appropriately Enough, Warsaw Project Space, March-April 2004, Cincinnati, Ohio
An Affair of the Heart, ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery, March 2004, Cincinnati, Ohio
MASSIVE:presence, SS NOVA, October 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio
Struck by Lightning; Adventures in Time & Media, Semantics, June 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio
Now+where Better Than This Place, SS NOVA, May 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio
Work in Progress, Ice Cream Factory Gallery, April 2003, Cincinnati, Ohio
Intermedia Series, Fifth Third Bank Theatre, Aronoff Center for the Arts, pause://repeat program participant, October 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio
Beauty & the Beholder, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, September-November 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio
Mayhem at the Mockbee – Contemporary Arts Center; Contemporary Friday, SS NOVA, May 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ohio Shorts 2002 Film and Video Showcase, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, May 2002, Columbus, Ohio
Found Video, SS NOVA, November 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio
Foggy Notion, Unit 2, November 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio
Birth; SSNOVA Gallery Inaugural Opening, August 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio
Intermedia Series, Fifth Third Bank Theatre, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Student Film and Video Showcase participant and member of Interdriftperformance, May 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio
Construction, Semantics, April 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio
Stacked, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, September-November 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio
SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Brown, Paul Michael. Rachel Rampleman: Oh! You Pretty Things, Art Papers, June 19, 2019.
Dell'Aria, Annie. "Rachel Rampleman at the Weston Art Gallery," ÆQAI, April 30, 2019.
Erkan, Ekin. "Traipsing Ballroom Halls," ÆQAI, August 28, 2018.
Reinhardt, Sandra. “Female Identity and the Cult of the Body: Marginal Figures at the Center of the American Dream,” VIDEONALE.16 Catalogue, February 2017.
Rosen, Steve. "The Best Art Exhibits of 2015," Citybeat, December 30, 2015.
Cascone, Sarah. "Everything You Need to Know About All 20 Art Fairs at Art Basel Miami Beach," Artnet, November 30, 2015.
Ledoux, Craig. "Deliberate Bridges; 21st Century Art on Display at Carl Solway Gallery," ÆQAI, November 24, 2015.
Cascone, Sarah. "At Governors Island Art Fair, Artists Get a Room of Their Own," Artnet.com, September 3, 2015.
Brenden, Joel, ed. Rachel Rampleman; Baby's on Fire, Buffalo, New York: LINOLEUM PRESS, 2015.
Young, Alex. "States of Grace; The Body 'Studies' of Rachel Rampleman," Drain Magazine, Issue 12.1, ATHLETICISM, August 2015.
Albury, Vanessa. "On Rachel Rampleman's Girls Girls Girls," The Huffington Post, April 20, 2015.
A, Ona. "Eight Outstanding Photographers with Studios in Greenpoint," Greenpointers.com, March 2, 2015.
Johnson, Ken. "Gems Among the Ruins," The New York Times, September 11, 2014.
Messinger, Kate. "What To See At Greenpoint Open Studios This Weekend," The WILD Magazine, October 2, 2014.
Hamer, Katy Diamond. "SPRING/BREAK: A Chat with Vanessa Albury and Rachel Rampleman," Eyes Towards the Dove, March 16, 2014.
Cascone, Sarah. "The Final Brucennial Opens with Beer, Bacon, and Bullish Performance Art," Artnet.com, March 8, 2014.
Robinson, Walter. "Weekend Update," Artnet.com, February 6, 2007.
Rushworth, Katherine. "Lighting the Fires of Contemplation: Warehouse Gallery Show Puts Into the Spotlight Some Rarely Confronted Issues," The Syracuse Post-Standard, September 9, 2007.
Olivas, Yvonne. "Desire in Syracuse: The 'Come On; Controversy," The Fanzine, July 11, 2007.