Rachel Collier is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the release of internal visual language held in the emotional body resulting in imagery that is radically uplifting, riding the line between the unknown and the familiar. The materials are activated by a meditative and repetitive process rooted in a non-representational painterly tradition. 

She has her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and recent solo shows include HAIR+NAILS Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), the Nemeth Art Center (Park Rapids, MN), Saint Kate’s Arts Hotel (Milwaukee, WI). Recent group shows include: Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and Rochester Art Center (Rochester, MN). Residencies: The Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY (2021, 2022); Anderson Center Jerome Emerging Artist Residency and Fellowship, Red Wing MN (2022); Nido invitational residency and exhibition, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy (2022); and Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (2022).

Exhibitions with HAIR+NAILS:

Solo shows:
A Sleep and a Forgetting // 3.21.2025-4.20.2025
Field Moves // 4.10.22 – 5.15.22 // H+N MPLS

Group shows:
-Door County Contemporary Art Fair Fish Creek, WI. 2025
-Felix LA. February 28, 2024-March 3, 2024
-CHIMERA: New paintings by Julia Garcia, Christina Ballantyne, Emma Beatrez and Rachel Collier // 11.18.23 – 12.31.23
-NADA Miami 2022: Rachel Collier, Cameron Patricia Downey, Moises Salazar Tlatenchi
-PAINTING SHOW / 19 Paintings by 19 Painters / 10.4.22 – 10.15.22
-The Human Scale// Rochester Art Center // 7.9.2021 – 11.24.2021
-RIGHT NOW // Winter Group Show // Dec. 1st, 2020 – Jan. 2021
-RELIEF: THREE FRESH APPROACHES TO BUILDING SURFACE // Rachel Collier, Kim Benson, Sheila Wagner // 10.27.18 – 12.2.18
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