Rachel Niffenegger
Chicago, IL
rniffe@saic.edu
Education
Solo Exhibitions
Northwestern University
MFA, Art Theory and Practice
2010—2012
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA
2004—2008
2022
Opia, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2021
Sempiternity, Bubblez Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
Soul Bone, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2013
Flesh Club, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Veiled Epigrams, Club Midnight, Berlin, De
2011
Rachel Niffenegger and Paul Nudd, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2010
As you pass by and cast an eye as you are now so once was I, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2009
Trichotillomania, The Post Family, Chicago, IL
Residencies
Select Group Exhibitions
De Ateliers
Amsterdam, NL
2012—2013
Ox Bow School of Art
Fellowship
2008
2016
The Suburban, Walker's Point, Milwaukee, WI
2015
Power Objects: The Future Has a Primitive Heart, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
The world is mystical, dangerous and delicious, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2014
We do what we like and like what we do, Chicago, IL
The New [New] Corpse, Sector 2337. Chicago, IL
About a Mountain, Curated by Holly Jarrett. Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY
Roving Room, curated by Kelly Kaczynski and Cori Williams, Habersham Mills, Demorest, Georgia
2013
Physical and Virtual Bodies - …in the name of any signification of whatever, Museum for Modern Art in
Arnhem, The Netherlands
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man, Tracy Williams, LTD, New York, NY
Psychosexual: An exploration of the abstracted gesture, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mutant Porcelain, So What Space, Brooklyn, NY
2 of a Kind. LVL3. Chicago. June 29, 2013 – July 7, 2013
2012
Limbodrome, de ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
Power of Consumption, Club Midnight, Berlin, DE
Ground Floor, The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Big Youth II, curated by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin, DE
Facial Expressionism: Immanence Envisaged, Cerritos College Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2010
Exhibition 7.06052010, Mvseum, Chicago, IL
Breakout Artists, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
If You Can Hold Your Breath, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Ox-Bow Centennial Exhibition, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapid, MI
Pink Paint, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
2011
Painted, curated by Tyson Reeder, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI
Ryan Travis Christian Collaborates, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Seeing is a Kind of Thinking, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The New New Chicagoans, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
West, Wester, Westest Part 2 (curated by Ryan Travis Christian), FFDG, San Francisco, CA
Heads On Poles, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2009
Big Youth, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Artists Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, IL
Now That’s What I Call Painting, Scott Projects, Chicago, IL
Luther Tiny Toother, Roots and Culture, Project Window, Chicago, IL
2008
Portrait, Hallway Projects, San Francisco, CA
Ah, Decadence!, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Staff Infection, OxBow School of Art Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
Covert Prestige, Deckelew and Bensley, Chicago, IL
2006
Collateral, AVU Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, CZ