EDUCATION:
Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2019
Bachelor of Arts, College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. 2002
SELECT SOLO +TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Hours After Winter, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2024
At Home with the Dead, with Carolyn Hazel Drake, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR. 2023
Choices Made by Ghosts Reflect My Sensibilities as Well, Terrain, Spokane, WA. 2023
Across an Impossible Distance, with Penny Cagney, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix, AZ. 2023
Told and Untold, with Heather Lee Birdsong, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2022
Parting Gifts, with Penny Cagney, Clovis Community College, Fresno, CA. 2022
Haunt, Stone House Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC. 2021
Home/Body, with Ruth Ross, Anita S. Wooten Gallery at Valencia College, Orlando, FL. 2021
Artifacts of Affection, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. 2020
Parlor Room, 26Twenty Gallery, Cape Girardeau, MO. 2020
In Your Absence, with Gary Zur, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. 2018
Chimeras & Underdogs, Gallery 114 Portland, OR. 2017
Hydrophilic, Black Pine, Woodland, CA. 2016
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Turned and Turning Still, The Painting Center, New York, NY. 2025
Cosmic Connections, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN. 2024
Living Space, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN. 2024
Composition / Decomposition, SOIL, Seattle, WA. 2024
No Bummer Summer Sampler, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA, 2023
Thresholds, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA. 2023
Home Works, CHART, New York, NY. 2023
The Women's Room, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR. 2023
Homemaker, Archer Gallery at Clark College, Vancouver, WA. 2023
It's Complicated, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2023
Thresholds in Parameters of What it is to Be..., Phebe Conley Gallery at California State University, Fresno, CA. 2023
Painting at Night, Collar Works, Troy, NY. 2022
Through Mossy Ways, I Like Your Work, Online. 2022
Here Together, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR. 2022
Blind Date, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2022
A Provocation, after/time, Portland, OR. 2022
Porous Modes, Field Projects, New York, NY. Online. 2021
In Painting Thinking is Painting, Erickson Gallery, Portland, OR. 2021
Artworks Northwest Biennial, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR. 2021
Ordinary Lives, ACSEMO Gallery, Cape Girardeau, MO. 2021
Residual Dwelling, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN. 2021
What's Different?, SOIL, Seattle, WA. 2021
True Home, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. 2021
Domestic Landscapes, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR. 2020
Bull in a China Shop, Tchotchke Gallery, New York, NY. Online. 2020
Love Politik, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR. 2020
Tactile Connections, Ghost Art Project, Omaha, NE. Online. 2020
Everything is Different Now, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN. 2020
Either Volume 1, In Passing, New York, NY, Online. 2020
Touch, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. Online. 2020
Night Garden, Young Space, Online. 2019
All Together, One Grand Gallery, Portland, OR. 2019
Kintsugi, Pop up Show, Chicago, IL. 2017
PSA, Ford Gallery, Portland, OR. 2017
Anything Goes, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. 2017
Gala Art Auction 2016, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA. 2016
PUBLICATIONS:
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast, Issue #175, 2024, Juror: Jerry Saltz
I Like Your Work Summer Catalog, It's Complicated, 2024, Curated by Erika Diamond,
Create! Magazine Issue 41, 2024
Studio Visit Magazine Volume 51, 2023
Friend of The Artist Volume 15, 2022
New American Paintings, MFA Annual, Issue #159, 2022, Juror: Bana Kattan
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast, Issue #151, 2020, Juror: Anna Katz
Stay Home, by Stay Home Gallery and Residency, TN. 2020
Under The Bridge Painting Issue, 2020
COLLECTIONS:
Soho House, Portland, OR
PRESS:
Interview, Exploring the Intersection of Sculpture and Painting: A Conversation with Rachael Zur, by Ekaterina Popova, Create Magazine blog, March13, 2024
Review, Guest post: Oregon picks from Amelia Rina, Variable West, by Amelia Rina, June 29, 2023 link
MUST SEE, ARTFORUM, April 2023. link
Interview, The Hopper Prize Journal Insights Into Contemporary Art, October 18 2022 link
Interview, “Virtual Studio Visit: Rachael Zur” Outback Projects, November 5, 2021
Review, Close Look Residual Dwelling at Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, Burnaway Magazine, May 2, 2021 link
Review, "Domestic Landscapes: Exploring the Residue of Lives Lived," by David Bates with Oregon Arts Watch, January 4, 2021 link
Review, Rachael Zur "Artifacts of Affection," by Ashley Gifford, Art and About Blog, Portland, OR. August 19th. 2020 link
Review, The Semi-Finalist is: Rachael Zur, by David Schell, The Semi-Finalist Blog, Portland, OR. August 25, 2020 link
Featured Artist, Young Space, yngspc.com, May 7, 2020
Interview, Rachael Zur-painter, by Cynthia Mosser, ArtChat Northwest, Podcast, Portland, OR. November 24, 2017 link
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS:
Hopper Prize Finalist, Spring 2023
Hopper Prize Finalist, Spring 2022
Ox-Bow Loretta Grellner Scholarship. 2018
School of thee Art Institute of Chicago, Enrichment Grant. 2017
SELECT ARTIST TALKS & PRESENTATIONS:
Guest Artist Lecture, Portland State University, Portland, OR. November 1, 2023
Artist Talk, Archer Gallery Artist Talks, with Rachael Zur, in conjunction with Homemaker Exhibition, Archer Gallery at Clark College, Vancouver, WA. February 22, 2023 link
Artist Talk, Conversation: Told and Untold, with Rachael Zur, Heather Lee Birdsong, and Prudence Roberts link
Artist Talk, Artist Talk with Rachael Zur and Penny Cagney, in conjunction with Parting Gifts Exhibition, Clovis Community College, Fresno, CA. Via Zoom, March 16, 2022
Virtual Studio Tour, in conjunction with Home/Body Exhibition, Anita S. Wooten Gallery at Valencia College, Orlando, FL. Via Zoom, July 6, 2021
Artist Talk, In Conversation with Rachael Zur, Laura Drey and Raquel Mullins, in conjunction with Residual Dwelling Exhibition, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN. Via Zoom. April 25, 2021
Artist Talk, Weekly Happy Hour, in conjunction with Bull in a China Shop Exhibition, Tchotchke Gallery, New York, NY. Via Zoom. December 2, 2020
Moderator, Neck of the Woods, Artist Talk, Gallery 114, Portland OR. November 1, 2019
Moderator, Beauty in Contemporary Art, Panel Discussion, Gallery 114, Portland OR. April 13, 2019
Artist Talk, Artist Talk with Rachael Zur and Mark Andres, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. November 17, 2018
Presentation, Artist Talk for Kids, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. December 17th, 2017
Artist Talk, Artist Talk with Rachael Zur and John Cline, Gallery 114, Portland OR. December 9, 2017
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
Between Spaces, Co-curated with Raquel Mullins, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga TN. & Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2023
Atlas, Co-curated with Marcelo Fontana and Jason Triefenbach, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2021
Prepared Space, Group Show, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. 2020
Beauty Untethered, Group Show. Gallery 114, Portland, OR. 2019
RESIDENCIES:
Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN. 2024
Arts Week, Sou'Wester Arts, Seaview, WA. 2023
Stay Home Gallery and Residency, Paris, TN. 2021
Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI. 2018
EXPERIENCE:
Member of Carnation Contemporary, Artist Collective in Portland, OR. 2022-October 2024
Program Mentor, Low Residency MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2020, 2022, 2023
Member of WAVE Artist Collective, Portland, OR. 2020-2023
Interim Chair of the Board of Directors, Gallery 114, Portland 2020-2021
Secretary of the Board of Directors, Gallery 114, Portland, OR. 2018-2020
Member of Gallery 114, Artist Collective in Portland, OR. 2016-2021