BIOGRAPHY

Rachel Smith is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who’s artwork investigate the complexities of the individual and the collective as it relates to memory, processes, and materials. Her artwork uses ephemeral materials within mixed media, collage, performance and installation works.

She has curated exhibitions including: Construct at the Foundry Vineyards in Walla Walla, WA, Desire Lines at the Saranac Art Projects in partnership with Saturate, a city wide collaboration celebrating diverse artists of color in Spokane, WA, and Poetics of Place at Clyde and Mary Harris Gallery at Walla Walla University in College Place, WA honoring National Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month.

Her work is on permanent collection at the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction in Fort Worth, TX, Brooklyn Art Library in New York, and in numerous private collections.

Smith received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Idaho and Bachelor of Art in Commercial Art from Walla Walla University. She currently maintains a studio practice in Walla Walla, WA with her partner and collaborator, Juventino Aranda, and is an Associate Professor of Art at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, WA.