Rachel Rossin

1987–

Rachel Rossin (b. 1987; West Palm Beach, FL) is a painter and programmer whose work blends painting, sculpture, new media, gaming, and video to create digital landscapes that focus on entropy, embodiment, the ubiquity of technology, and its effect on our psychology.

Rossin’s selected solo exhibitions include The Totalists (2025), Albion Jeune, London; Haha Real (2024), Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston; Stalking the Trace (2019), Zabludowicz Collection (2007–23), London; Greasy Light (2019), 14a, Hamburg, Germany; Tennis Elbow (2019), Journal Gallery, New York; Peak Performance (2017); and Lossy (2015), ZieherSmith, New York. Selected group exhibitions include Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century (2018), Frist Art Museum, Nashville; After Us (2017), K11 Art Museum, Shanghai; ARS17 (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; and First Look (2017), copresented by Rhizome and New Museum, New York. Rossin received a fellowship from the New Museum’s New Inc cultural incubator (2015) and a Creative Capital Award (2024).

Introduction

Rachel Rossin (born 1987, West Palm Beach, Florida) is a multi-media and installation artist based in New York City. Whitney Museum of American Art describes Rossin as "a painter and programmer whose multi-disciplinary practice has established her as a pioneer in the field of virtual reality. Her work blends painting, sculpture, new media, gaming, and video to create digital landscapes that focus on entropy, embodiment, the ubiquity of technology and its effect on our psychology."

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On view
Online

First acquired
2022

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Wikidata
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