Rachel Rose: About

Bio

Rachel Rose (American, b. 1986) is a visual artist known for video installations. Her work explores how our changing relationship to landscape has shaped storytelling and belief systems. Her films incorporate collaged filmed and found footage, along with audio and image distortion.

Rose conducts in-depth research before producing her films. Her subjects have included cryogenics, 17th century agrarian England, the American Revolutionary War, modernist architecture and the sensory experience of walking in outer space.

Sitting, Sleeping, Feeding (2013) is composed of found and original footage connecting zoological parks, a cryogenics laboratory and a robotics perception laboratory. Palisades in Palisades (2014) centres on footage of a young woman in a cliffside park in New Jersey, shot with a rigged camera that swoops between long shots and close-ups. Rose won the Frieze Artist Award in 2015, the year her video Everything and More premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art.^, Lake Valley (2016) is composed of thousands of nineteenth- and twentieth-century children's book illustrations, collaged and animated with cel drawings. She represented the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Wil-o-Wisp (2018) follows the fictional healer Elspeth Blake through three decades of change in seventeenth-century agrarian England, and was jointly commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.^, Enclosure (2019) was jointly commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory in New York and the LUMA Foundation in Arles. Her first large-scale solo exhibition in France, at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, presented five video installations and a series of sculptures. In 2025 she was named among the more than 30 artists, architects and thinkers forming the guild of the Okayama Art Summit.