Rachel M Lindsay-Snow
Chicago, IL
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Email: rachelmlinds@gmail.com
instagram: @rachelmlindsay
While grappling with laborious actions of ritual and repetition much of Lindsay-Snow's recent work engages
notions of mortality, cycle, and the temporal through the poetic gesture.
Through installation, performance and sculpture; and the use of multiples, process, the surreal, and uncanny:
Lindsay-Snow collaborates in moments of pause, re-centering, and questioning.
They see the process of making art as a practice of asking questions, research, and wonder.
Originally from a small town in Upstate New York, Lindsay-Snow has lived the last ten years in Chicago
where they obtained a Bachelor's of Arts in Conflict Transformation and in Art.
Lindsay-Snow is currently a MFA candidate at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana in the studio arts.
"Curiosity and wonder are a beginning drive of my artistic practice and deeply affect the production of my work. Materially this results in laborious rituals of collecting, sorting, alternative cataloging and mapping. Conceptually, I am continuously filled with a swirling fury of questions and wonderings. Sometimes these questions prod feelings of excitement and adventure. Lately they produce a spiral seemingly without end or rest. The answer-lessness is a mire of sticky mud rather than a trampoline. As I am filled, with what seems to be only questions and frustrations, I continue to want to cover things in wax, make leaf dust, recede into a wall cocoon, hold gazes, write somber-ing poems, and gather sticks. I wonder if this is of coping, of suave, of mourning.
I wonder if this is of calming. I wonder if this is of distracting or rerooting or centering,
and always I wonder what, if anything this does for you?"
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Education
2020
Masters of Fine Art, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
2013
Bachelors in Art and Conflict Transformation, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Residences & Awards
Re-Mix It Competition 3rd Place
April 2019: University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana Library; Champaign, IL
2018 Luminarts Fellow
May 2018: Luminarts Cultural Foundation; Chicago, IL
2018 Visual Arts Fellowship Finalist
May 2018: Luminarts Cultural Foundation; Chicago, IL
Most Innovative Artwork
March 2018: Gallery One—All That Glitters Show; Ellensburg, WA
Artist-in-Residence
September 2014--May 2015: North Park University's University Ministries; Chicago, IL
exhibitions: Sept 2014, Oct 2014, Nov-Dec 2014, Feb 2015, April 2015
Distinguished Senior in Art Award
May 2013: North Park University; Chicago, IL
Art Scholar
January 2012: North Park University; Chicago, IL
One Person Exhibitions
April 2018 dirt and dust: East Wall Gallery, Champaign IL
March 2017 Mountains and Sea: Our Saviours Gallery, Naperville IL
Dec 2016-Jan 2017 Undiscard: Beans and Bagels, Chicago IL
Nov 2015 India: Our Saviours Gallery, Naperville IL
Nov 2014-present site-specific works: Brooklyn Boulders Chicago, Chicago IL
May 2013 Senior Show: Carlson Gallery, North Park University, Chicago IL
Feb-March 2013 Being Held By the Center: Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago IL
Group Exhibitions
2019
8 to Create: Link Gallery, Champaign IL
The Archive Room (armageddon or sunrise or something): Bluestem Farm; Urbana IL
Dreams: Bloc Gallery, Champaign IL
2018
Ersatz: Bloc Gallery, Champaign IL
Regional Curator Chicago Exhibition: Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago IL
2018 Luminarts Visual Arts Exhibition: Union League Club, Chicago IL
See[and]Saw: Bloc Gallery, Champaign IL
All That Glitters: Gallery One, Ellensburg WA
2016
La Mer | La Mère (The Mother | The Sea): St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
La Mer | La Mère (The Mother | The Sea): St. Mary’s University, Winona, MN
Alumni Show: North Park University, Chicago IL
Wilsen Studio Intensive Open House: North Park University, Chicago IL
Collective—Collections: Aurora, IL
Collective—Process: Beans and Bagels, Chicago IL
Square Foot Show: Arts of Life, Chicago IL
2015
Self Portrait Show: Beans and Bagels, Chicago IL
Collective--for(a)ging: Hammond Art Center, Hammond IN
Collective--One: Albany Park House Show, Chicago IL
Interior Spaces—part 1: Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago IL
Interior Spaces—part 1: Everybody's Coffee, Chicago IL
Interior Spaces—part 2: The Abbey Coffee Co., Marion IN
2014
Regarding the Sublime: North Park University, Chicago IL
2013
Passages Show: Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago IL
CreatingPeace Art Exhibition: North Park University, Chicago IL
Art and Music Collaboration show: Nichols Hall, Evanston IL
2012
'What is Nature?' Show: Brandel Library, Chicago IL
North Park Art Scholarship Show: Carlson Gallery, Chicago IL
Summer Work Show: Carlson Gallery, Chicago IL
Opening Show: Crowded House Gallery, Chicago, IL
Flight/The Art of Refuge: Flourish Studios, Chicago IL
Art Night: Anderson Chapel, Chicago IL