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© Rachel Libeskind, 2015
VITA
*1989 in Milan, Italy
1989-2003 Berlin, Germany
2003-2007 New York, NY
2007-2011 Cambridge, MA
2007-2011 B.A. Cum Laude from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
with a degree in Visual Studies and Comparative Literature
2011- Present Brooklyn, NY
SOLO / GROUP SHOWS/PERFORMANCES
May 2016 The Traveling Bag: performance in a site-specific installation in Berlin-Mitte, produced by curatorial body, Wild Palms (SOLO)
May 2016 Sacred Trash, My Genizah: commissioned installation by the Center for Jewish History, located on 16 E15th street, NYC (SOLO)
September 2015 Salon Society, the book edition: salon hosted by curator Fabiola Alondra, Brooklyn,NY
September 2015 START Fair, Saatchi & Saatchi, London U.K.
September 2015 “Conceived without Sin”, Radiator Gallery, Long Island CIty, NYC
June 2015 The Traveling Bag: A Performance as a part of Young Artists at the Chelsea Festival, Hotel Chelsea, NYC. Art direction and performance (SOLO)
May 2015 The Traveling Bag: A performance with live experimental music, McCarren Park Hotel (SOLO)
May 2015 Art Miami Fair, a part of the No Longer.Empty booth, Pier 94 NYC
May 2015 Salon Society, private salon hosted by Fabiola Alondra, Brooklyn, NY
February 2015 The Rachel Libeskind Society, Hansel&Gretel/Pocket Utopia, 511 W 22nd street, NYC (SOLO)
February 2015 “Winter Tales”, Alludo Room, Kitzbuhel, Austria
December 2014 Performed in Alexandra Marzella’s work, “Literally Bye” at the Standard Hotel as a part of Art Basel 2014
October 2014 Artecho, SunWest Studios NYC
July 2014 The Traveling Bag: A ritual performance, Festival di Spoleto, Italy [curated by Achille Bonito Oliva] (SOLO)
June 2014 “Traces: A group Exhibition”, Gowanus (Brooklyn), NY
May 2013 “Rich White Men”, Alludo Room, Rome, Italy (SOLO)
May 2014 Enter: National Lithuanian Arts Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
February 2014 New Patron Presents: an Exhibition 355 Bowery, NYC
December 2013 “15 WARREN: a group show downtown” 15 Warren Street, NYC
November 2013 “The Jewel Box Revue” Hansel & Gretel / Pocket Utopia, 511 W 22nd street, NYC
April 2013 LABOEXPO Performance and Installation, Foro Buonaparte 60, Milano (SOLO)
March 2013 Decenter Armory: An exhibition on the centenary of the 1913 Armory show (online)
March 2013 “The Wild West”, Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden 511 W 20th Street, NYC (SOLO)
Feb 2013 “RE:SANDY” A Benefit Auction 47 Broadway, NYC
October 2012 SALON ZURCHER: Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France
May 2012 “TWO-D” GRASSGRASS 10 Vyner Street, London, UK
December 2011 “Rachel Von Libeskind“ Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden 511 W 20th Street, NYC (SOLO)
May 2011 “O Pioneers!“ Carpenter Center, Harvard University Cambridge, MA’
INSTALLATIONS/PRODUCTIONS
October 2015 AMERICAN GOTHIC an original opera presented with a multichannel video installation at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY
October 2015 SEAPORT STUDIOS commissioned installation at the Howard Hughes corp. funded concept space at the former port of New York.
September 2015 CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN commissioned installation of a nativity scene, with a performance at Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, NY
June 2015 COWBOY MOUTH set-design for the inaugural festival at the new Chelsea Hotel, NYC
February 2015 LA VOIX HUMAINE site-specific installation for a modernist opera, Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami (Funded by the Knight Foundation)
January 2013 HEALTHCARE a multimedia installation and theatrical production at Parade Ground at 187 East Broadway, NYC
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2015 Accepted into the Scuola di Grafica, Venice (to be completed in 2016)
2015 Nominated for the Rema Hortmann Fellowship grant (pending award)
2015 Accepted to HEIMA, Seydisfyodor, Iceland (Yet to be completed)
2015 Accepted to 3331 Chiyoda Residency in Tokyo (Yet to be completed)
2014 Accepted to Arteles Residency in Finland (Yet to be completed)
March 2014 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE Residency, Sparkill, NY
February 2014 BERLIN COLLECTIVE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, 34 34TH Street, Brooklyn, NY
December 2013 JOINED THE ARTIST PENSION TRUST
November 2012 NACHT/MACHT residency at The Watermill Center, Long Island, NY