About
photo by Elisabeth Fuchsia
Rachel Rizzo was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised on the southern coast of Massachusetts. As a child she felt most at home while drawing, swimming in the ocean or playing in the woods. Her teen years were spent lost in a world of researching artists and music, drawing and painting and creating with her friends. Over time, she discovered the local warrens of New England’s underground and decided that art school was her only option. As an art educator, Rizzo has worked in arts non profits, museum and gallery settings, Boston public schools, and most recently in the university setting at Wentworth Institute of Technology and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her practice as an artist and educator feed and enhance each other. She has stayed involved in Boston’s DIY community through her work and deeply values the creative community she is a part of. Her paintings, prints and drawings explore personal history and identity, fantasy and escape, the natural world, symbolism and abstraction as well as the way we interact with images and icons in digital and physical space.
In addition to showing her work in basements, hallways and houses throughout the Boston area, Rachel’s work has also been exhibited at The Mayor’s Gallery at Boston City Hall, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MassArtxSoWA, Aviary Gallery, Washington Street Art Center, Gateway Arts, Artists for Humanity, and Fourth Wall Gallery in Boston, and Machines with Magnets Gallery in Pawtucket, RI. She has been a resident artist at Rural Contemporary Residency in Cividate Camuno, Italy, The Bottega Projects in Montebuono, Italy, and Gate44 in Milan, Italy. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Boston Low Residency program, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in both Studio Education and Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Creating Spaces: Massart's MFA BLR thesis Exhibition
Boston Hassle Artist Spotlight: Rachel Rizzo in Conversation with Maggie Jensen
Contact:
rachelrizzoart617@gmail.com
@rraacchheellrriizzzzoo on instagram