Rachel Rossin (born 1987,

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) is a

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and installation artist based in

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Personal life

When Rossin was 16, her mother brought her to the

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where she was attracted to

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’s wax figures. Rossin expressed that the gallery exhibition had a profound impact on her career, saying “I hated them and I loved them because they were both repulsive and tender. These feelings kept competing and rolling over each other for the front of my mind."

Career

Solo Work

In 2015, Rossin's exhibition, ''N=7 / The Wake in Heat of Collapse'', located at ''SIGNAL'' in

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, was a

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simulation that employs the structure of side-scrolling gameplay to create an immersive,

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-based experience. Additionally, in 2015, Rossin held her work, ''Shelter of a Limping Substrate'', at the Elliott Levenglick Gallery. ''Shelter of a Limping Substrate'' refers to the underlying layer in 3D imaging. She created formal

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paintings, which then were reimagined in virtual reality

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. From October 15—November 14, 2015, Rachel held her work, ''Lossy'', at the

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, a contemporary art gallery in

. In Rossin's words: “The exhibition posits that our relationship with reality isn't a separate virtual and real but looks more like a gradient between the two— with most of our modern lives being lived in the action of hopping from screen to screen. Like lossy compression, this process includes entropy as an inherent given— in optimizing what already exists by omitting the excess in worlds with their own internal logic.” From December 9, 2016—January 15, 2017, the exhibition, ''My Little Green Leaf'' was held in partnership with

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and ''kim? Contemporary Art Centre'' in

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. The installation piece interweaves the viewers interactive experience with virtual reality and physical space. In 2017, she debuted a piece ''The Sky is a Gap'', where she mapped a room-scale virtual reality installation to move 3D time and explosions by the user's movements.

Group work

From January 19, 2017—March 3, 2017 Rossin participated in ‘The Unframed World’ located at the ''HeK (House of electronic Arts Basel)'' in

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. This group

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presented various approaches in using

as an artistic medium. From March 17, 2017—May 31, 2017 Rossin is working with other artists at ''Chi K11 Art Museum'' in

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. Rossin will be partaking in a group exhibition ‘ARS17’ at

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located in

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from March 31, 2017—January 14, 2018. This exhibition will stage international artists working under the theme of digital revolution. In 2018, Rachel Rossin worked with Cecilia Salama on new store display through May at Melissa shoes, a Brazilian rubberized shoe company. Rossin's video piece is played on massive pixelated screens that comprise the Melissa store lobby.

Gallery Representation

Rachel Rossin is represented by Magenta Plains in New York, NY. In 2021, Magenta Plains presented its first solo exhibition of Rossin's work, ''Boohoo Stamina'' which showcased recent multimedia paintings. Dawn Chan reviewed ''Boohoo Stamina'' for the New York Times, writing "Rossin’s take is strangely compelling. At times, her compositions evoke the visionary, spray-painted works of the Romanian-American artist Hedda Sterne, to terrific effect. At other times, Rossin somehow gets her brush marks to replicate the pixelated feel of virtual-reality worlds." In 2023, Magenta Plains exhibited ''Scry'', a solo presentation of trans-media paintings and larger scale installation.

Awards and Fellowships

* ''Fellowship in Virtual Reality at New Museum's Incubator New Inc (2015-2016)'' * ''Kate Spade & Co Foundation Grant (2015)'' * ''Cultured Magazine '30 under 35' (2016)'' * ''Forbes '30 Under 30' in Art & Style (2017)''

Public Collections

* Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY * Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL * Borusan Collection, Istanbul, TR * Rhizome and

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, “First Look”, New York, NY * Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK * Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection, The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL * Stolbun Collection, Houston, TX

References

External links

Rachel Rossin
- Artforum review (PDF) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossin, Rachel 1987 births Living people American installation artists