Rachel Stevens is a New York-based artist, researcher, designer, and educator working across sculpture, photography, video, internet archives, artist books, spatial practices, and curatorial projects. Her interdisciplinary work explores ecologies, geographies, archives, and moving images.

Her research on ecology and place has taken her to residencies and programs such as Casa GIAP’s Creative Ecologies and Decolonial Futures in Chiapas, NEH’s Space, Place and the Humanities at Northeastern University, and iLAND’s collaborative research residency. As part of Oyster City, a collaboration with Meredith Drum, she co-created an Augmented Reality walking tour game about oysters in NYC and developed a public project for Paths to Pier 42, culminating in the Fish Stories Community Cookbook.

Currently, she is working on a research-based video installation about the St. Lawrence River and creating with the experimental video publishing cooperative Temporary Files.

Her writing has appeared in Afterimage, Flash Art and Millennium Film Journal—where she was a contributing editor from 2018-2022, and others. She teaches in Hunter College’s IMA MFA program and has also taught at Brown, RISD, Brooklyn College, and Queens College. She was a member of the curatorial collective Two Chairs and has worked as an associate curator at Creative Time.

Stevens has exhibited internationally, including at Socrates Sculpture Park, ISEA, i-Docs, SCMS, Visible Evidence, and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Her work has been supported by residencies and grants from Casa GIAP, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, LMCC, Puffin Foundation, Signal Culture, and Works on Water. She holds an MFA in Visual Art from UC San Diego and a BFA in Photography from RISD.

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