A painter and self-taught programmer born in West Palm Beach in 1987, Rossin has since become one of the defining artists of her generation working between painting and emerging technology, with hologram paintings, molded plexiglass sculpture, custom AI and virtual reality shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which acquired her work in 2026. Artforum credited her with finding a vantage point from which to "survey the chaos of a shifting media landscape." Her work is included in Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, opening September 25, 2026, and traveling in 2027 to Doha and Penn State. Contact the gallery for available works.

ZieherSmith presented Rachel Rossin's 2015 solo exhibition Lossy, which paired nine oil paintings with the virtual reality work I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand and was reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, and Hyperallergic.

Solo Presentations: Seattle Art Fair (2016), Lossy (New York 2015)

Group Presentations: Summer Reading (Nashville, 2015)

Rachel Rossin

Rachel Rossin CV

Born in West Palm Beach, FL in 1987. Lives and works in New York, NY.

EDUCATION

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Solo Exhibitions

2026   Rachel Rossin, Saint Laurent Rive Droite, New York, NY

2025   The Totalists, Albion Jeune, London, UK

2024   Guggenheim YCC Party Artist Collaboration, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Haha Real, Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Houston, TX

2023   THE MAW OF, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA
SCRY, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
THE MAW OF, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (co-commission with KW Institute for Contemporary Art)

2022   THE MAW OF, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (co-commission with the Whitney Museum of American Art)

2021   Boohoo Stamina, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Pan-pan, C O U N T Y, Palm Beach, FL
I'm my loving memory, commission for World on a Wire, Hyundai Motorstudios, New Museum and Rhizome, Moscow, Seoul and Beijing

2020   The Sentinel (tears, tears), 14a, Hamburg, Germany

2019   Open World, commission, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Rachel Rossin, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY
Greasy Light, 14a, Hamburg, Germany
Stalking the Trace, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Rachel Rossin and Jeremy Couillard, Phillips x Daata Editions, Phillips, New York, NY

2017   Peak Performance, Signal, Brooklyn, NY

2016   My Little Green Leaf, Art in General and Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
Rachel Rossin, ZieherSmith, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA

2015   Lossy, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
Shelter of a Limping Substrate, Elliott Levenglick, New York, NY
N=7 / The Wake of Heat in Collapse, Signal, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026   Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN

2025   Second Body, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Base Materialism, Albion Jeune, London, UK

2024   Poetics of Encryption, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Felix Art Fair, Magenta Plains, Los Angeles, CA

2023   Refigured, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Synthetic Bodies, Lyles & King, New York, NY
A Leap Into the Void: Art Beyond Matter, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Flesh and Flowers Made in America, No Name, Paris, France
Big Chill, Bernheim Gallery, London, UK

2022   TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
SIGNALS, Someday Gallery, New York, NY
Dazibao, Montreal, Canada

2021   Sign of Our Times, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Hyundai x Rhizome: World on a Wire, Hyundai Motorstudios, Beijing, Moscow and Seoul
Night Watch, Winterstreet Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA

2020   Good Pictures, curated by Austin Lee, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
SITE: Art and Architecture in Digital Space, Library Street Collective at the State Savings Bank, Detroit, MI
Daily Rush, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI

2019   Electric: Virtual Reality at Frieze New York, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, New York, NY
Floral, Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Rencontres Internationales, Louvre Auditorium, Paris, France

2018   Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
Portals Thresholds, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Suspended Time Extended Space, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
In My Room, Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Points of Light in a Nocturnal World, curated by John Newsom, Metro Pictures, Brooklyn, NY

2017   After Us, K11 Art Museum, co-presented by the New Museum, curated by Lauren Cornell, Shanghai, China
ARS17: Hello World!, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
There is Still Good in This World, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, NY
Alt-facts, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
First Look, co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum, New York, NY
Works from the Collection, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Unframed World, HEK, Basel, Switzerland
Styles and Customs of the 2020s, curated by DIS and Scatter, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Unquestionable Optimism: The Barn Show, curated by Lindsay Howard and Johannes Vogt, East Hampton, NY
WAVE, curated by Dalton D. Freed, C O U N T Y, Palm Beach, FL
New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT

2016   Collective Reality, commission presented by Artsy, Miami Beach, FL
Trust Issues, curated by Ryan Steadman, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK
interspace, Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Olimpia's Eyes, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit, White Circle, Brussels, Belgium
Reconstructed Landscapes, Apexart, New York, NY
Invisible City, Ideas Festival, New Museum, New York, NY

2015   Real Things About Real Things, American Medium, New York, NY
Summer Reading, ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN
Village Fete, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
FRcReal, curated by Aaron Levi Garvey, SPRING/BREAK, New York, NY

Public Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Rhizome and the New Museum, New York, NY
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL
Stolbun Collection, Houston, TX

Selected Bibliography

"Wallpaper US400: Rachel Rossin," Wallpaper, June 2026

Mark Westall, "MoMI Lab and the New Wave of Spatial Computing Are Reclaiming the White Cube," FAD Magazine, June 17, 2026

Paige K. Bradley, "Mass Medium," Now Voyager, March 12, 2026

Aemilia Madden, "How Rachel Rossin Finds the Emotion in Technology," The Cut, January 2026

Sam Falb, "Chanel Partnered With Art21 to Make a TikTok Series That's Aimed at Much More Than Going Viral," Cultured, January 26, 2026

Hannah Silver, "Meet the New York-Based Artists Destabilising the Boundaries of Society," Wallpaper, July 11, 2025

Alexander Harding, "Rachel Rossin's Theology of the Machine," ArtReview, June 25, 2025

Nico Kos Earle, "London Gallery Weekend: A Snapshot of Some Favourite Shows," Artlyst, June 13, 2025

Luca Hue-Williams, "Rachel Rossin: The Mirror Is Cracked," A Rabbit's Tale, June 7, 2025

"Subject: Rachel Rossin," Twist, May 22, 2025

"Viewing Rachel Rossin: The Totalists at Albion Jeune," The Wick Culture, May 1, 2025

Joseph Staley, "Review: 'Haha Real' at the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Houston," Glasstire, November 1, 2024

Travis Diehl, "How Young Artists Take Inspiration From Religion in Uncertain Times," The New York Times, July 16, 2024

Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, "Artist Rachel Rossin Dazzled Guests of Guggenheim's YCC Party," Cultbytes, May 9, 2024

Noam Segal, "Rachel Rossin's Combined Sculptures: Between the Real and the Virtual," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, May 3, 2024

"The 2024 Guggenheim YCC Party: Embrace the Digital Wonderland with Transparent OLED," LG Display Newsroom, April 25, 2024

"Downtown Goes Uptown for the Guggenheim's YCC Bash," Guest of a Guest, April 11, 2024

David Graver, "Artist Rachel Rossin Transforms the Guggenheim's Iconic Rotunda," Cool Hunting, April 8, 2024

Jenna Adrian-Diaz, "The Guggenheim's Young Collectors Council Boogies Down Uptown," Surface, April 5, 2024

Sophie June, "Guggenheim Young Collectors Council Gala," Nylon, April 5, 2024

"Guggenheim Museum Hosts 2024 YCC Party Presented by LG Display with Installations by Rachel Rossin," The Untitled Magazine, April 4, 2024

Rachel Summer Small, "How Rachel Rossin Took Over the Guggenheim," Family Style, April 4, 2024

M.H. Miller, "Against All Odds, New York's Artist Buildings Have Survived," T: The New York Times Style Magazine, February 26, 2024

Jessie Dorris, "Rachel Rossin Builds Theatrical Underground Worlds," Surface, February 26, 2024

John Hill, "Transforming the Cistern," World-Architects, February 6, 2024

Brittanie Shey, "Virtual Reality Meets Childhood Tale in New Cistern Art Installation," Chron, February 2, 2024

Amber Elliott, "New Cistern Installation Uses Artificial Intelligence Technology to Retell 'The Velveteen Rabbit'," Houston Chronicle, January 31, 2024

"Creative Capital Announces 2024 'Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact' Awards," Filmmaker, January 25, 2024

Sandra Schulman, "Rachel Rossin's Hybrid Work," West Palm Beach Magazine, Winter 2024

Travis Diehl, "How Ketamine and Ivermectin, Two Drugs Intended for Horses, Not Humans, Reflect the Art World's Anxieties," Cultured, December 18, 2023

Cassie Packard, "Donna Haraway's Children: Meet the Dynamic Young Artists Who Are Embracing the Cyborg," Cultured, November 2, 2023

Cate McQuaid, "Technology Opens Wide in Rachel Rossin's Immersive 'MAW'," The Boston Globe, September 26, 2023

Marc-Christoph Wagner, "Artist Rachel Rossin on the Journey to Self-Creation," Louisiana Channel, September 21, 2023

Ben Davis, "What I'm Looking At," Artnet News, August 10, 2023

Caroline Goldstein, "'It Always Comes Back to My Own Embodiment': Watch Rachel Rossin Explore the Slippage Between Physical and Virtual Realities," Artnet News, August 1, 2023

Travis Diehl, "What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July," The New York Times, July 28, 2023

Valentina Di Liscia, Hakim Bishara, and Hrag Vartanian, "15 Art Shows to See in New York This July," Hyperallergic, July 12, 2023

Annabelle Iwegbue, "Artist Rachel Rossin Wants You to Reevaluate Your Relationship With Tech," Cosmopolitan, March 8, 2023

Richard Whiddington, "What Can Digital Art Teach Us About Identity in a Hyper-Technologized World? A New Group Show at the Whitney Weighs In," Artnet News, March 7, 2023

Veronica Esposito, "Refigured: Exhibition Explores Identity Through Alternate Worlds," The Guardian, February 28, 2023

Concetta Ciarlo, "After a Couple of Years, the Whitney Museum's Art Party Made Its Much-Awaited Return," Vogue, February 1, 2023

Nadja Sayej, "Inside the Whitney Art Gala's Zodiac-Themed Bash With Questlove, Karen Elson and Martha Hunt," Forbes, February 1, 2023

Annie Armstrong, "Wet Paint in the Wild: Artist Rachel Rossin Takes Us on a Tour of Dunkunsthalle, Her New Art Space in an Abandoned Dunkin' Donuts," Artnet News, November 24, 2022

John Chiaverina, "A Former Dunkin' Donuts in New York's Financial District Is Now Home to a Buzzy Art Space," ARTnews, November 17, 2022

"'It Always Comes Back to My Own Embodiment': Watch Artist Rachel Rossin Merge Plexiglas Molds of Her Body With Digital Painting," Artnet News, October 7, 2022

Jonathan Orozco, "SIGNALS at Someday Gallery," Whitehot Magazine, August 2022

Anna Furman, "From 'Barbies Scissoring' to 'Contorted Emotion': The Artists Using AI," The Guardian, July 11, 2022

John Ortved, "A Conceptual 'Queer' Club at the Guggenheim," The New York Times, June 3, 2022

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, "A Hot Recently Shuttered Downtown Gallery Threw an Opulent Brooklyn Gala for Itself," ARTnews, May 27, 2022

Jane Moore, "Artist Sounds the Alarm With Hologram-Embedded Art at County Gallery," Palm Beach Daily News, December 20, 2021

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, "DNA as NFT: Artist Rachel Rossin Logs Her Genome on the Blockchain," ARTnews, November 10, 2021

"Hyundai Motorstudio and Rhizome Present 'World on a Wire'," Ocula Magazine, August 19, 2021

Chandra Steele, "Do You Really Own a $69 Million Piece of Art if No One Can See It?" PCMag, July 26, 2021

Olivia Hosken, "So You Bought an NFT... How Do You Frame It?" Town & Country, June 18, 2021

Dawn Chan, "4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now," The New York Times, May 13, 2021

Annabel Keenan, "Outside LA: Rachel Rossin," Artillery, May 11, 2021

Brooke Nicholas, "Interview with Rachel Rossin," Whitehot Magazine, May 2021

Annabel Keenan, "Rachel Rossin's Virtual World: How the Invisible Infrastructure of Technology Helps to Parse Reality," Cultbytes, May 8, 2021

Caroline Goldstein, "'It Was Like Making Homes': Watch Artist Rachel Rossin Build Entire Worlds in Her Hybrid Digital Artwork," Artnet News, May 6, 2021

Eileen Kinsella, "Some of the World's Top Artists Are Trying Their Hand at NFTs. The World's Top Galleries Are a Bit More Skeptical," Artnet News, April 6, 2021

Alex Westfall, "Interview with Rachel Rossin: Entropy from Infinity," Kill Screen, February 18, 2021

Doug Rule, "Gallery: SITE at the Library Street Collective," Metro Weekly, May 22, 2020

"Homecast, the Podcast That Gives Voice to Creatives in Lockdown," LifeGate, May 22, 2020

Michael Connor, "Glitches in the Simulation," Rhizome, June 26, 2019

Sophie Haigney, "Want to Check Out Frieze? All You Need Is an App and a Headset," The New York Times, May 1, 2019

Josie Thaddeus-Johns, "A Step Into the Unknown With Virtual Reality," The New York Times, April 26, 2019

Mark Westall, "Phillips x Daata Artist Commission: Jeremy Couillard and Rachel Rossin," FAD Magazine, April 17, 2019

Daniel Birnbaum, "Possibilities of Creation: In Conversation with Rachel Rossin," Frieze, 2019

Emma Tucker, "Virtual Artworks Are Taking Up Residence in Detroit's Landmark Buildings," The Spaces, 2019

Gabrielle Schwarz, "A Portrait of the Artist's Studio," Apollo Magazine, February 8, 2018

Neave Barker, "UK's First Virtual Reality Art Space Opens in London," Al Jazeera, January 28, 2018

Ben Luke, "A Haunting Voyage Into a Brave New Virtual World," London Evening Standard, January 22, 2018

"London's Zabludowicz Collection Opens City's First Space Dedicated to Virtual Reality," Artforum.com, December 26, 2017

Aimee Dawson, "UK's First Permanent Virtual Reality Space," The Art Newspaper, December 23, 2017

"Studio Visit: Rachel Rossin," Iris Covet Book, December 2017

Alexandra Peers, "Trending Talent: Rachel Rossin," Galerie Magazine, Winter 2017

"Rachel Rossin," Artforum, November 2017

Nick Pinkerton, "Beyond the Nickel Ride," Film Comment, March–April 2017

Nick Pinkerton, "Sundance Interview: Rachel Rossin," Film Comment, March 3, 2017

Seth Porges, "The Best VR On Display At This Year's Sundance Film Festival," Forbes, January 30, 2017

"The Six Most Ambitious, Brilliant Virtual Reality Experiences Out Today," Men's Journal, February 2017

Adi Robertson, "The Best Virtual Reality From The 2017 Sundance Film Festival," The Verge, January 26, 2017

Alyson Krueger, "An Inside Look At Sundance's Best Experiences," Forbes, January 25, 2017

"30 Under 30 – Art & Style," Forbes, January 2017

"The Top Emerging Artists of 2016," Artsy, December 2016

Kat Herriman, "The New Guard: 30 Young Artists To Watch," Cultured Magazine, Winter 2016

Fan Zhong, Andrew Russeth, Kevin McGarry, and Jenny Comita, "The Five Rising Artists You Must Know In 2016," W Magazine, November 2, 2016

Dayna Evans, "In Virtual Reality, Women Run the World," New York Magazine, October 5, 2016

Holly Willis, Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts, Wallflower Press, August 2016

Kirk Johnson, "At Seattle Art Fair, Intersection between Technology and Life," The New York Times, August 8, 2016

"30 Emerging Artists To Watch This Spring," Artsy, April 13, 2016

Noémie Jennifer, "5 Experiential Artists to Elevate Your Consciousness in 2016," Vice: The Creators Project, March 25, 2016

Michael Blum, "Imagining the Possible Futures of Virtual Reality," Hyperallergic, March 17, 2016

Molly Gottschalk, "Virtual Reality Is The Most Powerful Medium Of Our Time," Artsy, March 16, 2016

Alexander Provan, "The Last Platform," Frieze, March 2016

Dawn Chan, "Rachel Rossin: Zieher Smith & Horton," Artforum, January 2016

Kenta Murakami, "Digital Worlds Stretch the Limits of What's Possible," Hyperallergic, January 15, 2016

Priscilla Frank and Katherine Brooks, "17 Visual Artists You Should Know in 2016," Huffington Post, December 22, 2015

Chris Priestman, "'After GTA V' and the Inevitable Deterioration of Data," Kill Screen, December 14, 2015

Ryan Bort, "What We Saw at Art Basel Miami Beach," Newsweek, December 9, 2015

Nate Freeman, "Can You Make Me 100 More?" ARTnews, December 8, 2015

Alexander Sword, "5 World-Altering Virtual Reality Art Installations," Computer Business Review, December 7, 2015

Liz Stinson, "Rachel Rossin's Trippy Paintings of Reality as Seen Through VR," Wired, November 13, 2015

Jeffrey Grunthaner, "Tripping Through Digital Landscapes in Virtual Reality and on Canvas," Hyperallergic, November 11, 2015

Martha Schwendener, "In Rachel Rossin's 'Lossy,' the Virtual Reality of Living in a Painting," The New York Times, November 5, 2015

Marina Garcia-Vasquez, "Virtual Reality Paintings Destroy Notions of the 'Still Life'," The Creators Project, November 5, 2015

Ryan Steadman, "How One Artist Uses Virtual Reality As Her Medium," The Observer, October 27, 2015

David Ebony, "David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for October," Artnet, October 24, 2015

Scott Indrisek, "5 Must-See Shows in New York," Artinfo, October 22, 2015

Suzanne Charlé, "Rachel Rossin's Cool Exhibit at Zieher Smith & Horton Gallery," Gotham Magazine, October 2015

Jeff Grunthaner, "The Transformative Effect of Rachel Rossin," Whitehot Magazine, June 2015

Laura Hutson, "Rachel Rossin's Hibiscus and Rose," Nashville Scene, June 24, 2015

"Rachel Rossin 'N=7 / The Wake in Heat of Collapse' at Signal Gallery, New York," Purple Fashion Magazine, January 19, 2015

Joshua Barone, "Rachel Rossin's Virtual-Reality Installation in Bushwick," The New York Times, January 15, 2015