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
I Came And Went As A Ghost Hand (Cycle #2), 2015
Virtual reality
Rachel Rossin
Weather (GTA), 2016
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Rachel Rossin
Orchids Belly-Up, 2015
Oil on canvas
44 x 36 in (111.8 x 91.4 cm)
Rachel Rossin
5_Bulls, 2015
Oil on canvas
68 x 37 in (172.7 x 94 cm)
Lossy (2025)
Solo exhibition installation view
Rachel Rossin
Hibiscus and Rose, 2015
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Solo presentation
Seattle Art Fair 2015
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