RACHELL SUMPTER
b. Los Angeles, 1972

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
New Works, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2007
Bones, Bones, Bones, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica CA
Fern Whips, Allston-Skirt Gallery, Boston MA (project)
2006
Frizzly Gur, Motel Gallery, Portland OR
2005
Seahorses Unite!, Sixspace Gallery, Culver City CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Needles and Pens 5 Year Anniversary Show, Needles and Pens, San Francisco CA
Tenderly, Sunday Gallery L.E.S., New York NY
Vocabularies of Metaphor, Hosfelt Gallery, New York NY
2007
The Happening, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
White Light, Motel Gallery, Portland OR
2006
Drawn to Expression, Willamson Gallery, Pasadena CA
Collage Party, Affair, Portland with Allston-Skirt and Motel Gallery
Selected Videos, Small A Projects, Portland OR
ARK, HaNNa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lace Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Projects, Los Angeles CA
2005
Dear New Girl, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco CA
Flood the Gutters, New Image Art, Los Angeles CA
Art from Beyond, Uppercase Gallery, Calgary Canada
Two for the Seesaw, Branch Gallery, Raleigh NC
A-Z, New Image Art, Los Angeles CA
2004
MKR, Branch Gallery, Raleigh NC
Coloring Book, Branch Gallery, Raleigh NC
Moonboots, Barettes, Elves and Cigarettes, Sixspace, Los Angeles CA
2003
(Re)Narrate, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids MI
Covers That Never Were, Track 16, Santa Monica CA
Long Gone Holiday, Motel, Portland OR
New Talent for a New Year, Mark Bradford Gallery, Newport Beach CA
2002
Making, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA

SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS and CONTRIBUTIONS

2008
"Demons in the Spring" , Joe Meno, Akashic Books
2007
"A Touch With Abstraction", Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe
"McSweeney's Quarterly Concern", Issue 24
"Island Life", Valerie Palmer, Mean Magazine, November Issue
2006
"Simply Stirring", Stephanie Laemoa, San Francisco Chronicle
"McSweeney's Quarterly Concern", Issue 20
"Sami-Automatic", Eric Nakamura, Giant Robot Magazine, Issue 43
Audio exerpts of "Early Sessions", Magnus Johnstone, NPR
2005
"Rachell Sumpter at Sixspace", Annie Buckley, Artweek
"Seahorses Unite!", Los Angeles Alternative Press
"Dear New Girl", McSweeney's
"The Drama", Issue 8
"The Drama", Issue 5
2004
"Coloring Book", Branch Gallery
2003
"Long Gone Holiday", Chas Bowie, Portland Mercury

EDUCATION

2003
BFA, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena CA

COLLECTIONS

Takashi Murakami, Blake Byrne, Lew Manilow, Orange County Museum of Art CA

GRANTS

1999-2003
Art Center Scholarship
2003
GenArt Grant