RACHELL SUMPTER
Born 1972, Los Angeles

EDUCATION
2003 BFA, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Allston-Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA (project)
2006 Motel Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Sixspace Gallery, Culver City, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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, Bradford Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2002 Making, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS and CONTRIBUTIONS
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

COLLECTIONS
2007 Takashi Murakami, Japan
2007 Blake Byrne, Los Angeles
2007 Lew Manilow, Chicago
2003 Orange County Museum of Art CA

GRANTS
1999-2002 Samsung Endowment
2003 GenArt Grant