* For my full CV: rachele at racheleriley dot com

Education
MFA Design/Visual Communication, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2005
Vordiplom Communication Design, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle, Germany, 2001
BS Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY, 1994

Awards + Recognition
Finalist–Alternate Selectee, Fulbright-Glasgow School of Art Distinguished Scholar Award, 2025
Award of Excellence Typography, Communication Arts, 2018
Philadelphia Design Award, AIGA, 2017
Official Honoree in NetArt, The Webby Awards, 2014
Design Regional Issue, Print Magazine, 2008

Faculty Positions 
Associate Professor of New Media and Design (tenured), University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), Greensboro, NC, 2023–present
Assistant Professor of New Media and Design, UNCG, Greensboro, NC, 2017–2023
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 2014–2017
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2009–2014
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 2007–2009
Administrative Director / Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2005–2007

Exhibitions (selected)
2024 — Artist Replete Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 — Art Produce Gallery, Posters of Optimism, San Diego, CA
2021 — 1708 Gallery’s InLight 2021, Richmond, VA
2021 — Marking Time, Horace Williams House (with Susan Finer), Chapel Hill, NC
2019 — Acid Rain, Attic 506, Chapel Hill, NC
2019 — DesignInquiry: Futurespective, Institute of Contemporary Art, MECA, Portland, ME
2019 — Another Potato Chip Weekend, Gallery Oneoneone Annex, Carrboro, NC
2019 — Ambiguous Territory [traveling], Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2019 — Black Hole/Atomic City, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2019 — Ambiguous Territory [traveling], Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
2018 — Digital Disobedience, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2018 — Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
2018 — Ambiguous Territory [traveling], University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2017 — Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2016 — Data Materialities, SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Gallery, Anaheim, CA
2016 — Artifact and Process, Weeks Gallery, Jamestown, NY
2015 — Different Data Detroit+Stockholm, NORDES 2015, Stockholm, Sweden (with Joshua Singer and Daniel McCafferty)
2014 — Different Data Detroit, Depe Space/MOCAD, Detroit, MI (with Joshua Singer, Daniel McCafferty, and Patricio Davila)
2014 — Acting in Translation, SIGGRAPH 2014 Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (curated by Basak Senova)
2013 — Praxis and Poetics, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art,  Gateshead, UK
2010 — Art in the Air, PECO Crown Lights, Philadelphia, PA
2009 — Art in Academia, Space 301, Mobile, AL
2008 — Media X,1708 Gallery,  Richmond, VA
2008 — Overload Virtual Art Collection, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2008 — Paperwork In, On, and Of Paper IV, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2007 — Gallery 400, Pathogeographies: Or Other People’s Baggage, Chicago, IL
2007 — Titles: An Exhibition of Artists’ Book Works, Balfour Books, Toronto, Canada
2007 — The Drawing Room, Fine Arts Gallery VCU, Richmond, VA

Publications (selected)
2022 — Ambiguous Territory exhibition catalog, Actar Publishers
2019 — AIGA Frontier conference proceedings (with Joshua Singer)
2018 — Displacements journal. Reality/Fiction, Vol.2, pg 50–54, GIPC Cultural Landscape Research Group, Madrid, Spain
2016 — Design Cities: Berlin, DesignInquiry publisher
2015 — Reflections on Research through Design, Studies in Material Thinking: Visual/Textual, Vol 13, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
2015 — Cumulus: The Virtuous Circle, conference proceedings (with Joshua Singer)
2014 — Leonardo, Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology, SIGGRAPH 2014, Volume 47, Number 4
2013 — Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design, conference proceedings
2013 — Make/Do, DesignInquiry publisher

Lectures + Presentations (selected)
2024 — Artist talk, Imagination and Collage panel, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
2021 — 1708 Gallery, virtual
2020 — Southeastern College Art Conference, virtual
2016 — AIGA Design Educators Conference, Frontier, Bozeman, MT
2016 — VCU, Department of Graphic Design, Richmond, VA (with Joshua Singer and Daniel McCafferty)
2016 — SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
2016 — Weeks Gallery, Gallery talk ‘Artifact and Process,’ Jamestown, NY
2016 — Design Colloquium, College Art Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
2015 — Mapping Ephemeralities, Art & Cartography, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015 — DesignInquiry NO QUO, Vinalhaven, ME
2015 — Live interview at Cumulus, EuDesignRadio, Milan, Italy (with Joshua Singer)
2015 — Cumulus: The Virtuous Circle, Milan, Italy (with Joshua Singer)
2014 — GIS Day—Discovering the World through GIS, Champaign, IL
2014 — Re: the City, Humanities Center Symposium, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2014 — Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2014 — SIGGRAPH 2014 Art Gallery Talks, Vancouver, Canada
2013 — New Paradigms in Teaching and Learning, AICAD Symposium, Baltimore, MD
2013 — Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2013 — Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2013 — DesignInquiry Station, Vinalhaven, ME
2012 — Remaking Research, AICAD Symposium, Vancouver, Canada
2012 — DesignInquiry/Design City: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 — Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
2011 — DesignInquiry: Make/Do, Vinalhaven, ME
2010 — College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
2009 — College Art Association Conference | ARTspace, Los Angeles, CA
2008 — Southeastern College Art Conference, (presented with Stephanie Hutin), New Orleans, LA

Artist + Scholar Residencies (selected)
2025 — L’internationale Museum of the Commons Summer School: Landscape (Post) Conflict, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) & National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland
2014 — with DesignInquiry DEPE Space, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI
2007 — Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

Graphic Design (selected clients)
College of Visual and Performing Arts, UNCG / Ideas on Purpose, New York, NY / Leah Sobsey, Durham, NC / Tungsten Branding, Asheville, NC / Sheryl Oring, Greensboro, NC / Barbara Campbell Thomas, Greensboro, NC / Revolve/MAP, Asheville, NC / The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA / College of Arts and Architecture, University of North Carolina Charlotte / Ron Johnson, Richmond, VA / Stephen Vitiello, Richmond, VA / Department of Sculpture + Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA / Graduate Artists Association, VCU, Richmond, VA / Department of Kinetic Imaging, VCU, Richmond, VA

Typography + Coding Workshops Taken
2022 — Generative Typography (workshop with Lynne Yun & Kevin Yeh), Type at Cooper, Cooper Union
2021 — Pattern and Animation with Python & Drawbot (workshop with Maurice Meilleur), Typographics Festival
2021 — Animating with Risographs (workshop with Kelli Anderson)
2021 — Artist-centred Platforms (workshop with Craig Fahner)
2021 — Python for Visual Designers (workshop with David Jonathan Ross), Type at Cooper
2021 — Creative Writing with Computation (workshop with Allison Parrish), Anderson Ranch Arts Center
2021 — Coding for Artists P5.js (workshop with Ari Melenciano), Anderson Ranch Arts Center
2019 — Blow-Up: Exploration and Discovery (workshop with Casey Reas), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2018 — Animating Video with Code: Generative Cinema (workshop with Casey Reas), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2016 — Text as Image, Type as Thought (workshop with Marianne Dages), Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

Skills 
intermediate and advanced proficiency:
Processing, p5.js, Python, Jupyter Notebook, Drawbot, HTML, CSS, Glitch, WordPress, Figma
Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere, Media Encoder, Acrobat)
Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Office, Keynote, Google Workspace

Languages
English (native)
German (intermediate/advanced proficiency)
French (intermediate)