Contact me for my full CV: rachele[at]racheleriley[dot]com
EDUCATION
MFA, Design/Visual Communication, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, 2005
Vordiplom, Communication Design, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design, Halle, Germany, 2001
BS, Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY, 1994
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG):
Associate Professor of New Media and Design, 2023–present + Assistant Professor of New Media and Design, 2017–2023
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, 2014–2017
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, 2009–2014
University of North Carolina Charlotte: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, 2007–2009
Virginia Commonwealth University: Administrative Director and Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging, 2005–2007
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Imagination and Collage, Artist Replete Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2024
InLight 2021, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2021
Marking Time, Horace Williams House (with Susan Finer), Chapel Hill, NC, 2021
Acid Rain, Attic 506, Chapel Hill, NC, 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, 2019
Digital Disobedience, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, 2018
Ambiguous Territory [traveling], University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2018
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2017
Data Materialities, SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Gallery, Anaheim, CA, 2016
Artifact and Process, Weeks Gallery, Jamestown, NY, 2016
Different Data Detroit+Stockholm, NORDES 2015, Stockholm, Sweden (with Joshua Singer and Daniel McCafferty), 2015
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), 2014
Praxis and Poetics, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2013
Art in the Air, PECO Crown Lights, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Art in Academia, Space 301, Mobile, AL, 2009
Media X,1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2008
Paperwork In, On, and Of Paper IV, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, 2008
Gallery 400, Pathogeographies: Or Other People’s Baggage, Chicago, IL, 2007
Titles: An Exhibition of Artists’ Book Works, Balfour Books, Toronto, Canada, 2007
A Wander Beyond, La Cathedrale, Dublin, Ireland, 2006
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Fulbright US Scholar Program, Fulbright-Glasgow School of Art Distinguished Scholar Award, 2026–2027
Communication Arts, Award of Excellence Typography, 2018
AIGA, Philadelphia Design Award, 2017
Penland School of Crafts, Work Study Scholarship Award, 2016
The Webby Awards, Official Honoree in NetArt, 2014
DigitalGlobe Foundation, Digital Imagery Award, 2012
Print, Design Regional Issue, 2008
Outstanding MFA Student in Design Award (VCU), 2005
Travel Award to Doha, Qatar (VCU), 2004
Travel Award to Berlin, Germany (VCU), 2004
Teaching Assistantship (VCU), 2004–2005
Graduate Studies Fellowship (VCU), 2003–2004
RESIDENCIES
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) & National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Summer School: Landscape (post) Conflict, Dublin, Ireland, 2025
DesignInquiry DEPE Space, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI, 2014
DesignInquiry NoQuo, Vinalhaven, ME, 2015
DesignInquiry Station, Vinalhaven, ME, 2013
DesignInquiry Design Cities Berlin, Germany, 2012
DesignInquiry Make/DO, Vinalhaven, ME, 2011
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2007
Kimmel Harding Nelson, Nebraska City, NE, 2006
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Ambiguous Territory exhibition catalog, Actar Publishers, 2022
AIGA Frontier conference proceedings (with Joshua Singer), 2019
Displacements journal. Reality/Fiction, Vol.2, pg 50–54, GIPC Cultural Landscape Research Group, Madrid, Spain, 2018
Design Cities: Berlin, DesignInquiry publisher, 2016
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), 2015
Leonardo, Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology, SIGGRAPH 2014, Volume 47, Number 4, 2014
Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design, conference proceedings, 2013
Make/Do, DesignInquiry publisher, 2013
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
(upcoming) Archival Research in Artistic Practice panel, SECAC, 2026
Artist talk, Imagination and Collage panel, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2024
Artist talk, In Light/1708 Gallery, 2021
Southeastern College Art Conference, 2020
AIGA Design Educators Conference, Frontier, Bozeman, MT, 2016
VCU, Department of Graphic Design, Richmond, VA (with Joshua Singer and Daniel McCafferty), 2016
Artist talk, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY, 2016
Artist talk, Weeks Gallery, Artifact and Process, Jamestown, NY, 2016
Design Colloquium, College Art Association Conference, Washington, D.C., 2016
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), 2015
Artist talk, 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
Artist talk, SIGGRAPH 2014 Art Gallery Talks, Vancouver, Canada, 2014
New Paradigms in Teaching and Learning, AICAD Symposium, Baltimore, MD, 2013
Artist talk, 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, 2013
Remaking Research, AICAD Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 2012
DesignInquiry/Design City: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2012
Artist talk, Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, TX, 2012
DesignInquiry: Make/Do, Vinalhaven, ME, 2011
College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2010
College Art Association Conference | ARTspace, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
Southeastern College Art Conference, (co-presenter w/ Stephanie Hutin), New Orleans, LA, 2008
CLIENTS
Preservation Durham / 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
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Advanced proficiency:
Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, Microsoft Office, Keynote, Zoom, Slack, Google Workspace
Intermediate-advanced proficiency:
Python, Drawbot, HTML, CSS, Figma, P5.js, Processing, Jupyter Notebook
LANGUAGES
English (native)
German (intermediate-advanced proficiency)
French (intermediate)