Bio:

Rachel Guardiola is an interdisciplinary artist and naturalist with a studio practice focused on analog and digital lens based technology. Her work explores the human relationship to wilderness through the construction of other earths, mythological topographies inspired by periods of solitary navigation amongst extreme landscapes. Inspired by science fiction and the fantastic, her work playfully teeters between fact and fiction to reveal environments of the uncanny. Rachel is currently Faculty of Photography and Digital Media at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She has been a recipient of the Hamiltonian Artist Fellowship and Studio Residency at School 33 Art Center. Rachel has exhibited internationally with List í Ljósi, Rhizome, The Halide Project, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Analog Cookbook, Light City Baltimore, Wassaic Project, Dakar Biennale de l’Art Contemporain, Sydney College of the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, and Washington Project for the Arts amongst others. She has been an Artist in Residence at MASS MoCA, A.I.R. Gallery Governors Island, Arctic Circle Art & Science Expedition, HEIMA, Vermont Studio Center, and Atelier de Visu. She received an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Rachel has served as an Environmental Education Extension Agent for Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa where she is also  certified in agroforestry and environmental health specific to the sub-Saharan region of the Sahel. 

 

Photographic Mediums:

Color Darkroom

Black + White Darkroom

35 mm + Medium Format Film

Cameraless Photography

8 + 16 mm Cinematic Film 

Photo + Film Experimental Darkroom Processes

Analog Sound Experimental Processes

Pin-hole Photography

Cyanotype

Van Dyke