Rachelle Dang (b. Honolulu, Hawaii) has exhibited her work in New York at Socrates Sculpture Park, Fergus McCaffrey, Nathalie Karg Gallery, Motel, Hunter College, Cooper Union, mh PROJECT nyc, Underdonk, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Additional exhibitions include the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii Pacific University, Detroit Art Week Young Curators New Ideas V, and the Haverford College Art Galleries. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo project space exhibition at Lesley Heller Gallery and a solo fellowship exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery. Dang has been an artist-in-residence at Shandaken: Storm King Art Center, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Cooper Union, Vermont Studio Center, and Sculpture Space where she received an Emerging Sculptor Fellowship. She was awarded a 2019-2020 residency with the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, a 2019 Emerging Artist Fellowship with Socrates Sculpture Park, a 2019-2020 Fellowship with A.I.R. Gallery, and was recently nominated for the Dedalus MFA Fellowship and the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Her recent solo exhibitions have been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. Dang received an MFA from Hunter College in 2018.
Born Honolulu, Hawaii. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Education:
M.F.A. Hunter College, New York, NY
B.A. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Awards and Residencies:
Smack Mellon Artist Studio Residency (2019-2020)
A.I.R. Gallery Artist Fellowship (2019-2020)
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2019)
Sculpture Space, Emerging Sculptor Fellowship and Residency (2018)
Shandaken: Storm King Art Center Residency (2018)
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist in New York Grant Nominee (2018)
Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship Nominee (2018)
Cooper Union Artist-in-Residence (2018)
The Studios at MASS MoCA Artist-in-Residence (2017)
Evelyn Kranes Kossak Travel Grant (2017)
Hunter College MFA Mid-Program Award (2016)
Vermont Studio Center Residency and Scholarship Award (2015)
Selected Exhibitions:
A.I.R. Fellowship Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY (2020, solo exhibition, upcoming)
Lesley Heller Gallery, Project Space, New York, NY (2019, solo exhibition, upcoming)
Socrates Sculpture Park, The Socrates Annual 2019, Long Island City, NY (2019)
Detroit Art Week, Young Curators, New Ideas V (2019, two-person exhibition)
mh PROJECT nyc, New York, NY (2019, solo exhibition)
Super Dutchess, New York, NY (2019, solo exhibition)
Fergus McCaffrey, New York, NY (2019)
Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (2019, two-person exhibition)
Haverford College Art Galleries, Philadelphia, PA (2019, three-person exhibition)
Motel, Brooklyn, NY (2018, solo exhibition)
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY (2018)
Cooper Union Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, New York, NY (2018)
Hunter College, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY (2018)
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2018)
TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2015)
Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (2015)
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (2014, 2015)
Hawaii Pacific University Art Gallery, Kaneohe, HI (2013, two-person exhibition)
Honolulu Museum of Art, Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu, HI (2012)
Honolulu Museum of Art, Artists of Hawaii Biennial, Honolulu, HI (2011)
Selected Press and Publications:
Hyperallergic, “Rachelle Dang’s Meditation on Past and Present,” Louis Bury, July 2019
https://hyperallergic.com/508796/rachelle-dangs-meditation-on-past-and-present/
B O D Y Poetry Prose Word, “Interview with sculptor Rachelle Dang,” Jessica Mensch, April 2019.
https://bodyliterature.com/interview-with-rachelle-dang/
Haverford College Art Galleries, “Your Special Island: Andrea Chung, Rachelle Dang, Ming Wong,” catalog and essay by Courtney Lynne Carter and Maya Berrol-Young, February 2019. https://yourspecialisland.wordpress.com/curatorial-essay/
Brooklyn Rail “Rachelle Dang: Southern Oceans,” Nina Wolpow, October 2018 (print edition)
https://brooklynrail.org/2018/10/artseen/Rachelle-Dang-Southern-Oceans
Hyperallergic, “Laughter and Tears in Hunter College’s MFA Thesis Show,” Zachary Small, May 2018
https://hyperallergic.com/444514/hunter-college-2018-mfa-thesis-exhibition/
Whitehot Magazine, “Stepping into Spring Before It Was Warm Outside,” Daryl King, May 2018
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/before-it-was-warm-outside/3945
rachelledang@gmail.com
Instagram: @rachelledang.studio