Rachelle Dang (b. Honolulu, Hawai`i) is a Brooklyn-based artist and a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow (2023). Her sculptures and installations examine interwoven histories and complex environmental connections, bringing together historical facts, botanical research, generational memory, and poetic allusion. Her exhibitions include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2024-26); Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (2024-25); Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME (2024-25); Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY (2023-24); Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY (2019-20); and Haverford College Art Galleries, Philadelphia, PA (2019). She has received awards from the Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (2024), New York Foundation for the Arts (2023), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2021), and Puffin Foundation (2022). Dang received her BA from Wellesley College and her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. She teaches at Hunter College and Yale School of Art.
Awards, Fellowships, and Residencies:
Yale School of Art Faculty Grant, Personal Practice Award (2025)
New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture (2023)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace, New York, NY (2022-23)
Museum of Arts and Design, Artist Fellowship, New York, NY (2022)
Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2022)
Yaddo Foundation Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY (2021)
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant: Visual Arts (2021)
Wave Hill, Winter Workspace, Bronx, NY (2021)
A.I.R. Gallery, Artist Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY (2019-2020)
Smack Mellon, Artist Studio Program Residency, Brooklyn, NY (2019-2020)
Socrates Sculpture Park, Emerging Artist Fellowship, Long Island City, NY (2019)
Sculpture Space, Emerging Sculptor Fellowship and Residency, Utica, NY (2018)
Shandaken: Storm King Art Center Residency, New Windsor, NY (2018)
Cooper Union Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY (2018)
Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017)
Public Art:
Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Program, Honolulu, HI (Permanent Collection)
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2024-26)
Lighthouse Works Public Art Commission, Fishers Island, NY (2023)
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY (2019-2020)
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:
SOMEDAY, New York, NY (2022)
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (fellowship exhibition, 2020)
Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY (2019)
mh PROJECT nyc, New York, NY (2019)
Motel, Brooklyn, NY (2018)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2024-2026)
Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME (2024-2025)
Museum of Arts and Design, Craft Front & Center, New York, NY (2024-2025)
Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Kahului, HI (2024)
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2023)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2022)
SOMEDAY, New York, NY (2021-2022)
Museum of Arts and Design, Burke Prize Exhibition, New York, NY (online 2021)
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY (2021)
Fergus McCaffrey, St. Barth (2021)
FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY (2021)
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2021)
Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY (2020-2021)
Fergus McCaffrey, New York, NY (2019)
Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Haverford College Art Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, (2019)
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY (2018)
Cooper Union, New York, NY (2018)
Hunter College, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY (2018)
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2018)
Hawai`i Pacific University, Kane`ohe, HI (2013)
Honolulu Museum of Art, Artists of Hawai`i Biennial, Honolulu, HI (2011)
Selected Press and Publications:
Art in America, “What Gardens Tell Us About How Humans View Nature,” Kelly Presutti, March 2025
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, A Garden of Promise and Dissent, exhibition catalogue, 2025
Artsy, “5 Artists on our Radar,” Jordan Huelskamp and Artsy Editorial, January 2024
Artforum, “Review: Where the threads are worn,” Zoë Lescaze, Summer 2021
https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202106/where-the-threads-are-worn-85805
https://caseykaplangallery.com/news/artforum-review-where-the-threads-are-worn/
BOMB Magazine, “Entanglements Across Time and Space: Rachelle Dang Interviewed by Louis Bury,” April 2021
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/entanglements-across-time-and-space-rachelle-dang-interviewed/
Art Spiel, “Daughters of Lam at FiveMyles,” May 2021
http://artspiel.org/daughters-of-lam-at-fivemyles/
Whitehot Magazine, “Land Akin at Smack Mellon,” Sophia Ma, February 2021
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/land-akin-at-smack-mellon/4880
Dovetail Magazine, “Rachelle Dang: Couroupita/Corpus at A.I.R. Gallery,” Adriana Furlong, December 2020
https://dovetailmag.com/rachelle-dang-couroupita-corpus-air-gallery/
Shirley Fiterman Art Center, ID: Formations of the Self, exhibition publication with interview, September 2020
https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/sfac/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ID_Brochure.pdf
Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, “The Pacific Decay in Rachelle Dang’s Southern Oceans,” Kelly I. Chung, August 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6ZCEYFPHEQ34BGK7B3QK/full?target=10.1080/0740770X.2020.1791394
Brooklyn Rail, “Rachelle Dang: Uncertain Haven,” Valentina Di Liscia, November 2019
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/11/artseen/Rachelle-Dang-Uncertain-Haven
Hyperallergic, “Rachelle Dang’s Meditation on Past and Present,” Louis Bury, July 2019
https://hyperallergic.com/508796/rachelle-dangs-meditation-on-past-and-present/
Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, “In Conversation with Rachelle Dang,” Tansy Xiao, January/February 2020
https://yishu-online.com/browse-articles/?1024
Hyperallergic, “A New Generation of Artists Confronts Environmental and Colonial Issues,” Zachary Small, September 2019
https://hyperallergic.com/519054/2019-socrates-annual/
Body Literature, “Interview with sculptor Rachelle Dang,” Jessica Mensch, April 2019.
https://www.bodyliterature.com/2019/04/24/interview-with-sculptor-rachelle-dang/
Haverford College Art Galleries, “Your Special Island,” curatorial essay by Courtney Lynne Carter and Maya Berrol-Young, February 2019. https://yourspecialisland.wordpress.com/curatorial-essay/
C#18 Christie’s Education Magazine, “Emerging Artist: Rachelle Dang,” Emma Payne, November 2018
https://issuu.com/christies_education/docs/c_18_art__210x297__webspreads_lo2
Brooklyn Rail, “Rachelle Dang: Southern Oceans,” Nina Wolpow, October 2018
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/
Public Collections:
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Collection, Honolulu, HI
Teaching:
Yale School of Art, Critic, Painting/Printmaking (2021-Present)
Hunter College, CUNY, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History (2019-Present)
Education:
M.F.A. 2018, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
B.A. 2001, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
rachelledang@gmail.com
Instagram: @rachelledang.studio