Biography
Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, wearables and performance to explore feminist identity within popular culture. She attended the College of the Holy Cross and holds a Master’s degree in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions, Welcome to the Bob House, at 3SArtspace in Portsmouth, NH, 2016 and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet at the Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH 2019. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO 2013. She was a Fulbright Core Scholar artist-in-residence at quartier21 in Vienna, Austria in 2014. In 2015, she was a Clowes Fund Fellow at Vermont Studio Center. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH.
She recently curated the exhibition, Always Be Around: Corita Kent, Community and Pedagogy, at the Cantor Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross, featuring the work of artist, educator and social justice advocate Corita Kent and eleven contemporary artists including Lee Walton, Christine Sun Kim and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo.
News, Research, & Publications
Always Be Around, Cantor Art Gallery, 2023 https://alwaysbearound.holycross.edu/
Art in Odd Places, 2024, CARE https://care.artinoddplaces.org/artists/careier/
NH PBS, Our Hometown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDww-4pXBA0
NH PBS, Our Hometown https://video.nhpbs.org/video/berlin-rachelle-beaudoin-rjnjci/?utm_source=nhpbs-schedule&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=nhpbs-web
Painting At Night, Painting at Night, with Collar Works and the Artist/Mother podcast, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY curated by Sean Desiree and Alissa Sikelianos-Carter
Collar Works, https://www.collarworks.org/painting-at-night-2024
Worcester Art Museum, Central Mass Artist Initiative, curated by Sam Cataldo
https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/cmai/rachelle-beaudoin/
Aldredge, Michelle, Studio Visit, Rachelle Beaudoin, Art New England Magazine, September/October, 2019, vol 4, issue 5, page 16. https://artnewengland.com/ed_columns/rachelle-beaudoin/
Makey Makey Featured Educator https://makeymakey.com/blogs/blog/featured-educator-rachelle-beaudoin-at-college-of-holy-cross?srsltid=AfmBOoqWWP2RIopBR1HgMZgQTuSIlsKDtWwKsZOcZLSJSLh6Mxj79vxy
Clubs & Organizations
Student Art Society /HCArt
Children and the Arts, Peterborough NH, https://www.childrenandthearts.org/