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Rachel Mica Weiss (b. Rockville, MD, 1986) is a sculptor and installation artist based in the Hudson Valley. Her work reconstitutes various boundaries—architectural, topographical, and psychological—to demonstrate their impact upon us. Her sculptures, often scaled to the human body, combine the visual language of textiles with the density of stone and cast forms—components that balance uneasily, vie for dominance, or are inextricably intertwined. Weiss’s work draws attention to the constraints within our physical and psychological spaces, asking us to reimagine those so-called barriers as flexible, passable, porous.

Weiss earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College, an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of: an Investing in Professional Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments (2020) and a San Francisco Foundation Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship (2011); she was named a Hopper Prize finalist (2019). She has been invited to the Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL (2020), funded by the Heinz Endowments; 100 W Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, Corsicana, TX (2020), funded by a Navarro Council for the Arts Grant; Lux Art Institute Residency, Encinitas, CA (2018); and Marble House Project Residency, Dorset, VT (2015), among other residencies.

Weiss has been the subject of seven solo exhibitions at the following venues: Here, Pittsburgh, PA (2022-23) ; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2019) ; Lux Art Institute, San Diego, CA (2018); LMAK Gallery, New York, NY (2018, 2017); Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2015); Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (2014); the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2013). Weiss has created public artworks for venues worldwide, including for the US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Airbnb, Seattle, WA; and The Pittsburgh International Airport. Recent commissions include The Wild Within for the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and Boundless Topographies, her largest permanent installation to date, which was funded by the Gates Foundation and recently installed at the University of Washington’s Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in Seattle.

Weiss’ work is included in several public and private collections such as: the US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Microsoft Corporate Collection; Boston Consulting Group Corporate Collection; Media Math Corporate Collection; Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, as well as the collections of Francis J. Greenberger, Beth Rudin deWoody and The Weissman Family.

Rachel Mica Weiss is represented by Carvalho Park, New York.