Rachel Hayes received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Fiber, and her MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Award in Painting and Sculpture, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in Sculpture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship in Sculpture, Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, and a Charlotte Street Fund Award.
Hayes has attended the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, New York; Sculpture Space Residency, New York; Art Omi International Artists' Residency, New York, Roswell Artist-in-Residence program in Roswell, NM, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, OK.
She has shown her work at the Sculpture Center in New York; Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; Roswell Museum of Art, New Mexico; Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, New Hampshire; and with BravinLee Programs. Hayes has completed commissions for Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, Bloomberg Headquarters in NY, NY, and for the Rosslyn Business Improvement District in Washington D.C.
Rachel has collaborated with the Italian fashion house Missoni on four projects, culminating with a solo exhibition in Milan. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, The Cut, Interior Design, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Art Forum and Art Papers, and she was featured in the new documentary ‘Being Missoni’.
She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Lowell Ryan Projects in Los Angeles opening April 18th, 2020.