Rachel Eckstein Ritchford is an American-born Dutch artist based in Normandy, France. She has shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions across North America, Europe, and Australia. Her upcoming solo exhibition, opening in spring 2027 in Rouen, will be her first exhibition in France. Past solo exhibitions were held at The Rathouse, Berlin; The Envirome Institute; Mt. Comfort; and The Yard, New York, amongst others. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Field Projects, New York; BAG Gallery, Brooklyn; MiM Gallery, Los Angeles; 50,000feet, Chicago; TW Fine Art, Brisbane; Oravská Galéria, Dolný Kubín; Gallery Univerzum, Nitra; Nightingale Gallery; Maybe It’s Fate; and the Indianapolis Art Center.
Her career includes funding and residencies from multiple institutions. She has received a Union League Chicago Civic & Arts Foundation Award; the Ellen Batell Stoeckel Fellowship; Telefund Scholarship for Painting (Herron School of Art); a Master of Fine Arts Fellowship and a Past Fellows Fund Project Grant, both from the Dedalus Foundation. Residencies include the Chashama Workspace Residency in Manhattan, The Rathouse Studio Residency in Berlin, The Beagle Symposium in Amsterdam, the Multipoint International Painting Residency in Nitra, Slovakia, and she also attended the Yale University Summer School at Norfolk.
She holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she attended on a Trustee Scholarship and a Graduate Fellowship, and a BFA from the Herron School of Art.