BFA Sculpture and Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art
Rachel Yurkovich was born in South Carolina but lived most of her developing years in Skopje, North Macedonia, and Prague, Czechia.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2014. With an interest in living things and their movement as a medium, her work often ends up as video. Rachel was granted the 2014 First Agnes Gund Traveling Award, which allowed her to travel to Chernobyl, Ukraine for filming in the Spring of 2016. Following this opportunity, Rachel's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), Bruce Gallery (Edinboro, PA), the Cleveland Botanical Garden (Cleveland, OH), and the Matthaei Botanical Gardens (Ann Arbor, MI). Her videos have also been featured in film festivals such as the Barcelona Planet Film Festival (Spain), the Berlin Flash Film Festival (Germany), and the Sandalia Sustainability Film Festival (Sassari, Italy).
Rachel is inspired by her role at CIA's Interactive Media Lab as Associate Director of Technology, and helping creatives bring their ideas to life with all of the new technology there.
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