Rachel Ara
Rachel Ara is a conceptual and data artist who explores the relationships between sex, gender, technology and systems of power. She graduated with a Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths College, London, where she won the prestigious Burston award. As a multi-disciplinary artist, she has a diverse skill set acquired from working 25 years in the tech industry to being a trained cabinet maker and combines them to make unique and often surprising installations and sculptures. The works are nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist & queer concerns.
In 2016 she won the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 for This Much I’m Worth, the self-evaluating artwork. In 2018 she was featured on the cover of the FT Wealth for her monumental version of the sculpture “This Much I’m Worth” . In 2018 Ara was made Artist in Residence at the V&A Museum in London responding to their data. That year she also showed at the Whitechapel Gallery (“This Much I’m Worth (UK Version)”), Barbican Centre (“American Beauty, a Trump L’Oeil”), Humber Street Gallery (“The Ancestors)” and the V&A (“Transubstantiation of Knowledge”). In 2019 she exhibited at the MMCA in Seoul (Vertiginous Data), MAK Vienna (Vienna Biennial 2019), V&A and completed her first public sculpture commission in London (colLAB).
Rachel Ara is a conceptual and data artist who explores the relationships between sex, gender, technology and systems of power. She graduated with a Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths College, London, where she won the prestigious Burston award. As a multi-disciplinary artist, she has a diverse skill set acquired from working 25 years in the tech industry to being a trained cabinet maker and combines them to make unique and often surprising installations and sculptures. The works are nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist & queer concerns.
In 2016 she won the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 for This Much I’m Worth, the self-evaluating artwork. In 2018 she was featured on the cover of the FT Wealth for her monumental version of the sculpture “This Much I’m Worth” . In 2018 Ara was made Artist in Residence at the V&A Museum in London responding to their data. That year she also showed at the Whitechapel Gallery (“This Much I’m Worth (UK Version)”), Barbican Centre (“American Beauty, a Trump L’Oeil”), Humber Street Gallery (“The Ancestors)” and the V&A (“Transubstantiation of Knowledge”). In 2019 she exhibited at the MMCA in Seoul (Vertiginous Data), MAK Vienna (Vienna Biennial 2019), V&A and completed her first public sculpture commission in London (colLAB).
Rachel Ara is a conceptual and data artist who explores the relationships between sex, gender, technology and systems of power. She graduated with a Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths College, London, where she won the prestigious Burston award. As a multi-disciplinary artist, she has a diverse skill set acquired from working 25 years in the tech industry to being a trained cabinet maker and combines them to make unique and often surprising installations and sculptures. The works are nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist & queer concerns.
In 2016 she won the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 for This Much I’m Worth, the self-evaluating artwork. In 2018 she was featured on the cover of the FT Wealth for her monumental version of the sculpture “This Much I’m Worth” . In 2018 Ara was made Artist in Residence at the V&A Museum in London responding to their data. That year she also showed at the Whitechapel Gallery (“This Much I’m Worth (UK Version)”), Barbican Centre (“American Beauty, a Trump L’Oeil”), Humber Street Gallery (“The Ancestors)” and the V&A (“Transubstantiation of Knowledge”). In 2019 she exhibited at the MMCA in Seoul (Vertiginous Data), MAK Vienna (Vienna Biennial 2019), V&A and completed her first public sculpture commission in London (colLAB).