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Rachelle Wunderink

Artist member since 2024
Niagara Falls, Ontario

Rachelle Wunderink is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee of “Onguiaahra” or Niagara Falls, Canada. She recently finished her Masters of Fine Arts at York University, where she was awarded The Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, (SSHRC) for her thesis exhibition. Over the past 10 years she has co-founded two separate artist collectives working mostly abroad in Taipei, Taiwan and Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has two upcoming solo exhibitions at IA&A Hillyer in Washington D.C (2024), and Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre in St.Johns (2025), and was featured in the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art’s Jump- Off exhibition, and Young Art’s Taipei with Archetype Gallery. Rachelle is a proud mother of a two year old and a newborn, and can be found in her studio listening to podcasts such as Normal Gossip, or This American Life.


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Inside the Studio


Q+A

Describe your home in 3 words

Maximalist meets mid-century

Least favourite movie

Top Gun! My partner has tried to make me watch this too many times and I always get angry at Tom Cruise.

Only thing you need when you leave the house

phone

Favourite musical artist / band right now

Mama's Broke, folk music and it speaks to me personally cause I'm a mama and I'm broke!

Favourite artist(s) right now

Hannah Hoch (always and forever), and Howardena Pindell

How long have you been creating art?

I've been creating art since I was 5. I even have my first sketchbook which has a picture of me being an artist in it.

Upcoming Exhibitions
2025-01-03

IA&A at Hillyer, Washington D.C,
Your Comfort, My Silence, (solo)

2025-01-31

Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre, St.Johns
Your Comfort, My Silence, (solo)

2025-05-08

The Artist Project, Toronto,
A Time When Men were Men, and Women were Rugs, (solo)

2026-01-09

Grand Valley State University Gallery, Grand Rapids,
Inheritance

Select Past Exhibitions
2024

Niagara Artist Centre
A Time When Men were Men, and Women were Rugs, (solo)

2023

Duluth Art Institute, Duluth,
Blankouts (solo)

2023

St.Catharines City Hall Gallery, St. Catharines
Open-ended

2023

Assembly Gallery, Hamilton,
MOTHRA: The Eclipse

2022

Hamilton Artist Inc, Hamilton,
Swarm

2021

Special Projects Gallery, York University, Toronto,
That Thing (MFA Thesis Exhibition)

2020

John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto,
You Are Here

2019

Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto,
Impulses

2018

Urbn Exhibitions, Taipei,
Isomorphic (solo)

2018

Red Room Gallery, Taipei
RED

2018

Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids,
The Jump Off

2017

Spiral Gallery, Grand Rapids,
The Calming Effect

2016

106 Gallery, Grand Rapids,
Inked, Pressed, Cut and Sewn

2014

Lei Gallery, Taichung
Retrospective Taiwan (solo)

2014

Archetype Factory, Taipei,
Work in Progress,

Accolades
2024

Ontario Arts Council
Exhibition Assistance Grant,

2024

Superframe
Framing Grant

2023

Ontario Arts Council
Exhibition Assistance Grant,

2022

Hamilton Arts Council
City Enrichment Fund,

SSHRC
The Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Ontario Student Assistance Program
Ontario Graduate Scholarship

York University
York University Graduate Fellowship

Press
2025

TBA: Journal of Art, Media and Visual Culture
Your Comfort, My Silence,

2023

SuboArt Magazine
Emerging Artists

2016

Grand Rapids Magazine
The New Artist Collective in Town

Rapid Growth Media
The Collective Artspace builds on S. Division artist community with new shared gallery, studio space

Residencies
2024

Kolaj Institute, New Orleans
Collage in Motion

2024

Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto,
MOTHRA; artist-parent residency

2024

Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto,
MOTHRA; artist-parent residency

2020

Main Street Studio, Clifton Springs,
Artist in Residence

2016

Dinderbeck Printing Studio, Grand Rapids,
Artist in Residence

2016

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
Artist in Residence

Education

York University, Toronto
Master of Fine Arts,

College of New Jersey, Ewing,
Teaching Accreditation,

Calvin University, Grand Rapids,
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art,

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