C.V.
Education
2014 Duke University Durham, NC
Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts, May 2014
2010 Tufts University Medford, MA
Bachelor of Arts, May 2010
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) Boston, MA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 2010
Select Clients:
The New Yorker, New York Times Opinion, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Wall St Journal, The Guardian, Garden & Gun Magazine
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Small Works @ F22 Gallery, Chicago IL
Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR (solo)
2022 This is Kentucky: Past, Present, and Future N. KY U School of the Arts, Highland Heights, KY
Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
The Nature of the Future: Artists Explore the Anthropocene Leu Gallery, Nashville TN
The Beauty in Madness Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis MN (received Curator’s Choice Award)
Visage: Face with a View Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Vantage Point: The View from Here Lafayette City Center, Boston MA
2021 Big Town, Small City MVA Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South The Windgate Museum of at Hendrix College Conway, AR
Unveiled: The Watkins College of Art at Belmont University Leu Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
2020 Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Hunter Museum Chattanooga, TN
2019 Appalachia aff Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (solo show)
Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau Gammill Gallery at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (solo show)
Louisville Photo Biennial Louisville, KY
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Gregg Museum of Art + Design, Raleigh, NC
Positive/Negative Juried Exhibition Slocumb Gallery at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Tangibility of Faith Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2018
Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA (solo show)
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
The 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography Barcelona, Spain
Photography Comes First and Language Follows Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN
Slow Exposures: Celebrating Photography of the Rural South Annual Photography Festival, Zebulon, GA
24th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition Griffin Museum of Photography, Concord, MA
2017
Down the Valley Lincoln Memorial University Art Center, Cumberland Gap, TN
There’s Content The Rubenstein Library at Duke University, Durham, NC
North Carolina: A Sense of Home The Bascom Center for Visual Arts, Highlands, NC
Southern Accent Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
The Female Lens: Photography from the Do Good Fund Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
2016
Southern Accent Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Post Script Half King Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Where We Live: Photographs of North Carolina The Rubenstein Library at Duke University, Durham, NC
Silent Ballad Lincoln Memorial University Art Center, Cumberland Gap, TN (solo)
Post Script Amery A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Westbury, Westbury, NY (solo)
Pictures of Us: the Do Good Fund Collection Lyndon House Foundation for the Arts, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2015
ReGeneration 3 Museo de Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Silent Ballad Framer’s Corner Gallery, Carrboro, NC (solo)
Southern Exposure Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Unbound 4 Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Do Good Fund Collection Greensboro Gallery, Greensboro, AL
ReGeneration 3 Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
SPE Juried Caucus Exhibition University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
SPE Juried Caucus Exhibition Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2014
Picture Books Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC
Ain’t Bad at Art Now Morris Museum, Augusta, GA
InFocus Juried Exhibition of Self-Published PhotoBooks Phoenix Art Museum
Southeast Arts Summit Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Post Script Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC (solo)
Publications / Selected Bibliography
2022 Reckoning and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund University of Georgia
2019 Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau Daylight Books
2018 Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Exhibit Catalog, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Hawkins, Nicole. “The Curator’s Choice: Rachel Boillot.” Ain’t Bad Magazine Issue No. 13
2016 Ryder, Katie. “The Elderly Bearers of a Folk-Music Tradition in Rural Tennessee.” The New Yorker Photo Booth May 22, 2016
Stroud, Emily. “Photography book by LMU Art Professor tells an important story.” WBIR Knoxville NBC News. May 16, 2016
Stasio, Frank. “Where We Live: Photography Between Decades.” The State of Things, WUNC North Carolina Public Radio. April 28, 2016
Rosenberg, David. “The Disappearing Post Offices of the Rural South.” Slate Magazine’s Behold blog, April 3, 2016
Southern Accent Duke University Press
2015 Simmons, Morgan. “Cumberland Trail’s Sandrock Recordings anlike any in world.” Knoxville News Sentinel, December 20, 2015, Page 1A.
Parry, Hannah. “Photographer Rachel Boillot documents disappearance of the USPS.” Daily Mail UK, September 27, 2015.
Regeneration 3 Skira Rizzoli Publishing, Milan, Italy
2014 Simmons, Morgan. “Music of the Cumberlands: Photographer, 27, Captures Old Timers.” The Knoxville News Sentinel, July 7, 2014, Page 1A
Stasio, Frank. “Photographer Documents Post Offices Closings Across Rural South.” The State of Things, WUNC North Carolina Public Radio. May 13, 2014
Post Script Limited Edition Hardcover Publication, Edition of 100 (sold out)