ALEXIS
RAUSCH
ALEXIS V. RAUSCH - ARTIST b. 1995 (SHE/HER/HERS)
Living between the realms of foreign and familiar, my work explores physical manifestations of borrowed memory and our relationship (and often desensitization towards) to contemporary perpetuations of violence. By creating visual and tactile tension between what attracts and repulses the viewer, I use religious iconography, digital-age ritualism, and the deterioration of the body to explore how we choose to neglect or memorialize these moments.
Education
2013-2018
BFA, Magna Cum Laude,
Painting and Drawing Emphasis, University of Utah
2013-2015
Part-Time Apprentice at the Hein Academy of Art, UT
2022
TC2 Jacquard Loom certified operator, Cleveland, OH
Awards
2022
2020
2019
2017
2017
2015
2015
2013-2016
2014
2014
Hyperlink Art Collective Associate Artist-in-Residence, various locations
UDAM Emergency Art Grant Awardee, SLC, UT
Summer Artist-in-Residence, Paul Artspace, Ferguson, MO
Jurors' Award, Annual Springville Salon, Springville, UT
CUAC Utah Ties Exhibition Honorarium Recipient, Salt Lake City, UT
E.J. Bird Memorial Scholarship, Salt Lake City, UT
First Place Award, U of U Student Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT
Fine Arts Departmental Scholarship, Salt Lake City, UT
Honorable Mention, Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, Bountiful, UT
Utah State Fine Arts Advisory Board Scholarship, Salt Lake City, UT
2022
2020
2019
2018
Solo Exhibitions
Nobody likes it here, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, SLC, UT
BADMANTOWN, The Open Room, Sugarhouse, UT (Postponed)
Intrapsychic Paranoia, Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, SLC, UT
The Sinners We Are, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Annual Statewide Exhibition, Ogden Contemporary Art Center, Ogden, UT
2021
2020
2020
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
2018
2018
2017
2017
2016
2015
Annual Statewide Exhibition, Bountiful Davis Art Center, SLC, UT
From Before To Now, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, SLC, UT
35 x 35 Exhibition, Finch Lane Gallery, SLC, UT
Spirit of St. Louis, Rathaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart Germany
Paul Artspace 2019 Review, The Bermuda Project Gallery, Ferguson, MO
Annual Springville Salon, Springville, UT
Ocean Front Property, Rectangle Studio, SLC, UT
Hidden Voices, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
Overlay, Studio Eleven, Salt Lake City, UT
Statewide Juried Exhibition, Bountiful Davis Arts Center, Bountiful, UT
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot, Mestizo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Utah Ties, CUAC Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
DAC Opening Show, Downtown Artist Collective, Salt Lake City, UT
Drawing on the Past Presented by Booooooom x Herschel Supply Co, Burrards Art Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
Publications
Alexis Rausch Unpacks America’s Desensitization to Violence, by Bianca Velazquez for Southwest Cntemporary Magazine
Alexis Rausch Explores Memory, Identity and Travel Embargoes in UMOCA Exhibit, by Geoff Wichert for 15 Bytes Art Magazine
Artist of the Week: Alexis Rausch, by Hannah Keating for The Daily Utah Chronicle
2023
2023
2020