About Rachel
Rachel is an artist, shoemaker and sometimes-poet.
She is currently working on small films and big ideas at the University of Santa Barbara California, and at home among the avocado trees.
She seeks a more just world for all creatures.

Rachel Corry
b. Santa Cruz 1982
lives and works in Santa Barbara CA
Education
2025 - 2027 MFA UCSB
2000 - 2004 BA UCLA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 ‘Appleshaped earth/ Xerox Queen’ Gospel Flat Gallery, Bolinas CA
2010 ‘Candy, Grass, Apples, Ads’ General Store, San Francisco CA
2008 'Vegetable Parinirvana' anniversary, Private residence, San Francisco CA
2007 'Now All the Fun is Indoors' Tartine bakery, San Francisco CA
2007 'Vegetable Parinirvana' performance, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA
Group Exhibitions
2025 ‘Eden dreams in Blueprints’ Glass Box Gallery, UCSB Santa Barbara CA
2025 ‘Dream Juice’ Portland Community College's Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland OR
2024 'Shoe Show' Working Loose, Blue Hill MA
2024 ‘Rock Show’ Working Loose, Blue Hill MA
2024 ‘Between Dreams and Reality’ Bespoke Footwear, Penland Gallery, Bakersville NC
2023 ‘Hand Made in America’ Center for Design and Material Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017 ‘Fauvist Group Show’ Association Gallery, Portland OR
2011 ‘The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Group’ 0FR Gallery, Paris France
2011 ‘In Search of The Emerald City’ Mollusk at the Beach Gallery, Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan
2010 ‘Bread Show’ Tartine Bakery, San Francisco CA
2009 Adobe Books 20th Anniversary Annual Art Auction, Adobe Books, San Francisco CA
2008 'Cat People' Tartine bakery, San Francisco CA
2007 ‘Cali in CPH, Part Two: Bucket of Ice’ co-lab Gallery, Copenhagen Denmark
2006 'The Magic Stone in the Secret Cave' Floral Gallery, Oakland CA
2006 'Flowers & Shapes' Tartine bakery, San Francisco CA
2005 'Faith' Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA
2004 'Everyone Loves a Parade', Wight Gallery, University of Los Angeles CA
Curatorial Work
2024 Shoe Show Working Loose, Blue Hill ME
2022 OPEM S&S Corner Shop & Gallery, East Hampton NY
2017 Fauvist Group Show, Association Gallery, Portland OR
2006-2012 Tartine Bakery, San Francisco CA
Extra
Ultraviolet Books Publishing 2021-Current
Guest teaching at Santa Barbara Middle School Sandal Class 2022
Guest shoemaking lecture at Bolinas-Stinson School 2021
Sandalmaking Workshop published with Storey 2021
KSMOCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art) Mentor Program 2017-2019
Founded Fauvist Online Art Gallery 2017-2019
Life Drawing Events at Yale Union in Portland OR 2016-2020
Co-founded Pansy Co 2013- Current
Founded Rachel Sees Snail Shoes 2010-Current






