RACHELZARETSKY@GMAIL.COM

Rachel Zaretsky is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She works with video, performance, installation, and photography to untangle the social space of memory and how it is reconstructed in public. She examines how systems of authority frame highly publicized tragedies that mold our collective memory. Central to Zaretsky’s practice is amassing and organizing materials as evidence. She sifts through commemorative detritus, which includes found imagery, archival material, and testimony to understand what was forgotten and lost through active processes of remembering.

She received her MFA in Art from the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design and her BFA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited Human Resources, 18th Street Arts Center, and UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles; it has also been screened in New York and Germany.