Rachel Eng

Rachel Eng (she/her) is a visual artist working in installation, sculpture, and photography. Her work draws from the writings of scientists, activists, and creatives, like Max Liboiron, Dina Gilo-Whitaker, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lauret Savoy, and Anna Tsing who discuss the interconnectedness of non-human life forms and humans. Her work is interested in the agency of materials and their reciprocal impacts on human behaviors and how this connects to land use/development and climate change. Projects often utilize video mapped projections, clay and mineral materials, and site specific works which are often times ephemeral, speaking to change, decay, and regeneration. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and she currently lives in Carlisle, PA with her husband, Mitch Shiles and their son, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Dickinson College. Our landscape has been shaped for billions of years, but more recently human’s decisions have left scars. How can humans learn to have more reciprocal relationships with our planet and each other versus ones solely based on extraction? These ideas are not new, indigenous cultures have and continue to teach and share knowledge in the importance of reciprocity and interconnectedness.