Rachael Thorleifson

Cosmos
Don’t Spread Ashes on Private Property
Moth As Guide
“Thank God I met you here”
See Bird Fly
Glass Factory
Plaza Plays Place


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Education

2026 MFA (Art In Context), Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, CZ.
2025 L'École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence Félix Ciccolini, FR.
2015 BFA (Honours), University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, CA.

Solo Exhibitions

2025 They Don’t Like Being Called Ghosts, Prague, CZ.
2023 See Bird Fly, 11m3 Projectraum, Weimar, DE.
2022 Glass Factory, PLATFORM Gallery, Winnipeg, CA.
2016 I dreamt [last night] my teeth were crumbling, Flux Gallery, Winnipeg, CA.

Group & Collective* Exhibitions

2025 An Entertainment for Angels, Neu Workshop / Jetzt, Munich, DE.
2025 *RITA (Réunions Impossibles Tout Avouer), Festival In Situ, Bazancourt, FR.
2025 Manger le soleil, Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, FR.
2024 Web, loop, circuit, line, orbit, spiral, lost, dot, Šaloun Villa, Prague, CZ.
2023 *RITA (Recesos Inevitables, Tránsitos Atemporales), KIOSK.6, Weimar, DE.
2023 *RITA (Roses In The Afternoon), Blumenhaus, Weimar, DE.
2022 *RITA (Residents in Temporary Accommodations), Segment, Dresden, DE.
2022 Pleasure Seed, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, DE.
2020 *Plaza Plays Place, Neutral Ground, Regina, CA.
2018 Clues, Duplex, Vancouver, CA.
2017 Since Then, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, CA.
2016 nùna (now): Since Then, Actual Gallery, Winnipeg, CA.
2015 Anticipating Distance, Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, CA.
2015 Exposition, PLATFORM Gallery, Winnipeg, CA.
2014 Junkhaus 1, Media Hub, Winnipeg, CA.
2012 Diorama-rama, Negative Space, Winnipeg, CA.

Organizing

2017–21 Co-founder/Co-Director: Blinkers Art and Project Space. Winnipeg, CA.
2019 Special Projects Coordinator: STAGES Biannual, Plug In ICA. Winnipeg, CA.
2018 Co-curator: History Works Itself in All Directions, Blinkers, Winnipeg, CA.
2017–18 Volunteer: Fundraising Committee, send + receive. Winnipeg, CA.
2015 Co-organizer: I Was Trying to Describe you to Someone, Flux, Winnipeg, CA.
2014 Co-organizer: Junkhaus 1, MediaHub, Winnipeg, CA.

Publications

Interview Public Parking, February 1, 2017, “Conceptual Romance: a conversation with Rachael Thorleifson” by Luther Konadu.

Talks

2025 Free Radicals Symposium: Plants as archives of loss, memory, and place. Planeta Za: Prague, CZ.
2019 Blinkers Guest Lecture: POST-60’S SPAGHETTI. UC San Diego: California, USA.

Honours and Awards

2025 AVU, Creative Grant Competition - Student Projects Grant
2024 AVU, Studio Award - Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement.
2023 Manitoba Arts Council, ‘Learn’ Scholarship.
2023 Canada Council for the Arts, ‘Explore and Create: Research and Creation’ Grant.
2023 Manitoba Arts Council, ‘Create’ Grant.
2023 Canada Council for the Arts, ‘Arts Abroad: Residencies’ Grant.
2021 Canada Council for the Arts, ‘Explore and Create: Concept to Realisation’ Grant.
2020 Manitoba Arts Council, ‘Connecting at a Distance’ Grant.
2017 Manitoba Arts Councils, ‘Create’ Grant.
2017 Winnipeg Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant.

Residencies

2025 Ouvre les Yeux, Bazancourt, FR.
2022 PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program, Leipzig, DE.
2022 BAiR Emerging, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Banff, CA.
2010 INKubator Program, Martha Street Studio. Winnipeg, CA.