Rachelle Beaudoin is a new media artist who    

  uses installation, sound, and performance to    

  explore feminine iconography, role modeling,

  and social space. She attended the College of

  the Holy Cross where she studied Studio Art,

  Art History, and American Sign Language/Deaf

  Culture and played ice hockey. She completed

  her MFA in Digital Media from Rhode Island

  School of Design in 2007.

Anne Ellegood wrote of her work, "Rachelle’s willingness to take up questions of gender, power, and stereotyping with provocative, and sometimes public, gestures struck me as very brave and forceful. Her use of humor allows for a seductive entry into difficult topics, but does not reduce the potential impact of her explorations into the social tension and conflicting messages surrounding sexuality, beauty, and self-awareness."

Rachelle has received several awards including the John Paul Reardon Award for Excellence in Visual Arts and most recently a Rhode Island School of Design Award of Excellence juried by Anne Ellegood. She has also been awarded a NH State Council on the Arts Community Project grant to produce an art show called Now/Then/When and LogJam concert in her home town of Berlin, NH during the summer of 2007.

RECENT/UPCOMING:
Dec 07:

            Webisode Series at Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance,

            London UK

Jan 08:

            Some Sort of Uncertainty with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things at

            Axiom Gallery Boston MA

            Keene State College Faculty Biennial, Keene NH
Feb 08:

            Social Fabrics at CAA in Dallas TX with Jeanne Jo

Mar 08:

            Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT

            Chester College of New England Faculty Show, Chester NH
            Working is the Work, with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things
            ICA, Boston MA
April 08:

            GCWS Conference at MIT, Panel Discussion, Boston MA
            Contaminate 3 Live Art and Video Festival, Boston MA

         HerShorts, International Video Festival, Tucson AZ

May 08:

         Very Short Films by Females, Women in Film and Video New England,          MayFair, Brattle Theater, Cambridge MA

         Everything is in Order, with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things,

        Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA

June 08:

            Modded/Modattu with Jeanne Jo at University of Lapland Rovaniemi,

            Finland.