b. 1988 Miami, FL / lives in Austin, TX
rachaelstarbuck@gmail.com / materialgirls.work / partialshade.info
EDUCATION
2017 MFA University of Texas at Austin, Studio Art
2011 BFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture + Extended Media,
Art History Minor, University Honors and Arts Honors
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Waiting for the Update, Duke Hall Gallery at James Madison University, Harrisburg, VA
Homebody, BlankSpace, Pittsburgh, PA
FROM, Northern Southern, Austin, TX
Tails, All the Sudden, Austin, TX
[rustling], Shed~Shows, Austin, TX
MASS +1, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
2022 Rough Cuts, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
fitting, Northern Southern, Austin, TX
Mystic Toolkit, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
All the Sudden: A Pit Fire with Partial Shade, All the Sudden, Austin, TX
2021 Desire Paths, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
TOOO, Northern Southern, Austin, TX
2020 Deep End, Maia’s Pool, Oct. Los Angeles, CA
My Weight is Different in the Water, Aug. 20, 2020. The Bunker, Malibu, CA
Occupied, grayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX
2019 My Shell Makes Itself, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
A Pit Fire, Co-Lab Projects + Partial Shade, Austin, TX
Ground, As In, Moonmist, Houston, TX
Palms, TSA LA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 in•ti•mate, Random Access Gallery at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
alligator, Club Lake, Huntsville, TX
Leave Well Enough Alone, Magic the Gallery, Austin, TX
Partial Shade II: Finer Feelings, 5704 Ave. D, Austin, TX
Are we in sync?, 630 Flushing Ave. Brooklyn, NY
As blue is to distance, Monaco, St. Louis, MI.
MATERIAL GIRLS: xenomorphs, Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY.
xoxo, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX.
2017 Hello Girls, No Vacancy 3, Alt Esc, Brooklyn, NY.
Staycation 2: What in the World?, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
Domestic Artnership, The Dude Ranch, Austin, TX
Summer Vids, Sadie Halie, Minneapolis, MN
The only two-sided sense, Tête-à-tête, http://tete-ahh-tete.net/2017/july/
Soothing Center, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn NY
To Meet in the Clouds, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
NO NEW FORMS, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn NY
MATERIAL WORLD at SPRING/BREAK BKLYN Immersive, City Point, Brooklyn NY
Trouble: 2017 MFA Thesis UT Austin, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Cage Match Project: Rachael Starbuck & Michael Muelhaupt, MoHA, Austin, TX
Smoldering: a project by Museum Blue, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis
Nasty Woman Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2016 a rose is a rose is a cave, Motel, Brooklyn, NY
Partial Shade, 3200 Dancy St., Austin, TX
Paraphrase, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Habit: Emily O’Leary, Rachael Starbuck, Laura Brown, Mom Gallery, Austin, TX
After Dinner Before Dancing: An Evening with ACRE, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
A Sponge and A Sigh, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
World War IV, Not Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 I’ll Be It, Pump Project, Austin, TX
Swells, Treasure Town, Brooklyn, NY
Parallels, RISD @ 60 Orange St., Providence, RI
Were the Eye Not Sunlike, ACRE TV, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Tails, All the Sudden, Austin, TX
CRUSH, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
2022 Rough Cuts, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
All the Sudden: A Pit Fire with Partial Shade, All the Sudden, Austin, TX
2019 My Shell Makes Itself, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
May Show: Looms, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX. Organized by Partial Shade
Palms, TSA LA, Los Angeles, CA. Organized by MATERIAL GIRLS
Partial Shade + Co-Lab Projects presents A Platform, Austin, TX
Transmission, December 2019
A Pit Fire, November 2019
every day sugars : Siera Hyte and Diamond Stingily, June 2019
Preludes : Alicia Link and Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez, May 2019
Grounded in Culver : Anika Todd Cartterfield, April 2019
Soft Opening, March 2019
2018 xoxo, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX. Organized by MATERIAL GIRLS
alligator, Club Lake, Huntsville, TX. Organized by Partial Shade
Finer Feelings, 5704 Ave D., Austin, TX
2017 HELLO GIRLS!, ALT ESC no Vacancy 3, Brooklyn, NY. Organized by MATERIAL GIRLS
RESIDENCIES
2020 Co-Lab Projects #bitres Digital Residency
2018 The Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
2015 The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 The Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
2013 ACRE Projects, Steuben WI / Chicago, IL
2011 Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY
PRESENTATIONS / ARTIST TALKS
2023 Moderator for Panel Discussion, Creating Containers, The Contemporary Austin, April 2 2023
2021 Panel Discussion, Texas Talks Art, July 6 2021
2020 Visiting Artist at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Artist talk and Q&A with Sculpture Seminar Class
2018 Visiting Artist with MATERIAL GIRLS, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Lecture and studio visits with grad students in conjunction with exhibition
2018 Artist Talk, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Lecture and studio visits with undergraduates
AWARDS/HONORS
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, New York, NY
2019 New Work Grant, Queens Arts Fund, Queens, NY
2019 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, Dallas Museum of Art
2018 Community Initiatives Grant, City of Austin Cultural Arts Council, Austin, TX
College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2016 University Graduate Continuing Fellowship
2015 Charles Umlauf Centennial Endowed Scholarship Fund
David Bruton, Jr. Endowment for Graduate Fellowship
2014 David Deming Endowed Scholarship in Studio Art
Irving and Jeannette Goodfriend Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Art
David Bruton, Jr. Endowment for Graduate Fellowship
PRESS
Lauren Moya Ford, “Sit and Stay Awhile: “fitting” at Northern-Southern, Austin” Glasstire. April 26th, 2022
Barbara Purcell, “On view until whenever: Northern-Southern’s ‘TOOO’” Sightlines Magazine. April 23rd, 2021
Danielle Avram, ‘Desire Paths’ charts a course for creativity at Dallas’ Sweet Pass Sculpture Park", Dallas Morning News, July 7, 2021
Kit Freeman, “Fauna Meets Finality with Desire Paths at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park”, Patron Magazine, May 27, 2021
Sean J. Patrick Carney, “Glasstire’s Best of 2019”. Glasstire, December 21, 2019.
Darryl Ratcliff, “West Dallas sculpture park provides an oasis in a rapidly changing neighborhood”. Dallas Morning News, Jun 19, 2019.
Neil Fauerso, “Grounded in Culver: Anika Cartterfield at Co-Lab Projects”. Glasstire, April 18, 2019.
Taylor Prewitt, “Co-Lab Projects and Partial Shade’s Soft Opening”. March 15, 2019.
Brandon Zech, “Alternative Art Spaces Take on East Texas”. Glasstire, Oct 12, 2018.
Vincent Chen, “Interview with Material Girls”. DE: FORMAL, March 14, 2018.