Please allow me to introduce myself:

My name is Rachel Ahava Rosenfeld-Dlatt, and I am a painter working in Wrigleyville, Chicago. Every day I spend hours mixing colors on my giant glass palette, facing off with new canvases, and conducting research. My studio houses countless unresolved paintings as well as my shoebox-archive of found snapshot photographs and the treasure-trove of art books that bring my artistic practice to life.

Since moving to Chicago in the summer of 2016, I have shown work in museums, pop- up galleries, and group exhibitions from Chicago to San Diego, New York, and beyond. I recently completed the first Connect International Artist Residency, which culminated in an exhibition. I continue to be involved with Connect as their first Fellow.Away from my easel, I spend every Sunday teaching Kindergarten in my role on the faculty of the Joseph and Belle Braun Anshe Emet Religious School.

I am a native of Kansas City, Kansas, where I found my enthusiasm for painting while getting myself hopelessly lost at my mother’s office. Her job in the African Art Department at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art gave me access to miles of maze-like galleries to explore in wonder.

I started painting during my first semester of college, where I was notorious for refusing to leave my corner of our shared studio. I graduated in 2014 from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia with a B.A. in Studio Art. In 2016, I completed my M.F.A in Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis. I also studied with the Jerusalem Studio School’s master class in Civita Castellana, Italy, and have since taken classes at the University of Chicago and Hyde Park Art Center. Before moving to Chicago, I had opportunities to make and research art in several cities in Europe and the Middle East, spending the lion’s share of my time in Todi, Italy and Berlin, Germany.