Hi, I'm Rachel.

I'm an award-winning designer and artist leveraging imagination and research to create innovative, interdisciplinary work. I design and develop speculative objects, interactive experiences, and analog forms that explore human relationships to our environment and ourselves amid rapid technological advancement, climate change, and biodiversity loss. 

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As a speculative artist, my work is concept-driven and process-dependent. As a result, it often ends up wildly varied in form. Generally speaking, I employ physical computing and emerging technologies, living and biodesign materials, projection mapping, performance, or traditional craft techniques in my work. Sometimes, I use all of them at once.

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On occasion, my experimental work extends beyond the gallery into applied design contexts. In 2024, I led a collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact to explore strategies for transforming Louisiana's industrial renewable energy sites into biodiverse prairie ecologies. The effort integrated design research, restoration ecology, speculation, and community collaboration to envision a more-than-human-centered future for the region. 

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In recent years, I have exhibited my work in galleries and festivals across the United States, at NYCxDESIGN, and in the BioDesign Challenge, where I received the Science Sandbox Award for Public Engagement in Science and Design. I joined the Front Gallery in New Orleans in 2025 and will join the artist-in-residence cohort at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in Fall 2026. 

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Want to connect?

 

Email me at RachelCVGorman [at] gmail [dot] com.