Biography & Contact
Gerri Rachins (b. 1955, Brookline, MA) is an American artist, living and working in Boston and Cape Cod. She taught for twenty years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and was also a faculty member at Massachusetts College of Art and Design for over a decade. She studied at the New York Studio School while earning a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. In 2001, she earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art working in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Rachins’ large-scale drawings and are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Her paintings are included in the collections of Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; and the Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, ME. Numerous corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe have acquired her work; including Fidelity Investments, Bain Capital, Berkshire Partners, Boston; and Neiman Marcus, Inc., Dallas. She is represented in New York by the Painting Center, where she has presented three solo exhibitions prior to Getting from One Place to Another: Recent Paintings by Gerri Rachins in 2025. In the Boston area, Rachins works are represented by Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, which hosted a twenty-year retrospective in 2022 to celebrate their long-standing association.