Biography & Contact
Gerri Rachins (b. 1955, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American artist who lives and works in Boston and on Cape Cod. She taught for more than twenty years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and served on the faculty of Massachusetts College of Art and Design for over a decade.
Rachins studied at the New York Studio School and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2001, where she focused on painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Her work is included in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; the Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts; the Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, Maine; and Fidelity Investments.
Rachins is represented in New York by The Painting Center, where she presented her fourth solo exhibition in 2025, Getting From One Place to Another: Recent Paintings by Gerri Rachins. She is also represented in the Boston area by Mobilia Gallery, which marked their long-standing relationship with a twenty-year retrospective in 2022. Her work is represented by Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2026, the Zillman Art Museum at the University of Maine will present a solo exhibition titled Gerri Rachins: Selected Works On Paper From 2008 – 2025.