Gerri Rachins (b. 1955, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American artist who lives and works in Boston and on Cape Cod.

Rachins has had a long and influential career as both an artist and educator, marked by a rigorous engagement with abstraction and a sustained investigation of material and process. Over the course of more than four decades, her work has developed a visual language that balances structural clarity with a sensitivity to surface, gesture, and spatial ambiguity. Her paintings are often noted for their color and nuanced interplay between control and improvisation, situating her practice within a broader discourse of postwar and contemporary abstraction.

Rachins taught in Boston for over twenty years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and served for more than a decade on the faculty of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she influenced generations of artists through a pedagogy grounded in close looking, disciplined experimentation, and an expansive understanding of color and form. She received her training at the New York Studio School, earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art, and completed her Master of Fine Arts at Massachusetts College of Art in 2001.

Her work is held in numerous public and private collections across the United States, including those of major museums, and has been exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions. She is a member of The Painting Center in New York and is represented in the Boston area by Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the latter honored her career with a twenty-year retrospective exhibition in 2022. 

In 2026, from May 15 through September 5, the Zillman Art Museum at the University of Maine is presenting a solo exhibition, Gerri Rachins: Selected Works On Paper, 2008 – 2025, underscoring the depth and consistency of her contribution to contemporary painting.