Part-time Faculty, Studio Art
Email: loischil@bc.edu
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Intro to Darkroom Photography
Intro to Digital Photography
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Rachel Loischild is a Boston-based artist who makes work about places and lives shaped by histories of control, exclusion, and erasure. Trained in studio art and the social sciences, she follows these histories through research into landscapes, toward what has been obscured, taken, or left behind. Loischild is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow and has received grants from the Boston Opportunity Fund, American Aftermaths, the Puffin Foundation, and Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust. Her work has been exhibited widely and is held in numerous public and private collections, including museum and institutional holdings that span regional and national programs.
Best in Show, Art on the Trails, Southborough, MA, Cordon Sanitaire Finalist, Women at MIT Fellowship 2026
1492/1619: American Aftermaths Project Grant 2025
Puffin Foundation Grant 2023
City of Boston Artist Relief Fund 2021
Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund for Individuals Grant 2020
City of Boston Arts Opportunity Fund Grant 2019
City of Boston Arts Opportunity Fund Grant 2018
City of Boston Arts Opportunity Fund Grant 2016
Fellowship in Photography, Massachusetts Cultural Council 2013
Honorable Mention, Professional Women Photographers 2012
Quarantine Islands, monograph, XArtist Books and Danforth Museum of Art, 2026
Solo Exhibitions
Quarantine Islands
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA 2026
Not As of Yet: Stories of the Aftermath and Unknown
Griffin Museum of Photography, Stoneham, MA 2017
Domestic Comfort, works from Back in the Valley
Jeonju Photo Festival, Jeonju, South Korea 2011
Preoccupied, works from Estate Sales
Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA 2010
Hardware: Brooklyn, a look at the mom-and-pop hardware stores of NYC
Pushkin Gallery, Greenfield, MA 2007
Tag Sale, MFA Thesis Exhibition
Stubin West Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2007