Rachel Ziegler | www.rachelziegler.com | 712 520 5308 | ziegler.rachel@gmail.com
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
2025 Sofia’s Play Garden Mosaic, Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
2024 Fairmount Park Neighborhood Association, Ceramic Mosaic Signs, Council Bluffs, IA
2024 River of Life Lutheran Church, Mosaic Fountain, Omaha, NE
2023 Christus Health, Commission of Encaustic Panel, Irving, TX
2022 Pacific Hills Lutheran Church, Collaborative Mosaic, Omaha, NE
2021 Millwork Commons Mural in Collaboration with Patty Talbert, Omaha, NE
2021 13th and Leavenworth - A Pop-up Oasis Bird Bath Mosaic, Omaha, NE
2020 Gifford Park Neighborhood Market Mosaic Sign, Omaha, NE
2019 Wings Over Papillion 150th Anniversary Public Art Project, Papillion, NE
2019 Concordia Jr./Sr. High School, Wolfram Window, Omaha, NE
2019 Immigrant Legal Center Mosaic, Omaha, NE
2018 Victoria's House of Hope Mosaic, Cincinnati, OH
2017 Reformation 500 Mosaic, Worms, NE
2014 Bush Intercontinental Airport, Encaustic Panel, Houston, TX
EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
2024 Labor, Rybin Room, Omaha, NE
2022 Bemis Benefit Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2021 Bemis Benefit Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2020 Bemis Benefit Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2019 Bemis Benefit Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2017 Sweet Sixteen, FLIGHT Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2016 Disparate Voices, Island Body Works Gallery, Galveston, TX
2014 Syst-m, Mariago Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 Another Layover, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
2014 Wolves Invade Wong Grocery, Wong Grocery, San Antonio, TX
2013 15th Annual Bemis Center Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2013 Itch!, FLIGHT Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2013 White, Attic Rep. San Antonio, TX
2013 Collage More and Less, Redux, Williams Tower Gallery, curated by Sally Sprout, Houston, TX
2012 14th Annual Bemis Center Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2012 To Make a Long Story Short, R Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2012 The Brass Tacks, G Gallery, Houston, TX
2012 San Antonio Painter's Show, Blue Star Art Space, curated by Barbara MacAdam, San Antonio, TX
2012 5x7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin. TX
2012 Special Projects Social: Not Just Pretty, San Antonio, TX
2011 Divine Mercy, FLIGHT Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2011 Selected as a featured artist for Artpace's annual Chalk it Up, San Antonio, TX
2011 13th Annual Bemis Center Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2011 Rehearsal at the Astoria by Graham Hudson, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
2010 5×7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
2009 New Works by Rachel Ziegler, McMillan Home Gallery, Omaha, NE
2009 11th Annual Bemis Center Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2009 No Restraints on Imagination, The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts exhibition,
Bemis Underground, Omaha, NE
2008 10th Annual Bemis Center Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2008 UnderCurrents: Works by Members of the Bemis Center Staff, RNG Gallery, Omaha, NE
2007 Remainder, Bemis Underground, Omaha, NE
2005 Tugboat at the Sheldon, Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2005 Giving a Simple Gift, Marxhausen Gallery, Seward, NE
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2023 Populus Fund Grant recipient from The Union for Contemporary Art and Warhol Foundation
2020 Quarter Two Microgrant recipient from Amplify Arts, Omaha, NE
2019 Published in Heimatjahrbuch für Die Stadt Worms (Yearbook for the city of Worms, Germany)
WORK EXPERIENCE WITH ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
2024 to Present The Church/Arthouse, Omaha, NE - Resident Artist and Director
2017 to 2024 Re-Formed Art Space, Omaha, NE - Resident Artist and Director
2012 Artpace, San Antonio, TX - Assisted artist Tony Feher in creating installation "Thomas Hoving".
2011 Arthouse, Austin, TX - Intern to Membership Coordinator and artist assistant. Assisted in setting up online shop and bringing new members to the organization. Assisted artists Tony Feher and Jason Middlebrook with installations celebrating the newly renovated Arthouse.
2005 to 2009 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE - Developed and directed art sales program, contributing to an operating budget of one million dollars.
EDUCATION
2004 Concordia University | Bachelors of Fine Arts, Art and Design I Seward, NE