Rachel Livedalen grew up in Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia.She earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Virginia. In 2014,she received a graduate certificate from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and graduated with an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa.

Livedalen’s creative research explores contemporary femininity through the lens of past histories and mythologies.Herinterdisciplinary work is exhibited widely,with recent solo exhibitions in Dallas, Tallahassee, and Kansas City. She also received a 2017-2018 Kala Fellowship Award from the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA and was accepted into the 2018 Artist Program at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. 

Rachel Livedalen is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She has held this position since 2014 and heads the printmaking area.

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