BIOGRAPHY

Gail Rieke is an internationally recognized collage/ assemblage/ installation artist and teacher who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband, painter Zachariah Rieke. She shows her work at her home/ studio/ gallery by appointment as well as at museums, galleries, and art centers.

Gail received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from University of Florida at Gainesville. Her artwork is represented in the permanent collections of museums and institutions including the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Albuquerque Museum, The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Nebraska, Roswell Museum, The University of New Mexico, and The Santa Fe Institue. Her artwork is placed in many private collections as well. In the year 2000, she and Zachariah had a retrospective at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

In the US, Gail has taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida; the University of Alberta Edmonton in Alberta, Canada; and the College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has presented workshops and lectures at various venues incuding the San Francisco Center for the Book in California, Vero Beach Center for the Arts in Florida, Penland School in North Carolina, Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota, and Haystack School in Maine.

Internationally, she has presented traveling journal workshops in Kyoto 2005 and 2007, in rural Japan 2003 and 2008, in Thailand and Laos 2006, and in Alamos, Mexico 2008. She was a guest lecturer at the Cheongju International Biennale in Korea in October 2007 where she was invited to display two of her travel journals.