ABOUT RACHEL
Rachel Sardella is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice explores fleeting perceptual moments and memory as layered, shifting, and imperfect. Working across hand-carved wooden sculpture and atmospheric paintings on transparent silk, she creates immersive works that reflect the slow rhythms of the natural world—growth, erosion, and repetition—and how moments leave quiet traces over time.
Her sculptural work emerges through an intensive process of carving and assembly, while her paintings dissolve landscape into gentle layers of colour and light, inviting reflection on perception as something felt, fragmented, and continually evolving.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen’s University and is a graduate of Humber College’s Advertising and Graphic Design program. She has worked in art and design institutions for over eight years and currently works as a Designer at Warner Music Canada.
Education
2022 Humber College, Advertising and Graphic Design, Etobicoke ON
2019 Queen's University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kingston ON
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Soft Echoes, Design TO, Toronto ON
Group Exhibitions
2025 Artist Project, Toronto ON
2024 Landscape POV, Part Crowd Art Gallery, Toronto ON
2024 Breach: Moments in Flux, Red Head Gallery, Toronto ON
2024 Artist Project, Toronto ON
2024 The Drawing Show, Gerrard Art Space, Toronto ON
2022 Inner Migration, Blitz Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Exposed, Ontario Hall, Kingston, ON
2019 WYD Tonight?, Ontario Hall, Kingston, ON
2019 Large Format Laser Relief, Isabel Bader Centre, Kingston ON
2018 Final Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2018 Same as/Different From, Union Gallery, Kingston, ON
2018 Cezanne’s Closet Gala Fundraiser, Union Gallery, Kingston, ON
Residencies and Studio Experience
2020 Work Study, Open Studio, Toronto, ON
2019 Studio Technician, Laser Hybrid Workshop, Kingston, ON
2018 Summer Undergraduate Residency, New York Academy of Art, NY
