Rachel Youens has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She is an adjunct professor at the Parsons School of Design and at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. Her work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and Professional Staff Congress CUNY grants. In 2024 she exhibited in the 2-person shows “Sabor-Savoir” (2024) at 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and the Zeuxis “Abundant Tableaux” at THERE, NYC.