Rachel Rampleman creates bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, she showcases exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct.

A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-woman Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, she has been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Originally from Cincinnati and currently living and working in New York City, Rampleman received her MFA from NYU in 2006. Since then her work has been shown at such venues as the Shanghai Biennale (China, Brooklyn Pavilion, 2012-13), the Chennai Photo Biennale (India), S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) and Art Cinema OFFoff (Ghent, Belgium), VIDEONALE.16 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, C/O Berlin, Die Fruhperle, and The Secret Cabinet (Berlin, Germany), Socrates Sculpture Park, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Smack Mellon, Auxiliary Projects, BAM, Satellite Art Show, Spectacle Theater, The Wassaic Project, Flux Factory, VOX Bizarre, The Warehouse Gallery, SELECT Art Fair, un(SCENE) Art Show, Cantor Film Center (New York), The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Contemporary Arts Center, The Weston Art Gallery (Ohio), University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston (Massachusetts), PULSE Miami (Florida), The Flint Art Institute, (Michigan), the Carnegie Museum of Art, and The Andy Warhol Museum (Pennsylvania).
She recently had a survey exhibition on view at Satellite Gallery LES, as well as solo exhibitions at the cell, La MaMa, VOLTA NY (New York), These Things Take Time (Ghent, Belgium), Carl Solway Gallery, The Neon Heater Art Gallery, Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts (Ohio), 3S Artspace (New Hampshire), and an early career retrospective at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
She has also created curatorial projects with Vanessa Albury as The Sun That Never Sets for venues such as The Frank Institute at CR10 in the Hudson Valley and SPRING/BREAK Art Show in NYC. Rachel’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Art F City, Paper Magazine, Artnet, DRAIN, Domino, eyes toward the dove, HYPERALLERGIC, Gothamist, Berlin Art Parasites, the Fanzine, Seattle Pi, Absolute Arts, ÆQAI, and LeCool Bangkok, among others.