About

After an extended time as a designer in the Bay Area tech world, Rainey returned to creative practice.  Earlier projects explored the impact of technology on the body/mind and the world of computer games as art.  Rainey’s current inquiry focuses on building relationships with the more-than-human world.

Rainey was selected for residencies at the Morris Graves Foundation and Lucid Arts in 2024. Her most recent work, The Old Growth Project, was featured in a solo member showcase at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and in The New Geologic Epoch (Ecoartspace) and  Art & Ecology (O’Hanlon Center for the Arts). She has also had past shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Design Exchange Museum in Toronto, Canada. 

Select publications include Dark Mountian Journal, UnPsychology Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, Rhizome Online, Videogames, and Art, edited by Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News.  She holds a BFA in Painting from SUNY Purchase and an MFA in Sculpture from the California College of the Arts. She lives on the unceded land of the Coast Miwok in present-day Marin County in Northern California.

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