2003 MFA, New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute
2001 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
1997 AB, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
1996 Goldsmiths College, University of London
Books
2013 My days of losing words, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Under a Circus Sky, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Circus Project/Proyecto Circo, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California
2007 New Works by Rachael Jablo, Epic Arts, Berkeley, California
2003 San Francisco Art Institute Masters Thesis Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
2002 Circle, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Me, Myself and I, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, California
2013 New Directions, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, and Seattle, Washington
2012 Momentum (juror Rita Gonzalez), Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California (catalog)
2011 Insatiable, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
2010 The New Normal, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2010 Garden of Earthly Delights, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
2010 SICK, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Family Pictures, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Under the Big Top, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Analagous, Runnels Gallery, Portales, New Mexico
2008 The Weather Underground, Garage Biennial, San Francisco, California
2008 Red, San Mateo City Hall Gallery, San Mateo California
2008 Biophilia, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Carny Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California
2007 Glimpses in Time, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California
2007 Home, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Systems and Transmutations, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 3 Minute Film Festival, San Francisco, California
2006 Boombox, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 New Visions: Introductions, 2006 Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
2006 Awake! Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, California
2005 You Don’t Know San Francisco, InvisibleVenue.com (screenings in London, UK and San Francisco, California)
2005 New Visions: Introductions, 2005, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
2003 Proyecto Circo, 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2003 An Evening of Performance, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba
2002 Loaded, Reed Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2002 Continuing MFA Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002 Nevada Plus, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001 Nevada Plus, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California
Curatorial Projects
2010 SICK, co-curated with Jaren Bonillo and Sarah Stolar, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California
Awards and Residencies
2012 Scholarship, Review Santa Fe
2011 Clarence John Laughlin Award, Honorable Mention
2010 Contributing Artist, Society for Curious Thought
2006 - 2010 Resident Artist, Root Division
2008 Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida Book Contest
2007 Gordon Parks Award, Joyce Gordon Gallery
2006 Eureka Prize Nominee, Fleishhacker Foundation
2003 Residency, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana
« I never stop shooting. I carry a list of words that I’ve lost over time, and when I see something that jogs my memory of a word, I shoot it and cross the word off. I was stuck between my house and medical spaces for months on end, so I started shooting words there.» Rachael Jablo
American photographer Rachael Jablo suffers from chronic migraine. Without medication, the pain makes her lose the ability to speak; with medication, she suffers from side effects that cause her to forget words. In My Days of Losing Words, Jablo creates color photographs that act as synthetic memories of the lost words.The oneword titles refer back to words that got lost in the netherworld between pain and sanity. The self-portraits remain (inarticulately) untitled.
Rachael Jablo (b. 1975) was a landscape and urba...