Rachel B. Abrams lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She exhibits regularly throughout the United States and has been awarded residencies at The Arctic Circle, Svalbard, Norway (2018); Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2002); Assilah Forum Foundation, Assilah, Morocco (2002); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2001); and Custom House Studios, County Mayo, Ireland (2003, declined.) In 2020, Rachel was awarded a grant from The Puffin Foundation, Ltd., and in 2018, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections, both nationally and internationally. Rachel was scheduled to travel to Franz Josef Land in August of 2020 to continue her project extinct polynyas, a body of work comprised of calved glacier studies examining the transformation and loss of these repositories of climate data, but due to the global pandemic, the trip was tentatively rescheduled for August 2021. The cyanotypes created from documentary photographs of calved glaciers will be integrated into her ongoing bodies of work examining climate change and environmental conservation.