Rachel Mayeri


Artist bio

Rachel Mayeri is a Los Angeles-based artist working at the intersection of art and science. Her videos, installations, and writing projects explore topics ranging from the history of special effects to the human animal.

Commissioned by Arts Catalyst and receiving a major award from The Wellcome Trust, she created a film expressly for chimpanzees: “Primate Cinema: Apes as Family,” which subsequently showed at Sundance, Berlinale, and Ars Electronica. As a professor at Harvey Mudd College, she teaches courses such as Animal Media Studies and Art & Biology.


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Rachel Mayeri, Orfeo Nel Canale Alimentare, 2017. Orpheus (played by David Wilson) floats down the inner-underworld
of Eurydice (played by Anne Harley). Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Rachel Mayeri, Orfeo Nel Canale Alimentare, 2017. Orpheus (played by David Wilson) falls into Eurydice’s stomach
with bacteria (H. pylori) in foreground. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Rachel Mayeri, Orfeo Nel Canale Alimentare, 2017. View of colon with performers David Wilson and Anne Harley as stool.
Video still. Courtesy of the artist.