Molly Rapp (she/they) is an artist and educator whose work spans photography, installation, and time-based media. Her practice focuses on photographic processes, utilizing the darkroom as a site for transformation in which images evolve through material, scale, and duration. Through these methods, Rapp investigates how images influence perception, identity, and the understanding of self in relation to broader social and cultural systems.

Alongside her studio practice, Rapp has spent over a decade working in arts education, teaching across analog and digital photography, alternative processes, and interdisciplinary studio methods. Her teaching emphasizes material exploration, critical inquiry, and accessible entry points for students across experience levels.

Rapp’s work has recently been exhibited at SOMArts Cultural Center and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF). Over the past decade, she has contributed extensively to arts education, serving as Education Coordinator at the Penumbra Foundation, Adjunct Faculty at the School of Visual Arts, and as a visiting artist at City-As-School in New York. She is the recipient of the 2024 Cadogan Award from the San Francisco Foundation and the 2025 Barclay Simpson Award, and holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Molly currently lives and works in Oakland, California.