MOLLY RAPP
mollyrappstudio@gmail.com
b. 1990, Baltimore, MD
EDUCATION
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
MFA in Fine Arts, 2025
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA in Fine Arts, 2014
TEACHING & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Northeastern University, Oakland, CA
Print Media and Design Technician, 2025-present
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
First Year Review Panelist, 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 3D Core Studio, 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sculpture One, 2024
Wood & Metal Shop Technician, 2023–2025
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Artists Teaching Art, 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Beginning Sculpture, 2023
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Photo Studio Assistant, 2021–2022
MFA Fellow, 2021–2022
New York Public Library (Woodstock Branch), New York, NY
Visiting Teaching Artist, 2021
City-As-School, New York, NY
Visiting Teaching Artist, 2021
Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY
Teaching Artist, 2019–present
Education Coordinator, 2014–2021
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Adjunct Faculty, 2016–2022
End of Year Portfolio Review Panelist, 2020
Assistant
Photographer’s Assistant to Lisa Elmaleh, Brooklyn, NY, 2013–2014
Photographer’s Assistant to Marcia Lippman, New York, NY, 2012–2014
Chabot College, Hayward, CA
Welding Certification Program, 2022
EXHIBITIONS
Forthcoming
2026 – The Recompense of the Righteous, St. Joseph’s Art Society, San Francisco, CA
2025
Graduate Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
Activated, Test Strip Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition, Novack Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024
Murphy & Cadogan Awardee Exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Complex Pains, Eye and Hand Society, San Francisco, CA
Fool’s Gold, ICA SF, San Francisco, CA
In Flux, The Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA
Embodied Narratives, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Thin Places, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Work of Art, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021
Performance Lab Salon, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Pride, Triangle Loft, New York, NY
2020
Counterweight, SoMad Studios, New York, NY
Selected Earlier Exhibitions
Illusion and Chemistry, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA, 2011
BRIC Media House Open Call, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Daydreams and Nightmares, VSOP Art & Design Projects, Greenport, NY, 2017
Always First Demolition, Dispersed Holdings, New York, NY, 2018
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2025
Thesis Prize Winner – California College of the Arts
Barclay Simpson Award – California College of the Arts
2024
Cadogan Awardee – Murphy & Cadogan Art Award, San Francisco Foundation
AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship Nominee
All College Honors – California College of the Arts
2023
Fine Art Scholarship – California College of the Arts
2022
Harold E. Weiner Memorial Fund Award in Metalwork – San Francisco Art Institute
John Collier Award in Photography – San Francisco Art Institute
2021
MFA Fellowship – San Francisco Art Institute
2017
Ace Hotel Artist in Residence – New York, NY
2014
Robin Forbes Memorial Award – School of Visual Arts
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
2025
“Humble Pie” (Published Artwork), California College of the Arts, Vol. 22, May 2025.
Hiura, Sam. “Battle of the Bay: CCA at the 2024 Murphy & Cadogan Awards,” Rewind Review Respond, Vol. 09, Issue 02, January 2025
2022
Bejsiuk, Katie. “Album Cover Art, The Woman on the Moon,” Double Whammy Records
2017
Riley, Charles A. “Art Review: ‘Exhibition at VSOP Project Links Daydreams and Nightmares,’” Hamptons Art Hub, September 2017
McKenzie, Allison. “Girl Cult,” Galore Magazine, Volume 01, Issue 04, October 2017
2016
Shambles, Thee. Album Cover Art, Lonely à la Mode, Thump Studios
2015
James, Christopher. The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Third Edition – Published Artwork (March 2015)
2011
Dominguez, Natasha. “Artist Feature,” The Unexposed Magazine, Vol. 01, Issue 01, pp. 104–110, December 2011
Smith, Dominic. Book Cover Art, The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre: A Novel, Washington Square Press, 2007
*a full CV is available on request