University of Sheffield Gallery, In Their Own Words, group exhibition, March 28 2007, End Gallery,

Selected reviews

Jones, Amelia, Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification in the Visual Arts, (my work as case study) Routledge, 2012 (forthcoming)

Prof. Linda Weinhouse (USA) and Prof. Efraim Sicher (Israel), Under Post-colonial Eyes: The Figure of the "Jew" in Postmodernist Fiction (forthcoming 2012)

Bloom Lisa, “Jewish Identities, Sexualities and Feminist Art”, Jews and Sex, (my artwork as case study for chapter) (Ed. Nathan Abrams), Five Leaves Press, 2008, pp121-137, ISBN 978105512348

Blackwells Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, ed. Amelia Jones, Blackwell 2006, featuring in "Implications of Blackness", (my artwork as case study for chapter) Pauline de Souza, p. 373,ISBN-13:978-1-4051-3542-9
“The Undecidability of Difference: The Work of Rachel Garfield”, Amelia Jones, Rachel Garfield catalogue touring show, UH Press, 2005, pp. 19-34, ISBN:190531310 1

“artinfo.com”, review of  my solo national touring show

Totally Jewish. Com, Review of National Touring show. (2005)

‘Restretching the Canvas’, Pam Skelton Rosemary Betterton (ed.), Unframed: The Practices and Politics of Women Painting, IB Tauris Ltd, 2003, (my artwork as case study in chapter) pp. 2-175, ISBN1-86064-772-3,

Robert Clark review, ‘Garfield, Mojsiewicz And Samadian’, Guardian Guide, March15-23 2003, pg. 34
Art Monthly, Dave Burrows, Review of 10th East International, no 239, September 2000, pp.32-34, ISSN 0142 6702

Selected Publications

Garfield Rachel, “Acting Out and the Archive: Negotiating Jewish Subjectivity in Contemporary Lens Based Art”

(provisional title), Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Culture (forthcoming 2012), Nadia Valman ed. (forthcoming 2012)

Rachel Garfield, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Take 2: The British Landscape, Green Cardamom, Sept 2010

I am currently Director of Undergraduate Studies in Fine Art and deliver across all modules and the MA in Fine Art.  Before I arrived at the University of Kent I was lecturer on the MFA at Goldsmiths and on the MA at Wimbledon. I also supervise and examine PhD candidates in Fine Art.  Previously I have taught at a number of institutions and across Fine Art; Graphic Design; Photography; Painting; Fine Art (Critical Studies) and Visual Cultures.   I have many years experience, as an artist, in making paintings and prints as well as video and critical writing. 

My research has several interconnected strands that includes video and critical writing.  The video uses interviews as a starting point to consider the how lived relations constitutes subjectivity and Identity.  I also explore in my work, how video work can itself constitute new thinking on the subject and the formation of Identity.  Although I work in video, my  influences and references are derived mainly from experimental film, particularly experimental documentary and the essay form.   I also have a long standing interest in Jewish Identity and have written about this in relation to video with artists such as Lynn Hershman Leeson, Suzanne Trieister, Doug Fishbone, Oreet Ahsery, Ruth Novaczek and Susan Hiller as well as painters such as Ary Stillman and the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (as Ali G)  My interest and critique of art and  Identity Politics has lead me also to write about Zineb Sedira, Keith Piper, Kutlug Ataman, Vivienne Dick, Anwar Shemza and Avinash Chandra.

I have also recently contributed to two network groups: Jews in British Film and TV at Bangor University and Cosmopolitanism at Manchester Metropolitan University

I welcome practice led PhD that explore issues to do with Identity Politics or Feminism in Art, particularly issues to do with Jewish Identity.  Artist’s video practice in relation to documentary, performativity or identity .