Education
MFA, Photography, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
BA, Photography, Painting & Digital Media, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Selected Individual Presentations
University of Southern Indiana, Kismet & Control with Jesse Ly, 2026 (forthcoming)
Weston Art Gallery, The Trail of the Dead, 2024
2nd Story Art, Photographing Family, 2024
School of Art Institute Chicago, Artist Lecture, 2024
Society for Photographic Education Midwest Chapter Conference, Sheryl, 2022
Ringling College of Art and Design, Visiting Artist Lecture + Workshop, 2020
Carnegie Center for Art and Art History, Addiction + Harm Reduction in Photography, for Volunteers of America, 2019
Baker-Hunt Art and Cultural Center, Between Home and Here, 2019
Society for Photographic Education Midwest Chapter Conference, On Photographing Family, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Carnegie Center for Art and Art History, Artist Lecture + Workshop, 2019
University of Indianapolis, Artist Lecture + Workshop, 2019
Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Workshop: Teen Artists for Change, 2019
Creative Mornings, Speed Art Museum, Cheating Death, 2017
Indiana University, Artist Lecture + Workshop, 2018
Bellarmine University, Between Home and Here, 2016
Southern Methodist University, Between Home and Here, 2015
Selected Panel Presentations
Manifest Creative Research Gallery, More Alive By It: Conversations About Photography and Life, Panelist, Cincinnati, OH, 2020
Cincinnati Art Museum, Topophilia, Panelist, Cincinnati, OH, 2019
University of Kentucky, Breaking into Academia, 2018
Yield Magazine, Snite Museum of Art, Photobooks, Panelist, 2018
Latitude, Black Friday Zine Share, Panelist, 2016
University of Louisville, On Fruited Plains, Panelist, 2015
Middle Tennessee State University, Identity, Memory, and Place, Panelist, 2014
Selected Bibliography + Press
Orion Magazine, Blood Ties: Behind a camera, tracking deer, and other family, 2024
The Lens, The Trail of the Dead, Cincinnati, OH, 2024
Burn Barrel Press, Burn Barrel Vol. 4 , 2023
YNST Magazine, YNST Issue 002, 2023
The New York Times, Eastern Kentucky Needs Flood Relief, Not Another Federal Prison, 2023
UnderMain Magazine, Interview with Rachael Banks, 2022
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Rachael Banks, 2021
FotoFocus, As Everything Goes Virtual, One Professor/Curator Doubles Down on the Physicality of Art with Photo Books, 2020
Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images. Terry Barrett, 2021
Nighted Life Issue 14, 2019
Libération Magazine, Bonnie Prince Billy: A Louisville, La Tradition n’Est Jamais Loin., 2019
Photograph Magazine, Photograph is 30, 2018
Crusade for Your Audience: Finding and Cultivating Art Collectors. Yoffy Press, 2017
Teaching Photography: Tools for the Imagine Educator. Rand, Glenn, et al, 2015
Lenscratch, Rachael Banks: The States Project: Kentucky, 2019
NPR/WBUR, 'We Love Trump': Enthusiasm For President’s Re-Election Is High At Cincinnati Rally, 2019
Wobneb Magazine, Featured Photographer: Rachael Banks, 2019
PhotoVogue, Rachael Banks, 2019
F-Stop Magazine, Interview with Photographer Rachael Banks, 2019
Humble Arts Foundation, Group Show 62: 100% Fun, 2019
Saint Lucy Books, 7 Images: Rachael Banks, 2018
Yield Magazine, Nathan Pearce Discusses Rachael’s Affinity for Zines and Her Own Involvement in Creating Them, Issue 7, 2018
News and Tribune, Carnegie Exhibit Explores Connection between People and Their Pets. 2018
River City News, On Exhibit: New NKU Faculty Member’s Photos, 2017
San Antonio Current, A Thematic Breakdown of This Year’s FotoSeptiembre Photographers and Exhibitions, 2017
Vice Media, Powerful Portraits Capture When Home No Longer Feels Like Home, 2017
Huffington Post, Introducing Some Days Just Are: A New Collaborative Photo Series, 2017
Crusade for Art, Focal Point 1.16 + Zines: A Culture of Affordable Sharing and Collecting, 2016
Edge of Humanity Magazine, Growing Up Too Fast – A Photographer’s Story, 2016
FotoRoom, Rachael Banks Photographs Her Family and Friends She Can’t Seem to Let Go, 2016
Southern Glossary Magazine, Rachael Banks: Kentucky, Pain of Separation, Family Muse, 2016
Strange Fire Collective, Q & A: Rachael Banks, 2015
Fraction Magazine, Between Home and Here: Rachael Banks, 2015
Dodho Magazine, Between Home and Here: Rachael Banks, 2015
Selected Publications as Author
Snite Museum of Art, Susan Worsham, Lara Shipley, Antone Dolezal—Interview, YIELD Nº11, 2021
Snite Museum of Art, Clint Woodside and Tim Carpenter—Interview, YIELD Nº10, 2020
Deadbeat Club Press, Photobooks of Note, 2019
Saint Lucy Books, One Picture/One Paragraph, 2018
One Twelve Publishing, Poignant Pics No. 3, 2016
Self-Published Print Media
The Trail, Edition of 100, Newport, KY, 2024
The Trail of the Dead, Edition of 100, Newport, KY, 2023
I am a Rabid Dog, Edition of 75, Covington, KY, 2018
Blue Baby Blues, Edition of 150, Covington, KY, 2017
Come Thru, It’s Lit, Split zine with Nathan Pearce, Edition of 100, 2017
Sad Things, Edition of 150, Dallas, TX, 2015
Selected Awards + Honors
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Fellowship 24, Honorable Mention, 2024
Northern Kentucky University, Summer Fellowship, Project Grant, and Sabbatical Leave, 2023
PhotoLucida, Critical Mass: Top 200 Finalist, 2020
New York Portfolio Review, Selected Reviewee, 2020
Northern Kentucky University, Professional Development Grant, 2017, 2018, 2019
Selected Collections
International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Paul Paletti Gallery, Louisville, KY
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, & Reproduction, Bloomington, IN