Rachel Feinstein was born in 1971 in Defiance, Arizona. She studied at Columbia University and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, including The Alliance, Hyundai Gallery, Beijing, China (2008, traveled to Hyundai Gallery, Korea); Something About Mary, Metropolitan Opera House, New York (2009); Rachel Feinstein: The Snow Queen, Lever House, New York (2011); and The Little Black Dress, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia (2012). Feinstein lives and works in New York.