About

Rachel TonThat is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with narrative structures around themes of possible futures, memory, and space-time. She is co-founder of the social art and publishing project, Oreades Press, and was a curator of the Zurich art space, Egg. In 2022, she was selected for the inaugural She Who Has No Master(s) writing mentorship through the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network and completed her MA Fine Art at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work has been supported by the city of Zurich, Canton St. Gallen, the AAPI Commission of Massachusetts, New England Foundation For the Arts, Mass Cultural Council, Collective Futures Fund, and more. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in publications like Diacritics, The Amp, and Boston Art Review. Her book of translations and retellings of Swiss folklore with Tobias Bärtsch, Die Alp an sich, is forthcoming from Poets & Traitors Press this fall in Switzerland, and in spring 2026 in the US. She lives in Salem, MA.

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