Peyton Rack (b. 1993, Virginia Beach VA) received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Supermarket 2014 held at the cultural center (Stockholm, Sweden), Zhou B Art Center, and Bridgeport Art Center (Chicago). She received the Nippon Steel Presidential Award presented by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in 2014.

In the Spring of 2018, a solo exhibition of her paintings and collages was held in Manhattan. Her work was then selected for several more shows in New York, notably 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, and a juried exhibit at Demousy Contemporary on Long Island, which she received honorable mention. She was selected to speak at the Artists and Scholars Colloquium panel at Columbia College in 2019.

My practice combines oil painting and collage to create windows into other worlds. Using found photos, microscope-inspired forms, and imagery from lucid dreams, I build surreal, ghostlike compositions guided by intuition and patterns. By removing context, I allow unexpected relationships to emerge, creating visual artifacts of universes that exist between memory, time, and the subconscious.