Raquel earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2011, and her BA from Western Michigan University in 2003. In 2010 she was a MFA Artist-in-Residence at The Art Institute of Chicago's Ox-Bow residency in Saugatuck, Michigan and also traveled and photographed throughout Iceland as a recipient of a Provost Grant for graduate research from the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Raquel is currently on Fellowship with funding provided by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. She is working on her next project in collaboration with the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.  Raquel currently lives in Reykjavik, Iceland. 

Contact: raquel.ladensack [at] gmail.com

Gallery Representation: Alderman Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.