Rachel Garfield is an artist and writer whose work is engaged with the role of lived relations in the formation and intersections of subjectivities. She is also Professor of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art.

Professor Garfield is the PGR lead and Chair of the Research Development Group in the School of Arts & Humanities, which develops strategy and supports research in the School.

Garfield works in video. Her work engages with portraiture and the negotiations of lived relations at the intersection of race, class and gender. She also write about contemporary art. She has published the monographs Women, Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the1970s and 1980s (Bloomsbury, 2022) in its second print, nominated for the Krazna-Krausz award (2022), and Dwoskino: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin, LUX publishing 2022, co-edited with Henry K Miller.