Angela Dufresne

Angela Dufresne

1969

Born in Hartford, CT

Education

1991

BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

1998

MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Solo Exhibitions

2018

Angela Dufresne, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

2016

Pleasure Tips, Steven Harvey Gallery, New York, NY

2014

Lets Stay Together, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY

2013

Cinema Covers, Common Street Arts, Waterbury ME

My Only Child and Other Lunacy, KH Modern Art, Berlin, Germany

2012

Parlors and Pastorals, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Parlors and Pastorals, CRG Gallery, New York, NY

Celluloid Covers, Macalester College Gallery, St Paul, MN

Enlightenment Covers, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2009

Modern Times 1, Monya Rowe, NY

Modern Times 2, CRG Gallery, NY

2008

Floating Weeds, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy

Twilight of Mice and Men, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Next: An Invitational Art Fair of Emerging Art: Chicago, IL, Monya Rowe, NY

2007

New Prints, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

Code Unknown, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

2006

Angela Dufresne, Hammer Museum: Hammer Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

Worshipping Sticks and Stones, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Portland Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME

2017

American Genre, Curated by Michelle Grabner, ICA MECA, Portland, ME

Stranger than Paradise, Curated by Dominique Molon, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Look Twice, Zurcher Studio, New York, NY

Self Portraiture, Able Baker Gallery, Portland, ME

Found, Curated by Avram Finkelstein, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY

50 by 50 by 50, Temple University 50th Anniversary in Rome, Temple University, Rome, Italy

Two in Room, Angela Dufresne and Rosemary Beck, Curated by Eric Sutphin, Spring Break Fair, New York, NY

2016

Mentors, CFHILL, curated by Rick Herron, Stockholm, Sweden

Living Dangerously, Nicola Tyson and Angela Dufresne Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

On the Stump, Proto Gallery, Curated by Zack Seeger, Hoboken, NJ

Goulding the Lolly Curated by Brian Bellott, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY

STAGES curated by Matt Bollinger, Zurcher Galllery, New York, NY

Between You and I, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Drawings, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY

2015

Recent Acquisitions, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Suburban: Sixteen Years, Mount Airy Contemporary, Mount Airy, PA

The Uncanny Figure Curated by Lilly Wei, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Working Women Artists, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH

Improvised Showboat, New York, NY

Four Walls Slide and Film Club, Fischer Landau Center, Long Island City, NY

Touch, Project 722 , Brooklyn, NY

Vermont Studio School Teaching Retrospect, New York, NY

Wrath of Nature, Wave Hill Center, New York, NY

2014

Angela Dufresne, Magalie Guerin, The Suburban, Chicago, IL

Queer Fellows, Curated by Hunter O’Hanian, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Vintage Violence, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Armory Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY

2013

Come Like Shadows Curated by David Cohen, Zurcher Studio, New Yorkw, NY

Fever Dreams, Geoff Chadsey and Angela Dufresne RISD Painting Dept. Gallery, Providence, RI

Draw Gym , Organzied by Brian Belott, 247365, New York, NY

Inaugural Group Show, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Angela Dufresne Special Selection, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY

Being Paul Schraeder, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Negative Joy Video Screening, Roxbury Abbey, Roxbury, NY

Faculty Biennial, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

The Triumph of Human Painting, Curated by Kathy Bradford Bull and Ram Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012

Kemper at the Crossroads, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City. MO

Red Herring, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Beasts of Revelation DC Moore Gallery, Mew York, NY

Intermural, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

Angela Dufresne and Rico Gatson, Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

2011

Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

The Question of Drawing, Oqunquit Musem , Oqunquit, ME

ShapeShifters, Curated by Laurel Sparks, 443 P A S, New York, NY

Vivid, Curated by Janet Phelps, Shreoder Ramero Gallery, NY

2010

Painting Coast to Coast, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

In A Violet Distance Curated by David Humphrey, Galerei Zucher, NY

Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

2009

Next Wave Artists, Curated by Dan Cameron, BAM, NY

The Summer Show, CRG Gallery, NY

First Look: An Exhibition of Emerging Artists From Los Angeles Galleries, Curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA

Forth Estate Editions, Rhode Island School of Design Memorial Hall Gallery, RI

Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

Master of Reality, The Rose Art Museum, Brandies University, Walthan, NA

Form and Story: Narration in Recent Painting, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA

2008

I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Asia Song Society, New York, NY

The Guys We Would Fuck, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Nayland Blake

Places, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY

Get up off our Knees, Monya Rowe, New York, NY

Pulse New York Art Fair, Monya Rowe, New York, NY

Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Aldrich, CT (traveling exhibition)

Painting The Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Yale Gallery for Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT

2007

Imitation of Life, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Group Show, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, curated by Leigh Ledare

The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Dona Nelson

Horizons, The Elizabeth Foundation, NY, Curated by David Humphrey Warhol

Kantor/Feuer, Los Angeles, CA

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy

Art Moscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia, Galleria Glance

Endangered Wasteland, CRG Gallery, New York, NY

M*A*S*H, The Helena, New York, NY, Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Amy Smith-Stewart

Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria, curated by Jasper Sharp

2006

Psycho Ideology, Roebling Hall, New York, NY

Year 06 Art Fair, London, U.K., Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Unless, Miller Block, Boston, MA

How I Finally Accepted Fate, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY, curated by Jason Murison

Before, Zero Station, Portland, ME

Jack, Roberts + Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Geoffrey Young

2005

Spectrum, LeLong Gallery, New York, NYFresh Paint, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

Something is Somewhere, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Anat Ebgi and Monya Rowe

Le Papier, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL

Radical Vauderville, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Greater New York 2005, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

Parakeet Film Salon 2005, Brooklyn, NY

2004

Miracle on Franklin Street, GV/AS, Brooklyn, NY

I’ve Met Someone Else, Monya Rowe, New York, NY

Open Zone Video Screening, Ocularis Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2003-2004

FAWC Fellows, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, MA

FAWC Fellows, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Open Zone Video Screening, Ocularis Projects, Brooklyn, NY

The FAWC Fellows 03/04, The Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Summer’s Eve, GV-AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Slight of Hand, The Selena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

Cooking with Cookie von Mueller, video screening at Green St.Gallery, Boston, MA

2002

FAWC Fellows, The Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA

2002-2003

Fellows Exhibit, The Fine Arts Work Center”. Provincetown, MA

Thought Bubble, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY

Our Spring Collection, The Harlem Flophouse, New York, NY 2001

2001

Artpact, The Harlem Flophouse, New York, NY

Collabratory, Gail Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Grrls, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT

2000

Angela Dufresne, Off-Ramp Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1999

Fine Arts Works Center Invitational, Provincetown, MA

1998

Angela Dufresne, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy

1996

Trace, with Sono Osato, The Dead Space Gallery, Portland, ME

1995

The New Degenerate Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

Angela Dufresne, Gallery Rebelloso, Minneapolis, MN

Recent Works, The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

The Five Jerome Artists, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Collections

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI

The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Porto Rico

Numerous Private Collections

Awards and Honors

2018

Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbria, Italia

2016

Guggenheim Fellow

2015

Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Resident, The Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy

2014

Robert Turner Theatrical and Performance Design Project Grant for Teaching, RISD

2013

Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY

2011

Purchase Award, National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2003

Second Year Fellow, The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2002

Fellow, The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

1997

University Wide Fellowship, Temple University-Philadelphia, PA

1996

Teaching Fellowship Temple University- Philadelphia, PA

1993

Resident, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

1992

The Jerome Foundation Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN

Curated Exhibitions

2015

Like, Rhode Island School of Design Painting Gallery, Providence, RI

2013

Negative Joy, Video Screening, Roxbury Abbey, Roxbury, NY

2012

Negative Joy, 443 PAS, New York, NY

2010

F**kheads: Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2009

F**kheads: Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment, SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM

2007

Open Video Series, CRG Gallery, NY

2006

Available (A Still Life Show), Monya Rowe Gallery, NY, curated by Angela Dufresne and Monya

1995-1996

The Dead Space Gallery, Director, Portland, ME

Writing

2015

Artist Farewell to Gallerist, HyperAllergic

Irony or Sincerity, give me a third pill? Art 21 blog

2014

Gentileschi’s Beheading, Two Times, Painters on Painting blog

Teaching/Lecturer Experience

2017

Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting

Chief Critic, RISD EHP Rome

Visiting Artist/Lecture, Carnage Mellon, Pittsburg, PA

Visiting Artist/Lecture, Cranbrook

2016

Anderson Ranch, Workshop, Snowmass Village, CO

Visiting Artist/Lecture, City College, New York, NY

Summer Workshop Teacher, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Visiting Artist/Lecture, FIAR, Fire Island, NY

Visiting Artist/Lecture, Blossom Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH

University of Iowa, Visiting Artist Critic, Iowa City, IA

2015

Forth Wall Panel, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Drawing Workshop, Chautauqua Artist Residency, Chautauqua NY

Artist in Residence, Siena Art Institute Siena, Italy

Summer Workshop Teacher, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Visiting Artist/Lecture, New York Studio School, New York, NY

Visiting Artist/Lecture, Mason Gross Center, Rutgers University, NJ

Visiting Artist/Critic, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT

Visiting Artist/Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2014 Visiting Artist/Lecture, UArts, Philadelphia, PA

Honorary Alumni Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Summer Workshop Teacher, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2013

Visiting Artist/Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY,

Visiting Artist/Lecture, Brown University, Providence, RI

Visiting Artist/Critic, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT

Visiting Artist/Lecture Art Institute Boston, Boston, MA

Visiting Artist/Lecture University of Berkeley, CA

Visiting Artist/Lecture Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Visiting Artist/Lecture Suny Purchase, Purchase, NY

Visiting Artist/Lecture Montclair State University, NJ

2012

Core Critic, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Assistant Professor, RISD, Providence, RI

Summer Course, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI

2011

Part-time Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, NY

Visiting Artist/Critic. Boston Museum School, Boston MA

Visiting Artist/Critic, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT

Part-time Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, NY

Mentor, Mass College of Art, MA

Visiting Artist/Critic, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI

Part-time Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2009

Visiting Artist Lecturer, SVA, New York, NY

Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Mills College, Oakland, CA

2008

Part-time Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Mentor, Art Institute of Boston, MA

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Provincetown, MA

Part-time Faculty, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

2007

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Part-time Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2006

Visiting Artist Lecturer, UC Davis, CA

Part-time Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Bard College, NY

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2005

Part-time Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2004

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Selected Press

2017

New York Times, Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction’, Holland Carter

Artsy Editorial, How Contemporary Artists Are Evolving the Queer Aesthetic, Zachary Small

HARPERS BAZAAR, HOW FEMINIST ARTISTS ARE STAGING THEIR OWN PROTESTS WITH PAINT, Amy Louise Baily

CLEVELAND.COM, Artists Dufresne and Tyson reimagine the body in terrific show at Cleveland Institute of Art, Steve Litt

Brown Daily Herald, ‘Stranger Than Paradise’ explores art through history RISD Museum brings together 14 pieces exploring relationship between man, nature’, Cindy Zeng

Hyperallergic, The Messy, DIY Aesthetic of the Spring/Break Art Show Other fairs prune and primp their art for maximum market efficiency; Spring/Break allows curators and artists to let their freak flags fly, Hrag Vartanian

2016

New York Magazine, “GOULDING THE LOLLY,” Jerry Saltz, July 2016

Art In America, “GOULDING THE LOLLY,” Julia Wolkoff, July 2016

The Village Voice, “GOULDING THE LOLLY,” Pac Pobric, July 2016

Artsy Editorial, “15 NEW YORK GROUP SHOWS YOU NEED TO SEE THIS JULY,” Casey Lesser, June 2016

Hyperallergic, “Angela Dufresne has a Big Heart,” John Yau, April 10, 2016

2015

Huffington Post, “WRATH — FORCE OF NATURE AT WAVE HILL.”, Yerman G. Marcia, September 2, 2015

2014

ART IN AMERICA, Review, Carrie Moyer, November 2014 Issue Hyperallergic, “WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON IN ANGELA DUFRESNE’S NEW PAINTINGS?,” John Yau, September 28, 2014

Art Cirtical, Review Panel, The Review Panel: 10th Season Launch, September 26, Nagel, Spears, Storr

The Village Voice, Contents, "Darkness on the Edge of Downtown", R.C. Baker, June 18 – 24, 2014

Village Voice, Arts, "Monya Rowe’s "Vintage Violence": Every Year’s a Good One for Pain and Death", R.C. Baker, June 18- 24, 2014

Painters on Painting, "Angela Dufresne on Gentileschi’s ‘Beheading’ – Two Times", January 31, 2014

2013

ArtSlant, Interview with Bradley Rubenstien, October 2013

The New York Observer, Arts, "Inaugural Group Exhibition", Will Heinrich, September 30, 2013

NY Magazine Vulture, Culture, New York Magazine Fall Preview issue, August 26 “What Our Critics Are Anticipating This Fall" Jerry Saltz’s Five Art Picks, September 2013

2012

Examiner.com, NY Galleries and Museums, "Angela Dufresne’s ‘bastard portraits’", Howard Schwartz, October 18, 2012

Time Out New York, Art, "Ten Painting Shows You Should See", Howard Halle, September 24, 2012

ArtSlant, Editor’s Choice, "Parlors and Pastorals", Aldrin Valdez, September 19, 2012

The Huffington Post, Arts & Culture, "Twelve Must-See Painting Shows: September 2012", Steven Zevitas, September 10, 2012

The New York Times, Art in Review, "Beasts of Revelation", Ken Johnson, July 20, 2012

NY Arts Magazine, Editorial Preview-Conversations, "In Conversation: Nicola Tyson Interviews Angela Dufresne", Jason Stopa, February 18, 2012

The Financial Times (U.K.), Business Education, "The Art of Business Education", Adam Palin, January 30, 2012

New American Paintings, Blog, "Not For Sale: Angela Dufresne", Whitney Kimball, January 17, 2012

2011

Pars Review, Liz Brown, Screen Shots Review

Dossier Journal, Fall 2011, Day Clock

New York Times, Weekend Arts, "Vivid: Female Currents in Painting", Roberta Smith, January 21, 2011

2010

Artillery Magazine, Reviews, "Angela Dufresne: Enlightenment Covers", Ezrha Jean Black, Vol 5 Issue 1, Sep/Oct 2010

Harper’s Magazine, Editors, Vol. 320 No. 1920, May 2010

2009

OUT, Back in the Gay, "Artists Reinterpret Cover’s From OUT’s Archives", Editors, No. 186, August 2009

2008

The New York Times (page 1 of 2), Weekend Arts: Fine Arts Leisure, "Chelsea: Chockablock With Encyclopedic Range", Roberta Smith, November 14, 2008

The New York Times (page 2 of 2), Weekend Arts: Fine Arts Leisure, "Chelsea: Chockablock With Encyclopedic Range", Roberta Smith, November 14, 2008

The Huffington Post, First Person Artist, "Artist Angela Dufresne on Recreating History", Kimberly Brooks, Page 1, May 24, 2008

The Huffington Post, First Person Artist, "Artist Angela Dufresne on Recreating History", Kimberly Brooks, Page 2, May 24, 2008

The Huffington Post, First Person Artist, "Artist Angela Dufresne on Recreating History", Kimberly Post, Page 4, May 24, 2008

The Huffington Post, First Person Artist, "Artist Angela Dufresne on Recreating History", Kimberly Brooks, Page 5, May 24, 2008

The New York Sun, Arts, "Paintings", Jayanthi Daniel, May 5, 2008

2007

The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Paintings and Sculptures Pick Up Gallery’s Vibe", Edith Newhall, October 12, 2007

The New Yorker, "Horizon", Editors, July 23, 2007

The New York Sun, Calendar, "Painting", Editors, July 13 – 15, 2007

The New York Sun, Arts Calendar, "Secret Languages", February 22, 2007

2006

Artnet, "L.A. Confidential", Emma Gray, October 12, 2006

LA Weekly, Must See Art, "Angela Dufresne at Hammer Museum Projects", Amara Brooks, August 11-17, 2006

Economist.com, "Angela Dufresne", Editors, August 2006

The New York Times, Weekend Arts: The Listings, "How I Finally Accepted Fate", Ken Johnson, July 14, 2006

ELLE, "Rowe’s Gallery", Aaron Gel, Volume XXI Number. 5 No. 245, January 2006, reproduction

New American Paintings, Juried Publication, Juror: Bill Arning, No. 62, 2006

2005

Contemporary Art (China), "New York Contemporary Art Scene", December, 2005, reproduction

The Boston Globe, Calendar Section, "Angela Dufresne: Love Streams", Cate McQuaid, Nov 17, 2005

Time Out New York, Critics Picks: Gay and Lesbian, "Postcards from the Edge", editors, Oct 13-20, 2005

Interview, "Angela Dufresne: Introducing an artist who wants everyone to live in a masterpiece", Justin Conner, September, 2005, reproduction

The New York Times, Weekend Arts, "Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable", Holland Cotter, July 8, 2005

The New York Press, Summer Art Guide, "Something is Somewhere", Robert Marshall, Volume 18, #21, May 25-31, 2005

2004

The Boston Globe, "Examining Our Obsessions", Cate McQuaid, February 27, 2004

Provincetown Banner, “Forging New Identities”, Anne Woods, January 2004

2002

NY Arts Magazine, Writer’s Pick, editors, October 2002

Artnet, "From Harlem to MoMA", Charlie Finch, January, 2002

Bay Windows, "What’s Hot, What’s Not", Gerry Desautels, January, 2002