Bio

American, b. 1969

EDUCATION

1998

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

1991

BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

ACADEMIC POSTS

Present

Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2017

Resident Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, MN

2011

Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Just My Type: Angela Dufresne, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY

2018

Angela Dufresne: Making a Scene, 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, New York, NY

Modern Times 2, CRG Gallery, New York, 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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Them, Perrotin, New York, NY

Paint, also known as Blood: Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

2018

Portland Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2017

American Genre, ICA MECA, Portland, ME

Stranger than Paradise, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Look Twice, Zurcher Studio, New York, NY

Self Portraiture, Able Baker Gallery, Portland, ME

Found, 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

Two in Room, Angela Dufresne and Rosemary Beck, 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, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY

STAGES, 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, 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, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Vintage Violence, Monya Rowe 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, 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, 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, 443 P A S, New York, NY

Vivid, 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, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA

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

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

Master of Reality, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis 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

Places, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY

Get up off our Knees, 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

The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Horizons, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

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

MAS*H, The Helena, New York, NY

Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria

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 for the Arts, New York, NY

Before, Zero Station, Portland, ME

Jack, Roberts + Tilton, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Spectrum, LeLong Gallery, New York, NY

Fresh Paint, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

Something is Somewhere, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

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

2003-04 FAWC Fellows, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, MA

2003-04 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

2002-03 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

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

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2018

Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbria, Italia

2016

Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY

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, Providence, RI

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

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019

Hirsch, Faye. “Angela Dufresne’s Portraits Depict a Robust Society of Fellow Artists.” Art in America 29 August 2019

“Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week.” Artnet 24 June 2019

Hansell, Sally. “Angela Dufresne Queers the Portraiture Tradition.” Hyperallergic 16 April 2019

“9 Art Exhibits to See in February.” Chronogram 1 February 2019

2018

Small, Zachary. “How Contemporary Artists Are Evolving the Queer Aesthetic.” Artsy 2018

Litt, Steve. “Artists Dufresne and Tyson reimagine the body in terrific show at Cleveland Institute of Art.” Cleveland.com 2018

2017

Vartanian, Hrag. “The Messy, DIY Aesthetic of the Spring/Break Art Show.” Hyperallergic 6 March 2017

Zeng, Cindy. “‘Stranger Than Paradise’ explores art through history.” Brown Daily Herald 11 September 2017

Cotter, Holland. “Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction.” The New York Times 23 August 2017

Baily, Amy Louise. “How Feminist Artists are Staging Their Own Protests with Paint.” Harpers Bazaar 6 February 2017

2016

Saltz, Jerry. “Goulding the Lolly.” New York Magazine July 2016

Wolkoff, Julia. “Goulding the Lolly.” Art in America 21 July 2016

Pobric, Pac. “Goulding the Lolly.” The Village Voice July 2016

Lesser, Casey. “15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July.” Artsy June 2016

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

2015

Marcia, Yerman G. “Wrath – Force of Nature at Wave Hill.” The Huffington Post 2 September 2015

Dufresne, Angela. “Gentileschi’s Beheading, Two Times.” Painters on Painting 13 August 2015

Dufresne, Angela. “An Artist’s Farewell to a Self-Made New York Gallerist.” Hyperallergic 8 July 2015

Dufresne, Angela. “Irony, Sincerity…Is There a Third Pill?” Art21 Magazine 6 July 2015

2014

Moyer, Carrie. “Review.” Art in America November 2014

Yau, John. “What the Heck is Going On in Angela Dufresne’s New Paintings?” Hyperallergic 28 September 2014

Baker, R.C. “Darkness on the Edge of Downtown.” The Village Voice 18-24 June 2014

“Browsings.” Harper’s 24 March 2014

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

2013

Rubenstein, Bradley. “Angela Dufresne.” ArtSlant October 2013

Heinrich, Will. “Inaugural Group Exhibition.” The New York Observer 30 September 2013

2012

Schwartz, Howard. “Angela Dufresne’s ‘bastard portraits.’” Examiner 18 October 2012

Halle, Howard. “Ten Painting Shows You Should See.” Time Out New York 24 September 2012

Valdez, Aldrin. “Editor’s Choice: Parlors and Pastorals.” ArtSlant 19 September 2012

Zevitas, Steven. “Twelve Must-See Painting Shows: September 2012.” The Huffington Post 10 September 2012

Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Beasts of Revelation.” The New York Times 20 July 2012

Stopa, Jason. “In Conversation: Nicola Tyson Interviews Angela Dufresne.” NY Arts Magazine 18 February 2012

Palin, Adam. “The Art of Business Education.” The Financial Times 30 January 2012

Kimball, Whitney. “Not For Sale: Angela Dufresne.” New American Paintings 17 January 2012

2011

Brown, Liz. “Screen Shots.” The Paris Review 27 October 2011

“Day Clock.” Dossier Journal Fall 2011

Smith, Roberta. “Vivid: Female Currents in Painting.” The New York Times 21 January 2011

2010

Black, Ezra Jean. “Angela Dufresne: Enlightenment Covers.” Artillery Magazine September 2010

Dufresne, Angela. “A portable treehouse for Roky Erickson.” Harper’s May 2010

2009

“Artists Reinterpret Covers from OUT’s Archives.” OUT August 2009

2008

Smith, Roberta. “Chelsea: Chockablock with Encyclopedic Range.” The New York Times 14 November 2008

Brooks, Kimberly. “Artist Angela Dufresne on Recreating History.” The Huffington Post 24 May 2008

2007

Daniel, Jayanthi. “Paintings.” The New York Sun 13–15 July 2007

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

“Horizon.” The New Yorker 23 July 2007

“Painting.” The New York Sun 13 – 15 July 2007

“Secret Languages.” The New York Sun 22 February 2007

2006

Gray, Emma. “L.A. Confidential.” Artnet 12 October 2006

Brooks, Amara. “Angela Dufresne at Hammer Museum Projects.” LA Weekly 11-17 August 2006

“Angela Dufresne.” Economist August 2006

Johnson, Ken. “How I Finally Accepted Fate.” The New York Times 14 July 2006

Gel, Aaron. “Rowe’s Gallery.” Elle January 2006

Arning, Bill. New American Paintings 2006

2005

“New York Contemporary Art Scene.” Contemporary Art (China) December 2005

McQuaid, Cate. “Angela Dufresne: Love Streams.” The Boston Globe 17 November 2005

“Postcards from the Edge.” Time Out New York 13-20 October 2005

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

Cotter, Holland. “Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable.” The New York Times 8 July 2005

Marshall, Robert. “Something is Somewhere.” The New York Times 25-31 2005

2004

McQuaid, Cate. “Examining Our Obsessions.” The Boston Globe 27 February 2004

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

2002

“Writer’s Pick.” NY Arts Magazine October 2002

Finch, Charlie. “From Harlem to MoMA.” Artnet January 2002

Desautels, Gerry. “What’s Hot, What’s Not.” Bay Windows January 2002