Bio
b. Connecticut, 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, ME
2011
Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Long and Short Shots, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Evocations, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Angela Dufresne as William E. Jones' Painting Bottom, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Just My Type, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
2018
Making a Scene, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2016
Pleasure Tips, Steven Harvey Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Let's 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, Culver City, 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, Culver City, 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
2021
Ladyfinger and Fig McFlurry, 56 Henry, New York, NY
Zwischenzug, Below Grand, New York, NY
Re: Representation - Part I, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Any distance between us, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2020
Transitional Positions, A Virtual Exhibition Curated by Eric Fischl, Galerie St. Etienne
American Women, The Infinite Journey, La Patinoire Royale - galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
Visionary New England, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2019
Them, Perrotin, New York, NY
Paint, also known as Blood: Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Go Figure!, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2018
Portland Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Worshiping Sticks and Stones, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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's Enterprise, New York, NY
STAGES, Zürcher Gallery, 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 York, 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 Schrader, 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, New 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, Ogunquit Musem, Ogunquit, ME
Shapeshifters, 443 P A S, New York, NY
Vivid, Schroeder Romero Gallery, NY
2010
Painting Coast to Coast, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
In a Violet Distance Curated by David Humphrey, Zürcher Gallery, New York, 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
Fourth 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, Waltham, MA
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, Culver City, 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 Vaudeville, 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, Dennis, 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
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
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, American 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
2021
Stopa, Jason. “’I Don’t Go to Crisis Just Yet’: Four Painters Discuss the Rise of Figurative Painting.” MOMUS. 30 April 2021
"Angela Dufresne." SOUND & VISION. 8 April 2021 [podcast]
Edgington, Colin. “Critics’ Picks: Angela Dufresne, Yossi Milo Gallery.” Artforum. 3 March 2021
Yau, John. “Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story.” Hyperallergic. 20 February 2021
Steinhauer, Jillian. “4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.” The New York Times. 17 February 2021
Woolbright, Andrew Paul. “The ‘whorish porous’ in the work of Angela Dufresne.” Two Coats of Paint. 5 February 2021
2020
"Angela Dufresne: Our Sex Is Aesthetic [S3 E06]." She's A Talker 14 August 2020 [podcast]
Woolbright, Andrew Paul. “Phantom Body: Weightless bodies, Avatars, and the end of skin.” Whitehot Magazine May 2020
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