| BORN | |
| 1969, Hartford, CT | |
| Lives and works in New York, NY | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1998 | MFA | Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1991 | BA | Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2018 | Angela Dufresne: 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 |
| 2013 | Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY |
| Cinema Covers, Common Street Arts, Waterbury, ME | |
| 2012 | My Only Child and Other Lunacy, KH Modern Art, Berlin, Germany |
| 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 | |
| 2009 | Enlightenment Covers, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA |
| Modern Times 1, Monya Rowe Gallery, NY | |
| 2008 | Modern Times 2, CRG Gallery, NY |
| Floating Weeds, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy | |
| Twilight of Mice and Men, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2007 | Next: An Invitational Art Fair of Emerging Art: Chicago, IL, Monya Rowe, NY |
| New Prints, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2006 | Code Unknown, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY |
| Angela Dufresne, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, CA | |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2018 | Portland Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME |
| 2017 | American Genre, curated by Michelle Grabner, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Maine College of Art, 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2015 | Drawings, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY |
| Recent Acquisitions, Rhode Island School of Design 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 | |
| 2014 | Wrath of Nature, Wave Hill Center, New York, NY |
| 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 | |
| 2013 | Armory Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY |
| 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 | |
| 2010 | Vivid, curated by Janet Phelps, Shreoder Ramero Gallery, NY |
| Painting Coast to Coast, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI | |
| In A Violet Distance, curated by David Humphrey, Galerei Zucher, NY | |
| 2009 | Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL |
| 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, 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, curated by Nayland Blake, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Places, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| Get up off our Knees, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Pulse New York Art Fair, Monya Rowe Gallery, 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, curated by Leigh Ledare, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY | |
| The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Dona Nelson | |
| Horizons, curated by David Humphrey, The Elizabeth Foundation, NY | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy | |
| Art Moscow Art Fair, Galleria Glance, Moscow, Russia, | |
| Endangered Wasteland, CRG Gallery, New York, NY | |
| M*A*S*H, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Amy Smith-Stewart, The Helena, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Salon Nouveau, curated by Jasper Sharp, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria |
| Psycho Ideology, Roebling Hall, New York, NY | |
| Year 06 Art Fair, London, U.K. with Monya Rowe Gallery | |
| Unless, Miller Block, Boston, MA | |
| How I Finally Accepted Fate, curated by Jason Murison, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY | |
| Before, Zero Station, Portland, ME | |
| 2005 | Jack, curated by Geoffrey Young, Roberts + Tilton, Los Angeles, CA |
| Spectrum, Lelong Gallery, New York | |
| NYFresh Paint, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY | |
| Something is Somewhere, curated by Anat Ebgi and Monya Rowe, 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 | |
| 2004 | Parakeet Film Salon 2005, Brooklyn, NY |
| Miracle on Franklin Street, GV/AS, Brooklyn, NY | |
| I’ve Met Someone Else, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Open Zone Video Screening, Ocularis Projects, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2003-04 FAWC Fellows, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, MA | |
| 2003 | 2003-04 FAWC Fellows, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY |
| 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 | |
| 2002 | Cooking with Cookie von Mueller, video screening at Green St. Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 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 | |
| 2001 | Our Spring Collection, The Harlem Flophouse, New York, NY |
| Artpact, The Harlem Flophouse, New York, NY | |
| Collabratory, Gail Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2000 | Grrls, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT |
| 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 | |
| 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), curated by Angela Dufresne and Monya Rowe |
| 1995-96 | The Dead Space Gallery, Director, Portland, ME |
| AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES | |
| 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 |
| WRITING | |
| 2015 | “Artist Farewell to Gallerist,” Hyperallergic |
| “Irony or Sincerity, Give Me a Third Pill?,” Art 21 | |
| 2014 | “Gentileschi’s Beheading, Two Times,” Painters on Painting |
| ACADEMIC POSITIONS & APPOINTMENTS | |
| 2017 | Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting, Skowhegan, MA |
| Chief Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, EHP Rome | |
| Visiting Artist/Lecture, Carnage Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Visiting Artist/Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI | |
| 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 | |
| Visiting Artist Critic, University of Iowa, 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, The University of the Arts, 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 California, Berkeley, CA | |
| Visiting Artist/Lecture Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Visiting Artist/Lecture State University of New York at 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, University of California, 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 2018 | Yau, John. "Upending Conventions with Figurative Painting,” Hyperallergic, July 22 |
| 2017 | Zeng, Cindy. “Stranger Than Paradise’ explores art through history RISD Museum brings together 14 pieces exploring relationship between man, nature,” The Brown Daily Herald, September 11 |
| Henry, Joseph. "Queering Queer Abstraction,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 5 | |
| Cotter, Holland. "Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction’" (review), The New York Times, August 23 | |
| Vartanian, Hrag. “The Messy, DIY Aesthetic of the Spring/Break Art Show,” Hyperallergic, March 27 | |
| Bailey, Amy Louise. "How Feminist Artists Are Staging Their Own Protests With Paint,” Harper’s Bazaar, February 6 | |
| 2016 | Litt, Steven. "Artists Dufresne and Tyson Reimagine the Body in Terrific Show at Cleveland Institute of Art,” Cleveland.com, November 17 |
| Saltz, Jerry. “Goulding the Lolly at Gavin Brown,” (review), New York Magazine, July | |
| Wolkoff, Julia. “Goulding the Lolly,” Art In America, July | |
| Pobric, Pol. “Goulding the Lolly,” Village Voice, July | |
| Yau, John. "An Ivory Tower Artist: Joe Bradley’s Recent Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings” Hyperallergic, April 24 | |
| Yau, John. "Angela Dufresne Has a Big Heart," Hyperallergic, April 20 | |
| Denzer, Laura, "The Other Side at Monya Rowe Gallery,” Painting is Dead, March 1 | |
| Lesser, Casey. “15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July,” Artsy.net, June | |
| Yau, John. “Angela Dufresne has a Big Heart,” Hyperallergic, April 10 | |
| 2015 | Yerman, Marcia G. “Wrath—Force of Nature at Wave Hill,” Huffington Post, September 2 |
| 2014 | Moyer, Carrie. Review, Art in America, November |
| Yau, John. “What the Heck is Going on in Angela Dufresne’s New Paintings?” Hyperalleric, September 28 | |
| 10th Season Launch, Art Critical, September 26 (review panel, Nagel, Spears, Storr) | |
| Baker, R.C. "Darkness on the Edge of Downtown,” Village Voice, June 18 | |
| Baker, R.C. "Monya Rowe's "Vintage Violence": Every Year's a Good One for Pain and Death,” Village Voice, June 18 | |
| "Angela Dufresne on Gentileschi’s ‘Beheading’- Two Times,” Painters on Painting, January 31 | |
| 2013 | Interview with Bradley Rubenstein, ArtSlant, October |
| Heinrich, Will. "Inaugural Group Exhibition,” New York Observer, September 30 | |
| “What Our Critics Are Anticipating This Fall,” New York Magazine, August 26 | |
| Saltz, Jerry. Five Art Picks, New York Magazine, September | |
| 2012 | Schwartz, Howard. "Angela Dufresne's ‘Bastard Portraits’,” Examiner.com, October 18 |
| Halle, Howard. "Ten Painting Shows You Should See,” Time Out New York, September 24 | |
| Valdez, Aldrin. “Editor's Choice: Parlors and Pastorals,” ArtSlant, September 19 "Twelve Zevitas, Steven. Must-See Painting Shows: September 2012,” Huffington Post, September 10 | |
| Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Beasts of Revelation,” The New York Times, July 20 | |
| Stopa, Jason. "In Conversation: Nicola Tyson Interviews Angela Dufresne,” New York Arts Magazine, February 18 | |
| Palin, Adam. "The Art of Business Education,” The Financial Times (U.K.), January 30 | |
| Kimball, Whitney. "Not For Sale: Angela Dufresne,” New American Paintings January 17 | |
| Brown, Liz. Screen Shots. Paris Review | |
| 2011 | Review, Dossier Journal, Fall |
| Smith, Roberta. “Vivid: Female Currents in Painting,” The New York Times, January 21 | |
| 2010 | Black, Ezrha Jean. "Angela Dufresne: Enlightenment Covers” (review), Artillery Magazine, Vol 5 Issue 1, Sep/Oct |
| Editors, Harper's Magazine, Vol. 320 No. 1920, May | |
| 2009 | Back in the Gay, "Artists Reinterpret Cover's From OUT's Archives,” OUT, No. 186, August |
| 2008 | Smith, Roberta. “Chelsea: Chockablock With Encyclopedic Range,” The New York Times, November 14 |
| Brooks, Kimberly. "Artist Angela Dufresne on Recreating History,” Huffington Post, May 24 | |
| Daniel, Jayanthi. "Paintings,” New York Sun, May 5 | |
| 2007 | Newhall, Edith. "Paintings and Sculptures Pick Up Gallery's Vibe,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12 |
| "Horizon,” The New Yorker, July 23 | |
| "Painting,” New York Sun, July 13 | |
| "Secret Languages,” New York Sun, February 22 | |
| 2006 | Gray, Emma. "L.A. Confidential,” Artnet, October 12 |
| Brooks, Amara. “Must See Art: ‘Angela Dufresne at Hammer Museum Projects,’” LA Weekly, August 11 | |
| "Angela Dufresne,” Economist.com, August | |
| Johnson, Ken. "How I Finally Accepted Fate,” The New York Times, July 14 | |
| Gel, Aaron. "Rowe’s Gallery,” Elle, Volume XXI, Number. 5 No. 245, January | |
| Arning, Bill. New American Paintings, juried publication, No. 62 | |
| 2005 | "New York Contemporary Art Scene,” Contemporary Art (China), December |
| McQuaid, Cate. "Angela Dufresne: Love Streams,” The Boston Globe, Nov 17 | |
| “Critics Picks: Gay and Lesbian, ‘Postcards from the Edge,’” Time Out New York, October 13 | |
| Conner, Justin. "Angela Dufresne: Introducing an artist who wants everyone to live in a masterpiece,” Interview, September | |
| Cotter, Holland. "Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable,” The New York Times, July 8 | |
| Marshall, Robert "Something is Somewhere,” The New York Press, Summer Art Guide Volume 18, #21, May 25 | |
| McQuaid, Cate. "Examining Our Obsessions,” The Boston Globe, February 27 | |
| 2004 | Woods, Anne. “Forging New Identities,” Provincetown Banner, January |
| 2002 | Writer's Pick, editors, Arts Magazine, October |
| Finch, Charlie. "From Harlem to MoMA,” Artnet, January | |
| Desautels, Gerry. "What's Hot, What's Not,” Bay Windows, January | |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI | |
| The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
