ABOUT:
Angela Dufresne is a painter and educator based in Brooklyn. With painting, drawing, printmaking, and performative works, she creates heterotopic narratives that embrace vulnerability, contradiction, and nuance. Her works are the result of irreverent interaction with various cultural archives: American vernaculars, the dredges of European aesthetics and philosophy, film, and literature and yes, the many histories of painting, lauded and loathed. She’s held solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Gallery exhibitions include CR Gallery NY, Yossi Milo NY and M+B Gallery in Los Angeles. Group and collaborative exhibitions include 50 Paintings at the Milwaukee Art Museum organized by Michelle Grabner, Where I End, We Begin at SUNY Purchase and LSU university with Mala Iqbal; Visionary New England at the deCordova Museum, Paint, also known as Blood, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland and Greater NY at PS1.
She received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, residencies at McDowell, Yaddo, and two fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown. She is department head and professor of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to numerous lectures, some of her other teaching includes being faculty at Skowhegan, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Anderson Ranch, and the Vermont Studio Center.