Betsy Rosenwald lives and works in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her paintings incorporate a variety of media, including wax, oil, drawing media, and photography. They have been included in exhibitions across Canada and the US, as well as internationally in Japan, England, Italy, and Switzerland. Most recently her work is featured in the Spring 2021 issue of Grain, a national literary magazine in Canada, and in the online exhibition Word, curated by Jacqueline Lima as part of the Easton (PA) Book Festival. She has collaborated with writers on several projects, including Pliny’s Knickers (with poets Steven Ross Smith and Hilary Clark), which received the 2005 bp Nichol chapbook award. Betsy has received grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, The Canada Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Art Matters Foundation, and artist residencies at AKA Artist-Run (Saskatoon, SK), Pouch Cove Foundation (NL), Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto), Klondike Institute for Art and Culture (Dawson City, YT), Emma Lake Artist/Writers Retreat (Sask) and the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH). Born in Boston, she moved to New York City to complete an MFA at Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY). While in New York, she was member of PS122, an artist-run studio collective, and her work was represented by the seminal East Village gallery, Civilian Warfare. Betsy is currently represented by The Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon and by Grasslands Gallery Online. Follow her on Instagram at @betsyrose_1
One/Two Person Exhibitions
2021 Journal of the Plague Year, with Dawna Rose, gallery 330g, Saskatoon, SK
2018 Our Enduring Drama, with Dawna Rose, Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
2006 Still Remains, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK
2005 Salvage, Odd Gallery, Dawson City, YT
1985 Betsy Rosenwald, Civilian Warfare Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Just Above Midtown/Downtown, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Deck the Walls: Small Works/Big Stories, Grasslands Gallery Online
You Are Here: A Place on a Map of the Heart, Grasslands Gallery Online
Art Now 2021, Grasslands Gallery Online
2020
Easton Book Festival, Easton, PA (online), Word, curated by Jackie Lima
2019
Pump House at River Landing, Saskatoon, SK, Pop Luck
2018
The Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Figure/Ground
Art Now Saskatchewan Fine Art Fair, Saskatoon, SK
2016
The Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Conversations in Paint
2004
James Baird Gallery, St. Johns, NFLD, Here and Back, curated by Robert Clarke-Davis
2000
Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Fresh
Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Objects and Images
1997
Bentley College, Waltham, MA, The Dog Show
Gallery Asyl, New York, Not the Biennial
1993
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, New York, One River, One World, curated by Mariella Bisson
Tweed Gallery, New York, New York, Commission on the Status of Women: Women’s Art, Women’s Lives, Women’s Issues
Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York, Anniversary Exhibition
1987
Barbican Arts Group Gallery, London, England, A New York View
Kraine Club Gallery, New York, 4 Women
Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT, Art of the Northeast, curated by Patterson Sims (Reader’s Digest Award for Works on Paper)
1986
Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York, Vivid Pastel
Galleria Centro Mascarella Arte Ricerca, Bologna, Italy, and Museo Civico d’Avola, Siracusa, Italy: La Banda dei Dodici: 12 Artists from New York City
Hudson Center Gallery, New York, Women Regard Men
Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, Women Regard Men
1985
La Foret Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan: Correspondences: New York Art Now, curated by Nicolas Moufarrege
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, Collector’s Choice
Bond Gallery, New York, Stigmata, curated by Steven Kaplan
Nora Haime Gallery, New York, Pastel
London Art Fair, London, England
Avenue B Gallery, New York Feminists & Misogynists Together at Last, curated by Robt Costa
1984
Zurich Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
Women’s Interart Center, New York, Dreams and Nightmares, curated by Janet Heit
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Today: 1984 Biennial Exhibition curated by Helen Ferrulli
Vardell Gallery, St. Andrew’s College, Laurinsburg, NC, Contemporary Tendencies
1983
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, Intoxication, curated by Nicolas Moufarrege
Real Artways, Hartford, Connecticut, Dirty Pictures, curated by Jeanette Ingberman, Exit Art
PS 1, Long Island City, New York A Flag for the 80s, Installation
1982
White Columns, New York, Dirty Pictures, curated by Jeanette Ingberman
Basement Workshop, New York, Angry Art, curated by Reine Hauser and Janet Henry
Civilian Warfare Gallery, New York, All Art
Public Illumination Gallery, New York
Selected Articles and Reviews
CBC News Saskatchewan, Journal of the Plague Year exhibition examines politics through an artistic lens, (Morning Edition), Ashleigh Mattern, February 14, 2021
Galleries West, Dawna Rose and Betsy Rosenwald: Journal of the Plague Year (Exhibitions, Saskatoon), February 2021
The Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Plague year: Saskatoon artists put their feelings about politics, social issues, and Covid-19 on display, Matt Olson, February 18, 2021
CBC Morning Edition, Pop Luck radio interview with Julianne Hazlewood, August 2019
Boulderpavement: Art and Ideas (Issue #9—2013, Repetition), online quarterly published by the Banff Centre: featured artist, with interview with Steven Ross Smith
The Leader-Post, Painting past merely a search for meaning, (review: Art Gallery of Regina) Jack Anderson,
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
ArtForum, East Village Ten Years After October 1999
108, 4 Artists at Kraine Club Gallery, Carlo McCormick (review: Kraine Club Gallery) May 1987
New York Times, Experimenting with the Purity of Pastels, Helen A. Harrison (review: Vivid Pastel, Islip Art Museum)
Sunday Long Island edition, November 16, 1986
Art News, Betsy Rosenwald, (review: Civilian Warfare Gallery) Sarah Cecil, May 1985
New York Times, The Downtown Scene: A Sampler of What’s New, Vivian Raynor (review: Betsy Rosenwald at Civilian Warfare Gallery) Friday, February 15, 1985
Arts Magazine, Betsy Rosenwald, article with repro by Lewis Kachur, February 1985
Indianapolis News, Painting Today A Vibrant Show, Marion Garmel (review: Painting and Scupture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art) May 2, 1984
New York Beat, Loisada in Hoosierland, Carlo McCormick, May 23, 1984
Flash Art, The Year After, Nicolas Moufarrege, Summer, 1984
New York Times, A Gallery Scene that Pioneers in New Territories, Grace Glueck, Sunday, June 26, 1983
New York Times, Art: One Man’s Biennial Assembles 102 Artists, Grace Glueck (review: Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery) April 25, 1983
East Village Eye, Review: Betsy Rosenwald at Just Above Midtown/Downtown, Jane Webb, April, 1983
Arts Magazine, Another Wave, Still More Savagely than the First: Lower East Side, 1982, Nicolas Moufarrege (repro)
Selected Catalogues and Publications
The Paris Review, Fall 1997, No. 144 (cover painting)
La Banda dei Dodici: 12 Artists from New York City, with essay by Carlo McCormick, May1986 (catalogue with repro)
Correspondences: New York Art Now, published by Tsurumoto Room Co., Ltd., with essays by Nicolas Moufarrege,
Shozo Tsurumoto, and Alan Jones; in Japanese and English; December 1985 (book with repro)
Women Regard Men, published by Hudson Center Gallery, New York, NY February, 1986 (catalogue with repro)
Painting and Sculpture Today 1984, with essay by Helen Ferrulli, Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 1984 (catalogue)
Dirty Pictures, with essay by Jeanette Ingberman, Exit Art Press , New York, NY December 1982 (repro)
Education
1977 BA, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
1980 MFA, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Public Collections
Saskatchewan Arts Board
Canada Council Art Bank
New York Foundation for the Arts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Grants and Awards
2020 Saskatchewan Arts Board microgrant
2016 Saskatchewan Arts Board Independent Artist Grant
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
2006 bp nichols Chapbook Award, Pliny’s Knickers
1990 Art Matters Foundation, New York, artist grant
1987 Reader’s Digest Award for Works on Paper, Art of the Northeast
1986 New York Foundation for the Arts, artist fellowship
Selected Artist Residencies
2021 AKA Artist-Run, Saskatoon, SK
2021 Pouch Cove Foundation, Pouch Cove, NFLD
Various Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
Various Emma Lake Artist/Writer Retreat, Emma Lake, SK
2003 Klondike Institute for Art & Culture (KIAC), Dawson City, YT
1985 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, artist residency
Memberships/Related Work
2018–19 CARFAC Mentorship Program, mentor
2018 Invisibility of Women in the Arts, panelist, Corfu, Greece
2009–14 Grain Magazine, art editor
2005–7 Jack Pine Press Collective, member
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