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, literature and yes, the many histories of painting, lauded and loathed.
She has an upcoming exhibition at Dartmouth College titled “Woman Under the Influence” which will feature various work that are manifest from her adoration and transfiction with the great american actress Gena Rowlands> 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 Monya Rowe and CRG NY, Yossi Milo NY and M & B in Los Angeles. Group and collaborative exhibitions include “50 paintings’ at the Milwaukee museum organized by Michel Grabner, Where I End, We Begin, at Suny 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 MacDowell, Yaddo, two fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown.
She is professor of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Some of her teaching besides numerous lectures include being faculty at Skowhegan, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Anderson Ranch and the Vermont studio program.
Her work is in numerous private collections and the public collections of Middlebury College Art Museum, VT, the Nerman Museum of Art, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, KS; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO; the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.