Betsy Rosenwald

Betsy Rosenwald was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Beloit College (Wisconsin) and MFA from Brooklyn College (New York). Rosenwald was a member of the East Village artist run centre PS122 from 1980 until 1999, when she moved to Saskatoon. Her work was featured in the Banff Centre's online cultural publication, Boulderpavement: Art and Ideas (Issue #9-2013, Repetition). As a graphic designer, she received her CGD certification from the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) and has designed publications for many artists, galleries, and businesses. She is the former art editor/designer for Grain, a national literary magazine. She has exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally, and her paintings are represented in the collections of the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council Art Bank. Rosenwald is a multimedia artist who regularly works with a variety of materials. For the last several years, she has dedicated a great deal of her focus to encaustic painting. Enjoying the unique features of the medium and its very tactile nature, her encaustic works allude to a variety of subjects, forms, and art historical references.

Curriculum Vitae

One Person Exhibitions

2006 - Still Remains, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK
2005 - Salvage, Odd Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon
1985 - Civilian Warfare Gallery, New York
1983 - Just Above Midtown/Downtown, New York
1981 - Keuka College, Keuka, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 - Journal of the Plague Years, (2-person), The Gallery/Art Placement Inc., Saskatoon, SK
2021 - Journal of the Plague Year, (2-person), 330g, Saskatoon, SK
2018 - Our Enduring Drama, (2-person), The Gallery/Art Placement Inc., Saskatoon, SK
2016 - The Gallery/Art Placement Inc, 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
2000 - Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK Objects and Images
1999 - Wright Art Center, Beloit, WI Visions of Place
1997 - Bentley College, Waltham, MA The Dog Show
1997 - Gallery Asyl, New York Not the Biennial
1996 - Gallery 460, New York Structure
1996 - Gallery Korea, New York Flux
1994 - New York Law School Gallery, New York Self-Portraits, curated by Jennifer Sloan
1993 - Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, New York One River, One World, curated by Mariella Bisson
1993 - Tweed Gallery, New York, New York Commission on the Status of Women: Women's Art, Women's Lives, Women's Issues
1993 - Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York Anniversary Exhibition
1991 - PS122 Gallery, New York Portraits
1987 - Barbican Arts Group Gallery, London, England A New York View
1987 - Kraine Club Gallery, New York 4 Women
1987 - Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT Art of the Northeast, curated by Patterson Sims
1986 - Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York Vivid Pastel
1986 - Galleria Centro Mascarella Arte Ricerca, Bologna, Italy, and Museo Civico d'Avola, Siracusa, Italy: La Banda dei Dodici: 12 Artists from New York City
1986 - Hudson Center Gallery, New York Women Regard Men
1986 - 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
1985 - Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Collector's Choice
1985 - Bond Gallery, New York Stigmata, curated by Steven Kaplan
1985 - Nora Haime Gallery, New York Pastel
1985 - London Art Fair, London, England
1985 - Avenue B Gallery, New York Feminists & Misogynists Together At Last, curated by Robt Costa
1985 - Ronald Feldman Gallery, Benefit Exhibition for Fashion Moda
1985 - Affaire des Arts Contemporary Art Auction and Premiere Dance Performance, On the Wall Productions and Limelight, New York, NY
1984 - Zurich Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
1984 - Women's Interart Center, New York Dreams and Nightmares, curated by Janet Heit
1984 - Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Today: 1984 Biennial Exhibition
1984 - Vardell Gallery, St. Andrew's College, Laurinsburg, North Carolina Contemporary Tendencies
1984 - Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Benefit Exhibition for Heresies Magazine
1983 - Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York New Blood
1983 - Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York Intoxication, curated by Nicolas Moufarrege
1983 - Real Artways, Hartford, Connecticut Dirty Pictures, curated by Jeanette Ingberman, Exit Art
1983 - P.S.1, Long Island City, New York A Flag for the 80s, Installation
1982 - White Columns, New York Dirty Pictures, curated by Jeanette Ingberman
1982 - Basement Workshop, New York Angry Art, curated by Reine Hauser and Janet Henry
1982 - Civilian Warfare Gallery, New York All Art
1982 - Public Illumination Gallery, New York
1982 - Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
1982 - Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 30 New York Artists
1981 - 79 Wall Street Gallery, Huntington, New York
1981 - Ten Downtown Open Studio Exhibition, PS122, New York

Selected Reviews

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 (repro)
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)
Soho News, Downtown Artists: An Endangered Species, Michael Burlingham, November 24, 1981 (repro)
The Villager, Ten Downtown: A Walking Tour, Edward Rubin, April 21, 1981

Publications

Boulderpavement: Art and Ideas (Issue #9-2013, Repetition), a multidisciplinary, multimedia online quarterly published by the Banff Centre. Includes audio of interview with Steven Ross Smith
Pliny's Knickers, poems by Steven Ross Smith & Hilary Clark; art and design by Betsy Rosenwald (JackPine Press, Saskatoon, SK, 2005)
Split Ends, story by Katherine Lawrence, art and design by Betsy Rosenwald (JackPine Press, Saskatoon, SK, 2005)
Stone Baby, by Dolores Reimer (cover painting); published by Hagios Press, Saskatoon, SK, 2004
Interference with the Hydrangea, by Mari Lou Rowley (cover painting); Thistledown Press, Saskatoon, 2003
Grain Magazine, (cover paintings); published by Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Saskatoon, SK, 2003
The Textbook of the Rose, by Joann McCaig (Cormorant Books, Dunvegan, ON, 2000), cover painting
Visions of Place, Wright Art Center, Beloit College, August 1999 (repro)
Not the Biennial, published by David Blaustein, Asyl Gallery, May 1997 (repro)
The Paris Review, Fall 1997, No. 144 (cover painting)
Art of the Northeast, published by Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT., August 1987 (repro)
La Banda dei Dodici: 12 Artists from New York City, with essay by Carlo McCormick, May, 1986 (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 (repro)
Betsy Rosenwald, CV page 2
Women Regard Men, published by Hudson Center Gallery, New York, NY February, 1986 (repro)
Painting and Sculpture Today 1984, with essay by Helen Ferrulli, Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 1984
Dirty Pictures, with essay by Jeanette Ingberman, Exit Art Press , New York, NY December 1982 (repro)

Awards and Fellowships

2015 - Artist residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2014 - Artist residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2013 - National Magazine Award, Best Magazine-Saskatchewan (Grain magazine)
2012 Artist residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2012 - National Magazine Award, Best Magazine-Saskatchewan (Grain magazine)
2010 - Artist residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2005-11 - Saskatchewan Writers Guild Artist/Writer Colonies
2006 - Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design in Canada: with Dawna Rose, for Smoking with My Mother
bp nichols Chapbook Award for the design of Pliny's Knickers
2006 - C anada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
2004 - Saskatchewan Arts Board, Creative B Grant
2003 - Klondike Institute for Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon, artist residency
1990-99 - Saskatchewan Writers Guild Artist/Writer Colonies
1992 - Palenville Interarts Colony, Palenville, New York
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 in graphics
1985 - MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, artist residency

Public Collections

Saskatchewan Arts Board
Canada Council Art Bank
New York Foundation for the Arts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Book Covers and Illustration

The Antigonish Review #148 (Winter 2007)
Pliny's Knickers: Book I by Steven Ross Smith and Hilary Clark (JackPine Press, 2005)
Split Ends by Katherine Lawrence (JackPine Press, 2005)
Stone Baby, by Dolores Reimer (Saskatoon: Hagios Press, 2004)
Interference with the Hydrangea, by Mari-Lou Rowley (Thistledown Press, 2003)
The Textbook of the Rose, by Joann McCaig (Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, 2000)
Grain magazine
The Paris Review, Issue #144 (Fall 1997)

Related Work

2009-2014 - Grain Magazine (art editor/designer)
2007-2014 - Arts & Science magazine, University of Saskatchewan (editor/designer)
2005-07 - Jack Pine Press Collective (design and editorial advisor)
2003-07 - Saskatchewan Writers Guild Colony Committee
2002-04 - Secretary-Treasurer, CARFAC Sask (Saskatchewan)
2002 - Programming Committee, AKA Gallery
2002 - Frances Morrison Library Gallery Committee
2001 - Board Member at Large, CARFAC Sask
1990-94 - Director, Project Studio Program, PS 122 (Artist Run Centre), New York, NY
1986-90 - Director, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
1987 - State University of New York at Buffalo, Guest Artist
1986 - State University of New York at Albany, Visiting Artist Lecture Series
1985 - Midwest College Conference Artist Lecture Series