BIOGRAPHY:
A.M. Rousseau is a multi-disciplined artist and photographer who has exhibited her work in solo shows in New York, California, Texas, Ohio, and in Europe and Japan as well as museums in Lancaster, Bakersfield and Oklahoma. Her work has been published in magazines including Life Magazine, The Photo Review, Art in America, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe among others.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment in the Arts Fellowship, The Djerassi Foundation Affymax Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Artist Residency, Yaddo Artist residency, the Virginia Center for the Arts residency, the Manhattan Borough President’s Award for Excellence and Service in the Arts, and the Harc Foundation Award.
She received her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and a Master’s Degree in Fine art from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She also attended the New York Studio School for Painting and Sculpture and the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Drawings and paintings from the series, “A Hundred Points on a Line,” were exhibited at Andi Campognone Projects in Pomona, CA. and in a solo show at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History. Her paintings from the series “Sight Lines” were shown in at the Bakersfield Museum. Her one-person show at the CMay gallery at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles traveled to Korea. She has had solo shows with the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Los Angeles, Fresh Paint in Los Angeles and Scape Gallery in Corona Del Mar, CA and the Jason Vass Gallery in Los Angeles.
Resume:
Exhibitions:
2023 “Syncopations,” Scape Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2022 “Spring Exhibition,” Coastline College, Orange County, CA
2019 “Drawing Near,” Launch LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “Lines of Inquiry,” Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “OnLiners,” 3 person show, Upland Museum of Art, Upland, CA
2016 “The Art of Taking a Line for a Walk,” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
2015 “The Art of Taking a Line for a Walk,” CMay Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2015 “Lead with Line,” 3 person show, Bakersfield Museum, Bakersfield, CA
2014 “100 Points on a Line,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, CA
2013 “Sight Lines,” Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2011 “Drawing a Line,” FlagStop, Torrance, CA
2011 “Surveillance Frameworks,” Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2009 “Where Dreams Cross,” Long Beach Playhouse, Long Beach, CA
2008
“Interior Light,” Lith Process Silver Gelatin Photographs, Soho Photo, NY, NY
2007
“Interior Light,” Cypress College, Cypress, CA.
2004
“Interior Light,” The Gallery, Stamford, NY
Selected Group Shows:
2023 “The Summer Show,” Gallery 515, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “Spring Exhibition,” Coastline College, Orange County, CA
2020 "Collaborate and Create", The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
"Abstract Link," San Diego City Gallery, CA
2019 “Step,” 9 Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
“Sway,” Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
2018 “Immigration Show,” Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 “Line.” Pacific Design Center, CMay Gallery, CA.
“Currents,” Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA.
“Objectivities: 3 person show, CMay Gallery, Pacific Design Center, LA, CA
2012 “Smooth Operations: Substance and Surface in Southern California Art
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2011
“Group Show” Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA
“See Thru”, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Gem” 825 Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
2009
“Aurora,” 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,
“Out There”, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
“Gem,” Gallery 825, The Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
2008
America Meets Bavaria, Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
Aurora, Gallery 825, The Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
Idea of Self, The Center for fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Group Show, The Long Beach Arts Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Blow-up, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Earth Show, 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
4th PAI Photography Exhibit, The National Arts Club, NY, NY
2007
Gallery 225, Worlds’s Apart, New York, NY
Give Us Your Best Shot, Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibit, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2006
Women In Focus, Hunton & Williams, New York, NY
Photo Works of the 21st Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Group Show, Long Beach Arts Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Group Show, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
White, Black & Shades of Gray, South, Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
Positive - Negative, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.
Daydreams in a Real World, Montauk Library Gallery, NY.
2004
From Here to Eternity, The Photo District Gallery, New York, NY.
Awards, Honors and Residencies:
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar VA,
Oberpfälzer Khunstlerhaus, Kebbelvilla Schwandorf-Fronberg, U.S.- German Exchange Program,
The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Lake Como, Italy, Artist Residency
Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA. Walter Hopps Fellow
Brisons Veor, Artist Residency Fellowship, Cape Cornwall, England
The Tyrone Guthrie Center at Annaghmakerrig, U.S.-Ireland Exchange Program, New Bliss, County Monaghan, Ireland,
The Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence and Service in the Arts, New York,
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Artist residency
The Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA, Affymax Fellowship, Artist Residency
Art Matters, Inc., New York, Grant for project on babies with AIDS
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
Education:
MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY,
The New York Studio School for Painting and Sculpture, one year program, New York, NY.
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
The Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Maine, Summer Program
The Aegean School for Fine Arts, Paros, Greece, Summer Program
Available Artwork:
- Scape Gallery
- Artsy
- Saatchi Art
- Fresh Paint