EDUCATION

1989

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1986

BFA, National Deans List, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA

EARLIER

Undergraduate coursework, College of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Undergraduate coursework, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA

Additional Studies:

2004-18

Brush Painting lessons with Mr. Ho, Taichung Taiwan; I-Hsiung Ju, New Jersey,

and Sungsook Setton, China Institute, New York

2008

New York Studio School Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023

Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL

Un(Common) Light, Art & History Museum Maitland, FL (duo)

2021

Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL

2019

Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL

527 Madison/Mitsui Fudosan America, New York, NY

2018

Miami International Airport Galleries, FL

2017

Audience Choice, Saunders Foundation Gallery, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (duo)

Herbert H. and Barbara C. Dow Center for Visual Arts, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI

AIRIE Nest, Everglades, FL

Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL

2016

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

2013

University Gallery, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

2012

Art & Cultural Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL

Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve, Montreal, Canada (duo)

Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL (2010, 2008, 2006)

2011

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison State College, Fort Myers, FL

2009

Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA

Da Feng Gallery, Beijing, China

Windows Project, GrantPirrie Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2008

Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

2007

ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA (duo)

2004

Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL (also 2003)
Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan

2001

Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (duo)

1999

Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France

1998

Jeffrey Coploff, New York, NY

FAIRS

2022

INK Miami, Graphicstudio, Miami, FL

2021

IFPDA Ink Miami, Graphicstudio, Miami, FL

Intersect Aspen, Emerson Dorsch, Aspen, CO

2020

No Fair, SoHo Beach House, Miami, FL, curated by Ché Morales

IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair Online Fall 2020, with Graphicstudio

Intersect Aspen, Emerson Dorsch (online)

2019

Untitled Miami, AIRIE Nest Gallery

CasaCor Design Fair, Miami, Eyes in the Canopy curated by Ibett Yanez del Castillo

2015

NY Pulse Art Fair, Emerson Dorsch (prize recipient)

2013

Texas Contemporary, Emerson Dorsch, Houston, TX

2012

Miami Project, Lesley Heller Gallery

Pulse Miami, Emerson Dorsch

2010

Next Art Fair, Chicago, Lesley Heller Gallery

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Rainbow Rococo, Katherine Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY, curator Marilla Palmer

Made in Paint, The Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY, curator Jim Walsh

This Earth, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA, curator Stefan Hagen

Dear March, Come In, Birdhouse, Brooklyn, curator Alexandra Rutsch Brock

2022

The BluPrnt Show, Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, FL, curator Robert Chambers

The Norte Maar Mural Collaboration, Project Room, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY

The World Is Just So Small Now, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

Fragile Rainbow, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, NY, curator Sue Spaid for ecoartspace

Pa hay okee: the land of ‘grassy water’, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale, FL, curator Ombretta Agró Andruff

Passages: 8 Women Painters, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University-Camden, NJ

2021

T his Earth, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT, curators Hikmet Sidney Loe and Stefan Hagan

Artists Draw Their Studios, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, curator Michelle Weinberg

AIRIE 20th Anniversary Exhibition, AIRIE Nest inside the Ernest F. Coe Visitors Center in Florida Everglades National Park, curator Deborah Mitchell

Power of Ten, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, curator Jane Hart

Time/Frame/Matter: Hard Light, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, curators Felecia Chizuko Carlisle and Richard Haley

Artists Draw Their Studios, Available Space at the Hudson Library, New York Public Library, curator Michelle Weinberg

2020
From Dark to Light: A Holiday Celebration at Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY (online)

Art in the Time of Pandemic: Best Foot Forward, Joanne Mattera Art Blog (online)
Twill I Will, Tailgate Projects, Tampa, FL

Mercedes Matter Awards Show, New York Studio School Alumni Association, JPV Gallery, NY

What We Create May Save Us, Ejecta Artspace, Carlisle, PA, curator Cynthia Reynolds

Eco Consciousness, Online exhibition juried by Eleanor Heartney for ecoartspace

Art Offscreen, Neumeraki Projects, national and international, organized by Eileen Jeng Lynch

Mother Altar (contribution to installation by Chie Fueki), Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY

Drawing Challenge II, Online with Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY

Winter Workspace Ten Year Anniversary: Returning to the Source , Wave Hill House, NY

2019

Florida Contemporary, Baker Museum - Artis Naples, FL, curator Rangsook Yoon

Artists Draw Their Studios, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, curator Michelle Weinberg

Unbound: Highlights From the Stanton Storer Collection, UT Scarfone/Hartley Galleries, Tampa, FL

Parameters, LES Gallery at The Clemente, New York, NY, curator Daniel Rosenbaum

Divine Interventions, Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor, LI, curator Teresa Hackett

Dance With Me, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY, curator Kyle Staver

1959: Spirit of the Void, DUMBO Open Studios with Two Coats of Paint HQ, Brooklyn, NY
AIR Retrospective, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN

Wraparound 17, curator Renée Riccardo for ARENA at Suite 806, New York, NY

Incise, Echo & Repeat, Abrazo Interno Gallery at the Clemente, New York, NY, curators Camilla Fallon and Kylie Heidenheimer

2018

Paradise Summit, Emerson-Dorsch, Miami, FL

Picnic, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY

Brooklyn Combine, Norte Maar at the Muse, Brooklyn, NY

Natural Proclivities, Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, New York, NY, curators Melanie Vote

Cultivate Your Own Garden, Painting Center, New York, NY, curator Patricia Spergel

Spectrum III, Art Center Sarasota, FL, curator Nathan Stiles

Local/Global, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY

Women of the Research Studio, Art & History Museums Maitland, FL

2017

Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL

Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Marking Time, Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, NY, curator Dan Rosenbaum

Flora Fantastica!, Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY, curator Jennifer McGregor

Gardens on Orchard, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

Skyways, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Women Painting at MDC, Miami Dade College Kendall,FL

Tremolo, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY, curator Carolana Parlato

Open Garden, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

Aesthetics & Values, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL

2016

Splotch, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

Synesthesia, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL

All Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

The Conference of the Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, New York, NY, curator Brenda Zlamany

2015

1000 Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art, Design Sublime, Miami, FL

Marks Made: Prints by Female American Artists 1960-Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

Into the Wild, Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Gallery, Miami, FL, curator Carol Jazzar

New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition, selected by Jason Andrew and Fred Valentine, NYSS, New York, NY

Torn and Fired, Outlet Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, curator Jason Andrew

Defining Abstraction, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art

Urban Wild, Undercurrent Projects, New York, NY, curator Katie Peyton (Hofstadter)

Transcendence, Artist Pension Trust / SoHo Fuxing Road Complex, Shanghai, China

Beat Nite and Armory Weekend at Norte Maar, Bushwick, NY

2014

Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Enticing Luminosity, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

Inaugural Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

2013

Earthward, Skylight Gallery, New York, NY

Stone Canoe (Syracuse University's Journal of the Arts) Artist Exhibition, Herbert T. Williams Gallery at the Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY

To Be A Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY

2012

5th Beijing Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Nomination

Fresher Paint, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York

2011

Sense of Place, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

Haywire, STOREFRONT, Brooklyn, NY

Find and Combine, Abrazo Interno Gallery at CSV Centre, NY, NY

Painting with Pictures, Part II, Artjail, NY, NY

Signs on the Road, Curatorial Research Lab/Winkleman Gallery, NY, NY

Reinventing the Landscape, A Fresh Look at Traditional and Contemporary Painting, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL

New Year, New Work, New Faces, STOREFRONT, Brooklyn, NY

2010

Citational Graphologies, or a Show of Hands, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY

Ab Hinc, Camp Pocket Utopia, Rouse's Point, NY

Get it Fresh! 6th Street Container, Miami, FL

New/Now, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Paper Trails, Pearce Gallery, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, NZ

Flower (Re)Power, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT

Florida Contemporary, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

Ocketopia, Lesley Heller Work Space, New York, NY

L'Arabesque, Bleu Acier, Inc., Tampa, FL

2009

Into the Wild, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

New/Now, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

With You I Want to Live, From the Collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Shapeshifted, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL

2008

Shapeshifter, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL

Under the Influence, Girls Club Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, FL

ContemporAryism, Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, China

Landscapes of the Mind , Permanent Collection, US Embassy, Beijing, China

Into the Woods, Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, New York, NY

Aesthetics and Values 2008, The Gallery at Green Library, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Drawing Beyond the Plane, Tampa Museum of Art

Beyond Picturopolis, Art Center/South Florida, Miami

2007

Picturopolis, DACRA, Miami, FL

2006

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Fantastic Routes, Roger Smith Hotel Lab Gallery, New York, NY

Distance, Shenghua Art Center, Nanjing, China

Garden Paradise, Central Park Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY

Transparent/Opaque, Hunter College, New York, NY

2005

Being There, BIAC Art Space, Beijing, China

Drawing, Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA

What is Drawing? Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan

Florida Focus, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL

2004

Elisabeth Condon and Todd Schroeder, superior (an art space), Cleveland, OH

Visual Mnemonics, Edge Zones, Miami, FL

2003

Retrospectives, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

Drawings SF/NY/LA, San Luis Obispo Center for the Arts, San Luis Obispo, CA

2002

Ewing Biennial, Department of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2001

The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for the Arts, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY

1999-2003

Cooperative installation projects with Adelheid Mers, Chicago, London, Tennessee, and Florida

1999

Size Matters, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY

1993

Return of the Cadavre Exquis, Drawing Center, New York, NY (Catalogue)

GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS

2018

Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant Program, New York, NY

2015

Mercedes Matter Award, New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition, New York, NY (also 2020)

New York 2015 PULSE Prize, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant, New York, NY

2014

Confucius Institute Understanding China Fellowship, Hanban, Beijing, China

Provost Summer Research Grant, University of South Florida (2012, '09, '07, '06, '05)

2012

Creative Scholar Grant, University Research Council, University of South Florida (2009)

2011

College of The Arts Research Grant, University of South Florida (also 2010, '08)

2007

Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

2008

Individual Artist Fellowship, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs

2007

Individual Artist Grant, Hillsborough County, FL

2006

Artist Enhancement Grant, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs

2005

New Researcher Grant, University Research Council, University of South Florida, Tampa

RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS

2022

Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency Program, New Berlin, NY

2020

Tlacopac International Artist Residency, Mexico City, MX

2019

MacDowell, Peterborough, NH, Patricia Brown Specter Fellow

Graphicstudio and Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2018

Montello Foundation, Montello, NV

Ucross Foundation, Sheridan County, WY

Carrizozo Artist in Residence Carrizozo, NM

Art & History Museums Maitland, FL (also 2017)

2017

Winter Workspace Program, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY

2016

Everglades (AIRIE), Everglades National Park, FL

2015

Norte Maar, Jay, NY

2014

Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China

Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA

2013

Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

Wupatki National Monument, AZ

2010

Loft Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (also 2007)

Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2005

Red Gate, Beijing, China

Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan (also 2004)

1997

Shave International Artist Workshop, Somerset, UK, 1997

1994

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1992

Ox-bow, Saugatuck, MI

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2017

Strange Flowers: Jimmy Wright, Chrysanne Stathacos, Judith Linhares, Jessica Weiss, Nancy Friedemann, Brece Honeycutt, Rebecca Saylor Sack, Amy Lincoln, Elisabeth Condon, Cecile Chong. Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY

2013

Pour: co-curated with Carol Prusa: Kris Chatterson, Ingrid Calame, Roland Flexner, Angelina Gualdoni, Carrie Moyer, Carolanna Parlato, David Reed, Jackie Saccoccio, Carrie Yamaoka. Catalog with essays by Stephen Maine and Tyler Emerson-Dorsch. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, traveled to Asya Geisberg Gallery and Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

Haiku Review by Peter Frank for Huff Post

Oil as Water, reviewed by Franklin Einspruch for artcritical

2006

Dragon Veins: co-curated with Mernet Larsen: Frances Barth, David Brody, Iona Rozeal Brown, Emily Cheng, Elisabeth Condon, Chie Fueki, Yun-Fei Ji, Suzanne Kuhn, Mernet Larsen, Sang Nam Lee, Takashi Murakami, Zhang Hongtu. Catalog with essay by Lilly Wei. University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL

2001

Collaborative Fusion: organized with Adelheid Mers (also contributing artists) a transgressive, cooperative exhibition featuring 14 artists and their guests with a mirror project connected via web with Shuko Wada at Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan. 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

VISITING ARTIST/LECTURES

New Jersey City University, NJ

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA

DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

CUNY Lehman College, New York, NY

Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY

Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY

School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY Buffalo, NY

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Boca Raton Museum, FL

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

Art & History Museums Maitland, FL

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Florida International University, Miami, FL

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL

Trestle Gallery/Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

Georgia State University, Statesboro, GA

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

Mesaros Visiting Artist, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

California College of the Arts, New York Studio Program, NY

Montclair State University, NJ

Boston University, Boston, MA

Maryland Institute College of the Arts, Baltimore, MD

Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Mount Royal College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Expatriate Professional Women’s Society (EPWS), Chi Art Museum at K11, Shanghai, China

M on the Bund, Shanghai, China

Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

Feng Chua University, Taichung, Taiwan
National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
University of Texas at San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
New School University, New York, NY
Teaching Institute of Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle

SELECTED TEACHING

2017-2019

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Painting & Drawing, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

2018

MFA Mentor, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA

2009-2014

Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2003-2008

Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2002, 2003

Artist in Residence (Spring term both years), Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL

2001

Artist-Teacher, MFA Program, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, VT

Artist in Residence, Department of Art, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN

AFFILIATIONS

2017-2020

Board Member, Brooklyn Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2023

Florida Art in State Buildings public art commission for Judy Genshaft Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2022

Mural Project, a group of three murals in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn (Crescent St., Pine St., Highland Park Handball court) sponsored by Norte Maar Collaborative Projects in the Arts, partially funded by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and 37th District, East Brooklyn, NY

2021

STAR Storefront Arts Recovery Initiative, a program of the Tribeca Film Institute in cooperation with Hudson Square BID and Trinity Hudson Holdings, New York, NY