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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, Private lessons and China Institute, New York

Mr. Ho, Taichung; I-Hsiung Ju, New Jersey; Sungsook Setton

2008

New York Studio School Drawing Marathon

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

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 (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

2021

IFPDA Ink Miami, Graphicstudio / USF, 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, Graphicstudio / USF

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)

2012

Miami Project, Lesley Heller Gallery

Pulse Miami, Emerson Dorsch

2010

Next Art Fair, Chicago, Lesley Heller Gallery

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

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

Pa hay okee: the land of ‘grassy water’, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, Executive Director of ARTSail

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

2021

T his Earth: Notes and Observations by Montello Foundation Artists, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT

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

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

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

Time/Frame/Matter: Hard Light, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

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

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, curated by Cynthia Reynolds, Ejecta Artspace, Carlisle, PA

Eco Consciousness, Online exhibition juried by Eleanor Heartney for Ecospace

Art Offscreen, Neumeraki Projects, organized by Eileen Jeng Lynch, NY, NY and various locations

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

Artists Draw Their Studios, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

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

Dance With Me, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY

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

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

Incise, Echo & Repeat, Abrazo Interno Gallery at the Clemente, New York, NY

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

Cultivate Your Own Garden, Painting Center, New York, NY

Spectrum III, Art Center Sarasota, FL

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

Flora Fantastica!, Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY

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

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

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

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

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/LECTURER

2022

Tampa Museum of Art, Artist to Artist Lecture Series: on Paul Jenkins, Tampa, FL

Pratt Institute, Techniques and Materials, Brooklyn, NY

Rutgers Camden, Memory and Landscape (with Helen O'Toole) via Zoom

Rutgers Camden, Panel Discussion, Camden, NJ

2021

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, via Zoom

DC Moore Gallery, discussion with Katia Santibanez on her exhibition, via Zoom

2020

Art Department, CUNY Lehman College, New York, NY via Zoom

2019
Panelist, Incise, Echo, & Repeat, Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY
2018

Workshop, Sketchbook Landscape, Ringling School of Art & Design Continuing Ed, Sarasota, FL

2017

Critic in Residence, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY

Tampa Collects, with Curator Joanna Robotham, Tampa Museum, FL

University of Central Florida, Orlando (Wanda Raimond-Ortiz)

Panelist for Art and Teaching, Art & History Museums Maitland

2016

Recovering Chinese Landscapes: A Symposium, School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY Buffalo, NY

Graduate School of Art, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Panel Discussion for the 65^th All Florida Invitational, Boca Raton Museum, FL

Lecture, Confucius Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2015

Panelist, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

University of Miami Art + Art History, Coral Gables, FL

2014

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

M Art Talk, Artists In Residence: Shanghai, M on the Bund, Shanghai, China

Department of Architecture and Art, MFA Program, Florida International University, Miami, FL

2013

Trestle Gallery in collaboration with Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia State University, Statesboro, GA

College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Art, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

2012

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

Marston Lectureship Visiting Artist, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Art & Art History Visiting Lecture Series, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

2011

Mesaros Visiting Artist, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Gibbons Lecture Series, USF Department of Architecture & Community Design

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

MFA Special Topics, Department of Art & Design, Montclair State University, NJ
2009

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2008

MFA Special Topics, Department of Art & Design, Montclair State University, NJ
MFA Program, Boston University, Boston, MA
Art at Lunch, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
2007

Maryland Institute College of the Arts, Baltimore, MD
Cooper Union School of Art, 2007 Summer Residency, New York, NY
2006

Mount Royal College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005

Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
Feng Chua University, Taichung, Taiwan
National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
Print Edition, University of Texas at San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
New School University, 2005 Art New York Program, New York, NY
Art Forum, Department of Art & Design, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2004

Teaching Institute of Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Panelist, Retrofitting: Traditional East Asian Art in Contemporary Painting Practice, College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle

2003

East Campus Gallery, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL
Advanced Painting, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Advanced Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

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

2022

Mural Project, Norte Maar Collaborative Projects in the Arts, partially funded by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Darma Diaz, 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

2019

Metropolitan Transit Authority, Astoria Line (N, W), Ditmars Station, Queens, NY

2017

ASF3 International Arrival Atrium, Tampa International Airport, Tampa, FL

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Perez Museum, Miami, FL

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program, Beijing, China

Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection/Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL

JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY

Conoco Phillips, Houston, TX

Roger Evans Collection, London, UK

Martha and Jim Sweeny Collection of Contemporary Prints by American Women,

Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Lennar Foundation Cancer Center, City of Hope, Irvine, CA

M-Restaurant Group Glamour Bar, Shanghai, China (closed 2022)