Visiting Artist Lecture: Angela Dufresne

Image courtesy of the artist

This virtual lecture is presented as part of the spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Live captioning is available.

ANGELA DUFRESNE is a painter originally from Connecticut, raised however in the town in Kansas (Olathe-Suburbs) that Dick and Perry stopped in before they killed the Clutters (In Cold Blood), and now based in Brooklyn. Her work articulates non-paranoid, porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear, possession, autonomy, power and possession. Through painting, drawing and performative works, she wields heterotopic narratives that are both non-hierarchical and perverse. She revels in the liminal spaces where vulnerability, ambiguity, anxiety and desire foment.  She has had solo exhibits at the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and Macalester College.  She and her partner Mala Iqbal just exhibited a series of collaborative works at the Dolly Maass gallery at Suny Purchase. She’s been part of exhibitions at MOMA, P.S.1, The National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Aldridge Museum in Connecticut, Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, the Rose Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, Mills College in Oakland, California, and the Minneapolis School of Art and Design. She is currently Associate Professor of painting at RISD. Awards and honors include National Academy of Arts and Design induction 2018, a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell, a Purchase Award at The National Academy of Arts and Letters, two fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.