26W Artist-in-Residence: Angela Dufresne

Artist talk 4:45 - 5:45 pm on Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center.
Opening reception to follow at 5:45 pm in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center.

ANGELA DUFRESNE is a painter and educator based in Brooklyn. With painting, drawing, printmaking, and performative works, she creates heterotopic narratives that embrace vulnerability, contradiction, and nuance. Her works are the result of irreverent interaction with various cultural archives: American vernaculars, the dredges of European aesthetics and philosophy, film, literature and yes, the many histories of painting, lauded and loathed.

She's held solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Gallery exhibitions include Monya Rowe and CRG NY, Yossi Milo NY and M & B in Los Angeles. Group and collaborative exhibitions include "50 paintings' at the Milwaukee museum organized by Michel Grabner, Where I End, We Begin, at Suny SUNY purchase and LSU university with Mala Iqbal; Visionary New England, at the deCordova Museum, Paint, also known as Blood, Curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland and Greater NY at PS1. She received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, two fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown.

She is a professor of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Some of her teaching besides numerous lectures include being faculty at Skowhegan, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Anderson Ranch and the Vermont studio program.