Biography

Maddy Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn and now divides her time between New York City and Europe, where she maintains an active international exhibition and curatorial career. She is an artist who works in several media: oil painting, drawing, artists' books, printmaking, and installation. Rosenberg had a solo exhibition in April 2008, Uncharted Terrains: The Paintings at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery in New York City. It was accompanied by the solo exhibition Uncharted Terrains: Artist’s Books of Maddy Rosenberg at the Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza. She is represented by Wade Wilson Art in Houston, where she had a two-person exhibition in May 2008.

Numerous group exhibitions include at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Philadelphia Athenaeum, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, The Center for Book Arts, Hebrew Union College Museum, Flux Factory, Kentler International Drawing Space, and Fish Tank Gallery in New York City; Sanzspace in Madrid, Spain; Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France; Schloss Neuhaus in Salzburg, Austria; and Off-Centre Gallery in Bristol, England. Baylor University acquired a collection of 16 of Rosenberg’s artist’s books in 2007. Other public collections include MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Tate Gallery, Fogg Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, Salzburg Museum Carolina Augusteum, and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Rosenberg received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for her independent curatorial project, New York/Paris DIALOGUE Paris New York, in 2005. Other grants include the Gottlieb Foundation and Artists Fellowship as well as residencies at Fundación Valparaiso, Guest Atelier Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Schloss Neuhaus, Blue Mountain Center, and Virginia Center for the Arts. Articles and reviews have appeared in Art and Métiers du Livre, Artists Books Reviews, Haberarts, Umbrella, Printmaking Today, Art Review, NY Arts: International Edition, and Salzburger Nachrichten, as well as interviews on BBC Radio Bristol and Houston Public Radio. Rosenberg received her BFA from Cornell University and MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.

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updated May 2008