Visiting Artist Lecture: Angela Dufresne

Visiting Artist Lecture: Angela Dufresne
Monday, April 6, 2026 at 7 p.m.
Civic Square Building, Room 110

Bio
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.

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 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.

Image courtesy of the artist.

This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all.

ASL/CART available on request. Contact Cassandra at 848-932-5399 / coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu one week prior to event.
Masks strongly encouraged
Wheelchair accessible with ramps and elevators
Quiet room available