Angela Dufresne (American, born )

Angela Dusfresne (American, b.1969) is a Contemporary painter whose work is often derived from a combination of film stills and personal memory. Using a juxtaposition of humor and surreal narrative, Dusfresne will paint herself or friends into mythological landscapes or into famous film roles. Born in Hartford, CT, Dufresne grew up around Kansas City. She would receive her BFA in 1991 from the Kansas City Art Institute, and then her MFA from the Tyler School of Art in 1998. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at CRG Gallery in New York, Hammer Projects: Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Galleria Glance in Turin, and KH Modern Art in Berlin, among many others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

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Angela Dufresne (b. 1969) was born in Olathe, KS. A solo exhibition of paintings by Dufresne titled Just My Type is currently on view at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY, and another solo exhibition Making a Scene was recently on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kansas City, MO. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; MoMAPS1, New York, NY; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, among others. The artist is the recipient of numerous awards including the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; Siena Art Institute Residency; Yaddo Residency; Purchase Award, National Academy of Arts and Letters; Headlands Center for the Arts Resident and Jerome Foundation Fellowship. Dufresne currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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