Brian DeRosia
45 Thomas St. Portland, ME 04102
Ph. 207.232.1535
e-mail. bderosia@meca.edu
website. www.brianderosia.com
Education
M.F.A 2005 Interdisciplinary Studio Art Maine College of Art
B.A. 2000 Painting Casteleton State College
Professional Experience
2007-Present Co-Academic Director/Program Coordinator, Fusion Arts Program
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
2006-Present Adjunct Professor of Art History, Atlantic Culinary Academy
Dover, NH
2005-2006 Studio Assistant, Katarina Weslien, Portland, ME
2004-2005 Teaching Assistant of Art History, Maine College of Art
Portland, ME
Grants/Fellowships
2004 Roderick Dew Travel Scholarship
Maine College of Art
(to facilitate International Travel)
Exhibition Record (*solo shows marked by asterisk)
2008 *Drawings, Wadleigh Gallery, Chester College, NH
2007 Drawing Machines, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
[RE]viewing: City, RISD, Providence, RI
Bureau of Emergent Coevolutionary Agents (with spurse)
Mercer Gallery, Rochester, NY
MFA Accreditation Exhibit, Friedman Gallery, Portland, ME
Everyday Lines, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2006 Sensing Place:Dis/Relocation Across Zones of Montreal (with spurse)
Dare-Dare Centre de diffusion d’art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2005 *Wittgenstein Grids, Mercer Gallery, Rochester, NY
ReThinkingReImaginingRepresentation, MECA MFA Thesis Show
Portland, ME
2004 After Nature: Sustaining What?, ICA, Portland, ME (with spurse)
Mapping the Working Coast, Vessel Sunbeam V along the Maine Coast
(with spurse)
The Interventionists, Mass MoCA, North Adams (with spurse)(catalogue)
L O O M 3: Labeler, Pittsboro, NC
CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2003 *Recent Drawings, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton, VT
2000 The Drawing Show, Gallery FX, Boston, MA
Bibliography
Ian Paige, “Waterbugs and Drawing Machines at SPACE and the ICA,” The Portland Phoenix, September 7-13, 2007
Philip Isaacson, “In the Arts,” Portland Press Herald & Maine Sunday Telegram, September 23, 2007
Kanarinka, “Art Machines, Body-Ovens and Map-Recipes: Entries for a Psychogeographic Dictionary,” Art and Mapping (Special Issue of Cartographic Perspectives, 2006
Timothy Karpinski, “In Focus: Brian DeRosia,” the Journal, January 2003
Publications
“sensing place perception et appartenance: parcourir les zones de montreal (volume I & II)”, spurse press, 2006
“sensing place (DVD)”, spurse press, 2006
Visiting Artist/Lectures
2007 Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
The Question of Representation
2006 Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO
Process, Drawing Machines, and Other Recent Work
2005 Mercer Gallery, Rochester, NY
Wittgenstein Grids, Recent Work, and In-the-Making
2004 Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
visiting artist (lecture and student critiques)
Collections
The Drawing Center Viewing Program Artist Registry
Seth and Elizabeth Goldenberg