BIO
Grace Roselli is an artist whose work investigates how identity, power, and cultural memory are constructed through the body, relationships, and lived experience. For more than four decades, her practice has moved across painting, photography, installation, and socially engaged work, with direct encounter serving as both method and material.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Roselli studied with Emilio Vedova at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces in the United States and Europe, with solo exhibitions including Beneath the Skin at Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia; Falls the Shadow at Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York; The Uncanny Lady M at Mar Silver Design Lab, Connecticut; Naked Bike at MotorGrrl Garage, Brooklyn; and Broodworks, Brooklyn.
In 2018, Roselli founded Pandora’s BoxX Project, a photographic portrait archive bringing together 360 women artists, curators, writers, historians, educators, and cultural practitioners whose work has shaped contemporary art and culture over the past six decades. The project has been presented through exhibitions, installations, public programs, and conversations at the Kreeger Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Artists Talk on Art, Zürcher Gallery, and Alma|Lewis in collaboration with Silver Eye Center for Photography.
Roselli’s work has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Puffin Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts, and she was nominated for the Anonymous Was A Woman Award. Recent projects include Bloodlines, an intergenerational exhibition co-organized with Leila Louhaichy at NextWave Gallery, Brooklyn, and Community at Art Cake, where she presented the monumental work Fairytale Country (After Peter Paul Rubens’ Wolf and Fox Hunt). Her work and projects have been featured in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Spiel, Artcritical, WhiteHot Magazine, and other publications.
