Artist CV
About
Education: Massachusetts College of Art, B.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, M.F.A.. New York Studied: School for Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture
Currently lives and works in Newport Beach, CA
A.M.Rousseau is an artist and photographer formerly of New York City and currently living in Southern California. She works with photography, painting and drawing on paper and panels.
Rousseau has a deep interest in line in all its manifestations – drawn, painted, photographed. “The Painted Line,” “Drawings by Linemen,” and “100 Points on a Line,” use different media to explore the subject of line. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in Photography, a recent winner of the HARC Foundation award, and the author of a book about homelessness in America entitled, Shopping Bag Ladies: Homeless Women Speak About Their Lives.
A.M. Rousseau exhibited her work in solo shows in New York, California, Texas, Ohio, and in Europe and Japan as well as museums in Lancaster, Bakersfield and Oklahoma. Her work has been published in magazines including Life Magazine, The Photo Review, Art in America, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe among others.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment in the Arts Fellowship, The Djerassi Foundation Affymax Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Artist Residency, Yaddo Artist residency, the Virginia Center for the Arts residency, the Manhattan Borough President’s Award for Excellence and Service in the Arts, and the Harc Foundation Award.