SOLO, 2 & 3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 WOMEN'S VOICES/BEARING WITNESS [SOLO SHOW] FANEUIL LIBRARY, Brighton, MA
2017 THE WOMEN WHO WITNESS [Installation] [THREE-ARTIST SHOW] GROTON SCHOOL, Brodigan Gallery, Groton
2016 OUT OF RUBBLE: Women's Voices & the Transformational Power of the Found Object [SOLO SHOW] FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, Hammond Gallery. Fitchburg
2014 VOICES OF MEMORY, VOICES OF TESTIMONY SOLO SHOW] LESLEY UNIVERSITY] [Washburn Auditorium, as part of, Arts and Global Health: Art, Memory, and Testimony in the Aftermath of Trauma. Cambridge MA.
2011 OUT FROM THE PAST [SOLO SHOW]. ST. BOTOLPH CLUB. Boston
2010 UNIVERSITY PLACE GALLERY [THREE-ARTIST SHOW]. Cambridge, MA
2007 MPG CONTEMPORARY [TWO-ARTIST SHOW]. SoWa, Boston
SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 DA BONEYARD, Sculptural Installation, an Interactive Artistic Event presented By Black Coral Inc, Roxbury, MA on the grounds of the National Center of African American Artists, Boston
2021 COLLECTIVE ALCHEMY: OIL-WATER-RUST. [SIX-ARTIST SHOW], Becket Arts Center. Becket, MA
2012 GATHERING. [FOUR-ARTIST SHOW], University Place Gallery, Cambridge
2009 TAKE 5 [FIVE-ARTIST SHOW], ALTERNATIVE ART SPACE. SoWa, Boston
2007 SHOWCASE OF SCULPTURE. [FIVE-ARTIST SHOW], MPG CONTEMPORARY. SoWa, Boston
2008 LONG JOURNEY INTO A SERIES, ARTSPACE GALLERY, Maynard, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-24 ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM, Members' Exhibition, Attleboro, MA
2024-24 MOSESIAN ARTS CENTER, Member Exhibition, Watertown, MA
2023 MENINO ARTS CENTER, MORPHED VISIONS, OBJECTS REIMAGINED, Hyde Park, MA
2023 MOSESIAN ARTS CENTER , FLOW, “The Dance Flows Through Her”, Watertown, MA
2022 ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM, CONNECTIVITY, [Jurors Award] Attleboro, MA
2022 STUDIOS WITHOUT WALLS, “THE GROUND WE WALK.” 23rd Annual Site Specific Sculpture Exhibition, Brookline
2022 BOSTON BIENNIAL PROJECT,VENICE, PROJECTION
2021 MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: REIMAGINED (Virtual)
2021 PROJECTIONS, Jamaica Plain Arts Council; [jurors: L'Merchie Frazier and Brian Bishop], Jurors Choice Award, Jamaica Plain
2021 GALATEA FINE ART, New England Collective XI. [juror: Grace Ryder O'Malley], SoWa, Boston
2021 MENINO ARTS CENTER, COLLAGES & CONSTRUCTIONS, [juror: Ekua Holmes. In Person and Virtual. Hyde Park, MA
2020 HALLSPACE DRAWING PROJECT: DROPLETS [PORTALS IN THE TIME OF CORONA/A Journey]
2020 MARRAN GALLERY/Lesley University: The Future of the Past/ in collaboration with Violence Transformed, Cambridge, MA
2020 EGLESTON BRANCH/ Boston Public Library: 19th Amendment & America's Unfinished Business/ Violence Transformed Library Series
2020 ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM in Collaboration with NESA: TAKE A STAND. Attleboro, MA
2020 MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: WE THE PEOPLE
2020 Boston Public Library/Faneuil and Brighton Branches BEYOND THE BOOK [11th Annual Exhibition]
2019 MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Members Exhibition:[Jurors Choice Award] Watertown
2019 NEW ENGLAND SCULPTORS ASSOCIATION: Changing Landscape: Sculpture at Eustis Estate. Milton, MA 2019 MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS, NO PLACE LIKE HOME. Watertown, MA
2018 GALATEA FINE ART, New England Collective IX. [juror: Marni Elyse Katz], SoWa Boston
2018 HARRIET TUBMAN HOUSE, Violence Transformed: STAND UP [The Artist's Voice] [curators L'Merchie Frazier, Carol Daynard], Boston
2018 BOSTON BIENNIAL V, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston
2018 CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION, LOST & FOUND. Cambridge, MA
2018 MARRAN GALLERY`, Lesley University, Violence Transformed: WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE: Resistance and Resilience Cambridge
2017 MENINO ARTS CENTER, What Is A Portrait? [juror: Sally B. Moore], Hyde Park, MA
2017 BROOKLINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Up/Rooted. [juror: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons] Cambridge
2017 HARRIET TUBMAN HOUSE, The Artist's Voice. Boston
2016,17 HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, Shelter, [Castonguay-Appelbaum Award] presented by Harlem School of the Arts,
National Association of Women Artists, Inc. and Violence Transformed, NYC
2016 ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Resnikoff Gallery: INSIDER/OUTSIDER NATION, Boston
2016 UFORGE GALLERY: On the Periphery—the Edge of Sight, curator, Kerri McGill, Jamaica Plain.
2016 THE OLD SCHWAMB MILL: Six Visions, curator, Nancy Fulton, Arlington, MA.
2016 CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE, Mass Ave Gallery: Art Speaks Truth to Power, [Violence Transformed] Cambridge.
2016 HARRIET TUBMAN HOUSE, The Artist's Voice. Boston
2016 SCOLLAY SQUARE GALLERY: Transformation, [juror: Ekua Holmes] City Hall, Boston
2016 UNCONVENTIONAL MEANS: KATHRYN SCHULTZ GALLERY, CAA. [juror: Robert Siegelman], Cambridge
2015 71st Members Prize Show [juror: Dominic Molon, Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum]. CAA
2015 GALATEA FINE ART, New England Collective VI. [juror: Mim Brooks Fawcett, Exec. Dir., Attleboro Arts Museum]. SoWa
2015 ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Resnikoff Gallery: MIGRATIONS. Boston
2015 MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE, Doric Hall: Violence Transformed 2015. Boston
2015 GOVERNOR JOHN LANGDON HOUSE: Sculpted Spaces, Historic Places [Contemporary Sculpture], NESA, Portsmouth, NH
2015 CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE, Mass Ave Gallery: Art Speaks Truth to Power. Cambridge.
2014 COPLEY PLACE, Center Court: [Un]Covering Violence Transformed: Celebrating the Power of Art [jurors Dr. Edmund Barry Gaither and Jon Shirland]. Boston
2014 RESNIKOFF GALLERY, WHAT ABOUT WAR. ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Boston.
2014 GALATEA FINE ART, NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIVE V. [juror Edmund Barry Gaither, Director of the National Center of Afro- American Artists & its Museum, Special Consultant to the MFA, Boston]. SoWa Boston
2014 MARRAN GALLERY, Images of Memory, Images of Testimony. Lesley University. Cambridge, MA
2014 CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE/Mass Ave Gallery: The Artist’s Voice. Cambridge, MA
2014 DORIC HALL, Massachusetts Statehouse. VIOLENCE TRANSFORMED, Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art. Boston.
2013 GALATEA FINE ART, NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIVE IV. [jurors Kaveh Mojitabai, Brian Goslow of Artscope Magazine], SoWa
2013 DORIC HALL, Massachusetts Statehouse. VIOLENCE TRANSFORMED: Discovering the Transformative Power of Art. Boston
2013 HARRIET TUBMAN HOUSE, The Artist's Voice. Boston
2013 CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE: Discovering the Transformative Power of Art. [juror Hope Ricciardi], Cambridge, MA
2013 ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Resnikoff Gallery, VIOLENCE TRANSFORMED. Boston
2013 WHEATON BIENNIAL. [juror Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum of Art] Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2013 SECRETS. [juror Jane Young, Chase Young Gallery, Boston] Cambridge Art Association
2012 NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIVE III. [jurors Robert Moeller & Christine Lacoste] Galatea Fine Art, Boston
2012 New England Sculptors 2012. [curated by John Michael Gray & Timothy O’Connor], State Transportation Building, Boston
2012 DRAWING THE LINE. [juror Frank Roselli/Soprafina Gallery, SoWa Boston] Cambridge Art Association
2012 RED. [juror, Howard Yezerski/Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston]. Cambridge Art Association
2011 Members Prize Show. AWARD for OUTSTANDING WORK in 3D. [juried by Steven Zevitas/STEVEN ZEVITAS GALLERY, SoWa Boston]. Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2011 MOMENTO MORI. [juror, EL Putnam]. MOBIUS, Cambridge
2011 NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIVE II. [juror Joanne Mattera] Galatea Fine Art, Boston
2011 SAMSON PROJECTS CHAIN LETTER GLOBAL GROUP SHOW. Samson Projects, Boston
2011 New England Sculptors Association Exhibit. [curators: John Michael Gray,Tim O’Connor], State Transportation Building, Boston
2011 NEW ENGLAND PRIZE SHOW. [juror, Theodore Stebbins, Curator of American Art, Fogg Museum], CAA, Cambridge
2011 MEDIA, MATERIALS and MEANING. [juror Marjorie Kaye, Director, Galatea Fine Art, Boston]. CAA, Cambridge
2010 SHINE. Bromfield Gallery, Boston
2010 CONCRETE AND STEEL. [curated by Heidi Kayser/Founding Director of Axiom Gallery for New & Experimental Media, Cambridge, MA], Alternate Currents @ Work Bar Gallery, Boston
2010 DARKNESS/LIGHT. [juror Ricardo Barreto, Dir., Urban Institute @Mass. College of Art & Design].CAA, Boston
2010 ZieherSmith gallery. POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, NYC
2009 MEMBERS PRIZE SHOW, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, [juror Joseph D. Ketner, Henry & Lois Foster Chair of Contemporary Art, Emerson College, Boston] CAA, Cambridge
2009 New England Sculptors 2009. [juror Pamela Tarbell, Director, Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Gardens, Concord, NH], State Transportation Building, Boston
2009 ArtSpace Gallery. [jurors Dana Salvo & Dawn Southworth, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA], Maynard, MA
2009 STRATUM. [juror Camilo Alvarez, Samson Projects. SoWa, Boston]
2008 A WOMAN’S PLACE. Bromfield Gallery. SoWa, Boston
2008 MPG CONTEMPORARY:I0 YEARS OF (some of) THE GALLERY’S BEST ART. A Final Retrospective. 1998-2008, Boston
2008 INTERIORS/EXTERIORS. [juror James Hull, Independent Curator], CAA.
2008 SHAPE. [juror Joseph Wheelwright, Sculptor] CAA.
2007-2008 RED. [juror Jane Farver, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center ] CAA.
2007 MEMBERS PRIZE SHOW. [juror, Howard Yezerski, Director, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston], CAA
2007 COOL. [juror Sara Miller, Curator, The Ann and Graham Gund Collection], Cambridge Art Association.
2007 VISIONS. [juror Pamela Clark Cochrane, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA], Cambridge Art Association
2005 NATIONAL PRIZE SHOW. University Place Gallery. Cambridge, MA [juror, Joseph C. Thompson, Director, Mass MoCA] Cambridge Art Association
2004 TOTEMS FROM THE TRACKS. Zeitgeist Gallery. Cambridge, MA
2003 SMALL, SMALLER, SMALLEST: from “Flights & Levitations.” Bromfield Gallery, Boston
2003 KANTAR FINE ARTS. “Totems.” [selection of work], Newton, MA
1998 SOMAKTOLIGON: DEGREES OF EMBODIMENT ART AND MIND PHYSICS: from “Transformation Series” and “Levitation Series.” [curated by Paul Lafolley]. Federal Reserve Bank Gallery. Boston
PRESS/ PUBLICATIONS
2018 MEET RUTH ROSNER of RUTH ROSNER/SCULPTURE Totemic Female Figures Watertown, Boston Voyager. 7/17/18
2018 GIVING FEMALE REFUGEES A VOICE, by Kerry Feltner. WATERTOWN TAB, 4/13/2018
2017 Feature artist in NESA ARTISTS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL, by Marilyn Ewer. ARTBEAT MAGAZINE, vol. 2
2016 LOST AND FOUND: Making Art from Weathered Things, by Laura Lovett/Photos by Kate Flock. BROOKLINE TAB. 6/30/16
2014 ARTSCOPE: Featured Artist by James Foritano. September/October 2014 issue.
2011 BOSTON GLOBE. Sculpture, AFTER THE DELUGE, photo featured from NESA, June Wolff TO DO LIST. 5/23/12
2010 Featured Artist PROFILE, CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS MAGAZINE. November/December issue
2009 Featured Artist, FINDING HER MUSE, by Neal Simpson. BROOKLINE TAB, 9/23/09 [including online video]
009 STUDIO VISIT MAGAZINE, Spring 2009 [juried by Michael Klein, former Director, International Sculpture Center]
1980 -2000 13 published illustrated books: 4 as author/illustrator, 9 as illustrator
AFFILIATIONS
Black Coral, Inc.; Cambridge Art Association; Mosesian Center for the Arts; New England Sculptors Association; Violence Transformed: Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art
AWARDS/GRANTS
2022 Juror's Award, Attleboro Arts Museum, Connectivity, for "All She Carried on the Journey" (Refugee Women Series) 2018 Juror's Choice Award Members' Exhibition, Mosesian Center for the Arts
2018 First Place Award in Mixed Media Boston Biennial Project
2017 Juror's Choice Boston Biennial Project: ArtVenice Biennale IV.
2016,17 Castonguay-Appelbaum Award from National Association of Women Artists, Inc. and Harlem School of the Arts SHELTER exhibition, NYC
2011 Award for Outstanding Work in 3D [Artist of the Year in Sculpture]. Members Prize Show/Steven Zevitas, juror, CAA.
2010 Conversations about Curating. Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery. [juried acceptance/José Luis Blondet]
1991 Brookline Cultural Council Grant, sponsored by MCC
1989 Award from University of Wisconsin CCBC: included in Best of the Year in Children's Books
1986 Brookline Cultural Council Grant, sponsored by MCC
1986 American Association for the Advancement of Science: included in “Best of the Season” in Books and Film.
RESIDENCIES/WORKSHOPS
1968 Quincy Dickerman , Boston Public Schools, Writing and Illustrating Stories
1984-93, Brookline and Newton Public Schools
1990-94 Gifted and Talented Program Brookline Public Elementary Schools, Writing and Illustrating Stories
2014 David A. Ellis Elementary School, Roxbury, MA
2018,2019 Lawrence School/ Grade 7/ Brookline, MA Talks on Art & Writing, Demonstrations
EDUCATION
Bryn Mawr College, B.A./ Harvard University [guest senior]
Boston University, M.A.
Tyler School of Art, Sculpture Intensive with sculptor, Raphael Sabatini
Artists Professional Toolbox /Arts & Business Council, Boston
Conversations about Curating. Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, instructor, Jose Luis Blondet