Rochelle Feinstein

For over forty years, the American painter Rochelle Feinstein has developed an oeuvre that infiltrates abstract painting with political, social and environmental concerns. Feinstein was, until her recent retirement, a professor of painting and printmaking at Yale School of Art. Her works engage with different modes of abstraction, like the grid or colour-field painting, all the while letting life crash against modernist notions of art’s autonomy from external reality. Ms. Feinstein received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She lives and works in New York City. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and is included in numerous public and private collections. Among recent awards and grants she has received: a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. In 2012, she was an artist in residence at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in Accra, Ghana, under the auspices of the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Bronx Museum.