Artist Biography
Artist Rosalie Rosenthal uses lens based and camera-less photography to investigate the transience of objects, people, and place, transformed by context and perspective. Her practice looks beyond the intended functionality of everyday materials, or the expected vantage point, to reflect upon themes of memory, legacy, and personal histories.
Rosenthal received a BFA from the University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute and a BA in History from Smith College. She has exhibited nationally at the Oceanside Museum of Art; the Griffin Museum of Photography; Filter Space Gallery, Chicago; Spalding University; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft; and Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati.
Her photographs have been published in Fraction Magazine, aPhotoEditor, and Manifest Gallery Photography Annuals. Her work is collected by 21c Museum Hotels, Omni Louisville, and private collectors. Residencies include Makers Circle in Marshall, NC and Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Rosenthal lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
ROSALIE ROSENTHAL
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www.rosalierosenthal.com
Education
BFA, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2013
BA, History, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1989
Solo Exhibitions
Internal Structures, Steam Gallery, Purdue Polytechnic, New Albany, IN, 2017
Overlooked/Underseen, Huff Gallery, Spalding University, Louisville, KY, 2016
Group Exhibitions
Memory Is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL, 2025
If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA 2024
Memory is a Verb, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, 2023
Memory is a Verb, Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas, TX, 2023
Memory is a Verb, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2023
27th Juried Exhibition, Beauty as a Refuge, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2021
FilterPhoto Context 2021, Filter Space Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2021
Open Call, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, 2021
Memory, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, 2021
5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition: Exploring Humanity, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
2020 International Juried Online Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2020
Open Studio Weekend Juried Exhibition, Cressman Center, Louisville, KY, 2019
Don’t Turn Around Don’t Look Down, Quappi Projects, Louisville, KY, 2018
Game On!, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2017
Same but Different, Honorable Mention, NYC4PA, New York, NY, 2016
Macro, NYC4PA, New York, NY, 2016
Another’s Treasure, The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, Evansville, IN, 2016
Innovation Pipeline, Clarient, Louisville, KY, 2016
New Artists in Portland, Portland Museum, Louisville, KY, 2016
Focus: Grayscale, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, 2015
Open Studio Weekend, Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville, KY, 2015
Second Life, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY, 2014
Regional Showcase: Photography, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2014
Visiting Artist Series: Rosenthal and Younger, Lenihan Sotheby’s, Louisville, KY, 2014
Project 2: Defining Installation, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY, 2014
Mix+Pivot, I.D.E.A.S. 40203 at Velocity, Jeffersonville, IN, 2014
BFA Thesis Exhibition, Covi Gallery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2013
Embark, Weber Gallery, Louisville, KY, 2013
16th Annual Postcard Collage Exhibit, The Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH, 2013
Propinquity, Rouge Noir Gallery, Louisville, KY, 2011
Snap!, Alley Theater, Louisville, KY, 2011
Student Drawing Exhibition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2009
Going Home, Student collaboration led by Professor Mary Carothers, 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY, 2009
Collections
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY
Omni Hotel, Louisville, KY
Publications and Press
“Midlife Tableaux,” Shadow and Light Magazine, Issue 46, March/April 2022. 3-16
Aline Smithson with interview by Elizabeth Bailey, “Memory is a Verb: Rosalie Rosenthal: Midlife Tableaux,” Lenscratch, March 12, 2022
Bree Lamb and Leo Hsu, “13th Anniversary Group Exhibition,” Fraction Magazine, Issue 145, May 2021
Jonathan Blaustein, “Projects from PhotoNOLA, Part 2,” aPhotoEditor, March 19, 2021
Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy, “A Spectrum of Exposure,” What Will You Remember?, January 28, 2021
Manifest Exhibition Annual Season 10, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH, 2018
International Photography Annuals 3, 4, 5, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH, 2016-18
Kramer, Elizabeth, “Photos Drink in Details of Time Worn Objects,” Courier-Journal, January 13, 2016
Triplett, Jo Anne, “Overlooked/Underseen by Rosalie Rosenthal,” LEO Weekly, January 2016
Black Box Gallery, Focus: Grayscale Exhibition Catalogue, July 2015
Awards, Residencies and Lectures
Artist Talk, “Memory is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience,” Los Angeles Center of Photography, 2022
Artist Talk, “PRC Nights Online: Cameraless Photography,” Photographic Resource Center Boston, 2021
Artist Residency, Makers Circle, Marshall, NC, September 2019
Creative Capital Professional Development Program, 2016
Artist Residency, Residency Unlimited and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Winthrop Allen Memorial Prize in Creative Art, University of Louisville, 2013
Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Prize in Creative Art, University of Louisville, 2013
Bill Fischer Senior Project Grant in 2D, University of Louisville, 2013
Lecturer, “A Case Study, The Power of Public Space, Public Art Revitalizing the Street: West Main Street Historical District,” Symposium, Louisville, KY, 2012
Professional Affiliations
Board of Governors and Collections Committee, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, 2017-2021
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