Biography

As a native of Brooklyn, Maddy Rosenberg also spends several months each year in Europe, understanding the necessity of exploring new places to broaden her idea base as well as gather new reference material for the work. She is an artist who works in several media: oil painting, artists’ books, printmaking, drawing, toy theater and installation. Rosenberg most recently had a solo exhibition of her artist’s books at the University of Colorado at Boulder and installations based on her artist’s books at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York, a solo exhibition of her paintings at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery in New York and a two-person one at Wade Wilson Art in Houston. Rosenberg’s work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Philadelphia Athenaeum, The Center for Book Arts, Hebrew Union College Museum, Flux Factory, Kentler International Drawing Space, and Fish Tank Gallery in New York City; Sanzspace in Madrid, Spain; Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France; Schloss Neuhaus in Salzburg, Austria; and Off-Centre Gallery in Bristol, England.

Rosenberg maintains an active international curatorial as well as exhibition career. In September 2009, Rosenberg opened Central Booking, a two gallery space in DUMBO, Brooklyn, focusing on artist’s books and prints and their integration into the larger art world (www.centralbookingnyc.com). She continues to do independent curating as well. Narrative Sequences, January-April, 2010, was the third exhibition she has curated at The Center for Book Arts in New York. In 2005, Rosenberg’s international multi-venue curatorial project, New York/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, which allowed her to produce a four-color catalog and video. After producing the ArtistsBook Library for the exhibition on the theme of Library at Proteus Gowanus, a non-traditional space in Brooklyn, she stayed on as the curator of artist’s books until 2008.

In 2007, Baylor University acquired a collection of 15 of Rosenberg’s artist’s books and have added 2 more since. Other public collections include MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Tate Gallery, Fogg Museum, Yale University, Colorado University at Boulder, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, London College of Communications Salzburg Museum, and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Grants include the Gottlieb Foundation and Artists Fellowship. Rosenberg has previously enjoyed both national and international residencies at Fundación Valparaiso, Guest Atelier Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Schloss Neuhaus, Blue Mountain Center and Virginia Center for the Arts.

Over the years, Rosenberg has established a large bibliography. To name a few, articles and reviews have appeared in cityArts, The Art Newspaper, ArtsHouston, Art and Métiers du Livre, Artists Books Reviews, Haberarts, Umbrella, Printmaking Today, Art Review, NY Arts: International Edition, and Salzburger Nachrichten, as well as interviews on Southwest Radio Funk Berlin, BBC Radio Bristol and Houston Public Radio.

Rosenberg earned a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from Bard College.

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