Biography and CV

Biography

Artist Rosalie Rosenthal (b. St. Louis, MO, USA) considers the transience of objects, people, and places, creating works that reveal personal and collective histories and the legacies they hold. Her practice spans photographic media, incorporating both digital and historic processes. 

Rosenthal earned a BA in History from Smith College in Northampton, MA and a BFA from the University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute. She has exhibited at the Oceanside Museum of Art, KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Filter Space Chicago, Spalding University, and Manifest Gallery. Her photographs have been published in Shadow and Light Magazine and Manifest Gallery Photography Annuals and collected by 21c Museum Hotels. She is a member of the artist collective, Memory Is A Verb. Rosenthal currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky. 

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Rosalie Rosenthal

www.rosalierosenthal.com

(502) 271-0164

rr@rosalierosenthal.com

Born 1967, St. Louis, MO

Lives and works in Louisville, KY

Education

2013 University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute, B.F.A.

1989 Smith College, Northampton, MA, A.B. History

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

2025 Ghosts of Tree Island, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Easy Listening, Quonset Hut, Louisville KY

2017 Internal Structures, Steam Gallery, Purdue Polytechnic, New Albany, IN

2016 Overlooked/Underseen, Huff Gallery, Spalding University, Louisville, KY

2014 Visiting Artist Series: Rosenthal and Younger, Lenihan Sotheby’s, Louisville, KY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Memory Is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL

2024 If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA

2023 Memory Is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Memory Is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience, Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas, TX 

Memory Is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA

2021 Beauty as a Refuge, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

FilterPhoto Context 2021, Filter Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

Memory, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC

2020 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition: Exploring Humanity, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA

International Juried Online Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

2019 Open Studio Weekend Juried Exhibition, Cressman Center, Louisville, KY

2018 Don’t Turn Around, Don’t Look Down, Quappi Projects, Louisville, 2018

2017 Game On!, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2016 Same but Different, NYC4PA, New York, NY

Macro, NYC4PA, New York, NY

New Artists in Portland, Portland Museum, Louisville, KY

Another’s Treasure, The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, Evansville, IN

2015 Focus: Greyscale, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR

2014 Second Life, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY

Regional Showcase: Photography, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2014

Project 2: Defining Installation, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY

2013 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Covi Gallery, University of Louisville

Selected Awards and Residencies

2022 Artist Professional Development Grant, Great Meadows Foundation, Louisville, KY

2019 Artist Residency, Makers Circle, Marshall, NC

2016 Creative Capital Professional Development Program, Louisville, KY

2014 Artist Residencies, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY

Artist Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Winthrop Allen Memorial Prize in Creative Art, University of Louisville

Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Prize in Creative Art, University of Louisville

Bill Fischer Senior Project Grant in 2D, University of Louisville

Selected Publications

2025 Blake, Anna, “Easy Listening, Rosalie Rosenthal at the Quonset Hut,” Kudzujelly, Sept 28

2023 Memory Is A Verb Exhibition Catalog, Essays by Lisa Volpe, Alexa Dilworth, Emily Edwards and Marisa Caichiolo, (Midlife Tableaux pp. 54-59, 80.)

2022 “Midlife Tableaux,“ Shadow and Light Magazine, Issue 46

Elizabeth Bailey, interview, “Rosalie Rosenthal: Midlife Tableaux,” Lenscratch

2021 Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy, “A Spectrum of Exposure,” What Will You Remember?

2019 Keith Waits, interview, “Arabella on the Radio,” WXOX-FM Louisville, KY

2018-16 International Photography Annuals 3, 4, 5; Season 10, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH

2016 Elizabeth Kramer, “Photos Drink in Details of Time Worn Objects”, Courier-Journal

Jo Anne Triplett, “Overlooked/Underseen by Rosalie Rosenthal,” Leo Weekly

Selected Collections

21c Museum Hotel, Omni Hotel Louisville, John Burroughs School

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