Alexandra Rozenman
Artist Statement
Illusion. Displacement. Otherness. These fundamental aspects of my identity and of the contemporary world around us come together in my work to tell a universal story through my personal one. Art History, History, Russian, European and American folktales and myths lend a utopian and humorous dimension to my work.
I am drawn to moments of tension and transition: a bird mid-flight, snow beginning to fall, an alarm clock ringing. Everyday objects—teapots, clocks, windows—become metaphors for time and longing. My paintings often reveal humor and melancholy coexisting within the same frame, reflecting the contradictions of migration and memory.
Artist Bio
Alexandra Rozenman was born in Moscow, USSR. She was classically trained at the Soviet Academy of Arts for two years and later studied with dissident artists, well-known today, from Moscow’s underground movement. While still a teenager, she became part of Moscow’s alternative scene of the 1980s. After immigrating to the US, she spent the early 1990s in New York, becoming a part of what later became the International Art Alliance on the Lower East Side and earning her BFA from SUNY in 1993. She later relocated to Boston, earning an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1998, and studying with Gerry Bergstein and Robert Ferrandini. Her paintings and drawings blend the styles and symbols of folk art, Russian Underground Conceptualism, illustration, and Jewish art.
Sunny Side Up with Black Pepper on a Sunset Window, oil on canvas
Frying Eggs for Francis Bacon, oil on canvas, 58x57 inches, 2019
Waiting for a Cookie Monster on a Night of a Half-Moon, oil on canvas, 28x24 inches
Flood in a Music School, oil on canvas
Awards/Grants/Residencies
Wintertide Rustic Retreat at Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 2026
Wintertide Rustic Retreat at Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 2025
Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, Somerville Arts Council, 2024
Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Individuals, 2023
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2018
Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, Somerville Arts Council, 2018
The Artists and Craftsman Supply Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2008
Curatorial Projects
ReWire, Lesley University, Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Perspective Redefined, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Break of Day, Edge of Night, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Why Do You Build Me Up?, Lesley University, Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2019
Vernon Street Artists, Old Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA, 2019
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Between Presence and Pause, The Painting Center, NY, NY (Solo)
Small Works Project, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Biennial Two, New Hampshire Art Association’s NHAA, The Gallery at Jimmy’s, Portsmouth, NH
The Shape of Things, Curator: Adria Arch, The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA
The Language of Abstraction, Online exhibition, curated by Conversations with Artists, Roots/Wings, A+E Exhibition, MASSMoCA Event Space, North Adam, MA
2024
NFS: Not For Sale, University of New Hampshire Gallery of Art, curated by Katzman Contemporary Projects, the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, and See Saw Art
Dialogues in Abstraction, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, MA (Three-person show with Tracy Hayes and Kellie Lehr)
MassArt Annual Auction, Design and Media Center, Boston, MA
Reshaping Abstraction, Curator: Adria Arch, Concord Center for Visual Arts
Marking | Folding Time (Lydia Kinney, Kellie Lehr, Tracy Hayes, and Steven Cabral), See Saw Gallery, Manchester, NH
2023
Summer Art Party, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Dover, NH
ReWire, Lesley University, Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Ineffable Patterns, MTN Space Gallery, Lake Worth Beach, FL (Solo)
Teach Me to Tango, The Painting Center, NYC (Solo)
2022
Abstract Art: Contemporary Approaches, Curator: Boriana Kantcheva, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
Finding a Memory, Curator: Erika Hess, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston Biennial 6, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA
2021
Interiors, MTN Space Gallery, Lake Worth Beach, FL
Solo Show at the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH
2021 Emerging Artists Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
MFA Thesis: An Unpredictable Time & Place, MASSMoCA, North Adam, MA
Pride - A VSC Queer Alum Online Exhibition, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
New Talent: Davis Arney, Steven J. Cabral, Shantel Miller & Ransome, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Kinship: The Inspiration of Artistic Connection, Poughkeepsie, NY
2020
Repeat as Needed, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Raw, MFA Exhibition Online, University of Montana, MT