Rosaline Dou 






Rosaline Dou is an artist and autotheorist studying the logics of pseudo-fulfillment. Through writing, performance, and infographics, she identifies occupying behaviors as both status symbols and empty filler. By tracing the compulsion to be occupied, Dou proposes that the constant activity turns occupying behaviors into content-like filler, dulling and severing meaning-making from the doing. 

Dou holds a BA from University of Washington and is currently pursuing an MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. 













Born 2002. Wenzhou, China
Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION2027    MA in Curatorial Studies, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2024    BA Honors, Interdisciplinary Visual Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS2025    A Pain That Is Not Private, Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024    Murmurs & Roars, curated by Eglė Ambrasaitė, Uncool Artist, Brooklyn, NY
2024    Life Reimagined 生活重构, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024    Unbound Variable, Sojourner Gallery, New York, NY 
2024    Open Swim, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA 
2024    Under Under, The Room, Seattle, WA (two-person)
2024    Vigil_, Our Playground, Seattle, WA 
2024    Archival Ecosystems, Odegaard Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2023    Feast, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023    Growing out of the Establishment, Our Playground, Seattle, WA 
2023    The Encounter, The Room, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 
2022    Low Fidelity II, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025    form falters rhythm holds, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2024    Interstice & Interfoliar, Our Playground, Seattle, WA 
2024    Departing figures, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024    Vigil_, Our Playground, Seattle, WA 
2023    Growing out of the Establishment, Our Playground, Seattle, WA 
2023    Material Latitudes, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023    Uninhibited, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
2023    Art as Activism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA    
2022    Low Fidelity II, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022    Low Fidelity, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, & FELLOWSHIPS2024    Artist-in-Residence, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany 
2024    Artist-in-Residence, Uncool Artist, Brooklyn, NY
2024    Mary Gates Research Endowment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 
2023    SVA Artist Residency, School of Visual Art, New York, NY
2023    P. Rathvon Family Art Legacy Scholarship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2022    Boyer-Gonzales Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS2024    Setting: Found Objects and Organic Materials, with Rob Rhee, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023    Remember You Must＿, performance with Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA
2022    Hold Your Heart, with Timea Tihanyi, Slip Rabbit Studio, Seattle, WA



PUBLICATIONS2025    Correction*: Biennial Report 2022–2024. Vera List Center for Art and Politics. (Editor; research & development; production management)
2025    Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence. Forum Catalogue. Vera List Center for Art and Politics. (Editorial support)
2025    Optional Practical Trainees, self-published, with Inji Kim, Specialist Gallery
2024     “Intersecting Visions: Dialogue at the Art-STEM Crossroad,” with Ayla Tanurhan, Henry Art Gallery
2024     “Before the Darkness,” Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal, Issue 41

BIBLIOGRAPHY2025    Frantece, Brittney. “2 Washington shows to see this month.” Variable West, June 4 
2024    “On the Way to Somewhere Else.” Suboart Magazine, Issue 33, December
2024    “Meet the Artist // Rosaline Dou.” Interviewed by Justin Ross. GlogauAIR, December 3
2024    “Familiar Rituals.” Interview with Carolina Paz. Uncool Artist, November 24
2024    Jing, Wei. “Life Reimagined.” Artron, July 24
2024    “Translating Meaning through Gestures.” School of Art + Art History + Design, University of Washington, April 30



SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT2026    Guest Speaker, “Your Creative Work Is Research,” School of Art + Art History + Design, University of Washinton, January 14
2024    Artist Talk, “As we wobble_,” Uncool Artist, Brooklyn, NY, June 10
2024    “Cake Talk,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, May 30
2024    “Engager not Viewer: Measuring Engagement in Artistic Meaning-Making,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, January 23


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE2025        ArtTable Fellow, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, NY
2025        Gallery Intern, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
2024        Curatorial Intern, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY    
2023-24   Co-Founder & Artist-Curator, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
2023-24   Henry Art Liaison, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022-24   Curatorial Assistant, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023-24   Panelist, 4Culture, Seattle, WA