Rosaline Dou 






Rosaline Dou is an artist whose work probes the numbing inertia of habitual behaviors. Through obsessive reenactments, she transforms daily routines into exaggerated rituals. Using repetition, the force that dulls us, as a tool for disruption, she resists the desensitizing structures. Her practice spans writing, performance, documentation, and installation, where she collects and reassembles data to compel a reexamination of normalized patterns.

Her work has been exhibited at the Specialist Gallery, 4C Gallery, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and Sojourner Gallery. Dou graduated from University of Washington and is 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 GROUP 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
2022    Unprogressed Memories, La Gran Belleza Gallery, Seattle, WA

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
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    Optional Practical Trainees, self-published, with Inji Kim, Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024     “Intersecting Visions: Dialogue at the Art-STEM Crossroad,” with Ayla Tanurhan, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024     “Before the Darkness,” Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal, Issue 41

BIBLIOGRAPHY2024    “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.” University of Washington, School of Art + Art History + Design, April 30



SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT2024    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