Rosalind Bloom

Born and raised in New York City, attending the High School of Music and Art and having access to the rich cultural resources of NYC changed my life. I graduated with honors from the City College, and received an MA in Art History from Columbia University. After relocating to the Philadelphia area, I taught art history at Rosemont College and Villanova University and earned a four-year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Eventually I gave up the classroom for the studio, and am currently creating mixed media work, employing collage and transfer print techniques on canvas, wood panels, and paper.

There have been many solo shows and group shows over the years; locally, nationally and internationally, and my work can be found in both public and private collections. It was a great privilege to spend time as an artist in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. My work is on the cover of Contemporary Poets, from Chelsea House Press, is included in Quotable Women, published by Running Press of Philadelphia, and has been published in Philadelphia Stories magazine. I am an active member of the Women’s Caucus for Art, DaVinci Art Alliance, and InLiquidart, and m...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila. PA. Four year certificate, 1985
Columbia University, New York, NY. M.A., Art History, 1966
The City College of New York, B.A. History, 1963, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Small Work at Industrious Philadelphia,Phila. PA
2012 Reborn/Reconfigured, DVAA, Phila. PA
2010 Faces & Figures, Smile Gallery, Phila. PA)
2007 Generation to Generation, Main Line Unitarian
Church, Wayne, PA
2004 Paintings and Work on Paper, Cosmopolitan
Club, Phila. PA
1998 Mostly Small Creatures, Art Alliance Satellite
Gallery, Phila. PA
1996 Paintings, Conant Gallery, Educational Testing
Service, Princeton, NJ

TWO AND FOUR PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Nature/Nurture, with Sarah R. Bloom, Eleanor
Schimmel, Daniel Schimmel, Rosemont, PA.
2018 Look at Us, with Sarah R. Bloom, Colleen
Gahrmann, Charlotte Schatz, DVAA, Phila.PA
2015 Reclamations, with Sarah R. Bloom, DVAA,
Phila. PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Museum, State Museum at Harrisburg, Berman Museum at Ursinus College, Port of History Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, Fleisher Art Memorial, International House at the U. of P, Penn State Great Valley, Bucks Co .Comm. College, Holy Family University, Mercer Co. Comm. College, Moravian College...