Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University
Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University

Thursday, November 6, 8 PM: Rochelle Feinstein

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The Estate of Rochelle F., fabric, paper, drop cloth, stretcher, 2009

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Untitled #1, Oil and graphite on canvas, 2013

Rochelle Feinstein was raised in Queens, New York, and lives and works in New York. Rochelle has received numerous prestigious grants and residency fellowships in honor of her broad practice that spans painting, photography, installation, and video. Recent awards and residencies include the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Purchase Prize, Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Rochelle has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Centre d’arte Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland in January 2016, and has had recent solo exhibitions at On Stellar Rays and Higher Pictures in New York City, and her work was also included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Rochelle was appointed to Yale Faculty in 1994 and is the director of graduate studies in painting and printmaking.  She received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1978.

Rochelle will be giving studio visits to Ioana Manolache and Brooke Holloway.