Rosalyn Schwartz
Rosalyn Schwartz has been exhibiting her work for the past thirty years. She has received numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, including an NEA Fellowship, a Bush Foundation Fellowship, and a McKnight Foundation Fellowship. Most recently she had a solo exhibition in 2020 at Devening Projects in Chicago. Schwartz’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and The New York Times among other publications. She received her BFA in painting from Washington University, St. Louis and an MFA in painting from Fontbonne College, St. Louis. In May of 2008, after serving as Professor of Studio Arts at UIUC Schwartz decided to take an early retirement so that she could focus full-time on her studio work. Schwartz also taught painting and drawing at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and West Virginia University in Morgantown.
