Rosaline Dou (b. 2002, Wenzhou) is an art thinker whose work recontextualizes everyday habits and actions. She reprocesses/reinterprets the familiar and underlying metabolisms that govern our daily rituals. Dou’s work serves as a means of self-exile, seeking to unlearn the constraints of social constructs, rationality, and prescribed norms.
Currently as an artist-in-residence at Uncool Artist (2024), Dou’s work has been exhibited at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, The Room, and La Gran Belleza Gallery, along with many pop-up and site-specific spaces, such as trees, restrooms, windows, and elevators. Her curatorial initiative, Our Playground, approaches her vision to redefine spaces beyond her artistic practice by transforming an idle courtyard into an art-gathering playground.
Born 2002. Wenzhou, China
Lives and works in Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
2024 BA Honors, Interdisciplinary Visual Art. University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2022 Art History. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (summer)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 UA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming)
4C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming)
Unpack the Impact, 1215 Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada (upcoming)
Unbound Variable, Sojourner Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming, juried by Danae Li)
Open Swim, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
Under Under, The Room, Seattle, WA (two-person exhibition)
Group exhibition, Gallery B612, Seattle, WA
Archival Ecosystems, Odegaard Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2023 publication #0, Our Basement, Virtual
Feast, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Growing out of the Establishment, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
SVA Artist Residency Open Studio, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Untitled (narrowed? expanded? bounded?), The Room, Seattle, WA (solo)
2022 Low Fidelity II, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Unprogressed Memories, La Gran Belleza Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Introspective, Restrooms, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (public)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, & RESIDENCIES
2024 UA International Residency, Uncool Artist, Brookltn, NY
2024–2025 UA International Lab for Art Practice, Uncool Artist, Brooklyn, NY
2023 SVA Artist Residency, School of Visual Art, New York, NY
2024 Mary Gates Research Endowment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2023 P. Rathvon Family Art Legacy Scholarship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2022 Boyer-Gonzales Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2024 Setting: Found Objects and Organic Materials Workshop, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA (in collaboration with Rob Rhee and Hayden Stern)
2023 Remember You Must＿, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA. Live performance with Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth (Sandesh Nagaraj and Jonathan Rodriguez)
Hold Your Heart, Slip Rabbit Studio, Seattle, WA (in collaboration with Timea Tihanyi)
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 Interstice & Interfoliar, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
Departing figures, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Vigil_, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
Glowing in the Dark, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Growing out of the Establishment, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
Material Latitudes, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Uninhibited, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
Art as Activism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 Low Fidelity, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Lauren Williams: Wake Work, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS AS AUTHOR/SPEAKER
2024 “Cake Talk,” Presentation, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, May 2024.
“Engager not Viewer: Measuring Engagement in Artistic Meaning-Making,” Presentation, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, January, 2024.
2023 “Before the Darkness,” Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal, Issue 41, May, 2023.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023–present Henry Art Liaison, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023–present Co-Founder, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
2022–present Curatorial Assistant & Photographer, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Panelist, 4 Culture, Seattle, WA
2021–2023 Gallery Manager, Parnassus Café and Art Gallery, Seattle, WA