Rosaline Dou (b. 2002, Wenzhou, China) is an art thinker and cultivator whose work explores the numbing toll of repetitive daily routines. Through art, curation, and writing, she reveals how unconscious habits reinforce structures that process us. Dou reimagines everyday ritual as acts of resistance to disrupt constrictive narratives.
Born 2002. Wenzhou, China
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2024 BA Honors, Interdisciplinary Visual Art. University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2022 Art History, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (summer)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 A Pain That Is Not Private, Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA (forthcoming)
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 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
2022 The Introspective, Restrooms, University of Washington, 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, FELLOWSHIPS, & RESIDENCIES
2024 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 PROJECTS
2024 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
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Optional Practical Trainees, self-published, with Inji Kim, Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 “Intersecting Visions: Dialogue at the Art-STEM Crossroad.” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 “Before the Darkness.” Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal, Issue 41
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 “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 ENGAGEMENT
2024 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 EXPERIENCE
2025 Gallery Intern, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Curatorial Intern, Modern and Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2023–2024 Co-Founder & Artist-Curator, Our Playground, Seattle, WA
2023–2024 Henry Art Liaison, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022–2024 Curatorial Assistant, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023–2024 Panelist, 4Culture, Seattle, WA