Irene Rousseau

Education

MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
Ph.D, New York University, New York,

Collections

  • MOMA, New York, NY
  • Phillips collection, Washington, DC
  • The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • Tekniska Museet  (National Museum of Science & Technology)
  • Stockholm, SE
  • Ecole Polytechique, Paris, FR
  • MAMCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Geneva, CH
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
  • National Museum of Fine Art, Valetta, MT
  • University of Sydney, AU
  • British Museum, London, UK
  • Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, FR
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Scripps College, Claremont, CA
  • Baker Art Museum, Naples, FL
  • Overlook Hospital, Summit, NJ
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • Brotherhood Synagogue, New York, NY
  • Capitol Sports Inc., Stamford, CT
  • Private Art Collections, La Roche/ Lausanne, CH
  • Neuberger Museum, State Univ. of NY, Purchase, NY
  • New York Public Library, New York, NY
  • Mitsui Fudosan America, NJ
  • National Gallery of Art, Rome, IT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021 Politecnico of University of Milan, ” XXVI Generative Art 2021″
  • “Nature as a Strategy for Pattern Formation in Art”, (sequel), PPT & pub., Organizers: Celestino Soddu & Enrica Colabella. (Remote), Caligari, Sardinia, IT
  • 2021 Visual Arts Center New Jersey, Summit, NJ Artis-Naples. Baker Museum: Featured Artist Irene Rousseau
  • 2020 JCAST thejcast.com/listings/irene-rousseau. Live Zoom presentation: ” Patterns in Nature Inspire my Art” Art Productions House Sponsors: Cultural Affairs Jersey City, NJ.
  • 2011 AIEMA, Int. Assoc. for the Study of Ancient Mosaics,
  • 10th, N America Colloq., exhibition & demo. of Hyperbolic mosaic art, Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ
  • 2006     NJIT, Weston Art Gallery, exhibition & lecture, Newark, NJ
  • 2006     Colorado College, exhibition & lecture, Colorado Springs, CO
  • 2005     Athens: “SCIENCE and ART FESTIVAL” International-Interdisciplinary Exhibit/Conference, invited exhibiting artist, Athens, GR
  • 2002 University of Sydney, Sydney, AU
  • 1999 University of Lausanne, La Grange Art Gallery, Lausanne, CH
  • 1997 Wignacourt Museum, exhibition and lecture, “Mathematics throughout the  History of Art”, MT
  • 1995     Concert Hall, mosaic mural installation, La Roche/Lausanne, CH
  • 1993     Overlook Hospital, Lobby Child Care Center, mosaic mural installation, Summit, NJ
  • 1986     Brotherhood Synagogue, Garden of Remembrance, Mosaic Mural Installation, Gramercy Park, New York, NY

Selected Juried Group Exhibition

  • 2023 Mattatuck Museum of Art, “Blurring Boundaries: Women American Abstract Artists”, Waterbury CT
  • 2022 LSU Museum of Art, “Blurring Boundaries: Women AAA” Baton Rouge, LA
  • 2021 JMM, AMS/MAA, joint mathematics, “Exhibition Mathematical Art”,American Mathematical Soc.& Mathematical Assoc. of America “Exhibition of mathematical Art “, Virtual
  • 2021 South Bend Museum of Art, “American Abstract Artists”, traveling exhibit, IND
  • 2021 Baker Museum, Naples, FL
  • 2020 Hofstra University Art Museum, 8 selected artists,  “Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age”, Hempstead, NY
  • 2020 Visual Arts Center New Jersey, Summit, NJ
  • 2020 JMM, AMS/MAA, Joint Mathematics Meeting, “Exhibition Mathematical Art” Denver Convention Center, CO
  • 2020 Montclair Art Museum, exhibition and video, Montclair, NJ
  • 2019 JMM, AMS/MAA “Exhibition of Mathematical Art”. Art Exhibition Catalog, Convention Center, Baltimore, MD
  • 2019 TEKNISKA MUSEET (National Museum of Science and Technology),Murray Stockholm, SE
  • 2019 Tower Fine Arts Gallery, “Blurring Boundaries: Continuity to Change”, The Women of AAA, Brockport, NY
  • 2019 Visual Arts Center NJ, “Members/Collectors Choice”, Summit, NJ
  •  2018-19 Naples /Baker Museum of Art, Naples, FL
  • 2018  Murray State Univ., Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY
  • 2018 BRIDGES, International-Interdisciplinary org. Art Exhibition Catalog, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2017 JMM, AMS/MAA, Joint Mathematics Meeting, “Exhibition Mathematical Art”, Art Exhibition Catalog, Atlanta, GA
  • 2017 Monmouth Museum, “Hope for the Holidays”,  exhibition & audio, featured artist Irene Rousseau Monmouth, NJ
  • 2016 University of Tennessee, Ewing Art Gallery, Utk, TN “Blurring Boundaries: Women of the American Abstract Artists” (traveling exhibit), TN
  • 2016 Shirley Fiterman Gallery, “Chromatic Space”, American Abstract Artists, Manhattan Community College, NY

  • 2016 UBS Gallery, International, “The Onward of Art”, New York, NY
  • 2016 Morris-Warren Gallery, “Visible Histories”, New York, NY
  • 2015 Morgan Stanley Global Headquarters, “Sensory Impact”, AAA, Purchase, NY
  • 2015 BRIDGES, INT-IND org. “Exhibition of Mathematical Art”. Art Exhibition Catalogue, Univ. Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
  • 2015 BRIDGES, Towson University “Exhibition of Mathematical Art”, Art Exhibition Catalog, Towson, MD
  • 2014 Sideshow Gallery,” American Abstract Artists”, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2013 American Institute of Architects NY, AIA/NY Juried, “Designs for Public Spaces”, NY
  • 2012 BRIDGES, Towson University, “Exhibition of Mathematical Art”, Art Exhibition Catalog, Towson,
  • 2011 OK Harris Gallery, “American Abstract Artists”, New York,
  • 2011 Crane Art Center, Icebox Gallery, “Power of Infinity”, AAA, Video of Irene Rousseau’s painting, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2006 Yellow Bird Gallery, “Optical Stimulations”, AAA, New York, NY
  • 2005 BRIDGES, Banff Art Center, “Renaissance Banff”  “Exhibition of Mathematical Art”, Art Exhibition Catalog, Alberta, BC
  • 2005 Ecole Polytechnique, “Art and Mathematique”, The Ministère of Culture of France, Traveling Exhibit, Catalogue, Paris, FR
  • 2005 Ringling School of Art, “MathArt/Artmath”, Selby Art Gallery, Sarasota, FL
  • 2005 JMM, AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting, “Exhibition of Mathematical Art”, Atlanta Convention Center, Atlanta, GA
  • 2004 Polytechnic Institute Freiburg, BRIDGES International Conference, Freiburg, DE
  • 2004 Polytechnic Inst., ISAMA, Int. Soc. Mathematics Architecture & Art, Freiburg, DE
  • 2003 BRIDGES, University of Granada, Granada, ESP
  • 2001 BRIDGES, Southwestern College, Winfield, KY
  • 2001 Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, “American Abstract Artists” Brookville, NY
  • 2001 BRIDGES, Towson University, Exhibition, Towson Univ. Towson, MD
  • 2001 AIEMA, International Conference, Ecole Française de Rome, IT
  • 1997 Malta Biennale, International, Juror, Dame Franscoise Tempra, MT

Selected Juried Publications and Lectures

  • 2021 University of Milan, XXIV Generative Art 2021. PPT lecture, “Nature as Strategy for Pattern Formation in Art”, (sequel)., Organizers Celestino Soddu & Enrica Colabella. Conference Proceedings, Sardinnia, IT, Virtual.
  • 2015 BRIDGES, Int.-Ind Conf., Univ. Maryland,  “Nature as a Strategy for Pattern Formation in Art”, Conference Proceedings, Baltimore, MD
  • 2013 BRIDGES, University Twente and Saxion University, “Uncertainty of Structure Quantity and Space as our Reality”. Conference Proceedings, Enschede, the NL
  • 2011 AIEMA, Int. Assoc. for the Study of Ancient Mosaics, 10th, N America Colloq., Princeton Univ. “Hyperbolic Mosaic Sculptures: Art as a Metaphor for the Intellectual Understanding of the Unseen”, Conference Proceedings, Princeton Univ. Princeton,
  • 2009 ISAMA, Int. Assoc. Mathematics Architecture & Art, Univ. of Albany, “Art as a Metaphor for the Fourth-Dimension”, Conference Proceedings, Albany, NY
  • 2006 Colorado College, “Power of Patterns”, Colorado Springs, CO
  • 2005  Athens, SCIENCE & ART FESTIVAL: International-Interdisciplinary Conference, Invited speaker & exhibition, “The Language of Abstraction”, Conference Proceedings, HERCMA. in Greek, English, Athens, GR
  • 2005 BRIDGES, Banff Art Center, “Renaissance Banff”, “Pebbles to Pixels”, Conference Proceedings, Alberta, CA
  • 2004 BRIDGES, Polytechnic Institute Freiburg, Int. Conf., Freiburg, DE ISAMA, Int. Soc. of Mathematics Architecture & Art,  Lect. “Mathematical Connections in Mosaic Art”, Freiburg, DE
  • 2003 BRIDGES, University of Granada, Exhibition “Geometric Mosaic Tiling on Hyperbolic Sculptures”, Conference Proceedings, Granada, ESP

  • 2002 University of Sydney, School of Art, Lect. “Mathematical Connections in Art”, Sydney, AU
  • 2002 ISAMA, Polytechnic Institute of Freiburg, “Perception and Paradox as Process and Product”, Conference Proceedings, Freiburg, DE
  • 2001 BRIDGES, Towson University, “Spectral Light as Sculptured Space”, Conference Proceedings, Towson, MD
  • 2001 AIEMA IX, International Conference, Ecole Francaise de Rome, “Mosaic Art  as a Metaphor for Concepts of Science and Mathematics”, Conference Proceedings, Rome, IT
  • 2001 Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Lect. “Mathematical Connections in Contemporary Art”, Brookville, NY
  • 1999 BRIDGES, Southwestern College, “Math at the Service of Meaning Links Between Geometry, Mythology and Philosophy in Mosaic Art “, Conference Proceedings, Winfield, KS
  • 1999 Univ. CA, “VisMath”, Library, Berkeley, CA
  • 1999 AIEMA VIII International Conference., “Ancient Medium Modern Expression”, Conference Proceedings, Univ. of Lausanne, CH
  • 1997 Wignacourt Museum, Lect. “Mathematics Throughout the History of Art”,  Rabat, Malta
  • 1994 AIA/NJ, “Mosaic Renaissance in Architecture”, AIA Rostrum, Newark, Suburban Chapter. NJ

Commissions

  • Concert Hall, mosaic mural, La Roche/ Lausanne, Switzerland Holocaust Memorial, mosaic mural, Brotherhood Synagogue, Garden of Remembrance, Gramercy Park, New York, NY
  • Overlook Hospital, mosaic mural, Child Care Center, Summit, NJ,
  • Beacon Hill Country Club, Summit, NJ
  • Capital Sports Inc.,7 painted metal wall relief sculptures, Stamford, CT

Awards

  • Art Biennale Malta, First Prize Installation, Malta American Institute of Architects, AIA/NJ,
  • Design Presentation Award
  • Ministry of Cultural Affairs & Poincare Institute, Paris, France,
  • Selected Artist Traveling Exhibit
  • Hillwood Museum, Long Island Univ. Harold Berg, Endowment, invited artist lecturer, Brookville, NY
  • Morristown Beard School. Lehman Artist-Lecturer Morristown, NJ
  • Visual Arts Center NJ, “Collectors Choice”, Summit, NJ