13 Facts About Annabeth Rosen

Annabeth Rosen was born on 1957 and is an American sculptor best known for abstract ceramic works, as well as drawings.

Annabeth Rosen is considered part of a second generation of Bay Area ceramic artists after the California Clay Movement, who have challenged ceramic traditions involving expression, form and function and helped spur the medium's acceptance in mainstream contemporary sculpture.

Annabeth Rosen has exhibited at venues including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and Yingge Ceramics Museum.

Annabeth Rosen's work belongs to the public collections of LACMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among others.

Annabeth Rosen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pew Artists fellowship, Joan Mitchell Artists Award, and United States Artists award.

Annabeth Rosen is a professor of art at University of California, Davis.

Annabeth Rosen received a traditional education in ceramics at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, before enrolling in graduate studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Annabeth Rosen began a teaching career in 1985, serving at institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, University of the Arts, and Bennington College.

Annabeth Rosen has received wider attention in her later career, most notably through a twenty-year survey including more than 120 sculptures and works on paper created over two decades, "Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped", that was mounted at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Cranbrook Art Museum, and Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

Writers place equal weight on Annabeth Rosen's postminimalist merging of formalism with emotion and intuitive gesture, which links her to sculptors Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor, Yayoi Kusama and Lynda Benglis, among others.

Annabeth Rosen has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was elected into the American Craft Council College of Fellows in 2020.

Annabeth Rosen has been awarded artist residencies from The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and University of the Arts.

Annabeth Rosen's work belongs to the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Oakland Museum of California, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among others.