Ann Rosen (b. Brooklyn) is a New Jersey-based artist known for her social justice projects using portrait photography as a tool for empowerment and empathy. In Rosen’s current project, Being Seen, she teaches art and photography workshops with women from marginalized communities such as shelters, formerly homeless Veterans, recovering addicts, formerly incarcerated.
Rosen graduated from SUNY at Buffalo (BFA) and the Visual Studies Workshop (MFA), studying with Nathan Lyons, Joan Lyons and John Wood. Her influences are stark B&W and color portraits by Paul Strand, Diane Arbus and Duane Michals.
She has received multiple grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council and Puffin Foundation and has participated in residencies at Visual Studies Workshop; Mauser Foundation, Costa Rica; 360 Xochi Quetzal, Mexico; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and Henry Street Settlement.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at venues including: Cepa Gallery (Buffalo, NY), Five Myles Gallery (NYC), Webster University (Webster Groves, MO), Franklin Furnace (NYC), NYC Public Library, Grand Army Plaza (NYC), and Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, NJ). She has been included in recent group exhibitions at Burchfield-Penney Art Center (Buffalo, NY), Brooklyn Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of the City of New York (NYC), and Henry Street Settlement (NYC). Her work has been featured in the Village Voice, The New York Times, Newark Sunday Star Ledger, Brooklyn Courier, Pfizer Journal, and the 11th Annual Brooklyn Pride Magazine.
Rosen’s social justice projects, In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits and Revisiting in the Presence of Family, documented families at street fairs highlighting biracial adoption, LGBTQ parenting and intermarriage, then revisited those families ten years later. These projects are permanently housed in the Brooklyn History Collection with books in the library collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art and ICP, NY. Rosen’s photographs are also in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC; Albright-Knox Gallery and Library, Buffalo, NY; and Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY.
In 2024, Rosen curated Capturing Dignity at El Barrio ArtSpace PS109, which featured five women photographers exploring themes of community, portraiture, and dignity in their work. The exhibition was featured in the Daily News.
Ann Rosen
1210 Sunset Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712
347.678.3986 annrosenpics@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY at Buffalo, Rochester, NY, MFA, Photographic Studies
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, BFA, Photography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Cepa Gallery, Being Seen, Buffalo, NY
2023 Five Myles Gallery, Being Seen, Part II, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Five Myles Gallery, Being Seen, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Visual Studies Workshop, Open Studio, Shelter Living, Rochester, NY
2014 May Gallery, Webster University, In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits, St. Louis, MO
2010 Five Myles Gallery, In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Fairleigh Dickenson University, In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits, Teaneck, NJ
2005 Resnick Gallery, LI University, In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Grand Lobby, Grand Army Plaza Library, Community Portraits, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Gallery 402, OIA, In the Presence of Family, New York, NY
1998 Henry Street Settlement, Family Histories, New York, NY
1985 Soho Photo Gallery, Crowd Pleasers, New York, NY
1981 Franklin Furnace, Unlike in Characters, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Capturing Dignity, curator and exhibitor, El Barrio Artspace PS 109, NYC
2024 Leach Gallery, Dwelling in Hope, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2023 Professional Women Photographers, American Album, El Barrio Artspace PS 109, NYC
2022 Davis Orton Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography, 13th Annual Self-Published Photobook Show
2022 Professional Women Photographers, Dreamscapes, online exhibition
2021 Griffin Museum of Photography, Splash, Boston, MA
2020 KodaLab & FiveMyles, Footprints on Montague, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Monmouth Museum, Photography Exhibition, Lincroft, NJ
2019 Atlantic Gallery, B/W Sculpting with Light, New York, NY
2017 Burchfield Penney Art Center, 50 in 50: Work from the Collection, Buffalo, NY
2017 City Without Walls, Metro Show 31, Newark, NJ
2015 Monmouth Museum, Portraits, Lincroft, NJ
2010 Riverside Church, Modern Family, New York, NY
2001 Henry Street Settlement, Open Studio ‘2001’, New York, NY
2000 Henry Street Settlement, In-SitesVI: Making Our City Livable, New York, NY
1999 City Without Walls Gallery, Moma and Dada, Newark, NJ
1997 Museum of the City of New York, New York Gets Married, New York, NY
1997 St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery, Social Comment in New York City, New York, NY
1991 Texas Fine Art Association, Beyond Photography, Austin, TX
1988 Brooklyn Museum, Appropriation and Syntax: Uses of Photography in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
1986 Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Painterly Concerns, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2025 Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund, Being Seen, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Brooklyn Arts Council, Local Arts Support, Being Seen, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Puffin Foundation, Capturing Dignity, Teaneck, NJ
2024 Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund, Being Seen, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Brooklyn Arts Council, Local Arts Support, Being Seen, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Genesee Valley Arts Council Regrant, Being Seen, Rochester, NY
2023 Women United Art Movement magazine, issue #2, featured artist
2022 Women United Art Movement, long-listed, Art Prize, Photography
2022 VSW, Photography workshops for women from marginalized communities, Rochester, NY
2022 360 Xochi Quetzal, Residency, Lake Chappala, Mexico
2021 Puffin Foundation, Being Seen, Teaneck, NJ
2019 Mauser Foundation, Residency, Parrita, Costa Rica
2018 Visual Studies Workshop, Project Space Residency: Being Seen, Rochester, NY
2016 Puffin Foundation, In the Presence of Women: Living in Shelter, Teaneck, NJ
2010 Brooklyn Arts Council, BAC Regrant (Photography)
2004 Brooklyn Arts Council, BAC Regrant (Photography)
2000 Henry Street Settlement, Artist in Residence, New York, NY
1998 Virgina Center for the Creative Arts, Individual Artist’s Residency
1996 Virgina Center for the Creative Arts, Individual Artist’s Residency
1996 New York State Council on the Arts, Visual Artists Program
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Daily News, December 16, 2024, CARIBBEAT, second story in article
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/14/ny-caribbeat-colgate- games-at-armory-manhattan/
2024 Women United Art Magazine, Summer issue, https://www.womenunitedartmovement.com/magazine
2018 Visual Studies Workshop, http://www.vsw.org/exhibition/women-living-in-a-shelter-by-ann-rosen/
2014 Bill Barrett, In the Presence of Family, (catalog), Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2010 Staff, ’Shuttering’ Family Caught on Film, Brooklyn Courier
1999 Dan Bischoff, Artists play with dolls, but it’s not kid’s stuff, Newark Sunday Star Ledger, May 9
1988 Andy Grundberg, The Appropriation & Syntax: Use of Photography in Contemporary Art,
The New York Times, August, 12
1983 Fred McDarrah, Centerfold, The Village Voice, October 11 and November 22
1980 Catherine Lord, Women and Photography, Afterimage, Vol. 7, #6, January
1980 Anthony Bannon, Painterly Photographs, The Buffalo Evening News
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC
The Buscaglia Art Gallery, Niagara University, DeVeaux Campus, Niagara Falls, NY