Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art for a talk featuring artist and UIowa alumnus, Bruce Dorfman. Three works by Dorfman will be on view in the Visual Classroom.
About the artist:
Bruce Dorfman has had 60 solo exhibitions in New York, across the U.S.and abroad. He is represented by: June Kelly Gallery, NYC; Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington,
MA; and Elizabeth Clement Fine Art, Boston/Miami/NYC, where he will continue to have solo exhibitions during 2025.
His very first solo exhibition was at the University of Iowa, in 1956, as an undergraduate in the Art Building. It was arranged for, and set up by, the Graduate art students, who brought the work from NY to the University, at the instance of Mauricio Lasansky.
His most recent exhibitions have also included:
- Carrie Chen Gallery: Exhibition,Taipei/Taiwan, 2023
- American Fine Arts Society Gallery, NYC Retrospective,(2018-19)
- Monmouth University, NJ, Retrospective Exhibition (September – December, 2016)
Dorfmans work is in Permanent Collections worldwide, the very most recent acquisitions of which now include:
- The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (3 works)
- The Norton Museum of Art
- The Woodstock Artists Association Museum
- The Art Students League of New York
Bruce Dorfman has taught both at The Art Students League since 1964, as well as the League in Woodstock, NY, summers 1964-1972. He also taught at the New School, Syracuse University, the Everson Museum and was Artist-in-Residence at the Norton Museum1962-1964. Dorfman was Guest Artist at museums in Venezuela, Portugal and France from 1993-1996. Frequently noted among his many recognized students over the years have been Ai Wei-Wei, Bob Dylan, Gary Hill and Ku-Lim Kim.
Bruce Dorfman studied at the Art Students League with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arnold Blanch and Charles H.Alston. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where he studied with Mauricio Lasansky, Stuart Edie and art historian Roy Seiber.
He has received two Pollock-Krasner Award/Grants, a Fulbright Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, among many others. He currently holds a major grant for Assemblage and Mixed Media at The Art Students League of New York.