MIA WESTERLUND ROOSEN

1942 Born New York, NY

The artist lives and works in New York, NY and Buskirk, NY


Solo Exhibitions

2022 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Betty Cuningham Gallery at The Art Show Presented by The ADAA, New York, NY, November 3 -6 

Aftermath, Betty Cuningham Gallery, March 24 – May 7

2017 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Betty Cuningham Gallery, February 25 – April 15

2016 Artist- in- Residence, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, January – March 13

2014 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Humanities Gallery, LIU Brooklyn, March 4- 28

2012 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Sculptures, 1976-2012, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, May 17 – June 29

2010 Mia Westerlund Roosen “Baritone”, “French Kiss”, and “Juggler”, Installation on Park Avenue Malls, City of New York, Parks &

Recreation and Fund for Park Avenue Sculpture Committee, New York, NY April 19 – August 28

2008 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 17 – Dec. 06

Battenkill, installation in Thomas Paine Park, City of New York, Parks & Recreation, New York, NY, July – Oct.

2006 Mia Westerlund Roosen: New Sculptures, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, Sept. 7 – Oct. 14

2004 Mia Westerlund Roosen: Namesake, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, February 12 – March 27

2001 Mia Westerlund Roosen: New Sculptures, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, Nov. 9 – Dec. 29

1999 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, February - March

1998-99 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, Nov. 14 – January 9

1996 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, March 28 – April 27

1995 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, January 14 - March 11

1994 Mia Westerlund Roosen: Sculpture and Drawings, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 14 – Oct. 31

1993 Mia Westerlund Roosen: New Sculpture and Drawings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, April 1 – May 8

1991 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, Oct. 3 – Nov. 9

Mia Westerlund Roosen: American Beauties, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, March 9 – April 6

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL, January 11 – February 9

1989 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Joseloff Gallery, Harry Jack Gray Center, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, August 16 – Sept. 24

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY, January 3 – February 9

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1987 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Drawings and Monumental Sculpture, Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL, Oct. 9 – 31

1986 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Sculpture and Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 20 – Oct. 11

1985 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Recent Sculpture, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1984 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Sculpture, Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 1 – June 2

1982 Mia Westerlund Roosen, Sable-Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, January

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, March 6 – 27

1980 Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Nov.

Material Matters, The Clocktower, New York, NY, May 28 – June 21

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Sculptures & Drawings, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 21 – Oct. 31

1979 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Mia Westerlund Studies, Art Gallery of Southern Alberta, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

New Work, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, March 31 – April 21

1978 Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 13 – June 3

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Recent Work: Sculptures & Drawings, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sept. 8 – Oct15

Drawings and Sculpture, Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1977 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1976 Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1975 Willard Gallery, New York, NY

1974 Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Willard Gallery, New York, NY

Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY

1973 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 The Last Picture Show, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, February 10 – April 27

2022 Progressions, Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 18 – August 13

Very Metal, Theodore, New York, February 4 – March 11

2019 Summer!, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, June 13 – August 5

2017 Citings/Sightings, Lennon Weinberg, June 22 – September 16

2016 Shimmering Substance: Selections from Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantees of the Hudson Valley

BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, March 11 – May 1

2011 Thaw, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, February 26 – April 2

2009 Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY

2008 New Sculpture at The Fields Sculpture Park,  Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY, June 21 – Nov. 30

2007 What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, May 1 – July 22

2006 Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Oct. 7 – Dec. 30

2005 Recent Modernist Sculpture, Joined, Modeled, Cast, Carved, Poured, Painted —

— curated by Karen Wilkin, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 9 – Oct. 8

2003 H2O, curated by Jo Anna Isaak, Danese Gallery, New York, NY, July 10 – August 29

Drawing Modern, Works From the Agnes Gund Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2002 Architecture for One, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY, May

2001 Kinds of Drawing, curated by Trevor Richardson, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA

March 13 – April 13

2000 From Idea to Matter: Nine Sculptors. curated by Edward Albee, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

 Oct. 30 – Dec. 17

1997 Hanging by a Thread, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, Oct. 3 – February 15

Sculptors Drawings, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, February 10 – February 28

1996 Borders, Crossings, Passages: Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 2 – Sept. 6

(Ap)praising Abstraction, Art Initiatives, New York, NY, February 15 – March 16

1995-96 The Material Imagination, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Dec. – January

1995 In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the ‘90s; Indoor Exhibitions: Part II: Beyond Gender, Snug Harbor Cultural Center—

—Staten Island, NY, Oct. 29 – January 14

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, March 6 – April 2

1994 Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, January 8 – 29

1993-94 Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 11 – January 9

29th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, Nov. 14 – January 9

1993 Forms of Life? Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, Nov. 3 – 30

Works on Paper by Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, July – Sept. 25

Edward Albee’s Other Eye: Selection from the Albee Collection, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, June 19 – 30

1992 Richard Kalina, Harriet Korman, Melissa Meyer, Carmengloria Morales, Bruno Rousselot, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Lennon, Weinberg—

— Inc.New York, NY, June 4 – July 31

Selected Artists: Summer Show of Paintings, Drawings and Works on Paper, Panicali Fine Art, New York, NY, July - August

1991 Spring/Summer Exhibition, Part Two: Sculptors. De Kooning, Hauge, Saret, Westerlund Roosen, Westermann, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.—

New York, NY

Bronze, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA

1989-90 Figuratively Speaking: Drawings by Seven Artists, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY—

—April 16 – June 11;

traveled to: Toledo Museum Art, Toledo, OH, Nov. 11 – January 7; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO—

January 21 – February 25

1989  Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY

Heroics Recast: Mia Westerlund Roosen, Francesco Clemente, and Terry Allen, Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA—

February 17 – March 14

1988-89 Figurative Impulses: Five Contemporary Sculptors, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 15 – January 1

1988 Summer Weight Part One, Bali Miller Gallery, New York, NY, June 8 – July 7

1987 Leo Castelli & His Artists: 30 Years of Promoting Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico—

— June 25 – Oct. 18

1986 After Nature, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, NY, February 1 – 22

1985 The Maximal Implication of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY—

— March 24 – April 28

1984 Drawings, Sculpture Center, New York, Dec. 14 – 31

American Woman II, Janis Gallery, New York, NY

Naturlich, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. – Dec.

Four Sculptors: Ritual & Artifact, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY, Sept. 12 – Oct. 6

Praxis Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 10 – Sept. 12

Transformation of the Minimal Style: Materials & Meaning, Sculpture Center, New York, February 7 – 28

Large Drawings, Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, January 26 – March 9

1983-1984 Varieties of Sculptural Ideas, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 22 – January 28

1983 Content in Abstraction: The Uses of Nature, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Monuments & Landscapes: The New Public Art, McIntosh/Drysdale, Houston, TX, June 14 – Sept. 6

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 15 – Oct. 31

Painting and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY, March 7 – April 12

Monumental Drawings by Sculptors, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, January 7 – February 9

1982 Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Oct. 18 – Nov. 20

American Abstraction Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA, Sept. 1 – Oct. 3

Artists from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, May 29 – June 27

Castelli and His Artists: Twenty-Five Years, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO; —

—traveled to: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Leo Castelli Gallery —

New York, NY; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

1981-82 Nine Sculptors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 1 – January 31

1981 Soundings, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, Sept. 20 – Dec. 20

Sculpture ’81, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May – August

Working Drawings, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY, March 23 – April 10

1980 Pluralities, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, July 5 – Sept. 9

Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC, May 23 – June 8

Material Matters, Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, March 28 – April 27

Brown Invitational Exhibition, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, February 1 – 24

1979 First Exhibition, Tony Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 19 – Nov. 25

Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY—

—March 13 – April 8

1976 XXI Olympiad, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ontario Now, Kitchener Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

1975 Willard Gallery, New York, NY

1973 Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Willard Gallery, New York, NY

Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY

1972 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1971 Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1970 Aggregation Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada