Mia Westerlund Roosen
Mia Westerlund Roosen is a multidisciplinary artist who was born and raised in New York. With a deep interest in exploring materiality, sensuality, and scale, her work grapples with how an artist’s multipulation of form and material can impact meaning and perception.
Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions, notably at Storm King Art Center (Mountainville, NY), Sculpture Center (New York, NY), New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY), Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), and Leo Castelli Gallery (New York, NY). The artist has also exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), James Center for the Arts (Woodstock, NY), Omi International Arts Center (Ghent, NY), Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), Tang Museum, Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH), Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, (Mexico City, MX), The High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Richmond, VA), among others.
Westerlund Roosen has received a Fulbright Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, in addition to awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council Art Grant, and Anonymous Was A Woman. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), Neuberger Museum (Purchase, NY), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, CA), and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY), among others. She is represented by Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY.