Rosaline Dou (b. 2002 Wenzhou) is an art student and thinker whose work contemplates and contextualizes the acts involved in everyday habits through highly-informational and penetrating gestures. She will be graduating this Spring with her BA Honors in Interdisciplinary Visual Art (IVA) from the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design.
Currently, Dou is a Henry Art Liaison (HAL) at the Henry Art Gallery and a Curatorial Assistant at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery (JLG). She is also one of the founders and curators of Our Playground, a student initiative that turns the art building courtyard into a playground – reclaiming art as instinctual, lyrical, and playful.
Dou has exhibited work at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, The Room, and La Gran Belleza Gallery, along with many pop-up/site-specific spaces, such as trees, restrooms, windows, and elevators.
In this short video, Dou shares how her experiences as a curatorial assistant and Henry Art Liaison have informed her artistic practice. The video features Dou's 回 (huí), an immersive installation that part of the group exhibition FEAST in Winter 2023 at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.
Dou will be exhibiting work at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in the BA in Art Honors Graduation Exhibition that runs from May 21 through May 31, 2024. A free and public opening reception is scheduled on Tuesday, May 21, 5-7pm.
For those not local to Seattle, her work can be viewed online on her personal website and in Publication #0 of The BASEMENT, an online gallery publication created for and by students at the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design.
Without a doubt, Dou has a promising career in the art sphere. We are thrilled to celebrate her accomplishments as she completes her last term as an undergraduate student at the School, and look forward to celebrating many more in the future.