DOMINIQUE DUROSEAU

ABOUT

Dominique Duroseau ( b. 1979) is a Newark-based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti. Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization.

Duroseau earned her MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 2023 and holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Arts in Fine Arts. Exhibitions, performances, and screenings include The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum and the New Museum (BWA for BLM), El Museo del Barrio, BronxArtSpace, Rush Arts Gallery, and Smack Mellon in New York City; The Newark Museum, Index Arts, and Project for Empty Space. The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone, and a panelist at Black Portraiture[s] at Harvard and lecturer at Vassar.

Fellowships and residencies include A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, Index Art Center, the Wassaic Project, Shine Portrait Studio; NARS Foundation and Artists Alliance Inc and MassMOCA. She is currently a Beinecke Research Fellow at Yale University.

Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail and The New York Times. 


WORK

Archiving. Fossilizing.: memorializing drawn lessons. Beautiful is my pain (shower rod and meat), 2023
Found industrial tarp, faux leather, heated/melted construction trash bag, silicone cast texts, jewelry mesh, beads,shower rod, handwritten graphite texts, handwritten burn texts
36 x 67½ in.

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 I create narratives.

I document, investigate, cross-examine, create cultural hybridizations.

I de-contextualize/re-contextualize texts, topics, and issues on Black Culture’s constant striving within today’s society. The work addresses issues that have remained persistent, morphed, and folds in residuals of colonial influence, women's issues, and criticism of imperialist white-supremacist patriarchal cultures.

I work within the cusp of my cultures as Haitian, American, and African Diaspora, then link unresolved issues across time as a political strategy. This takes into account the nuances of language, imagery, and mannerisms, while illuminating social issues and injustice, depicting contemporary struggles against indifference, coded vernacular, and entrenched economic dispositions.

My recent work has focused on exploring and continuing abstract narratives portraying various aspects of Black identities/issues via different media: photography, performance, video, audio, etc. I’m exploring issues that exist then, now, and that could possibly seep into the future.

- Dominique Duroseau

Took dis long to get here, and i still had to whisper, 2022
Black duck cloth, contractor bag, gaffer tape, laser etched text on leather, chain, gems, pins
14 x 22 in.

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Archived Discussions— Processing Yearnings. Chapter: glitched Manifestation. Failed crop. Scorched land. repair., 2023
Black cotton paper, laser etched texts & portrait, poured silicone, handwritten texts in black and glitter graphite gel ink, toner
22 x 30 in.

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Archived Discussions— Processing Yearnings. Chapter: glitched Manifestation. Failed crop. Scorched land. repair., 2023
Black cotton paper, laser etched texts & portrait, poured silicone, handwritten texts in black and glitter graphite gel ink, toner
22 x 30 in.

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Archived Discussions— Processing Yearnings. Chapter: Worthy RESTORATION. , 2023
Black cotton paper, laser etched texts & portrait, poured silicone, handwritten texts in black and glitter graphite gel ink, toner
22 x 30 in.

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QT.EROTICISM: hearth & home. plus-sized linked harness needed hugs., 2023
Industrial tarp, thrift store clothes, beaded trims, laser etched texts on faux later, silicone cast texts, mesh
dimensions variable

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