Rosaline Yanan Dou is GlogauAIR resident
from October 2024 to December 2024
Rosaline Dou is an art thinker from Wenzhou, China, based in New York. She uses autoethnographic storytelling to reframe everyday rituals. Her work, resembling social experiment documentation, engages universal individual agency and often evokes physical, pre-cognitive responses through interactive elements.
Meet the Artist
Statement
Rosaline Dou is an art thinker and cultivator from Wenzhou, China, currently living and working in New York. Her work recontextualizes everyday habits and actions through autoethnographic storytelling.
She reprocesses the familiar and underlying metabolisms that govern our daily rituals. Dou’s work resembles a document—a residue of a social experiment or engagement that co-creates with universal individual agency. Her work often evokes physical responses through its interactive elements. These bodily actions trigger involuntary reactions before conscious awareness registers them in the cognitive system.
GlogauAIR Project
Inspired by a conversation with my mother during a cross-country move, I reflect on the dual meaning of “swallow” in my life: swallowing as a form of internalized oppression, and my mother’s name, 小燕 (little swallow). How swallows use saliva to build their nests propels me to see the act of swallowing as a means to construct homes. In this semiotic exploration, I envision a socially engaged component where participants are invited to write down their own experiences of “swallowing” on paper. These writings will then be transformed into origami swallows, which will “fly” into a floating installation.
CV Summary
Education
- 2024 BA Honors, Interdisciplinary Visual Art. University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Exhibitions
- 2024 Life Reimagined 生活重构, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
- 2024 Unpack the Impact, 1215 Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
- 2024 Unbound Variable, Sojourner Gallery, New York, NY (juried by Danae Li)
- 2024 Open Swim, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2024 Under Under, The Room, Seattle, WA (two-person exhibition)
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, & FELLOWSHIPS
- 2024 UA International Residency, Uncool Artist, Brooklyn, NY
- 2024 Mary Gates Research Endowment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- 2023 SVA Artist Residency, School of Visual Art, New York, NY
- 2023 P. Rathvon Family Art Legacy Scholarship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- 2022 Boyer-Gonzales Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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