Maddy Rosenberg is a Brooklyn native and, though still based in New York, has spent the good part of her career living and developing projects internationally. Her studio work spans many media, including oil painting, artist’s books, printmaking, drawing, animation, toy theater, and installation. She was the American artist in a joint Turkish/German project sponsored by the US Consulate in Munich that included an award-winning exhibition at the end of a six-week residency. A solo exhibition at Hudson Park Library in New York City inaugurated their artist’s book programming.
Rosenberg maintains an active international curatorial as well as exhibition career. She approaches curating as an extension of her art practice. In September 2009, Rosenberg founded CENTRAL BOOKING, a multi-disciplinary curatorial project focusing on artist’s books and exhibitions on art & science. Originally in DUMBO, Brooklyn, it moved to Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 2013, where the expanded size and programming allowed for more ongoing collaborative partnerships. Since 2018, CENTRAL BOOKING maintains an office and viewing space in Brooklyn, as the center of simultaneous projects.
Most recent exhibitions include the Sandstone Steps at Kirkcudbright Galleries in Scotland, for the collaboration with Roncadora Press around the Corsehill sandstone and stone carvers from Scotland used for the Million Dollar Staircase in the New York State Capitol; and On the Waterfront: A View from the Coast (Line) collaboration with the New-York Historical Society on the ecosystems of the Brooklyn harbor.
Plant Cure and Plant Cure/Brooklyn were part of a growing project based around medicinal plants and included Visual Artists in Residence and exhibitions at the New York Academy of Medicine and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, with grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council/ NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Brooklyn Arts Fund. Technology and the Evolution of the Artist’s Book in Brighton, England won Best Exhibition from the Fringe Festival 2016 and Polish Impact: Ha!wangarda was an exhibition and festival focusing on book art and E-literature funded by the Polish Ministry of Culture.
Redux, in 2015, was the fourth exhibition Rosenberg curated at The Center for Book Arts in New York. Additionally, Rosenberg’s international printmaking multi-venue curatorial project, New York/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York received a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
Other grants include the Gottlieb Foundation, Artist’s Relief and Artists Fellowship. Rosenberg has previously enjoyed international residencies from Dumfries and Galloway Council (Scotland), Arbor 11 (Liechtenstein), Fundación Valparaiso (Spain), Guest Atelier Salzburger Künstlerhaus (Austria), Schloss Neuhaus (Austria), and Governors Island, Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Millay Arts in the USA.
In 2007, Baylor University acquired fifteen of Rosenberg’s artist’s books to begin the Book Arts Collection. Other public collections include MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, Fogg Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Library, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Yale University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Salzburg Museum, Herzog August Bibliothek, Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Art, and National Galleries of Scotland: Modern Two.
Over the years, Rosenberg has established a large bibliography. To name a few, articles, interviews and reviews have appeared in Hyperallergic, Haberarts, Crave, cityArts, Art Spiel, The Art Newspaper, ArtsHouston, Art and Métiers du Livre, Artists Books Reviews, Umbrella, Printmaking Today, Art Review, NY Arts, and Salzburger Nachrichten, as well as interviews on the BBC, German television arts program Nachtlinie, BRIC Brooklyn arts cable, Southwest Radio Funk Berlin, and Houston Public Radio. She also is featured in Hedwig Brenner’s lexicon, Judische Frauen in der Bildenden Kunst (Volume IV), Mark Staff Brandl’s, A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art and her own Wikipedia page.
Rosenberg earned a BFA from Cornell University and her MFA from Bard College.