Biography

Rosburg in Denver, CO, 2018
Regan Rosburg is an artist and naturalist. Her work is founded in the principles of ecopsychology, and her research describes society's collective grief, environmental melancholia, and collective social mania. Rosburg believes these issues manifest in a relentless loop of consumption, distraction, and unresolved mourning.
Rosburg is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Cayo Residency in Eleuthera (Bahamas). She has conducted biology-based research trips around the world, including the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Thailand, Washington (Hoh and Quinault rainforests), Tennessee (Smokey Mountains), and the Colorado Black Forest to study the Ute tribe’s culturally modified “Prayer Trees.” Her 2019 residencies include the Arctic (Svalbard, Norway) and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation (Washington DC).
Rosburg works in a variety of materials to blur the boundary between nature and culture. Her resin work contains precious artifacts: plant and animal relics, bones, insects, lace and painted imagery. These objects are suspended in incredibly laborious, three dimensional resin "paintings." The use of resin poignantly addresses her continued concern over plastic pollution in the environment, while presenting the beauty of plant and animal species. Due to the labor intensive and complicated process involved in making the resin works, she produces a small body of work over the course of a couple years.
Recently she has expanded into making mylar installations, as well as recycled plastic and virgin resin sculptures.
Rosburg is represented by William Havu Gallery in Denver, CO and teaches at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Lakewood, CO. She will be a Redline Artist Resident (Denver) beginning in Fall 2019.
Please listen to her most recent podcast (below) explaining Axis Mundi, her artistic philosophy, and her massive installation, Omega (for the 2017 Biennial of the Americas).
- Current CV-
REGAN ROSBURG
www.reganrosburg.com reganrosburg@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
Lesley University College of Art and Design, MFA, 2016
University of Colorado at Boulder, BFA, 2000
PROFESSIONAL
2018 - present. Co-founder and Artistic Director: Cayo Art + Science Residency. Eleuthera, Bahamas.
2018 - present. Affiliate Faculty (Fine Arts/Foundations) Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design,
Denver, CO
2016 - present. Affiliate Faculty (Fine Arts/Foundations) Metro State University, Denver CO
2016 Guest Lecturer (Foundations) University of Colorado at Boulder, CO
LECTURES AND TALKS
2018 Speaker. VASD Faculty Focus. Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Lakewood, CO.
2018 Podcast Interview. “Breaching Grief, Melancholia and Mania with Biophilia.” Let’s Talk
About the Weather Podcast. Episode #24. EcoArts Foundation (San Diego, CA).
2018 Speaker/Presenter of Chris Jordan’s Film Albatross. “LHS Speaker Series.”
Alamo Draft House. Littleton, CO.
2017 Speaker. “Art, Science & Climate Change: A Conversation.” Thinkers Lodge Conference.
Pugwash, Nova Scotia.
2017 Speaker. “A Difficult Hope: Climate and the Human Project.” Kings Theater, Annapolis
Royale, Nova Scotia.
2017 Visiting Artist Guest Lecturer. “Biology and Art.” School of Visual Art -- Bio Art Lab. New
York City, NY.
2016 Visiting Artist Guest Lecturer – Metro State University, Denver, CO
2016 Visiting Artist Lecture Series – Converge Art Center, Denver, CO
2016 Resident Studio Artist Lecture Series – Temple Arts Building, Denver, CO
2016 Resident Critic, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Olympic Auditorium Complex. Omega (Axis Mundi) Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO
2016 Haven Gallery. Vanitas. Scope, Miami. Miami, FL
2013 David B. Smith Gallery, Maelstrom. Denver, CO
2011 David B. Smith Gallery, The Understory. Denver, CO
2009 Art & Soul Gallery, Curio. Boulder, CO
2009 Smokebrush Galley, Break Away. Colorado Springs, CO
2008 Art & Soul Gallery, Small World. Boulder, CO
2007 Art & Soul Gallery, Selective Memory. Boulder, CO
2007 Gingerbread Square Gallery, Patterns in Nature. Key West, FL
2006 Art & Soul Gallery, The Edge of the Field. Boulder, CO
SELECTED GROUP EHIBITIONS
2017 Platte Forum Gallery. Axis Mundi. Biennial of the Americas. Denver, CO
2017 William Havu Gallery. Fabricating Nature. Denver, CO
2017 Platte Forum Gallery & Black Cube Nomadic Museum. Resident Exhibition. Denver, CO
2016 Lesley University. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Cambridge, MA
2015 Haven Gallery. Inaugural Group Show. Northport, NY
2013 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Beyond Eden. Los Angeles, CA
2012 David B. Smith Gallery. Group Exhibition Part II. Denver, CO
2011 Thinkspace Gallery. Born Free. Culver City, CA
2011 Museum of Contemporary Art. Objectophilia. Biennial of the Americas. Denver, CO.
2009 David B. Smith Gallery. Group Exhibition Part I. Denver, CO
2009 Botanical Gardens. Extinction. (Jurors: Simon Zalkind, Ivar Zeile) Denver, CO
2009 Irvine Contemporary Gallery. Manifest Hope: DC. Washington DC
HONORS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2019 Redline Resident Artist (Fall 2019 - Fall 2021), Denver, CO
2019 Oak Springs Garden Foundation, Artist in Residence, Award Grantee. Fall 2019. Upperville, VA
2019 Arctic Circle Residency Program, Artist in Residence, Summer 2019. Svalbard, Norway
2018 Cayo Artist Residency Program (Pilot Program; Artistic Director). Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
2017 Biology Research Residency: Joe DiGiorges Microscopy. Exuma Islands, Bahamas
2016 Biology Research Residency: Microscopy. Abaco, Bahamas
2014 Ayatana Researchers Artist Residency. Biophilia, Ottawa, Canada
2014 Lesley University College of Art and Design. Merit Scholarship. Cambridge, MA
2009 Juror’s Choice Award. Extinction: Artist’s Respond. Jurors: Simon Zalkind, Ivar Zeile.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Climate Change and the Human Prospect. Documentary. Thinker’s Lodge, Pugwash, NS. 2017.
2017 Rinaldi, Ray Mark. Quick Take: Axis Mundi sprawls across Curtis Park. One Good Eye. 4 October, 2017. Web
2017 Rinaldi, Ray Mark. Hemispheric views on display in Denver galleries thanks to Biennial (Axis Mundi). Denver Post. 29 September, 2017. Web
2017 Froyd, Susan. Axis Mundi Tackles Psychology and the Environmental Apocalypse. Westword Magazine. 17 September, 2017. Web.
2017 Froyd, Susan. Colorado Creatives 3.0 - Regan Rosburg. Westword Magazine. 22 June, 2017. Web.
2017 Rinaldi, Ray Mark. At DU, a Climate Change Exhibit That’s Thoughtful, Shocking and Sometimes Almost Humorous. Denver Post. 17 September, 2017. Web and print.
2017 Jones, Cory. Three Works of Art that Explore How Artists See Climate Change. Colorado Public Radio News. 31 March, 2017. Web.
2017 Heming, Christine. The Need to Feel. Shambala Times, Nova Scotia. 15 March, 2017. Web
2017 Rogers, Stephanie. Plucking the Stinger, Saturnalia Books, Cover Artist.
2015 Jamail, Dahr. Mourning the Changes That Surround Us: Readers Speak Out. Truthout.org. Web.
2015 Mei-en, Lo Kwa. Yearling, Alice James Books, Cover Artist.
2013 Cervi, Giovanni. Dios De Los Muertos. Woodenleg Press. Contributing artist.
2013 Paglia, Michael. Critic’s Picks: Denver, Art Ltd. Magazine, June/July Issue.
2009 Fairey, Shepard. Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change. Contributing Artist.
CURATORIAL
2018 CORE New Art Space. Flora & Fauna. Sole Juror. Denver, CO.
2017 Platte Forum. Axis Mundi: Artists on Eco-Psychology. Multi-venue exhibition, Albatross screening, artist talks (Denver, CO & Nova Scotia, Canada). Sole curator. Denver, CO.
2017 Re-Creative Gallery. Group Exhibition 2018. Juror. Denver, CO.
PUBLISHED RESEARCH
2017 IGI Global: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change. Vol 4, Ar. 4.
The Relentless Memorial: Environmental Melancholia and Collective Social Mania. Web and print.
COLLECTIONS
Hilton Hotel, Boulder, CO
Le Meridian Hotel, Denver, CO
This is a short video about Omega, installed in Denver during the Biennial of the Americas 2017. Rosburg not only created this massive work, but also curated the entire Axis Mundi Exhibition.
In this 2010 video created by David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Rosburg describes her process for an upcoming exhibition.