Rob Nadeau
MFA Rhode Island School of Design
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Adjunct Professor
Foundations
MFA Program
Contact
nadeaur@wcsu.edu
Rob Nadeau is a painter born in Rochester, NY. He received his BA degree from Brown University and his MFA in painting and printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. He is a recipient of prestigious awards and grants, among them, a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 1999 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Career Opportunity Grant in 2006. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown. In 2010, he was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where his work was shown in a solo exhibit entitled “Primal Scene”.
Other solo shows include LFL/Zach Feuer Gallery (NYC), Mixed Greens (NYC), Marlboro College, VT, and Markus Winter Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Since 2002, he has been included in many group exhibitions, among them, Freight & Volume, Jason McCoy Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, The Painting Center, and Artspace in New Haven. Rob has also curated and co-curated several exhibitions in NYC and Berlin. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Wall Street Journal, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others.
In his own words about his painting, Rob pursues “… an emphasis on process and materiality, a conscious disregard for resolution or finish in the traditional sense, a slight hint of humor, and a flirtation with near constant failure.” A resident of NYC for many years, he now lives and works in Litchfield, CT, and teaches studio art at Queens College in New York.