Rochelle Goldberg
Rochelle Goldberg’s (b. 1984, Vancouver; lives/works: Berlin) sculpture and installation practice engages with the material and conceptual distinctions between natural systems. Frequently drawing from a range of historical, religious, and mythical pop-cultural subjects, Goldberg’s sculptures merge ephemeral and enduring matter such as crude oil, bronze, glitter, steel, roots, and seeds. Figures as diverse as Mary Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, and Marilyn Monroe recur throughout her practice, laden with material to appear simultaneously as archaeological artifacts and industrial icons. By combining art historical iconography with allusions to ongoing processes of transformation, contamination, and growth, Goldberg’s multifaceted installations project forward and backward in time—pointing to the sedimentary structures that have long shaped Western constructions of body, self, and environment.
Rochelle Goldberg received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, USA and a BA from McGill University in Montreal. Significant solo exhibitions include Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Mercer Union, Toronto (2023); Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany (2022); Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2020, 2017); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2019); The Power Station, Dallas (2019); Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy (2018); GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy (2016); and SculptureCenter, Long Island City, USA (2016). She has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including at Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy (2022); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California (2021); Centre international d’art et du paysage de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac, France (2021); Oakville Galleries, Canada (2019); A plus A Gallery, Venice (2018); Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris (2017); Whitney Museum, New York (2016); Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany (2016); The Artist’s Institute, New York (2016); and Swiss Institute, New York (2015). She was artist in residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2018); Atelier Calder, Saché, France (2017); and Thun Ceramic Residency, Bolzano, Italy (2016). In 2018, she was awarded the Battaglia Foundry Sculpture Prize #03 by the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, and her work was selected for the first Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York (2019).