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Mia Westerlund Roosen

Mia Westerlund Roosen (born 1942) is an American sculptor known for largely abstract, often monumental works that reference the body, eroticism, and primal forms.

Westerlund Roosen emerged as a sculptor during the male-dominated ascendancy of minimalism, and was one of a handful of women represented by renowned art dealer Leo Castelli in the 1970s and 1980s. Critics such as Saul Ostrow and Lilly Wei characterize her art as postminimalist and feminist-influenced, noting its privileging of organic form, handmade processes and surfaces, and evocative possibilities. Wei placed Westerlund Roosen among a pioneering group of women that "breached the barricades of Minimalism," individually producing work whose "distinctive, even eccentric forms and wide range of materials served as a rebuttal to the rational geometries, serialization, coolness, and crushing industrial scale" of that movement.

Westerlund Roosen has had solo exhibitions at the Castelli Gallery, New Museum, and Storm King Art Center, and appeared in shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and SculptureCenter, among others. She has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and Fulbright grant. Her work belongs to the public art collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, among others.

She lives and works in New York City and Buskirk, New York. Provided by Wikipedia