Rosa Loy

Rosa Loy

Rosa Loy's paintings address fundamental aspects of existence in layered narratives that synthesize her fascination with nature, the unconscious, memory, and folklore. Her beguiling casein on canvas compositions, populated with all female protagonists, ask us to consider the cost of patriarchy to our bodies, our relationship to nature, and to other people. Her compositions are imbued with a charged eroticism and ecofeminist ideals, directing focus towards the value of female knowledge, ability, intuition, and experience.

Rosa Loy (b. 1958, Zwickau, DE) has had exhibitions at Museum Bensheim, Bensheim, DE; Frauen Museum, Wiesbaden, DE; Space K, Seoul, KR; Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld, DE; Fondazione Coppola, Venice, IT; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE; The Shed, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, DE; Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE; Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, CH; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Galerie Baton, Seoul, KR; and Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, DE; among many others. Her work is held in the public collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, FL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Drents Museum, Assen, NL; and Busan Museum of Art, Busan, SK; among others. Loy lives and works in Leipzig, DE.