Rochelle Feinstein

Born in 1947, Rochelle Feinstein is a longstanding and deeply respected member of the New York art community. A major survey exhibition of Feinstein’s work originated at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2016), and subsequently traveled to Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2016), Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2017), and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018–2019). “The Today Show”, a presentation of recent and new works (2019-2024),was first presented at Secession, Vienna (2024), and followed by successive exhibitions at Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (2025), The Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2025), and The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2026). Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Feinstein is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, among those are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Anonymous Was a Woman, John Mitchell Foundation Grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and in 2017-2018 the American Academy in Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts. She earned her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, New York, and her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She is Professor Emerita of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University.