CV / Virginia Rose Torrence
Education
2016 MFA - New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2013 BFA - The College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Related Employment
2019 - Current Co-founder, Co-director and instructor, Ceramics School, Hamtramck, MI
2023 Summer course Faculty, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2018 - 2019 Gallery Manager of Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit MI
Residencies
2016 Project Network Artist Residency - Guldagergaard, Skaelskor, Denmark
2016 Artist Residency - The White Page, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Artist in Residence - Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, ME
2012 Summer Fellowship - Ox-bow School of Art and Artist Residencies, MI
2010 Resident Artist - Fortress Studios, Detroit, MI
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Virginia Rose Torrence - Trinosophes, Detroit, MI
2016 Not What I Remember - The White Page, Minneapolis, MN
2016 The Aesthetics of Forgetting - Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Under the surface, Gallerie Camille, Detroit, MI
2022 Snake in the grass, Popps Packing, Hamramck MI
2022 The Porta Pottery Gallery (Two person exhibition with Henry Crissman), Trinosophes, Detroit, MI
2022 Eternal Spring (Group show), Ceramics School, Hamtramck, MI
2021 Ultra Soft- Curated by Emma Beatrez and Lee Noble, Night Club, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Turn Onz- Curated by Jeffery Tranchell, NADA House, Governors Island, NY
2020 Reflecting Pool - Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
2019 Turn Onz- Curated by Jeffery Tranchell, Jeff (Gallery), Detroit, MI
2018 Gala Dinner - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2018 Edition 18 - Simone Desousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 19th International Open - Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 The Lounge of Saturn - Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI.
2015 Variance - The Works, Providence, RI
2014 Lake Effect: Contemporary Art at Ox-bow - Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI
2012 Exercises in Well Roundedness - Ox-Bow Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
Press
“Ceramics School is Coming to Hamtramck”, www.Detroitisit.com ,Henrietta, CV, 2019 https://detroitisit.com/ceramics-school-is-coming-to-hamtramck/
“From Functional to Found”, Hyperallergic, Sarah Rose Sharp, 2018, https://hyperallergic.com/418228/from-the-functional-to-found-an-artist-couples-experiments-in-clay/
“Virginia Rose Torrence @ Trinosophes Gallery”, Detroit Art Review, Glen Mannisto, 2018, ,http://detroitartreview.com/2018/01/virginia-rose-torrence-trinosophes-gallery
Writing
“Interview with Nolan Simon”, Runner Magazine, Virginia Rose Torrence, 2018, https://runnerdetroit.run/AnInterviewWithNolanSimon.html