Bruce Dorfman

Bruce Dorfman has had sixty solo exhibitions in New York, across the United States and abroad. His most recent exhibitions include: June Kelly Gallery, NYC, (May-June, 2025); The Permanent Collection-Selections: Norton Museum of Art; Carrie Chen Gallery (Great Barrington, MA) - Exhibition, Taipei/Taiwan, 2023; Elizabeth Clement Fine Art, Boston/NYC (2021,2020); American Fine Arts Society Gallery, Retrospective, NYC (2018-19); Monmouth University, NJ Retrospective Exhibition (September - December 2016); University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, The Figge Museum, Iowa (2015); "The Teachers of Ai Weiwei": Art Students League (2014); Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (2011), Kouros Gallery, NYC (2010, 2008, 2005); The Skirball Museum, CA.,   Most recent Permanent Collection acquisitions of Dorfman's art include: Norton Museum of Art, FLA.; Monmouth University, NJ;  Woodstock Artists Association Museum, NY; Art Students League of New York. During 2021, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art acquired three of Dorfman's large assemblage paintings for their permanent collection.

Bruce Dorfman received two major Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award/Grants for 2017 and 2008. Dorfman is the recipient of many other additional awards, grants and fellowships including: New York State Council on the Arts; Fulbright Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation; U.S. Department of State; Arts East Foundation, Washington, DC; New York World's Fair Invitational; National Academy of Design; Des Moines Art Center; Butler Institute of American Art; and Atelier Mourlot, Paris, France.

His work has been written about extensively, including, most recently: Pitch Culture, Kansas City, (Emily Cox, 2022); Gallery Guide - Cover and essay, NYC (October 2018); and The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, Hyperallegric and City Arts. His art has also received critical attention in periodicals, catalogs, and monographs both in the U.S. and abroad.

Bruce Dorfman has taught at The Art Students League since 1964, as well as the League summer school in Woodstock, NY, 1964-1972. He also taught at the New School, Syracuse University, the Everson Museum and was Artist-in-Residence at the Norton Museum (Painting and Printmaking), 1962-1964. Dorfman was a Guest Artist and Lecturer at museums and art institutions in Venezuela, Portugal and France from 1993-1996. Frequently noted among his many recognized students over the years have been Ai Wei-Wei, Bob Dylan, Gary Hill and Ku-Lim Kim.

Bruce Dorfman studied at the Art Students League with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arnold Blanch and Charles H.Alston. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where he studied with Stuart Edie, Mauricio Lasansky and art historian Roy Seiber.

Website: brucedorfman.com

Instagram: @brucedorfman

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