Rhoda Rosenfeld

Rhoda Rosenfeld (Canadian, b. 1942) is a writer and artist who has been based in Vancouver since 1968. Her work attends to perception, consciousness, behaviour, transformation, chance and the indivisible. In her early life, Rosenfeld took inspiration from her experience growing up in Montreal during the Quiet Revolution and the wave of socio-political transformations aimed at combatting a period of conservative politics in Quebec. Meeting artists and poets from the West Coast in the mid-1960s, particularly Roy Kiyooka, deeply influenced her practice. Her interest in both painting and photography, and her attempts to balance the oppositions of these distinct media, has been influential to the structure of her work. Rosenfeld received a BA from McGill University in 1963, and completed her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in the same year. She has exhibited at the Belkin, the Contemporary Art Gallery, Brittania Library, the Carnegie Centre and the UBC Fine Arts Gallery. Her work (both visual and literary) has been published in West Coast Line, Raddle Moon, W and The Capilano Review.