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Rosalinda Kolb
941 Calle Mejia #827
Santa Fe, NM   87501
505 473-9045

rosalindakolb@gmail.com
www.rosalindakolb.net/

EDUCATION:

1976 Master of Fine Arts – School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1974 Bachelor of Art – U.C.L.A.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1993  Romantic, Organic, Don’t Panic     CAFE  Albuquerque, NM

1990  Farewell     Gallery Parr, New York, NY

1989  The Mystic’s Cave   Ward-Lawrence Gallery, New York, NY

1981  Newcomers Series   Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2006  Miracles & Malcontents  Koa Gallery, Kapiolani Community College Honolulu, HI

2002  Hell Broke Loose & Other Drawings  Hawaii Pacific University

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

October 3-29, 2025 Jazz Illustrated  Black Archives of Mid-America
An exhibition featuring vibrant works from the American Jazz Museum that capture Jazz History including Portrait of American Composer and Bassist Charles Mingus by Rosalinda Kolb.

MUSIC AS IMAGE & METAPHOR will be on view at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY from February 11 – March 26, 2023
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April 12 — Sept. 18, 2021 Music as Image and Metaphor: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles. Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi

Jan. 15 — Mar. 20, 2021 Music as Image and Metaphor: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles. Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia Visit The Kentler Flatfiles Website>

2019 Stations Of The Cross, Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas

2018 “Celebrating the 21st Century Woman Artist” Gallery 140, Las Vegas, NM

2015 The Kentler Flatfiles: Red Hook Artists, the 90’s Peninsula Art Space Red Hook, Brooklyn

2012 & 2013 Common Ground Santa Fe Community Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2005  Flowers–Kwiaty  Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

2004  Mixed Media Works   Cafe of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

2000 & 2001 Artists of Hawaii  Honolulu Academy of Art  Honolulu, HI

2001  Daily Drawings   Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

1995  World’s Women On Line    United Nations 4th World Conference on Women Beijing, China

1989  Get Hooked On Art   Hook Gallery, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY

1979  Museum Without Walls   Security Pacific Banks Throughout California

1978  Drawing Conclusions–   Jan Turner Gallery, Venice, CA

1977   LA County Museum of Art   Rental Gallery,  LA,  CA

1976   Five California Women  Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

ARTICLES/REVIEWS

Rosalinda Kolb’s “Jazz Portrait Series” in Jerry Jazz Musician 2/13/2023

Morse, Marcia  Nasty Edge– Kolb and Ozu at H.P.U.   Honolulu Weekly  7/ 3/ 02

Gail-White, Victoria  Advertiser Gallery Review   Honolulu Advertiser  5/ 26/ 02

Prince, David Making Something Beautiful From A Nightmare  The New Mexican 3/21/95

Fauntleroy, Gussie   Signature Series   The New Mexican – 12/ 2/ 94

FLAT FILES:

Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

COLLECTIONS OF SPECIAL INTEREST:

• American Jazz Museum
• Consul General and Mrs. Masatoshi Muto
• Bank of America
• N.Y. Public Library for the Performing Arts  Iconography Collection
• Saint Andrew’s Cathedral, Honolulu, HI
• White & Case at Rockefeller Center N.Y.C.