Bio
Rose Marie Prins’ mixed-media paintings and sculptures have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums, cultural centers and galleries throughout North America well as in her native country, South Africa. These include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico; the Art Museum at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida; the Gulf Coast Museum in Largo, Florida; the Museum of Encaustic Art, Cerrillos, New Mexico; the Gallery at Creative Pinellas, Largo, Florida; the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe; the Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art in New Orleans; Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey; Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar Virginia; the Erector Square Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut; the Bridge Street Gallery in Big Fork Montana; the Courtyard Gallery in Alameda, California; the Merlin Gallery in San Francisco; the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles; Casa Jupiterfab in Mexico and the Johannesburg Municipal Art Gallery in South Africa.
Her work is in public, corporate, and private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe including the Museum of Encaustic Art, Cerrillos, NM; Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico, Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Alfonso Architects in Tampa; Meridian Asset Services in St Petersburg, Florida; Perconti Data Systems in St. Petersburg; Dr. Stephen H. Groff, in St Petersburg; Fulcrum Blu in St Petersburg; Island Massage Therapy in Tierra Verde, Florida; SoulAction, Santa Fe in New Mexico; Dietrich Niesitka Teppichboden in Hamburg, Germany, and Creative Network in Toronto, Canada.
Prins is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Creative Pinellas Mentorship Grant in 2020; a Specific Cultural Projects Grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs in 2019, an Individual Artist Grant supported by the St Petersburg Arts Alliance and funded by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs in 2018, and a 2016 Creative Pinellas Individual Artist Grant.
Residency fellowships include Wild Rose Retreat, Ontario, Canada; Avíario Studio, Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal; Buinho FabLab, Messejana, Portugal; Jupiterfab Arts Residency, Guadalajara, Mexico; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst County, Virginia and Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France; the Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi, India; the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia.
Rose Marie received a PhD in Studio Art from The Union Institute and University, an MA in Art from Goddard College and a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.
