Born in Brooklyn, New York, Annabeth Rosen received her BFA from NYS State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Teaching appointments include The Rhode Island School of Design, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1997, she has held the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at the University of California Davis.
Rosen's work made of fired and glazed clay seem to have neither fixed contours or stable shape, even their scale appears to shift as you look. They are variously volcanic, beastly, catastrophic, and unnervingly funny, suggesting things going terribly wrong, but not yet irreversible.
—Nany Princenthal
Annabeth Rosen’s work is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery in New York and the Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco. Rosen’s work is the collection of The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Oakland Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and many public and private collections. Rosen has received multiple grants and awards, a Pew Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a UC Davis Chancellors Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, and in 2016 was named a USA Artist Fellow. Most recently Rosen has been granted the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2018 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
