Dawn Roe received her MFA in Studio Art from The Illinois State University College of Fine Arts in Normal, IL in 2005 and her BFA in Photography from Marylhurst University in Portland, OR in 2002. She currently divides her time between Asheville, North Carolina and Winter Park, Florida where she serves as Assistant Professor of Art at Rollins College. Dawn’s studio practice involves both the singular and combined use of photographs and digital video.
Select solo and two-person exhibitions include an upcoming exhibition at ScreenSpace, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (2012), Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA (2011), Dog & Pony Projects (with Benjamin Gardner), Buffalo, NY, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (2010), and Newspace Center for Photography (with Catharine Stebbins), Portland, OR (2009). Recent group exhibitions include Darkness on the Edge of Town, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Transplanted, Launch Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada (2011), HyperReal World: Landscape as Commodity, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, In Our Backyard, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL (2010), and (H)4U, Pearlman Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (2009).
Dawn is regularly invited to lecture about her work and research in the U.S. and abroad and has participated in numerous residency programs including a 10-week residency and fellowship at The Alden B. Dow Creativity Center in Michigan, multiple fellowships at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences in Georgia, and a summer residency at The Palazzo-Rinaldi in Noepoli, Italy. She recently served as Artist-in-Residence at The Visual Arts Centre of LaTrobe University in Bendigo, VIC, Australia where she began a new project titled, Goldfields. Dawn has received funding for her work from various organizations including The Associated Colleges of the South/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and The Society for Photographic Education. Her work has been published in SHOTS, Fraction Magazine, F-STOP Magazine, and fototazo.
