“Of course my work has political dimensions, but my focus is really the human faces, the human struggle, the epic journey,” Hung Liu, artist

Grace Roselli (Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose four-decade practice spans photography, performance, painting, and printmaking, exploring the stories carried by our bodies and faces. Her work moves between staged encounters and physical image-making, investigating how the self becomes both witness to and instrument of what a culture remembers, desires, and forgets.

Roselli received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice under Emilio Vedova. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York, and Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, and group exhibitions at the Alternative Museum, New York, and the Gemeente Museum, Helmond, Netherlands. Her book Is the Room was published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2013, and her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Artnet, and ArtCritical, among others. From 2015–2017 she created Naked Bike, a photographic series documenting women motorcyclists, exhibited at MotorGrrl in Brooklyn.

She has received a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant (2024), a New York State Council on the Arts Award (2023), the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant and a Puffin Foundation Award (2022). Pandora’s BoxX Project is fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

In 2018 she launched Pandora’s BoxX Project, an ongoing photographic portrait archive of women, trans, and non-binary artists and cultural practitioners active since the 1960s. The project has been presented at Carney Gallery at Regis College and through talks and panels at Artists Talk On Art, Zürcher Gallery, the Brooklyn Public Library, the West Chelsea Festival of Art, and Silver Eye Center for Photography. A new video work from the project will premiere at Broodworks, Brooklyn, in 2026.