Daria Dorosh (born 1943) is an artist, educator and activist. Born in the

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, she has lived and worked in

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since 1950. She is among the co-founders, in 1972, of Artists in Residence (

A.I.R. Gallery A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence) is the first all female artists cooperative gallery in the United States. It was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists during a time i ...

), the first all-female cooperative gallery in the United States. Dorosh's work was part of the inaugural exhibition at A.I.R. Dorosh studied art at the

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and fashion at

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. Dorosh served on the faculty of Fashion Institute of Technology from 1969 to 2014 and has received numerous grants and awards for her work as an individual artist, including a

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Design Arts grant, a

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Individual Artists grant, and an ArtTable, 30th Anniversary Artist Honors Award. Dorosh's early exhibitions included small

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. Her other works are intersections of art, fashion, and technology Dorosh examines cultural patterns that appear across disciplines. She creates work which questions "the relationship between a work of art, its viewer and the so-called real space in which both are 'confronted.'" Dorosh also uses digital prints in her work. Her work is in the collection of the

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. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by

Mary Beth Edelson Mary Beth Edelson (born Mary Elizabeth Johnson) (6 February 1933 - 20 April 2021) was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists." Edelson was a printmaker, book art ...

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A.I.R. Gallery, Daria Dorosh
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dorosh, Daria 1943 births Artists from New York City Cooper Union alumni Fashion Institute of Technology alumni Living people 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American artists 21st-century American women artists Fashion Institute of Technology faculty Soviet emigrants to the United States