The university's ARTSwego office recently announced that Dahlia Bloomstone will serve as SUNY Oswego's Artist in Residence for the 2025-26 season.
Bloomstone's residency will include an exhibition in the new Hewitt Gallery in the fall, the first to grace that space when the renovated home to visual arts reopens this year. She will also teach one class this fall, a new media special topics class titled "Nonlinear Agential Worldbuilding: The Internet, Technology, and Labor."
A Puerto Rican/American artist, Colón is Bloomstone's matronymic maiden name.
"Dahlia has developed a body of work rooted in video, which has evolved to encompass animation, video games, sculpture, code, dance, film, sound and performance," according to Bloomstone's artist statement. "However, her focus for the past two years has been on video games. Dahlia addresses and reconciles representations of domesticity, joy, respectability politics, social value and mutual aid, often through the lens of specific modes of affective labor."
April campus visit
The SUNY Oswego community is invited to a Meet and Greet with Bloomstone from 5 to 6 p.m. on Monday, April 7, in the Tyler Hall Lobby. The event represents a great opportunity for students, faculty and staff to welcome Bloomstone to the campus community and to learn a little more about her and her work.
During the April 7-8 visit, Bloomstone will also meet with a variety of art and design classes to introduce herself to students and talk about her work and the class that she will be teaching in the fall.
Bloomstone has exhibited with the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea; InterAccess in Toronto; Mass Gallery in Texas; and galleries around New York state including Hauser & Wirth, Beverly's, Galerie Timonier, Theater Mitu, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Essex Flowers, 205 Hudson Gallery, Rhizome, Millennium Film Workshop and Hyacinth Gallery.
She has been invited to speak at institutions including the University of Texas at Austin, Bard College, Rochester Institute of Technology and Queens College, as well as for numerous arts organizations. She has forthcoming presentations around the Empire State with Heart Gallery, Blade Study Gallery, Electronic Arts Intermix, and Embodied Earth. Dahlia’s work is also affiliated with the White Columns Gallery artist registry.
Bloomstone has a master of fine arts degree from Hunter College and a bachelor of fine arts from Bard College.
She is the recipient of the SPCUNY Actionist grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Master’s Thesis grant from Hunter College, the Ox-Bow CIP scholarship, and a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture fellowship.
Bloomstone has participated in residencies and fellowships through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Theater Mitu, School of Visual Arts, Ox-Bow and Foreign Objekt, and recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
From 2020 to 2022, she served as a teaching assistant at Hunter College, and in 2023, she was a visiting artist/professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a co-founder of New Uncanny Gallery.
Bloomstone is currently a professor of contemporary art at Ramapo College and a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She lives and works in New York.
The artist statement describes Bloomstone as "a relational fable-teller in dialogue with concurring socio-political and economic issues, constantly renegotiating her relationship to these concepts within the moralizing discourse in certain domains."
"With humor, vulnerability and political urgency, she surveys the technologies and ecologies around the social value and social implications of sexual commerce and investigates the paradigm shifts in these economies," her artist statement also notes.