SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 “Edges in Eternity”, City College of New York, NY
2010 “Edges in Eternity- the Oil/Water Storm Studies”, New York, NY
2009 “Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany”,
The Center Permanent Collection, New York, NY
2008 James Peterson Bronx VA Chapel- Permanent Collection
2005 Interpenetrating Subjectivities- Casa Frela Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Dangerous Lovers: The Far Right Penetrating a Democracy - Invitational Exhibition and Public Conversation, Center Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Gay Memorial Day, New York, NY
1997 “Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany”, La Mama’s Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Special Installation Holocaust Service, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York, NY
1994 Special Installation Inter-Faith Holocaust Service, Los Angeles, CA
1993 The School of Theology at Claremont, Claremont, CA
1992 Dayton Art, Dayton, Ohio
1992 San Francisco State University
1991 Stanford University "Openings in a Wall"
1990 Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco "Creation Myths for an Age of Despair"
1989 Institute of Buddhist Studies, General Theological Union, Berkeley
1988 Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco “Alpha Omega at Once”
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Menlo Park, CA
Bade Museum, Berkley “Personally Yours”
Self portraits as personal ad all genders
Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Pages on Forever”
1984 West Gallery, Claremont, CA "The Eternal Now"
1980 The Women's Building, Los Angeles
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 2023 Elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire
2023 Herndon Gallery. Antioch College Yellow Springs OH
2023 Monmouth Museum. INVESTIigation Lincroft, NJ
2022 Mayday! EAARTH . curated M. Annenberg . CERES Gallery New York, NY
2022 Collective Worlds. Juried by Meghan Clare Considine/Mass MoCA. Hera Gallery. Wakefield RI
2022 Paperworks 2022 International. Juried by Kiko Aebi/MoMA, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington NY
2022 Elemental Effects: Water, Wind, Earth, Fire The Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences NJ
2022 Habitation. Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg VA
2022 100 Years of Harlem: Resonating Around the World, CCCA x Christie’s, New York NY
2021 Black and White (Online) Juror Sandra Davis, Washington DC
2021 Earth On The Edge . curated M. Annenberg CERES Gallery New York, NY
2020 The Arsenal Gallery Annual Wreath Exhibition, City Parks, New York
2020 The Space Between: Questions of Place in Times of Uncertainty curator Jeanne Brasile, Alfa Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
2020 Signs of the Times, National Juried Exhibition Joanne Matters, New York, NY
2019 Endangered Earth curated Ann Shapiro CERES Gallery New York, NY
2019 Wish you were here: Immigration A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Bridging the Gap: All Nation of Art, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Boricua College, Members Exhibition, New York, NY
2018 St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
2018 City College of New York, NY curator Misha McGlown
2017 Glimpses of Grace in the City, Maria Liu Wong/Anthony Artist curators, Walls-Ortiz Gallery and Center, New York, NY
2017 Allusions, JCC Harlem, Invitational, New York, NY
2015 Harlem Open Studio
2014 Harlem Open Studio
2013 Curate New York, K Feirtag, Guest Curator, On-Line Exhibition
2013 Provocateur, New York, NY
2012 Spirit of Community: Art and Activism, Invitational, Interchurch Center, New York, NY
2012 Small, Art in Flux Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Distressed, Boricua College, New York, NY
2012 Arsenal Gallery, Central Park Invitational, New York, NY
2012 Metamorphosis, Invitational Poet’s Den, New York, NY
2012 Knox Gallery, New York, NY
2011 TALLER BORICUA Gallery, New York, NY
2011 HOAST Invitational, New York, NY
2009 HOAST Invitational, New York, NY
2008 HOAST Invitational, New York, NY
2008 eARTh Day, Invitational, Casa Frela Gallery, New York, NY
2007 The Antioch College Post Card Show
2006 41 Shots heard ‘round the world, New York, NY
2006 AIR Gallery Invitational, New York, NY
2006 Water, Casa Frela Gallery, New York, NY
2005 AIR Gallery Invitational, New York, NY
2005 Harlem Open Annual Studio Tour, New York, NY
2005 Jazz Harlem, New York, NY
2004 AIR Gallery Invitational, New York, NY
2003 The Symbol: A Source of Empowerment, Oakland Invitational Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery, Oakland CA
2003 Air Gallery Invitational, New York, NY
2002 Exit Art, New York, NY
2002 The Dark Mother, Invitational, San Francisco, CA
2002 AIR Gallery Invitational, New York, NY
2000 Queer 2000, New York, NY
1999 “Passionate Art” Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Puffin Foundation Juried Exhibition, NJ
1997 Queer Memory Berlin, Visual Information on Ideology of the Right
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
1996 “Memorial” Holocaust Installation “ Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany”
Satellite exhibition for the Quilt in the Capital, Washington DC
“Sex Sells” Invitational-Rinaldo Hopf, Berlin, Germany
Holocaust Installation “ Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany”
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York, NY
1995 "In The Black" Invitational-Myrella Moses, California State University, Los Angeles
1994 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"In The Black" Invitational- Myrella Moses, Center for the Arts, Irvine, CA
"Get Back" Invitational- East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont CA
"On Site" Juried Invitational- Josine Starrels, Angels Gate, San Pedro, CA
1993 DADA Invitational, Los Angeles, CA
"Reshaping Los Angeles, the Search for Inclusion/In Praise of Diversity"
Will Hipps, AGCU Executive Director and Stella Vognar, LAHC Gallery, curators.
Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery, San Pedro, CA
"Issues of Oppression" Miriam Shapiro curator, Honorable Mention, Orange County Contemporary Arts Center, CA
1992 Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, "Angels"
Invitational, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
University of California, Northridge, Los Angeles."Communitas"
Juried Invitational, Dayton Area Visual Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio
1991 Private Viewing, San Carlos, CA Institute for the Living Arts, San Francisco, CA
1990 Zocalo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hatley Martin Gallery, "Environmental Alert"
1987 Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkley
1986 Invitational, Miami Valley Arts Council, Dayton, Ohio
Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco
1985 Juried Invitational, San Francisco
Bay Area Survey, San Francisco
The Claremont Graduate School, Alumni Show
1984 Irvine, CA "Exchange Show"
1983 Stella Polaris, Los Angeles, "Art/Soul" Jungian Institute Invitational
Shakti Gallery, Long Beach
William Grant Still Community Art Center, Los Angeles
1979 Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles
San Bernardino College Gallery
Charles Mingus Jazz Festival, Los Angeles1979
William Grant Still Gallery, Los Angeles "Instructors Show"
ARTIST SALONS/ EVENTS/PANELS/PRESENTATIONS
2021 Counting Tales - Art Forms Us. Outdoor Projection Harlem 126, Harlem Rose Garden, El Barrio Gallery and Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater
2021 For the Children, Say My Name, Artlines Winter Publication
2020 ArtFormsUs, Project Projections - Lenox Avenue/Marcus Garvey Park/El Barrio's Artspace PS109 Harlem, New York, NY
2019-present Parlour 153 Salons featuring Gina Fuentes Walker, Lamia M. Berrada, Allicette Torres… Harlem, New York
2013-15 Parlour 153 Salons, Harlem, New York NY
2012 Poets Den, New York, NY
2011 University of Dayton Retrospective Lecture as an Ethical Activist Artist
2011 Collaborations-Models of Empowerment and Exchange Panel Discussion
2007 Curator- Her-humanity Casa Frela Galley; International Feminist Theology
2005 Parlour 153 Co- Directs Visual and Performing Arts Salon
2003 Dangerous Lovers: The Far Right Penetrating a Democracy; Public Discussion with Alison Duncan as solo singer
Weimar Cabaret, Jack Aponte pianist. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center, New York, NY
2003 Source of Empowerment: Woman as Symbol panel, Oakland, CA
2003 Feminist Art Today, Tufts Gallery, Harvard University, MA panel
2002 Chair Panel at CAA, “PostQueer” Gender, Sexuality, and the Subversion of Legibility
1999 Gay Memorial Day, 1999: Address on Art as Memorial
1997 Queer Memory Berlin Commentary on Transmigration of Biological/Fascist Ideas
Performance/Cabaret/Salon Judson Church, New York, New York
Salon Bioethicists, Historians, Media Specialist, Critics and Artists, and Humanitarians
Southern Poverty Lawyers- Klanwatch, American Historical Association, Gay and Lesbian International Archives...
Mike Finesilver of London performing/ Suse Eichinger Berlin Kabaret /Nicole Volpert Berlin filming.
1997 Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany films on women and children’s experience
Screening The Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St. New York, New York -Lisa Dilollo
Nicole Volpert Directing “ Der Sonderbrau” women/selected for sexual service in camps
Markus Schmidt and Markus Tebbert Directing “Every Time There had to be a Miracle”
produced by Hochschule fur Film und fernsehen HFF, Potsdam/ Babelsberg (UFA/DEFA)
1996 The Art of History and Memory for Feminist Strategies for the 90's, SCWA Panel at the
Sexual Politics Exhibition, Arm and Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
1996 Salon/Auction, Berlin, Germany
1995 Presentation/Slide Queer Memorial/Memory in Nazi Germany for the Holocaust
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York, New York
1993 Presentation/Paper Lamentations: Visual Analysis for an Ethical Questioning of Contemporary Society American
Academy of Religion, Washington DC
1993 Presentation/Lecture Women Activists Artists in the American Century Chaffey College, Orange County, California
1993 Salon/Panel on Aesthetics and Social Ethics with Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr. and Dr. Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki by
The Process Center at The School of Theology at Claremont
1992 Presentation lecture before "The First International Minion Celebration of Partnership," Heraklion, Crete, Greece
1992 Life as Commitment a dialogue in conjunction with the Communitas Linda Vallejo a Chicana art activist and gallery director,
Dr. Susan Marie Mahoney, social ethicist and founder of the Peace and Justice Center, University of California, Northridge.
1992 Want A dialogue on a social/ethical response to the urban centers at the beginning of the 21st Century" with the exhibition of
"40 Wild Mules and an Acre of Dreams", Dr.Joseph Jordon, Bing Davis, Dr.Irwin Abrams, Jud Yalkut and Dr. Thandeka, Dayton, Ohio
1992 Restructuring Reality, Dialogue in conjunction with the exhibition of Creation Myths -
Dr. Whitney Chadwick, Dr. Mara Keller and the public on the political, ethical, aesthetic concerns of contemporary art and life.
San Francisco State University
Postcard project for Amnesty Int. Group 19.
1991 Openings in a Wall, Salon discussion Ginetta Sagan, co-founder of Amnesty International, West hostess with
Dr. Thandeka, Stanford fellow, moderator, sponsored by Humanities Center and the Stanford Art Department
On and About The Body, Dr. Betty Brown Panel, Southern California WCA at USC
Spirituality in Art: A panel discussion, Eleanor Dickinson Moderator, Northern California WCA, Berkeley
Creation Myths for an Age of Despair A dialogue with the public and co-participants to discuss issues raised by
the international/cross-cultural points-of-view in the exhibition. Kevin Harris, Host Program Director, KQED Television, San Francisco
1989 A dialogue with Dr. Ronald Nakasone on spiritual practice in painting. The Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley
1988 Alpha Omega at Once A dialogue, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco
1987 Personally Yours A salon on the romantic in contemporary art. Bade Museum
1986 Personally Yours A salon, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco
Celebrating Relationship Lecture on sexual identity and tolerance
1983 William Grant Still Art Center Gallery, Los Angeles
Installation painting/mixed media - The Black Scientist Exhibition
1982 Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Panel member with Dr. David Rubin,
Melinda Wortz, Jim Morphesis, and Eric Orr
Japanese Culture Center Gallery
University of Southern California, sponsor
AWARDS/GRANTS
1999 Puffin Foundation LTD Grant for Gay Memorial Day unveiling
Selection of the Homosexual Memorial Imagination for Permanent Collection
International Association of Gay and Lesbian Children of Holocaust Survivors
1996 Rabbi Denise Eger, Los Angeles for Washington Exhibit
1995 Invitation from Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
1993 Honorable mention, Issues of Oppression, Miriam Shapiro
1984 The Claremont Graduate School Council Award
Who's Who in American Students and Universities (CGS)
1983 The City Council of Long Beach, "Contributions in Culture"
1980 Outstanding Young Women in America
The City Council of Los Angeles, "Expanding the Arts"
BIBLIOGRAPHY/REVIEWS/Publications/Artist Talks
Noreen Dean Dresser - Virtual Artist Talk with Meghan Clare Considine, Hera Gallery, 2022
Noreen Dean Dresser - Artist Talk On Art, New York, 2022
Jim McDermott “An NYC art exhibit shows the beauty and blight of Earth’s climate today”, EarthBeat - National Catholic Reporter, Dec 2022
Noreen Dean Dresser, “The Jewels in the Crown, Revisited”. Artlines - The Women's Caucus for Art, Winter Publication 2022
Noreen Dean Dresser, “For the Children, Say My Name”. Artlines - The Women's Caucus for Art, Winter Publication 2022
Community Works Debits “Spirit of Community: art and Activism: Oct 25, 2012 Harlem News
Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco Summer 2011
The Differential Diagnosis of Chorea Oxford University Press, NYC Edited by Ruth Walker PhD. 2010
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Yale University Press, 2010
BLAZE, Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism, Edited by Karen Frostig and Kathy A. Halamka
Interview New York One, New York New York 2006
Augmentation of Artistic Productivity in Parkinson’s Disease, Dr. Ruth Walker MB, CHB, PhD,
Robin Warwick, and Steven Cercy, PhD-Wiley InterScience
Debbie Slevin, Staff writer “ The art of the matter, “ Jewish Standard, New Jersey September, 1999
Dr. Betty Brown, Editor “ Expanding Circles: Women, Art and Community, Midmarch Arts Press, New York 1996
Suvan Geer,"In the Black at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Artweek, February, 1995
Staff Writer, "Editorials of the Times", Los Angeles Times, Monday, January 2, 1995,
Daniella B Walsh, "Lines between black, white found in art", Orange County Register, Art, December 16, 1994
Cathy Curtis, "Basic 'Black' and Pearls of Wisdom", Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1994
Todd Baron, "In the Black" Art Scene, December, 1994
Dorrit Rawlins, "In The Black" Catalogue, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California December, 1994
Kerry Kugelman, "A River of Blood", Artweek, October 21, 1993
Devorah Knaff, "Fighting Back Issues of Oppression", Artweek, August 5, 1993
Cathy Curtis, "Juried Shows Needn't be Guilty of Dullness" Los Angeles Times Orange Co. Calendar, July, 1993
Nancy Ann Jones "Documents of Community, Extended Associations in LA Visions Art Quarterly, Spring 1993
Stephanie Graham "Artwork Features Images of Process Theology" Prospective, Winter 1993
Suvan Greer, "Communitas", Art Scene, October 1992
Nancy Kapitanoff, "Women and Oneness", Los Angeles Times Special Art Feature, Friday, Aug,92
Meg Sullivan, "In search of 'ways to relate', Diversity shown in Communitas, LA Life Weekend, Daily News, Friday, August 28, 1992
Jim Nicholas, "Exhibit frames urban America in wake of LA rioting" Downtowner, Dayton Daily News, Wednesday, July 15-21, 1992
Brian Gibbons, station manager WSO, Interview on "Miami Valley Art Calendar," National Public Radio, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Betty Diet Krebs, "Emerging Artists" Dayton Daily News, July 2, 1992
Amy Harper, "In and around Yellow Springs," Yellow Springs News, July 16, 1992
Dr. Betty Brown, "A Different Sense of Community, Four Women, Many Artists" Visions Art Quarterly, Summer Quarter 1991
Kristine Weber, "Desperation Creation Action," City View, San Francisco Independent, January 24, 1991
Harry Roach, "Critic's Choice," The Bay Guardian, January 16, 1991
Betsy Bayha, KQED, "Creation Myths For An Age of Despair," National Public Radio, SF Dec 28, 90
William Harke, "Artist's salon on ‘Creation Myths' display," Palo Alto Times, December 5, 1990
Ann Powers, "Talking Canvasses," San Francisco Weekly, November 28, 1990
Mary Helen McAllister, "Local artist's mission complete," San Mateo Times, November 21, 1990
Emerald O'Leary, "Creation Myths for an Age of Despair," Vox Art Magazine, Fall 1989
Myrian Weisang Misrah, "Gallery," Northern California Home and Garden, August 1990
Les Krant, The California Art Review, American References Publishing Co. 1989
S. Diane Bogus, "Personally Yours: Art by Noreen Dean Dresser," Coming Up! August 1989
Leslie Belt- Spinning Off, "Review: A Visual Letter #18," April 1980
EDUCATION:
1984 The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA MFA
1977 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
1975 Academia Belle Arte, Perugia Italy Studio, Art History
1974 Aegean School of Fine Arts, Paros, Greece Studio, Art History
Urban School of Design, New Town Planning Scandinavia, Netherlands and Great Britain
EMPLOYMENT / SERVICE:
2018-PRES Director of National Exhibitions Committee, WCA
2002-2018 Chief, Real Estate Division, US Army Corps of Engineers, New York District
2005-2008 College Art Association Executive Committee for Women in the Arts
2002-2004 President, National Board Women Caucus for Art
2002 Chaired Panel Post Queer for College Art Association Conference
Exhibition Co-Chair with James Saslow Queer 2000
Co-Chair Host Gay and Lesbian Caucus College Art Association
1998-01 Chief, Management Disposal Real Estate, Army Corps of Engineers New York
1986-92 Western Facilities Engineering Command Planning Division, San Francisco, CA
1982-84 Teaching Assistant Claremont Graduate School, Fine Arts Department
1979- 84 Watts Towers Art Center- Artist Cultural Affairs Department Los Angeles, CA