Kuh Del Rosario is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC. Attuning with everyday materials, her practice is driven by a desire for grounding within the environment she takes part in.
She has been supported by The Peter Thompson Family Graduate Scholarship 2020, CALQ 2023, Canada Council for the Arts 2023, Fonderie Darling 2023-2026 sponsored by Romany Eveleigh Gift, and most recently, The Claudine & Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art 2024.
Del Rosario recently exhibited at Vendu/Solde (September 2024), ARTVOLT (June 2024), FOFA Gallery (Tidelines, May 2024) and SKOL (January 2024). Currently, her works are part of the group exhibitions at The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (Worried Earth, Aug 2024) and Fonderie Darling (Déliquescence, plaisirs du chaos, September 2024). Del Rosario looks forward to attending the Banff Centre for the Arts, Systems and Other Universes thematic residency lead by Shary Boyle and Howie Tsui (November 2024), supported by the Jim Dinning & Evelyn Main Scholarship. Del Rosario has an upcoming solo show at B-312 (TBA, February 2025).
Kuh del Rosario’s sculptures comprise microcosms, minute ecosystems which gather in kitchen compost, consumer plastics, and dried botanicals. Dense, mossy carpets of coffee, paper, and plant matter envelop rigid forms and extrude from containers, referencing the plant-based origins of manufactured industrial materials. Empty containers, boxes, and plastic vessels, markers of global production and shipping, are subsumed into the slow creeping time of organic decomposition.
Working from discards, leftovers, and unpredictable elements, these works invite slow contemplation and close attention. What can be learned by simply witnessing the way things transform over time? The evident life spans of the works invoke cycles of growth and decay in both form and process, and speculate into the future lives of materials in the human waste stream, where things break down but never go away.
CECILIA MCKINNON, 2023