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Born in 1955 in La Habana, Cuba
Resides and works in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
EDUCATION
1997, Master of Fine Arts- Concentration: Painting and Drawing, Pratt Institute, NY, USA
1997, Master of Science in the Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture,
Pratt Institute, NY. USA
1976, Bachelor of Fine Arts- Painting and Drawing, Scientific Illustration, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA., USA
EXHIBITION HISTORY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025, May 15-30, Artist Residency OS, Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2024-2025, Oct.-Nov. 2024 and April 1-May 14, Artist Residency OS, State University of Santa Catarina, Lages, SC, Brazil
2024-2025, Oct.-Nov. 2024 and April 1-May 14, Artist Residency OS, Empresa Florestal Gateados, Campo Belo do Sul, SC, Brazil
2015-present, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Children's Discovery Garden, permanent installation of paintings on signage, literature, educational consoles, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2006, 'A Shakespearean Flora,' President's Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2003, 'New Works by Adele Rossetti Morosini', Ursus Gallery, Ursus Books and Prints, New York, NY, USA
2002, 'Tree Drawings', Horticultural Society of New York, Webster Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000, 'The Tree Drawings', Dean of Fine Art's Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023, 'Seasonal Work: Art From Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Florilegium Society', Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/seasonal_work_art_from_florilegium_society
2021, 'Fulbright 75 Virtual Art Exhibit' https://www.fulbrightart.com
2020-2, 'Pratt in Venice Study Abroad Program Thirty-fifth Anniversary Juried Exhibition' Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2013, 'The Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection of Botanical Art', Sherwood Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
2012,'Portraits of a Garden V, an Exhibition by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society,' Hunt Institute For Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA., USA
2012, 'Portraits of a Garden V, an Exhibition by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society,' Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2010, 'Portraits of a Garden V, an Exhibition by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society,'' Sherwood Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
2009, 'The Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection of Botanical Art,' Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA., USA
2007, 'Horticultural Society of New York Tenth Annual International Juried Exhibition', Horticultural Society of New York Webster Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007, 'Best of Natural History Art', Ursus Books and Prints Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007, 'Selections From the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society Collection', Berlin-Dahlem Museum, Berlin Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
2007, 'A Shakespearean Flora,' Royal Horticultural Society, Westminster Show, London, UK
Silver-Gilt Grenfells Science Medal
2007, 'Animal Portraits' Prospect Park Zoo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005, 'Black and Latinx Images Today' Schaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2004, '11th International Juried Exhibition', Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA., USA
2004, 'Natura- Natural History Works on Paper', Ursus Gallery, Ursus Books and Prints, New York, NY, USA
1995-2005, Annual International Exhibitions, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, NY, USA
COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society Collection, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection of Botanical Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Private Collections
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024-2025, Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for Botany and Art research, October-November, 2024 and April-May, 2025, SC and RJ, Brazil
2024-2025, Artist residency at RPPN Emilio Einsfeld Filho, Campo Belo do Sul, SC, Brazil
2025, Artist residency at Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, May 15-30, 2025, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2024-2025, Artist residency at State University of Santa Catarina, October-November, 2024 and April-May 14, 2025, Lages, SC, Brazil
2022, Puffin Foundation grant
2021, Invitation to Universita di Roma a la Sapienza multi-disciplinary research fellowship on study of urban green spaces' biodiversity sustainability, Universita di Roma a la Sapienza, Rome, Italy
2019, Puffin Foundation grant
2016-17, Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for Botany and Art research at Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. Project: 'Morphological Plasticity and Speciation in the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro State', Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2009, Mellon Foundation Grant for research on Pine Barrens ecosystem. DrawingProject: 'The Vital Role of Spontaneous Forest Fires in the Cycles of Succession, Reproduction, and Distribution of Species in the Unique Pine Barrens
Ecosystem of Sam's Point, Minnewaska State Park', Minnewaska State Park, NY, USA
2006, Fellowship-Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2006, Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant, Project: “Persephone's Flowers of the Underworld, Irises of the Trans-Caucasus Region” (includes Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia, underscoring the region's character as a single, richly diverse ecosystem.), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005-7, Mellon Foundation Travel Grants for research in Art History in Venice, Italy
2001, Award for Excellence-American Society of Botanical Artists/New York Horticultural Society, New York, NY, USA
2001, Silver-Gilt Grenfells Science Medal for 'Plants in the Texts of William Shakespeare', Westminster Show, Royal Horticultural Society, London, UK
2000, Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant, “Plants in the Texts of William Shakespeare”
1992-5, Cantor Fitzgerald Foundation Travel Abroad Grants for Research in Art History in Venice, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2021, Castilhos Pauli Barbosa, M., Freitas, J., da Rosa, P., Negrao, R., de Lirio, E. J.
Ministry of the Environment, Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, A. “Conservation and ecology aspects of Mollinedia stenophylla (Monimiaceae)”, Oryx (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx), Cambridge, UK
2018, Centro Nacional de Conservacao da Flora, Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Illustrations of Couratari pyramidata and Molinedia stenophylla, Rossetti Morosini, Adele, IUCN Red Book of Brazil, Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro Press, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2018, Elton John de Lirio, Joelcio Freitas, Raquel Negrao, Gustavo Martinelli, Ariane Luna Peixoto, “A Hundred Years' Tale: Rediscovery of Mollinedia stenophylla (Monimiaceae) in the Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil,” Scientific Illustrations by Adele Rossetti Morosini, Oryx/ vol. 52 / Issue 3/ July 2018, Cambridge, UK. Published online by Cambridge University Press, 19 June 2017, pp. 437-441.
2006, Gurr, Andrew, “Editing Stefano's Book,” Illustration Rossetti Morosini, Adèle, "Caliban's Fruits", Shakespeare Survey Vol. 59, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK
2006, Tebbitt, M.C., "A Monograph of Begonia Section Eupetalum," Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, Adèle, Systematic Botany Monographs
2006, Tebbitt, M.C., M. Lidén and H. Zetterlund., Bleeding Hearts and Corydalis. Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, Adèle & Harwood, Paul, Timber Press, Portland, OR, USA
2006, Tebbitt, M.C., "Begonia kingdon-wardii (Begoniaceae), a new species from Myanmar." Tebbitt, M.C.
Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, Adèle, Kew Bulletin, Kew, UK
2006, Tebbitt, M.C., Corydalis, Dicentra and Fumariaceae, Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, Adele, Timber Press, Portland, OR, USA
2005, Tebbitt, M.C., Begonias: Cultivation, Natural History, and Identification. Scientific Illustrations Harwood, Paul & Rossetti Morosini, Adèle, Timber Press, Portland, OR, USA
2005, Tebbitt, M.C., “Three New Species and a New Subspecies of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from Asia”, Sci. Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, A., Edinburgh Journal of Botany 61: 97-107,” Edinburgh, UK
2004, Tebbitt, Mark/ Sands, Martin,“Two New Species of Begonia, Section Petermania” Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, Adele, Kew Bulletin, Kew, UK
2003, Tebbitt, Mark, “Notes on South Asian Begonia”, Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, Adèle. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 60(1): 1-9, Edinburgh, UK
2001, Tebbitt, Mark, “Emended Circumscription of 'Begonia silletensis' (Begoniaceae) and Description of a New Subspecies From Yunnan, China”. Scientific Illustrations Rossetti Morosini, Adèle, Novon 12: 133-136, Missouri Botanic Garden Press, Saint Louis, MO, USA
2000, Rossetti Morosini, Adele "Teaching the Semantic System of Representation," CAA Abstracts New York 2000, College Arts Association 88th Annual Conference, New York, NY, USA
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ART-RELATED CONTRIBUTIONS
1994-present, Artist/Instructor, Botanical Art and Illustration Program, New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY, USA
1995-present, Artist/Instructor Botanical Painting, Scientific Illustration, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2006-10 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fine Art, Scientific Illustration, Color Theory, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1995-2006 Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA