October 5, 2023 – January 28, 2024

Dawn Roe uses photographic methods as observational tools, responding to sites and situations where human and more-than-human lives entangle, often drawing on grief and despair as generative modes of being. Combining a documentary approach with direct intervention, Roe’s process incorporates multiple reproductive methods including analog and digital imaging, film, and video.

Rollins Museum of Art | April 8 - May 14, 2023

The 2023 Biennial Faculty Exhibition showcases multidisciplinary work produced by studio art faculty, Dana Hargrove, Audrey Hope, Dawn Roe, and Rachel Simmons, within the College of Liberal Arts. 

Exhibition Preview / Fri, April 7, 2023 / 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Gallery Talks / Tues, April 18 / 6:00 p.m.
Gallery Talks / Tues, May 2 / 6:00 p.m. 

October 15 - December 17, 2022

Included in this exhibition is "DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation," an installation which considers the entanglement of human and more-than-human lives by looking at how distinct and varied bodies of water enter into conversation with one another. Freshwater rivers and lakes connect to seaways through channels and locks – and land masses. Plant and animal beings rely on these relations to survive. Fish negotiate ecological disturbances throughout their transitory movements in interconnected waters. They are considered as markers of deep time and indicators of evolutionary processes.

Poems by Amy Bagwell
Photographs by Dawn Roe
First Edition (100 printed)

To understand our place within nature as part of the whole is an eminently social and existential matter. The environmental crisis and the frequency of natural disasters we have experienced last decades, including the pandemic tragedy, which in essence was caused by an ecological imbalance, indicates the urgency for a different logic of conceiving, interacting and projecting the natural world. The artistic community and its ability to expand the social mind have an essential role in creating a new value system concerning the environment, which breaks through modern anthropocentrism and the antagonism between nature and culture.

Coexisting, interacting and exchanging energy with other organisms and natural phenomena is the basis for developing the artistic works presented in Embodied Forest. From the sensitive to the rational, these works contain an effervescence of processes, poetic materials and techniques that reframe Forest in a set of plural languages. These cultural processes unfold nature by using knowledge and poetic freedom to help understand ecology in the Anthropocene and generate new sensibilities to an ethical relation to nature.

Lilian Fraiji, Juror

For the August 2021 Tree Talk, Dawn Roe will present her project Wretched Yew, which engages with the Taxus brevifolia genus of yew tree found in the Pacific Northwest. 

Conditions for an 'Unfinished Work of Mourning: Wretched Yew' was recognized by Foam Magazine editor Elisa Medde as a LensCulture Critics Choice 2021 winner.

Photographic prints, a single-channel video, and a limited edition artist’s book from Roe's project 'Conditions for an Unfinished Work of Mourning: Wretched Yew' were included in the 2021 Faculty Biennial at The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, 2021.

Interview published following Roe's two week recidency at Mineral House Media

Two Inadequate Voices is a platform for image makers to recount and reflect textually on their stories of being out and in the world whilst photographing.

Group exhibition at Florida International University where contemporary artists are taking a look at the history of the Hudson River School within culture, economy and environmental concerns in relation to what the world is currenly facing.  

The Admissions department at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL has acquired a photograph for their offices by gallery artist Dawn Roe. Roe is currently the Associate Professor of Art and department Co-Chair. 

Roe teaches photography and digital imaging courses that align the practice and content of lens-based media. Her research focuses upon temporality, memory and perception in relation to the camera image. Roe's work is exhibited regularly throughout the U.S. and internationally.​

The 2018 edition of the Rollins Faculty Exhibition showcases new or recent work by Rollins College faculty artists Joshua Almond, Rose Casterline, Dana Hargrove, Dawn Roe, and Rachel Simmons.