Dorothy Cross

Dorothy Cross was born in Cork in 1956 and studied for one year at the Crawford School of Art before moving to Leicester Polytechnic where she graduated with an Honours B.A. in 3-D Design. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, for one year and from 1980 to 1983 studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where she was awarded a Master's Degree in Fine Art. Cross is concerned with issues of gender and authority and attempts to deconstruct the myths surrounding sexual identity through her series of assemblages and installations. She belongs unequivocally to the generation of Post-Modernists, insisting on a social role for her work. She first exhibited publicly at the Goldsmith's Hall, London and in Surrey in 1978. Since then her work has been exhibited in group shows in San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Turin, New York, Liverpool and at the San Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finland. She has had solo exhibitions in Cork, Dublin, Belfast, New York and Pennsylvania.

Reference: Images and Insights Exh. Cat. (Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin 1993), 182.