Baker Artist Portfolios

Jann Rosen-Queralt is an interdisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her artworks reveal the poetic nature of water while exploring social and ecological relationships and connecting them to universal themes. An avid scuba diver, underwater photographer and researcher of aquatic environments, Rosen-Queralt’s work integrates structures borrowed from marine creatures and scientific understanding to trigger public action and awareness. Notable works include: The Ocean, an installation consisting of sculptures and photographs which address the cosmic makeup of the sea; Argo, an immersive sculpture with synchronized LED lights and video projection focused on the power of water at the Light City Festival, Baltimore, Maryland; and Confluence, a kinetic water work celebrating the influent and effluent at the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment facility in Seattle, Washington. In 2023 supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, Rosen-Queralt released her first book, Heart Beating Beneath the Earth, which features photographs of her sculptures alongside the written responses from some 30 contributors, creating a new ecosystem of meaning. Recent artwork has been supported by a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018), a Marcella Brenner grant for research at the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona (2022), and an art and science residency in the Arctic Circle (2023). Rosen-Queralt is Director Emeritus of the Rinehart graduate School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was faculty for some 40 years until her retirement in 2021.