James Rosen studied at Cooper Union, Wayne State University and Cranbrook Academy of Arts. He taught painting and art history at the University of Hawaii, University of California at Berkeley, Santa Rosa Junior College, and Augusta College where he is the William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art. Since 1995, Rosen has been an artist/critic with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Rosen's work is in the collections of more than thirty-five museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metre Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. and his articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals.
From the guide to the James Rosen Papers, ca. 1965-2007, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)
