Bruce Dorfman (born 1936) is an American mixed media artist and teacher whose work combines painting and assemblage.
Dorfman has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, and has taught at the Art Students League of New York since 1964.
"The principal instructors," he said, "were highly influential, and I was very close to them.”[5] Later, Dorfman attended the University of Iowa, and importantly studied with artists Stuart Edie, Mauricio Lasansky and historian Roy Seiber.
He has received a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as awards and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; U.S. Department of State; Rockefeller Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; New York World’s Fair Invitational; Butler Institute of American Art; and the National Academy of Design.
They playfully discussed creating "a giant flying art object that could materialize over cities, changing shape and color," and exchanged gifts of books and musical instruments.