ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2005 Feature, New York, NY
2004 The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2003 M du B, F, H &g (gallery); Montreal, Quebec
2002 Feature, New York, NY
1995 Feature, New York, NY
1991 Feature, New York, NY
1990 Feature, New York, NY
1988 Grey Art Gallery, Washington Square Windows, N.Y.U., New York, NY
1987 Feature, Chicago, IL
1986 “Sexual Portraits,” Feature, Chicago, IL
1985 “Redmen,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 “Let’s Go Let Go” In Memoriam Hudson, 33 Orchard (gallery), New York, NY
2011 “bodybraingame”, Hudson curates, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
“MELT”, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010 “New Icon”, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL
“Tethered to My World, Contemporary Figure Painting: Location, Chicago” The Art Center of Highland Park, Chicago, IL
2006 “Twice Drawn”(Part 2) Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
“Block Party,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 “The Sun Rises in the Evening,” Feature, New York, NY
2004 “About Painting,” The Tang Art Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2003 “Fright Wig,” Feature, New York NY
“Living with Duchamp,” The Tang Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2001 “Subject Matters,” Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 “Hairy Forearm’s; Self-Referral,” Feature, New York NY
1999 “Pictorial Abstraction,” Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Hello, Mr. Soul,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
“DRAW,” Ten on One Gallery, Chicago, IL
“curious.parking@stupendous.strawberry,” Galerie S.&H. DeBuck, Ghent, Belgium
“Painting Pictures: Rendering the Photo Real,” Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Herron Faculty Exhibition: first of four...” Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
“Calendar 2000” (millennial project), Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annadale- on-Hudson, NY
1998 “Opens,” M du B,F,H &g (gallery); Montreal, Quebec
1997 “No Small Feat,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Von Kopf bis Fuss: Fragmente des Körpers,” Ursula Blickle Stiftung; Kraichtal, Germany
“Frankensteinian,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York NY
1996 “Drawings,” Feature, New York, NY
“Ab Fab,” Feature, New York, NY
“Crystal Blue Persuasion,” Feature, New York, NY
1995 “Strung into the Apollonian Dream,” Feature, New York, NY
“Representational Drawings,” Feature, New York, NY
“Smells Like Vinyl,” Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY
1994 “Investigations Into The Physical and Metaphorical Hole,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 400
“And,” Feature, New York, NY
1993 The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“A Collection: Made in the U.S.A.,” Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“In Search of Self,” Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Mixed Messages: A Survey of Recent Chicago Art," Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
“The Figure as Fiction,” Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
1992 “Zeigen,” Tanja Grünert Gallery, Cologne, Germany
“On Condition: Painting Between Abstraction and Representation,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Why Paint?”, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
1991 “Office Party,” Feature, New York, NY
“Louder,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Outrageous Desire,” Rutgers and Princeton Universities
1990 “FIGURE: SEE FEIGN, figuration within the systemic,” Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Works on Paper," Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Office Party,” Feature, New York, NY
“Dorothy,” Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1988 “Against Nature,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
“Sex, Death, and Jello,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Near Miss,” Feature, Chicago, IL
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1987 “Signs of Intelligent Life,” Greathouse, New York, NY
“Knew,” Feature, Chicago, IL
“The Other Man: Alternative Representations of Masculinity,” The New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Marcia Tucker
“Confrontations”, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, IL
“Floating Values,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1985 “Unknown Chicago Painters,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
“81st Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago
Selected Bibliography
2011 Lauren Weinberg, “New Icon”, Time Out Chicago, June
2004 Peter Plagens, Art’s “Star Search”, Newsweek, March 22, page 48
1998 Jean Robertson, Studio View, (Interview), New Art Examiner, October, pages 43-44, Cover image
1997 Jan Estep, “Chicago in Review,” New Art Examiner, December/January, page 49
1995 Holland Cotter, “Art in Review: Also of Note,” The New York Times, May 5, page C30
Christopher Knight, Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism by Christopher Knight, 1979-1994, edited by Malin Wilson, foreword by Dave Hickey, Art Issues Press, Los Angeles, CA, pages 309-312
1993 Kathryn Hixson, “Ouverture,” (Interview), Flash Art, October, page 124 (reproductions)
Elisabeth Sussman, “Coming Together in Parts: Positive Power in the Art of the Nineties,” 1993 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, page 22; reproductions pages 24, 255
Yvette van Caldenborgh and Macha Roesink, A Collection: Made in the U.S.A., Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, pages 82, 84; reproduction page 85
Valerie Hillings, “Look At Us,” In Search of Self, exhibition catalogue, Duke University Museum of Art, page 13;
Lisa Constantino, “Do I Have Your Permission?”, In Search of Self exhibition catalogue, Duke
University Museum of Art, page 25; reproductions, pages 15, 16-17, 52-55
Terry R. Myers, “...Whitney Biennial,” New Art Examiner, May, page 22
1992 David Pagel, Why Paint?, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, exhibition catalogue
Alan G. Artner, “Is Painting Dead?”, Chicago Tribune, April 12, page 16
Joe Scanlon, Newsletter of the Renaissance Society, Winter
1991 “Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, October 28, page 16
1990 David Hirsch, “Living Figures,” New York Native, January 29, page 33
“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, January 29, page 14
Joshua Dector, “New York in Review,” Arts Magazine, April, pages 106-107
David McCracken, “New Works Stand on Own Hands and Feet,” Chicago Tribune, July 27, page 69 (Friday Magazine)
John Brunetti, “Figure: See Feign,” New Art Examiner, December, pages 42-43
1989 Judith Spiegel, “Brave and Troubled Voices,” Art Week, February 4, page 1
Joe Scanlon, reviews, New Art Examiner, November, pages 40-41, (reproduction)
Nancy Spector, New York reviews, “The Other Man: Alternative Views of Masculinity,” Artscribe, January/February, pages 67-68 (reproduction)
1988 Michael Bonesteel , “Kevin Wolff at Feature,” Art in America, September, pages 192-193
Vivian Raynor, “Art: Fakery and Masculinity, Two Kinds of Pop,” The New York Times, June 12
Mark Michael Leonhart, "Head Sex: An Orgy of Comprehension”, Windy City Times, July 23, pages 19-20
Alan G. Artner, “The Subject is Sex and the Style is Cerebral,” Chicago Tribune, August 6
1986 Kathryn Hixson, “Chicago in Review,” New Art Examiner, September, page 50
Education
1980 Master of Fine Arts, Painting,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts, summa cum laude, Painting/Photography/Printmaking,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Teaching Experience
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004 to present Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting
University of Illinois at Chicago
2008-2009 Visiting Artist/ Instructor
Herron School of Art, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis
1997- 2004 Assistant Professor of Painting
Beaver College of Art, Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Visiting Artist/ Guest Lecturer
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Visiting Artist/ Guest Lecturer
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001 Co-Instructor w/ Kathryn Hixson, Venice Biennale Trip
1996 Visiting Artist/ Guest Lecturer
1993 Visiting Artist
1991 Visiting Artist
1983 Instructor
1979 Teaching Assistant
Northwestern University
1996 Visiting Artist/ Guest Lecturer
University of Illinois at Chicago
1993 Visiting Artist/ Guest Lecture
1992 Panel discussion concerning university gallery exhibition, “On Condition: Painting Between Abstraction and Representation”
1991 Panel discussion concerning university exhibition, ”Louder”
1990 Visiting Artist
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1996 Visiting Artist/ Guest Lecturer
1991 Visiting Artist/ Guest Lecturer
George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, MA
1995 Instructor
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
1994 Instructor
Triangle Art Association, Chicago, IL
1982-1983 Instructor
Indianapolis Museum of Art
2002 Lecture/discussion facilitation on Cézanne
1999 Lecture/discussion facilitation on Richard Tuttle
1998 Lecture/discussion facilitation on Vija Celmins
N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 –1993 Exhibition Committee Member
Education
1980 Master of Fine Arts, Painting,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts, summa cum laude, Painting/Photography/Printmaking,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Selected Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Paul Anderson Estate, San Francisco, CA
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Marcus Brauer and Nancy Henriksson, Hong Kong
Arthur and Carol Goldberg, New York, NY
Frank and Patti Kolodny, Princeton, NJ
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Keir McGuinness, London, England
Neuberger and Berman, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Collezione Agostino e Patrizia Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs New York