EDUCATION
1962 Yale University, Yale/ Norfolk
Art Scholarship (Summer)
1963 BFA in Drawing and Painting,
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Awarded high Honors
1964 MA in Painting, University of
Wisconsin, WI, Vilas Fellowship
1974 MFA, School of the Art
Institute, Chicago, IL
Professor of Studio Arts, Department
of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Chicago
SELECTED GRANTS
1976 National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship Grand/Crafts 1980 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
1981 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
Grant
1983 National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship Grant/Painting
1988 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
Grant, Senior Fulbright Scholar-Australia
1993 John Simon Guggenheim Grant
Marie Walsh Sharpe, New York City
Studio Grant
National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship Grant/Printmaking
1997 The Rockerfeller Foundation
Residency/Grant (Bellagio, Italy) 2000 Illinois Project Completion Grant
2003 Institute for the Humanities,
The University of Illinois at Chicago, Grants-in-Aid Award
2003 Institute for the Humanities,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Travel Grant
2004 Artadia Jury Award: The Fund for
Art and Dialogue
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1980 Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris,
France
1985 Carnegie-Mellon University,
Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1986 The Renaissance Society at the
University of Chicago, IL
(mid-career survey)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York,
NY (1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984)
1988 Victorian College of the Arts,
Melbourne, Australia
1992 Dart Gallery, Chicago (1980,
1983, 1985, 1988)
1993 Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC
(1987)
1996 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago,
IL (1994)
1997 Printworks, Chicago, IL( 1992)
1998 The Chicago Cultural Center
1999 Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
2000 Carl Hammer Gallery. Chicago, IL
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2001 Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne,
IN, "Focus Series: Phyllis
Bramson"
2002 Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN University Gallerys, "A
Thousand Scattered Secret Yearnings"
Ispace, (University of IL/Urbana),
Chicago, IL, "A Thousand Secret and Scattered Yearnings"
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2003 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL,
"Seasonal Pleasures Provided By
The Comfort of Women"
2004 Littlejohn Contemporary, New
York, NY, "Seasonal Pleasures
Provided By The Comfort of Women"
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,
Boulder, CO, "When the Body Speaks its Mind"
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL,
"Prints Behaving Badly"
University of Northern Iowa, Gallery
of Art, Cedar Falls, IA "Body Trouble = The Facts of Life"
2005 "Kitsch-Ching", A Solo
Exhibition for Scope New York, New York City, NY
Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY,
Selections from "When the Body Speaks its Mind"
2006 Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New
York, New York "The Pleasuring Gardens"
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois "The So-Called Progress of Love, Even After"
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1976 The Renwick Gallery, The
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC,
"Objects as Poet"
1979 Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL, "Colors in Sticks"
1980 Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati, OH, "Chicago/Chicago"
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
IL, "Chicago & vicinity Exhibition," Awarded the Pauline Palmer Prize
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York,
NY, "Interiors"
1981 Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, "Prints & Multiples,"
Traveling to: National Academy of
Design,
New York: National Museum of American
Art, Washington, DC
1982 Museum of Contemporary Art.
Chicago, IL, " Recent Acquisitions to
the Permanent Collection"
1983 Musee De Toulon, Toulon, France,
"New Acquisitions"
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wl,
"Chicago/ Some Other Traditions"
1985 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA,
"States of War"
Kansas City Art Institute, Charlotte
Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, MO, "Personal Metaphors"
1987 Walter Bischoff Gallery
Grunwald, Munchen, Germany, ''Drawings,"
three-person show"
1989 Blum Helman Warehouse Gallery,
New York, NY, "Lines of Vision:
Drawings by Contemporary Women"
1990 Museo d'arte MACC, Caracas,
Venezuela, "Lineas de Vision; Dibujos
de clen myeres artistas"
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University
of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Art on Paper/1990"
1991 Smart Museum, University of
Chicago, "Cross Currents"
Penn State University Art Gallery,
University Park, PA, "Gender and Representation"
1992 Center for Creative Studies,
Center Galleries, Detroit. Ml, "The
Home Show"
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art,
Loretto, PA, "Beyond
Realism: Image and Enigma"
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg,
PA, "Fantasy and Dreams"
1993 Corcoran Museum of Art,
Washington, DC, "43rd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting"
Greenville County Museum, Greenville,
SC, "Already Buddha"
1994 Davenport Museum of Art,
Davenport, 1A, "Recent Chicago Imagism,"
Mexico/United States Collaborative
Printmaking Exhibition.
Traveling to:
Centro Cultural, Guadalajara, Mexico;
El Museo de Art Moderno, Aquascalients, Mexico
1995 P.P O.W. Gallery, New York, NY,
three-person exhibition
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY,
"Insight"
The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, NY, "Temporarily Possessed"
1996 Center Galleries, Center for
Creative Studies, College of Art &
Design, Detroit, MI,
"Constructivists"
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL,
"Women of the Chicago Imagists Movement" (catalogue)
Block Museum Gallery, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL "Second Sight" 1955-1995"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
IL, "Art in Chicago:
1945-1995" (catalogue)
1997 Stefan Stux Gallery, New York,
"Sex/Industry," curated by John
Yau
Southeastern Center for Contemporary
Art, Winston-Salem, NC, "Women's Work/Examining the
Feminine in Contemporary Painting"
George Billings Gallery, New York, NY, "Convergence" Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Works
on Paper/Recent Acquisitions"
1998 The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC, "New Acquisitions"
1999 Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery,
New York, NY, "Summer Painting
Show"
2000 The New Museum of Contemporary
Art. New York, NY, "Picturing the
Modem Amazon Woman"
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne,
Indiana, "
Invitational Biennial 2000"
Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL, " The
Exquisite Corpse", catalog
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL,
"Out of Line: Drawing New Conclusions", catalog
Florida International University, The
Art Museum, Miami, FL " Fantasies and Curiosities", catalog
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York. NY
" Summer Painting exhibition"
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA "'
Large Paintings"
2001 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford,
IL, "Reflections in Hope"
Smart Museum at the University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York,
NY, "New Paintings of Gallery Artists"
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Of
Dreams and Dreamers"
2002 Exit Art, New York , NY,
"Reactions", Invitational
Traveled to The Williamson Gallery,
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Gallery of Contemporary Art,
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, "Shark's Ink, 1976-2001
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL,
"Pasted on"
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
, "Gallery Artists"
The Armory Show, New York, NY
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
"The June Show"
Emily Davis Gallery, Myers, School of
Art, The University of Akron, Akron, OH "Private Figures"
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL,
"Luscious Too"
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs ,
CA, "Humor as Art:
Selections from the Permanent
Collection"
Columbia College/Artemisia Gallery,
Chicago, IL "To Kiss The Spirits"
Sheppard Gallery, University of
Nevada, Reno, NV, "Contemporary Drawing Survey"
2003 Evanston Art Center, Evanston,
IL, "2003 Spring Benefit
Exhibition"
First Center for the Visual Arts,
Nashville, TN, "Real
Illusions: Contemporary Art from
Nashville Collections"
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL,
"Operation: Human Intelligence" sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Council"
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York,
NY, Summer Show of Gallery Artists
Art Museum, University of Memphis,
TN, "Operations Human Intelligence"
SOFA Chicago 2003, Chicago, IL,
"Artists on the Map", a curated exhibition sponsored by the City of Chicago
Rockford, IL, "A Passionate
Perspective: The Frances and June Spiezer Collection"
2004 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago,
IL, "I Read it for the Art:
Chicago, Creativity, and Playboy",
work from the
corporate collection
The National Academy Museum, New York
City, NY, "179th
Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of
Contemporary
American Art"
Northern Indiana Arts Association,
Munster, IN, "Artist as Collector"
Northern Indiana Arts Association,
Munster, IN, "That 70's
Show: Age Pluralism in Chicago"
Purdue University, Purdue, IN,
"Treasure-Trove", Purdue, University Galleries
COFA/Claire Oliver Fine Art, New
York, NY, "Innocence and Insight
NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois
University, Dekalb, IL, Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Carl Hammer Gallery, IL, "The
Reflected/Refracted Self"
2005 Emily David Gallery, Myers
School of Art, The University of
Akeron, Akron, OH, "Man and Beast"
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL,
"Centrally Located:
The Artadia and Richard H Driehaus
Foundation 2004 Awards
Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York,
NY, "Earthly Delights/ a Selection From Gallery Artists"
H. F. Johnson Art Gallery, Carthage
College, Kenosha, WI, "Chop Mark 11"
Laura Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, VA, "On Paper: Prints from Normal Editions Workshop"
Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada,
CO, "5 Presses: Selected Works"
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL,
"On the Mark: Chicago Printmaker's Collaborative, 1989-2005"
Savannah College of Art and Design,
Red Gallery, Savannah, GA, "Print, Process, Collaboration"
2006 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago,
IL, "All About Women"
Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Scapes"
Highland Park Art Center, Highland
Park, IL, "The Spirit and the Psyche"
Printworks, Chicago, IL, "The Art of
the Bookplate"
South Eastern Center for Contemporary
Art, Winston-Salem, SC, "SECCA Collects"
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL,
"2006 Spring Benefit Exhibition"
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