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KEN WARNEKE

BORN 1958, Milwaukee , WI

EDUCATION  

1981          Bachelor of Fine Arts, Northern Illinois University , DeKalb , IL

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

            1997          Graduate student advisor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

EXHIBITIONS

1997        Out of the Shadow of Ivan Albright:  Twelve Contemporary Chicago

Artists, Illinois Art Gallery , Chicago , IL

            All the Visual Suspects, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL .

            1996    Art in Chicago : 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago , IL . 

                        One Person Exhibition, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago , IL

            Don Baum Says: “ Chicago Has Famous Artists”, Hyde Park Art Center ,

                                    Chicago , IL

            What’s Love Got to Do With It?  Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago , IL

                        Cohen, Kroll, Warneke, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL

            N.I.U. Collected, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago , IL .

Small Paintings, Big Shoulders, Kendal College of Art and Design, 

Grand  Rapids , MI

            Push Pause, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago , IL

1995    Ken Warneke, Tatsuya McCoy, Tough Gallery, Chicago , IL

                        Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL

                        Small Paintings, Big Shoulders, Trinity Christian College , Palos Heights ,

IL

1994    Drawings from Chicago, Madelra Library , Portugal

            55^th Anniversary Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL

                        A Group Exhibition on Gendor Issues, Women Made Gallery, Chicago , IL

1993    Erotic Pornography, Mike’s Museum, Chicago , IL

1993    Haunting Images, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin , Eau

Claire , WI

1992    The Re-figured Image, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago , IL

            Alumni Exhibition, N.I.U. Art Gallery , Chicago , IL

                        Ars Nova Judges Exhibition, N.I.U. Art Gallery , Chicago , IL

1991        New Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago , IL

Spirited Visions/Portraits and Work of Chicago Artists, State of Illinois

Gallery, Chicago and Springfield , IL

            Distorted Figuration, Evanston Art Center , Evanston , IL

                        Home Sweet Home, Columbia College Art Gallery , Chicago , IL

            Human, Suburban Fine Arts Center , Highland Park ,  IL

1990    Category, Gracie Mansion Gallery , New York , NY

            Chicago Visions, University of the South, Sewanee , TN

            Small Things, N.I.U. Art Gallery , Chicago , IL

1989    One Person Exhibition, Gracie Mansion Gallery , New York , NY

                        Erotica America , Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris , France

            The Seven Year Itch, Gracie Mansion Gallery , New York , NY

                        Chicago Works, Erie Art Museum , Erie , PA   

1988    One Person Exhibition, Dart Gallery, Chicago , IL

            The Developing Image/ Continuity and Change in the Chicago

                                    Tradition, University Art Museum , Albuquerque , NM

            Chicago by the Square Foot, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago , IL

1987    Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago , Terra Museum of

                        American Art, Chicago , IL

                        Nausea, Gallery of the Theatre Asylum, New York , NY

            Dismemberment, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago , IL

                        Chicago Figurative Imagery, Gallery 200, N.I.U., DeKalb , IL

Artagogo, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL

1986    Recent Art from Chicago , Artists Space, New York , NY

            Biennial 1, Contemporary Art Center , Cincinnati , OH

                        In Defense of Richard Serra, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago , IL

1985    Options 23: Ken Warneke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago , IL

            Art Park Project Artist’s Exhibition, Buscaglia/ Castelani Gallery,

                                    Niagara Falls , NY

            Expose, 700 Green Street , Chicago , IL

1984    Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 

                                    Indianapolis , IN

            Artists to Watch, Dart Gallery, Chicago , IL

1983        Emerging,  Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago ,  Chicago ,

IL

                        Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Karen Lenox Gallery, Chicago , IL

            Artists Choose Artists, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL

            Possible Worlds, 440 North Wells, Chicago , IL

                        The Big Pitcher, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL

1983    Sex Show, Cabaret Metro, Chicago , IL

                        Fan Show, Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , IL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard Vine,   “Where The Wild Things Were”, Art In America ; May 1997

Sue Taylor, Art In America, review of Carl Hammer Gallery Exhibition,  March,

1997

Kathryn Hixson, New Art Examiner, review of Carl Hammer Gallery Exhibition,

February, 1997

Lynne Warren, Art in Chicago 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art

exhibition catalog,  1996

Judd Tully,  “A Collector’s Kind of Town”, Art & Auction, feature article, May

            1996

Jeff Huebner,  “The In Crowd”, Chicago Reader, feature article, November 1,

1996

Monica Bauer,  “Cohen, Kroll, Warneke “, New Art Examiner, review of Hyde

Park Art Center exhibition, March 1996

Fred Camper,  “Spitting Images”, Chicago Reader,  review of Tough Gallery

exhibition, February 10, 1995

Michael Muster,  “Ken Warneke, Tatsuya McCoy”, New Art Examiner, review of

Tough Gallery exhibition, April 1995

Susan Snodgrass,  “Studio View”, New Art Examiner, May 1993

James Yood, Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists By Patty Carrol, book

essay, 1991

James Yood,  “ Perplexity and Ambiguity in Warneke”, Artforum, feature article,

May 1991

Judith Russi Kirshner, Surfaces:  Two Decades of Painting in Chicago,  catalog

essay,  Terra Museum ,  1987

COLLECTIONS

The artist’s work is found in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art ,  Chicago and in private collections in New York , California , Illinois and other states, and in Germany , France , and Portugal .

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