EDUCATION
2002 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) MFA Studio Painting and Drawing
1987 London Business School (United Kingdom) Masters in Business Administration
University of Washington (Seattle, WA) BSC Microbiology, BSC Medical Technology
AWARDS
2008 Illinois Art Council Grant
2007 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Merit Scholarship
2005 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency, Master Artist Graciela Sacco
2005 Spatial Arts Laboratory ROJARUKA Residency, Latvia
2005 ARTOTEQUE Global Art Annual Exhibition, London
2002 SAIC Fellowship
2002 SAIC Teaching Assistantship Awards for Painting & Drawing and Photography
2000 Nippon Steel U.S.A. Award
1999 Nippon Steel U.S.A. Award
SOLO
2012 They call me theirs, The Peggy Notebaert Museum, Chicago, IL
2011 By the Dripping Tree, The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
2011 Relish the Drift, The Merwin Gallery Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
2009 No Exit, Northwestern University and Chicago Opera Vanguard, Evanston, IL
2009 They call me theirs, LAL Art Center, Lexington, KY
2009 Now For The Painter, The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
2009 Flint Institute of Art, “The Other Parent”, Flint, MI
2008 The Rymer Gallery, "Buds and Bytes", Nashville, TN
2008 Hyde Park Art Center, “They call me theirs”, Chicago
2008 Kasia Kay Art Projects, “Preserves”, Chicago
2008 “Reagan’s Children”, alternative opera, video for 5 Acts, Chicago
2008 Echo Park Film Center, installation of video collection (2003-2007), Los Angeles
2008 Art on Armitage, “Roja Portraits”, Chicago
2008 Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2008 Carnegie Art Museum, Photos and Phantasy, Oxnard, CA
2008 Society for Photographic Education, Mid Atlantic Conference, “Technocracy”, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 KY7 Biennial, “Golden Oldies”, Lexington, KY
2008 São Paulo International Short Film Festival, “We Shop”, Brazil
2008 San Diego Womens Film Festival, “Intelligent Design”, San Diego, CA
2008 Artists' Television Access, Cable Channel 29, ‘my actions smack of the soil”, San Francisco,
2008 Echo Park Film Center, “We Shop”, Los Angeles CA
2008 Spark Contemporary Art Space, Kitties and Babies, Syracuse, NY
2008 Directors Lounge Berlin, “We Shop”, Berlin, Germany
2007 South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Biennial 24, South Bend, IN
2007 Kasia Kay Art Projects, “Intelligent Design”, Chicago
2007 Alpan Gallery, Alpan Intl., Long Island, NY
2007 Schmack Gallery, “2X2”, Umeå, Sweden
2007 Berkeley Arts Center, small film festival, “…my actions smack of the soil”, Chicago
2007 The Directors Lounge 2007, “Humpty Dumpty”, Berlin, Germany
2007 Around The Coyote Festival, Female Lens, “My Favorite Rhymes”, Chicago
2007 CultureTV, screening “… my actions smack of the soil, Bridge Art Fair Miami
2006 Scope Miami Art Fair, “Best of The Best” video program, curated by Lee Walls, Miami
2006 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, “New Media”, Santa Ana, CA
2006 Contemporary Art Center, “Video Cocktail”, “ The Babysitter”, North Adams, MA
2006 Exit Art, “The Drop”, “52,000 Gallons”, New York City
2006 Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, Vision 11, Chicago
2006 Third Floor Arts Centre, “Tiny Bubbles”, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
2006 Gosia Koscietak Gallery, "CrossMediale", “Rachael’s Makeover”, Chicago
2006 Mindfield Experiments, “Juxtaposition Arena”, “Tiny Bubbles”, Chicago
2006 Evanston Alternative, “Open House Project”, Evanston, IL
2006 Liverpool Biennial, The Projection Gallery, “Golden Oldies”, United Kingdom
2006 Diego International Women Film Festival, “The Other Parent”
2006 Magmart Film Festival, Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, Italy
2006 Portsmouth Film Festival, “Tiny Bubbles”, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
2006 Damn Short Film Festival, “Ready”, Boulder, NV
2006 Culture TV, “The Other Parent”, “Golden Oldies”
2006 DigiFest Italy, by invitation: “The Other Parent”
2006 Videoart.net, featured artist, “Humpty Dumpty”
2006 DigiChannel.net, featured artist, “Extended Family Series”
2006 BRIDGE Art Fair, Miami
2006 NOVA Art Fair, Chicago
2005 Atlantic Center for the Arts, “The Makeover” and “Shopping Bag”, Florida
2005 Contemporary Art Centre, CACTV, “The Other Parent”, Vilnius. Lithuania
2005 ROJARAKU , “Stranger On Foot” video screening outdoors, Roja, Latvia
2005 Roja, Latvia “Roja Toes” poster installation of Village Portraits in Roja town center
2005 Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuanian Commercial TV, “The Extended Family”, Vilnius,
Lithuania
2004 Hyde Park Art Center, screening “The Date”, Chicago
2004 Univ of St Luis, screening The Extended Family”, Chicago
2004 Klein Art Works, “Tart”, Chicago
2003 The POND and Klein Art Works Gallery, “Time”, Chicago
2003 Klein Art Works Gallery, “Full Frontal”, Chicago
2003 Artists Space, Night of 100 Drawings, New York
2002 SAIC MFA Thesis Show
2002 Art Coalition of Chicago
2002 Embassy Suites, Chicago
2002 Nippon Steel. U.S.A., Chicago
2002 Ceres Gallery, NYC
2002 Phoenix Gallery, NYC
2002 Foundation of Arts and Sciences, NJ
2002 Nippon Steel U.S.A., Chicago
VIDEOGRAPHY
2007 “We Shop”, documentary, 8:50 min
2007 “Intelligent Design”, 3:32 min,
2007 “…my actions smack of the soil”, 3 min
2006 (ongoing) "Golden Oldies" series
- "Tiny Bubbles", 2:42 min loop
- "Under the Boardwalk”, 2:38 min loop
- "Under the Boardwalk”, 2:38 min loop
- "Starry Starry Night", 3 min loop
2006 "Play Date", 5:03 min
2005 "The Makeover", 5 min, 3 screen loop
2005 "READY", 2 min
2005 "On Foot", 10:40 min
2005 "My Favorite Rhymes", 5 min
2005 “Humpty Dumpty, 1:06 min
2004 "The Date", 5 min
2004 "Peru Diary", 3:30 min
2004 "The Babysitter", 5 min
2004 "The Mentor", 2 min looped
2004 "The Other Parent", 3 min looped
REPRESENTATION
2003 (to 2005) Klein Art Works, Chicago (now closed)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011 Subtitles, Three Walls, Programs I-VII, Chicago, IL
2010 Flow, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2009 Because The Night, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman Univ., Orange, CA
2009 Bits & Pieces, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2009 I want to make a video, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2007 Around The Coyote Art Festival, Video Art and New Media Lounge, Chicago
2007 Directors Lounge 2007, “In Focus”, Berlin, Germany
2007 Kasia Kay Art Projects, “Notions of Wilderness”, Chicago
2007 Three Walls, “Place in a Flat World”, Chicago
2006 LiveBox Gallery at Mindfield, “Space, Place and Interface”, Chicago
2006 LiveBox at Hejfina, “MOD” 70s, Chicago, IL
2006 The Directors Lounge, “Forming Motion”, with Kim Collmer, Berlin
COLLECTORS
New Museum of Contemporary Art, Rhizome New Media Artbase, NY
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Shoes Or No Shoes Museum, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Madeleine Conway
Carlo Clerici (Italy)
Jorge Alonso
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 WJRW Radio, Grand Rapids MI, By the Dripping Tree, interview
2010 Daily Camera, Boulder CO, John Aguilar, “Nature Signs”
2010 Colorado Daily, John Aguilar, “Nature Signs”,
2009 Nashville Scene, David Maddox, “They call me theirs” Nashville review
2008 The Tennessean, Bill Friskics-Warren, “They call me theirs” Nashville review
2008 NewCity, Sara McCool, “They call me theirs” HPAC review,
2008 Univercity of Chicago Magazine, Rose Schapiro, “They call me theirs” review
2008 Le Chicago Art Blog, “They call me theirs” review
2007 Time Out Chicago, “Intelligent Design’
2007 Art Style, “Nature in a Box”, by Anna Joelsdottir
2006 ARTINFO, Miami Basel review, Robert Ayers
2006 New City, by Michael Wrokman, editor of bridge magazine, review of "Rachael's Makeover",
exhibition CrossMediale, Gosia Koscieklak Gallery, Chicago
2006 New York Arts Magazine, invitational coverage, July/August
2005 School of the Art Institute of Chicago employed "CREEP" image for marketing purposes,
including publication in Time Out Chicago, distribution of brochures and postcards
WORK EXPERIENCE
2006 LiveBox Gallery, Owner and Director, Chicago
2006 Marwen, Visiting Lecturer/Faculty
2004 (to 2006) School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Adjunct Faculty
2004 (to 2005) Columbia College, Chicago, curator and adviser
2004 Univ of St Luis, Visiting lecturer
1996 (to 1998) McKinsey & Company, Chicago/New York, Mckinsey Fellow
1991 (to 1996) Gemini Consulting, Chicago/London, Vice President
1988 (to 1991) CMI, London/Paris, Managing Director and Partner