Exhibitions + Projects
- 2023Scorrevole, a visual and musical collaboration with Clara Lyon, performed for PARA.MAR Dance Theatre’s spring premiere Pivotal, Chicago, IL
- 2021Theorem, with Elizabeth Bradfield, Barnsworth Gallery, Farnsworth House, Plano, IL
- 2021Something To Write Home About, with Spektral Quartet and composer Samuel Adams, Harris Theater, Chicago, IL
- 2020Correspondence, with violinist Clara Lyon and cellist Hannah Collins, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2019Theorem, with poet Elizabeth Bradfield, published by Candor Arts, Chicago, IL
- 2018Light Itself, with Spektral Quartet, Chicago, IL
- 2014–15Scorza, 1611 W. Division, Chicago, IL
- 2012Tempus Fugit, American Philosophical Society Museum, Philadelphia, PA
- 2011Ex Libris, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
- 2010The Observer, Brushwood, Ryerson Woods, Deerfield, IL
- 2007–08Field Guide, The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL
- 2006Closed/Open, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
- 2005Wriston Art Museum, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
- 2003Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2002Descry, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- Topographia, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
- 1999The Traveler, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 1998Tabulae Interiores, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
- 1997Gallery A, Chicago, IL
- 1996Gallery A
- 1995Gallery A
- 1994Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1993Gallery A
- Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
- 1991The Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
- 1989The Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
- 1983Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL
- 1981Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Select Group Exhibitions
- 2021Was/Is/Ought, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2020Only Connect, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2015–16Surrealism: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
- 2012–13Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago Cultural Center
- 2012(No) Vacancy, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2011A Sense of Place, Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, and the Italian Pavilion, 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
- The Centennial Celebration: New Acquisitions 2001–2011, New York Public Library, New York, NY
- 2009Installation: Horarium, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
- Visions in New York City: Short Films and Stills, Columbia University, New York and Art Basel
- 39 verbs, Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago, IL
- as we live and breathe, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2008Paper Love, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
- Clouds, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2007The Legend Altered: Map as Medium and Method in Contemporary Art, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Chicago Artists, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Short Stories, Columbia University
- 2006Travel Documents, Koehnline Museum of Art and Columbia College Chicago
- 2005The Art of the Bookmark, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Tiny/Huge, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2004Departures, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2003Pretty, As a Picture, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2002Plotting, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2001Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- 2000Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery
- Self Portraits, Printworks Gallery
- Out of Line, Chicago Cultural Center
- Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery
- 1999Gallery Artists, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
- 1998The Back Room, Gallery A
- 1997Nurturing Vision: Paschke, Contro, and Oruch, Skidmore College, NY, University of Montana, MT, State of Illinois Museums, Chicago and Springfield, IL
- Game of Chance, traveling exhibition
- Series, Series, Series, Rockford College, Rockford, IL
- 1996To Each Her Own, Gallery A
- Pleasure (beyond guilt), Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1995Pulp Fictions, Gallery A
- 1994Francis and June Spiezer Collection, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
- Transitions: A Look at Progress in the Studio, Gallery A
- Group Exhibition, Gallery A
- 1993Group Exhibition, Gallery A
- Women in the Arts, The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
- Once Upon A Time… A Loose Form of Narrative, Gallery A
- 1991Source Material, The Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
- 1990Environmental Figuration, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
- Small Things, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
- 1989Milano Internazionale D'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
- 1988Four Brothers Press 1980–87, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
- 1987Inaugural Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art
- Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400
- 1986Gallery Artists, Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Art Muscle, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
- 1983New Chicago Artists, Van Straaten Gallery
- 198234th Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
- New Horizons in Art, Chicago Cultural Center
- Colored Pencil Invitational, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
- 1981Prints and Drawings, Artists’ Guild Competition, Chicago, IL
- Women Artists, Springfield Art Association, Springfield IL
- Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
- The Contemporary Figure, Artists’ Guild Competition