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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

TEACHING

2007–current Advising drawing and painting MFA students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1985–2007 Professor of Studio Arts, Department of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Chicago
2007 Professor Emerita of Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

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
  Senior National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant/Printmaking
1997 The Rockerfeller Foundation Residency/Grant (Bellagio, Italy)
2000   Illinois Project Completion Grant
2001   Institute for the Humanities, 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
2009   Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2010   Distinguished Alumni Award, The School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2012   Distinguished Artist Award, Union League Club of Chicago
2014   Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

SELECTED ONE- AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1980 Gallerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1983 Marilyn Butler Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
  University of Arizona, Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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 Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, "Phyllis Bramson, 1973-1986"
  Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
  Lake View Museum of Art and Sciences, Peoria, IL
1991 G. W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
  Douglass Library Gallery, Douglass College/Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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 Gallery, “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, "The Pleasuring Gardens"
    Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "The So Called Progress of Love, Even After"
2007   Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA, "A Blink, A Glance and a Stare (Oh My)"
2008   Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, "Love, Kisses, Tears.... Heartache"
    Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, "Kerfuffles"
2009   Laura Mesaros Gallery, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV,"I Tremble For You (catalogue essay by Lynn Warren) curated by Robert Bridges, director of the Mesaros Galleries, a branch of the Art Museum of West Virginia University
2010   Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, Two-person exhibition with Phyllis Bramson and Judith Geichman
2011   Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO,  "Wonderland, a Bright and Guilty Place"
    John A. Day Gallery, Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, "Provocateurs." Two-person exhibition with Phyllis Bramson and Adam Scott.
2012   The Chicago Union League Club, Chicago, IL, “Phyllis Bramson: Distinguished Artist 2012 Exhibition”
2012   Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, IL, "Dalliances of a Romantic Nature"
2013   Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, IL, "Love and Affection in a Troubled World"
    Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY, "Small Personal Dilemmas"

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"
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 Modern 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 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, “Centrally Located: The Artadia and Richard H. Driehaus Foundation 2004 Artists Awards” (catalog)
    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 Woman
    Printworks, Chicago, IL, The Art of Bookplate
    South Eastern Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC, Secca Collects
    Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL, The Spirit and the Psyche
2007   Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY, "What F Word?"
    Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Fresh Takes on Familiar Faces"
    The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U, Evanston, IL, "The Exquisite Snake"
    Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PN, " Contemporary Work By Woman"
    University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL," Marks From the Matrix, Normal Editions Workshop, 1979–2006" (catalog)
2008   ArtSpace, New Haven, CN, "Pretty Things: Confronting the Sensuousness" (catalog)
    Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO "ARAC@AAM: Anderson Art Ranch Center at the Aspen Art Museum" (catalog)
    The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, Sullivan Galleries, "Ah, Decadence"
    Johnson Art Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, "June Spiezer; Whatever I'm Looking At/A Post-1960's Collection of Chicago Art"
    Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, "Works On Paper By Selected Artists"
2009   Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, “Pleasure Paintings,” 3 person exhibition
    Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, “The Hairy Who and the Imagist Legacy”
    Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Drawing as a Mirror of Self”
    Rockford Art Museum, Rockfort, IL, “The Francis and June Spiezer Collection”
    Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, “As We Live and Breathe"
2010   Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, “Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative: Prints, 1976–2008”
    University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, IL, “Selections From the Permanent Collection”
    Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, “On View, Work From the Permanent Collection”
    The Art Center, Highland Park, IL, "Tethered to My World, Contemporary Figure Painting: Location, Chicago”
    Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery of San Jose State University (James Yood, guest curator), San Jose, CA, "Chicago Imagism(s)"
    Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Cover Stores: The Art of the Book Jacket"
2011   Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion"
    Philip Slein, St. Louis, MO, "Return of the Outlaw (Printmakers)"
    Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, "E Pluribus Unum: Artists Picture Society"
    Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Chicago Odyssey"
2012   Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Figurism," curated by Doug Stapleton, Assis. Curator of Art
    Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Face Forward: The Art of the Self-Portrait"
2013   Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL, "Vice/Virtue"
    H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, “The Return of Rococo”

Curatorial Projects

"Tethered to My World, Contemporary Figure Painting: Location, Chicago"
The Art Center in Highland Park, IL
September 3–October 1, 2010

“Pasted On”
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, co-curated with Carl Hammer
January 2–31, 2002

“It Looks Easy: A Cross Section of Painting in Chicago”
Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois/Chicago, co-curated with Phyllis Bramson,
Julia Fish, Susan Senseman
August 30–October 2, 1999

“...And Everything Nice”
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, co-curated with Phyllis Bramson and Scott Snyder/curator
February 12–May 2, 1999

“More Then Real”
Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois/Chicago
January 1–February 2, 1995