Curatorial Résumé

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Curatorial Experience

Benedictine University
Lisle, IL

2013 Asian Scrolls and Ceramics from Permanent Collection, mixed media
“Frank Spidale:Cities & Suburbs”, solo, painting
The Other Place: Robert Erickson & Keith Wilson, prints/works on paper
Lynn Fischer-Carlson, solo, ceramics/mixed media
Crucifix – permanent collection
“Kathryn Dyer: A Spiritual Awakening”, retrospective, printmaking
Eulalio Bueno Silva, Jr., solo, painting
“Nicolas De Jesus: Master Printmaker”, solo, printmaking
Bridgette Guerzon Mills, solo, painting
Tiny Cameras/Tiny Pictures, International juried photo competition
Phillip J. Turner: ‘Retrospective: Out of Balance”, solo, mixed media
Stephen Parker/Glen Hansen: Landscape, two person, photography
Sergio Gomez, solo, mixed media
2012 “MUD: Ceramics from COD”, group show
“Transition: Moving from Center”, Bob Dixon, solo ceramics
“Day of the Dead”, international printmaking/installation
"Architectural Artifacts; Images from 1989 to 2009 by Gary Schirmer", solo painting
“Bobby Lee Turner & Co.” solo painting retrospective
“Art from Slovakia”, three person, painting/sculpture
“Santitos: Arceo Press”, international group printmaking
“Madonna International Print Suite”, international group printmaking
“Meditations on the Figure”:Eulalio Fabie de Silva, solo, painting
“Bloodworks”: William Wisner, mixed media
Annie Zimerle & Students - Handmade artist book-binding
“People are Strange” international 2 person, photography
“Day of the Dead” by Calaca Press, international, printmaking
“In the presence of Her” from the Permanent Collection, mixed media
Art Faculty Bienale, group, mixed media
“Santitos” :Arceo Press, international group, printmaking
“Madonna International Print Exchange”:Ochosi Editions, international group, printmaking
Life for the World: Haitian Art, group, mixed media
2011 “Jankowski and Ragdale: Senior Show”, painting, drawing
“Metal: Kamal and Connelly", two person, metalsmith
“Grafica Contemporanea Veracruzana”, Universidad de Veracruzana, group printmaking
“Jane Crabtree: A Global Curio Collection”, mixed media
“Eulalio Fabie de Silva”, solo, photography
“New Veins”, Henri A. Mandujano, solo photography
MAPC Juried Competition, group, printmaking
“Foto Muses: Intimate Spaces”, group photography
“Mythmakers”, group, photography
“Inking it UP!”, Printmakers Ink, group printmaking
2010 “Beth House and Chicago Calligrapher Society”, group calligraphy
“Art Faculty Biennale”, group mixed media
“William Scarlato: Two Sides”, painting drawing, sabbatical exhibition
Tufano & Mieszczanska, two person, mixed media
“Albanese & Turner: Twelve Years”, antique dolls and photographs
Charles Earl Boone: "The Orchard Project", prints and drawings
"Imagine New Orleans", group mixed media
"John Sevigny: America in Winter & Social Documentary", group photography
"Nomads & Passengers", three person, photographs
"Albanese & Turner: 10 Years", antique dolls and photographs
"Mary Dritschel: herstory", solo, photographs
Tufano & Mieszczanska, two person, mixed media
Rafael Vera: "Altered States", solo, printmaking, drawing

MaNa Gallery
Chicago, IL

2008 Nuevo Misterioso, three person exhibition.
Strictly Black & White, College of DuPage group competition.
2007 Holiday Show, group exhibition.

Crown Center Gallery
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL

2009 Sue Coe: Porkopolis, solo, printmaking
"Bling" Student Juried Competition, Juror: Sergio Gomez
Senior Exhibition, group mixed media exhibition
2008 Side by Side: Kathy Malec Kamal & Kelly Malec Kosak, metalsmiths.
From Pop to Political: Ralph Arnold Unmasked, retrospective.
Student Juried Competition, group, Juror: Nathan Peck.
Senior Exhibition, group mixed media exhibition.
Reforming US: Immigration through Art, national competition, mixed media.
LUC Print Biennial IV, national printmaking competition.
Art Faculty Biennale, mixed media.
Amos Kennedy, printmaking, graphics .
The Graphic Imperative, traveling graphic print exhibition.
2007 Student Juried Competition, group, Juror: Jean Bevier.
Senior Exhibition, group mixed media.
Fine Art Alumni Exhibition, group, mixed media.
1st Loyola National Works on Paper, national competition .
Digitally Re-mastered: Mike Miller, paintings and prints.
A Question of Function, Tom Schmidt, Pat Kochaver, David Hooker, ceramics.
Michael Paxton, drawing installation.
Rhonda Gates & Olivia Petrides, painting.
Student Juried Competition, mixed media.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
Art Alumni Exhibition, mixed media.
2006 Faculty Biennale, group exhibition, mixed media.
Janet Maley & Arthur Hand, photographs/mixed media.
Yvette Kaiser Smith, fiber installation.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
3rd LUC Print Biennial, national juried printmaking competition.
Mary Farrell, printmaking.
Steffan Hacker, photography.
2005 Rolland Kulla & Jerianne Garber: Industrial Landscape, paintings and photographs.
Barbara Rachko: Scenes, pastel drawings.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
Fabian Biasio: Diary of an Execution, photographs.
Susan Slogoff, mixed media installation.
Jane R.B. Carlton & Fances A. Cox, paintings
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
2004 Robert J. Johnson & Mark Pelnar, Contemporary Idols, painting and mixed media.
Connections: Casey, Dee, DiThomas & Heinz, photography, painting and mixed media.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
2nd LUC Print Biennial, North American juried printmaking competition.
Faculty Biennale, mixed media.
Mark Grote, installation/sculpture.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
2003 ARTLOOK: South Africa, Seven Contemporary Printmakers, traveling exhibition.
Mark Arctander & John Atkin, sculpture and drawing installation.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
Faith and Fellowship: Zbigniew Bdak and Jerry Berndt, photographs.
Visions in Color: Paintings by Dr. Sam Pitroda and Dr. PADMASHREE S.V. Rama Rao.
2002 Bruce Thorn & Irmfriede Lagerkvist, paintings.
Barbara Simcoe, paintings, drawings.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
Paul LaMantia, paintings and drawings retrospective.
Mary Dritschel and Marguerite Perret, installation.
LUC 1st Biennial Print Competition, national juried printmaking.
LUC Faculty Biennale, mixed media.
Dan Younger & Steven A. Ramsey, digital art.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
2001 Eve Whitaker: Ancestral Excavations, drawings.
The Ideal Landscape: Didier Nolet & Nina Weiss, paintings and pastels.
The Living Picture: Andre Ferrella, photographs.
Art Through Technology, national juried show, mixed media.
Highlights from the Permanent Collection, mixed media.
Madhubani Paintings: from the Bihar State of East India, folk paintings.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.
2000 Abstraction/Transcendence: Clark/Dolan/Hopkins, mixed media.
Skies Are Us: Jill Sutton & Valerie Taglieri, paintings.
Written in Stone: Michael D. Brown, sculpture.
Senior Exhibition, mixed media.

Elmhurst Art Museum
Elmhurst, IL

2000 Kathryn A. Schneider, photography.
National Scholastic High School Competition, mixed media.
John James Audubon: Birds of North America, printmaking, traveling exhibition.
Yale Factor: Landscapes, paintings.
Susan Kraut: Recent Paintings, still-lifes.
Mark Arctander at EAM, mixed media installation.
Robert Erickson: New Hope, mixed media installation.
Creighton Michael: Matrix, paintings.
Hyde Congressional High School Competition, mixed media.
3rd Annual EAM Competition, ceramics, juried national competition.
Indian Artifacts from the Mitchell Museum of Native American Art, Evanston, IL.
American Glass; 1690 to Present, private collections.
A Color-Filled Eye: The Ray and Sally Allen Collection, paintings.
ACDC to ZZ Top: Rock-n-Roll Photographs, traveling exhibition.
Curtis A. Bartone: Works 1990-2000, painting & prints.
Family Holdings: Weavings from Turkey, private collection, textiles.
Celebration of Light: Menorahs from the Spertus Museum of Judaica, mixed media.
1999 Iwona Biedermann: Divine Discomfort, photographs.
2nd EAM Annual Competition, photography, national juried competition.
National Scholastic High School Competition, mixed media.
Hyde Congressional High School Competition, mixed media.
Lynda Lowe: Marking Time, painting & fiber arts.
African Masks, mixed media, private collection.
Harry Bouras, mixed media, retrospective.
Phillip J. Turner, Helmets & Crowns, mixed media.
Lithuanian Decorative Eggs, private collection.
Thomas Skomski, sculpture installation.
Wedgwood Medallions, private collection.
Renee McGinnis, paintings.
Michael Nevin, Urban Landscapes, paintings.
Michiko Itatani, painting installation.
Mary Florence Forsythe, paper sculpture.
Paper & Book Arts Invitational, mixed media, international.
Orthodox Art, religious artifacts, mixed media, Greek Orthodox.
Elmhurst Art Museum Women Artists, works from permanent collection.
1998 Holiday Greeting Cards from Around the World, private collection.
1st EAM Annual Competition, photography, national juried competition.
National Scholastic High School Competition, mixed media.
Hyde Congressional High School Competition, mixed media.
Religious Art: Multicultural Expressions, mixed media, group exhibition.
John Fraser: Uncommon Equilibrium, mixed media installation.
Normal Editions Workshop: A Ten Year Anniversary, printmaking, group exhibition.
Charles Boone, "Thou Shalt Make...", digital art on Christian theme.
Telling Tales: Childrens Book Illustrations, traveling exhibition.
Richard A. Florsheim, A Man before his Time, prints/paintings.
Fernand D'Onofrio, Recent Paintings, paintings.
"Melville Price, 1945-1965", Abstract Expressionist paintings, retrospective.
Hookham and Clements: A Family Tradition, mixed media, 2 person exhibition.
Haviland Ceramics, private collection.
1997 Hal Rogoff: Op Art, paintings, retrospective.
Frederick Remington: Prints, traveling exhibition.
Keith Achepohl: 20 years Travels, paintings & prints, retrospective.
Milagros and Altars, mixed media installation and photographs.
1998 Mary Etta Houston, paintings, retrospective.
William L. Rubin, "Chicagoland Landscapes", paintings.
Religious Art in Printmaking, Illinois Benedictine University permanent collection.

Curtis Allen Turner Fine Arts
Chicago, IL

2011 “A Family Portrait”, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
2003 Around the Coyote 2003, DreamBox Foto & Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bobby Lee Turner's Private Party, Chicago Cultural Center, paintings and drawings
1999 Kristine B. Turner: Twist of Fate, photographs
Jack B. Ludwig: A Personal View, glass sculpture
Eulalio Fabie de Silva, paintings
Fetishism & Obsessions II, at Korean Cultural Center, mixed media invitational
56th Annual, mixed media, group exhibition
Bai Shun Wang, Moritz Kellerman, Eulalio Bueno Silva, Jr., North Coast Café, paintings
1997 Eulalio Bueno Silva, Jr.: Passion and Chaos, Chicago Cultural Center, paintings
1996 Eulalio Bueno Silva & Eulalio Fabie de Silva, North Coast Café, paintings
Tom A. Fedro, North Coast Café, paintings
Jack B. Ludwig: Monstrare, glass sculpture
1994 Bai Shun Wang: A Chinese Modernist in America?, at Clausen Gallery, Kenilworth, IL
Moritz Kellerman, paintings and prints
55th Annual, mixed media, group exhibition
Stachon, Kellerman, Parker & Dean, mixed media, group exhibition
SCAN 1994 Member's Show, mixed media, Chicago Cultural Center
Facing ourselves: Two Generations of African-American Art, Korean Cultural Center, mixed media
1993 Group Show, at Effects Design Gallery, mixed media
1992 Fetishism & Obsessions I, at Gallery FXV, mixed media invitational
MOMENT/SPACE/TIME. Effects Design Gallery, mixed media, group exhibition
1991 Connoisseur's Salon, mixed media, group exhibition
"Appetites" at Gallery FXV, mixed media, group exhibition
1989 Kathryn Diffley, paintings, drawings, prints
David A. Rogers, paintings
Xiaowen Chen, prints & drawings
Art Expo, at Nicole Gallery, mixed media, group exhibition
50th Annual, mixed media, group exhibition
1987 Deborah A. Peterson: Centricity, mixed media

Independent

2007 Dr. S.V. Rama Rao: Poetry in Color, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2005 Bobby Lee Turner & Jacqueline Withers, DreamBox Foto Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dreambox Foto Annual, Dreambox Foto Gallery, Chicago, IL
Women Foto II, Dreambox Foto Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Women Photographers Competition, Dreambox Foto Gallery, Chicago,IL
MCA 6, MCA Gallery, Westmont, IL
2003 Bibekanada Mukhrjee, Indo-American Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001 Mis Milagros, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
1997 Body Art, SRAG, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
1996 The Environment, SRAG, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
The Process Show, North Lakeside Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1994 The Un-Show, SRAG, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Creative Diversity I, SRAG, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
East Asian Art, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Kristine B. Turner : Twist of Fate, Glen Ellyn Public Library, Glen Ellyn, IL
1993 COD Print I, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
New Works, Greenview Arts Center, Chicago, IL
COD Painters, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

Professional Experience

2010Visiting Artist. Museo Goitia, Zacatecas, Mexico
2010Visiting Artist. ICOCULT, Saltillo, Mexico
2009 to presentCurator. Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
2009Guest Lecturer. South Suburban Community College, South Holland, IL
2009Visiting Artist. University of Wisconsin, Steven’s Point, WI
2008Juror. Reforming US: Immigration through Art, national competition, Loyola University Chicago, IL
2007 to presentDirector. Coral Rose Foundation, Chicago, IL
2007 - 2008Director/Curator. MaNa Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006Juror. Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2005Juror. National Scholastic Competition, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL
2004Lecturer. Role of Arts in Education. Ohio Board of Education, OH
2004Editor. "Adventures w/Grandma Joanie", illustrated children's book.
2003 - PresentExhibit Coordinator DreamBox Foto Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 - PresentART Consultant. Aktsinc, NGO, Majuro, Marshall Islands
2000 - 2003Executive Editor Mid American Print Journal.
2000 - PresentDirector/Curator Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
1996 - 2000Curator. Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
1997 - 1998Director/Curator Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
1993 - 1994Juror. Chicago International Film Festival. Student/Independent Narrative Animation.
1991 - PresentJuror. National and regional art competitions, art fairs.
1991 - 2000Director. PARKER Press, Chicago, IL
1988 - 1996Assistant Director/Artist Consultant. Curtis Allen Turner Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
1981 - 1983Curator. Hiestand Student Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1982 - PresentGuest Lecturer. Contemporary Art, Printmaking, Religion and Art.
1981 - PresentIndependent Curator.