The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Master of Fine Arts; Concentration in Sculpture/Art and Technology Studies
John Quincy Adams Fellowship recipient

1991

Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Painting



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006

Surface Tension: Works by Fourteen Contemporary Artists
Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Curator: Kyungmi Shin; Jurors: David Moon, Howard Fox, and Yong Soon Min
Juror’s Award / 1st Place


Inauguration 3 Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles

Parts to the Whole Vox Populi, Philadelphia.
Curator: Elizabeth Grady, Whitney Museum of American Art

2005

Enter / Exit: The Uncommon Landscape
Bamboo Lane / Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles

Turned Out and Doubled Over Gallery 825 Bergamot Station Annex, Santa Monica
(Two-person collaborative exhibition)

Plotters, Patsies, and Plankwalkers DiRT Gallery, West Hollywood
(One-person exhibition)

2004

Environmental Excursions Subspace Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Curators: Kim Collmer and Jennifer Davy

Hung Jury: Fifteen Contemporary Artists Make Their Mark
Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Curator: Gary Kornblau; Jurors: David Pagel, David Moon, and Gary Kornblau
Juror’s Award / 2nd Place

Sixty Square Inches: 14th Biennial Small Print Exhibition
Purdue University Galleries Juror: Jeanine Coupe-Ryding

Time Travel: Truth, Beauty, and Justice Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

Pareidolia Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Juror: Eleanor Antin

Gigantic: Ceramic Figurines Kirkland Arts Center Gallery, Kirkland, Washington
Juror: Patti Warashina, Professor Emeritus/University of Washington

2003

Small Works 2003 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts
Juror: Nick Capasso, Curator/DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

Southern California Open Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association
Juror: Karen Higa, Senior Curator, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Juror’s Award of Merit

Group Exhibition Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York

46th Annual International Awards Exhibition San Diego Art Institute
Juror: Hugh M. Davies, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

COCA 2003 Northwest Annual Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
Juror: Esther Luttikhuizen, Esther Claypool Gallery

Art Chicago 2003 Carl Hammer Gallery at Navy Pier, Chicago

Slop Art Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis (Traveling exhibition)

Group Exhibition Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

2002

Weenieland Adventures Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago (One-person exhibition)

The Armory Show 2002: The International Fair of New Art
Carl Hammer Gallery at Pier 88, New York

Art Chicago 2002 Carl Hammer Gallery at Navy Pier, Chicago

Texas International Fine Art Fair
Claire Oliver FIne Art at The International Pavilion, Dallas

Hobby Lobby Gallery 312, Chicago

Pasted On: A Survey of Collage Strategies Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
Curators: Phyllis Bramson, Carl Hammer

Group Exhibition Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York

Traumatic Open-End Art, Chicago

2001

The Armory Show 2001: The International Fair of New Art
Carl Hammer Gallery at The Show Piers on the Hudson, New York

Art Chicago 2001 Carl Hammer Gallery at Navy Pier, Chicago

smaller Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

Multiples 4 NFA Space/Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

Four Corners of the World: An SAIC Alumni Exhibition Gallery 2, Chicago
Jurors: Sharon Couzin, David Richards and Mary Lou Zelazny

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2001 MFA Exhibition Gallery 2, Chicago

College Art Association Members’ Online Exhibition acweb.colum.edu/caa2001

2000

Harare International Festival of the Arts The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare

Art Chicago 2000 Carl Hammer Gallery at Navy Pier, Chicago

Evanston + Vicinity 15th Biennial Exhibition Evanston Art Center, Evanston
Jurors: Gregory Knight, Chief Curator, Chicago Cultural Center
and Elizabeth Smith, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Texas National 2000 Stephen F. Austin University Gallery, Nacogdoches
Jurors: The Art Guys (Jack Massing and Mike Galbreth)

Nippon Steel USA 2000
School of the Art Institute of Chicago/NSUSA Gallery, Chicago
Jurors: Michael Miller, Kymberly Pinder

Bliss InsideArt Gallery, Chicago

Behind the Walls Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay

Visions A.T. Kearney, Chicago

Arthur Andersen Consulting Group Exhibition 2000 Andersen Consulting, Chicago

1999

Breading Discontent SAIC Student Gallery, Chicago

1996

Jerome Book Arts Fellowship Exhibition Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis.
Jurors: David Abel, Katherine Kuehn, Penny McElroy

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2006

Surface Tension: Works by Fourteen Contemporary Artists / Juror’s Award: 1st Place
Curator: Kyungmi Shin; Jurors: David Moon, Howard Fox, and Yong Soon Min

2004

Hung Jury: 15 Contemporary Artists Make Their Mark / Juror’s Award: 2nd Place
Curator: Gary Kornblau; Jurors: David Pagel, David Moon and Gary Kornblau

2003

Southern California Open 2003 / Juror’s Award of Merit
Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association

2001

John Quincy Adams Fellowship The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2000

Third Prize, Texas National 2000 Stephen F. Austin University

1999

Odyssey Travel Grant The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1995

Jerome Fellowship Minnesota Council for Book Arts



BIBLIOGRAPHY

Part of What’s Up Artblog (www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog) (January 6, 2006)
Article by Libby Rosof

First Friday Focus City Paper (Philadelphia) (January 5-11, 2006) Article by Lori Hill

Reality Shakes Hands with Fiction Los Angeles Times (August 26, 2005)
Article by David Pagel

Continuing and Recommended Exhibitions Art Scene Magazine (April 2005)
Article by Bill Lasarow

Picks of the Week LA Weekly (Vol. 27 No. 19, April 1 - 7, 2005)
Listing by Peter Frank

Sixty Square Inches: 14th Biennial Small Print Exhibition Exhibition catalog (2004)

Slop Art Exhibition catalog (January 2003)

Voicemail: Pete Goldlust Mouth To Mouth Magazine (January 2003)
Interview by Kristen Schleifer

COFA Gallerynews Newsletter (December 2002)

Hobby Lobby Exhibition brochure (November 2002)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 2001-2002 Graduate Catalog Cover image

Art Fairs Hit New York Art in America (April 2001) Article by David Ebony

Artist Parodies Chicago Politics Streetwise (Vol. 9 No. 31, May 28 - June 3 2001)
Cover article by Aimee Gendusa-English

Four Corners of the World Catalog, SAIC (November 2001)
Essay by Sharon Couzin

Visions: Spectrum of Solutions Catalog, A.T. Kearney (September 2000)

Bliss Catalog, InsideArt Gallery (July 2000)

HIFA 2000: Six Days To Live Catalog, National Gallery of Zimbabwe (April 2000)

Texas National 2000 Catalog, Stephen A. Austin University (May 2000)

Behind the Walls Catalog, Lawton Gallery/University of Wisconsin (March 2000)

NSUSA/SAIC 2000 Catalog, Nippon Steel/SAIC (September 1999)

Jerome Book Arts Fellowship Exhibition: Seven Emerging Book Artists
Catalog, Minnesota Center for Book Arts (June 1996) Essays by Katherine Kuehn

Massacre 3 Editor, Roberta McKeown, Indelible Inc. (1992)