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VERA KLEMENT
On Painting |
Born: 1929, Danzig (Gdansk), resides in Chicago, Illinois
Professor Emerita, University of Chicago 1969-1995 Education Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, New York, NY 1950 Selected Solo Shows Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1973 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL (also 1979) 1981 Goethe Institute, Chicago, IL 1983 CDS Gallery, (also 1981), New York, NY 1984 Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Retrospective, (catalog) 1987 Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL 1987 Roy Boyd Gallery, (also 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992) Chicago, IL 1993 Chicago Cultural Center, 1968-1998 Retrospective (catalog) 1999 Fassbender Gallery, (also 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999), Chicago, IL 2001 Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2001 Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2001 University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 2001 Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (catalog) 2002 Abner Hershberger Art Gallery, Goshen College, Goshen, IN 2003 Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH 2004 Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Frederick Baker, Chicago, IL 2004 Printworks, Chicago, IL 2004 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, Paintings 1991-2004 (catalog) 2004 Metcap Bank, Chicago, IL 2005 Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL (catalog) 2008 Printworks, Chicago, IL 2009 Printworks, Chicago, IL 2011 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 Selected Group Shows The Jewish Museum, Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists, New York, NY(catalog) 1982 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis, IN (catalog) 1985 Galerie Walter Bischoff, Munich, West Germany 1987 Terra Museum of American Art, Surfaces, Chicago, IL (catalog) 1987 State of Illinois Gallery, Locations of Desire, Chicago, IL (catalog) 1989 State of Illinois Building, Governor?s Award Show, Chicago, IL 1989 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL 1990 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Still Working, Washington, DC (catalog) 1994 Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in Chicago 1945-1995, Chicago, IL (catalog) 1996 Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, 4 Painters, Indianapolis, IN 1997 Northern Indiana Arts Association, That 70s Show: The Age of Pluralism in Chicago, Munster, IN 2004 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Works from the Collection 2009 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO: LipstickTraces, Women from the Collection, Summer 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Constellations, Paintings from the MCA Collection 2009 State of Illinois Museum of Art travelling exhibition Luminous Ground: Artists with Histories 2011-13 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Carole Harmel: Chicago Odyssey, Portraits of Chicago Artists: A Collaboration 2011 Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Beyond Photography 2012 Governors State University, University Park, IL, Ways of Making: Painting 2012 Illinois Holcaust Museum, Skokie, IL, Artist Panel: Creating A Legacy 2014 Awards Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award 1954 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1987 Illinois Arts Council Grants 1997 (also 1984 1987) Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1998 Camargo Foundation Residency and Stipend, Cassis, France 2006 Selected Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Snite Museum, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN Louis and Clark Community College, Godfrey, IL Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Philip Morris Collection, New York, NY Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Brauer Museum, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN Goshen College, Goshen, IN Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH Clay Center, Charleston, WV Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA McCormick Place, Chicago, IL (commission) The Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL University Club, Chicago, IL Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel |
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