BARBARA KOENEN
Page 1 | Biography
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Lives: Chicago IL
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1989 M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1988 AICA New York Studio Program, New York, NY
1986 Post-Baccalaureate Studio Certificate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1983-5 Master's Studies, Architecture, University of Washington
1983 B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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2006 Outlaw A, Nova New Art Fair, Chicago, with Jackie Kazarian
2003 Inspiring Guns Tank Afghan War Rug, Art Chicago, c/o Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1999 Gumdrop Trees in Skokie, North Shore Sculpture Park, Skokie, IL
1998 GriGri 4 Spring, in conjunction with Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1997 Buddha at the Hot Dog Stand, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago
1996 Sampler, Westwerk e.V., Hamburg, Germany
1995 Ten in One Gallery
1992 Ten in One Gallery
1989 The Correct Time, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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2007 Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curator Tricia Van Eck
The Emergency Show, POLVO
To Fear or Not to Fear, HIghland Park Art Center, curator Vesna Rebernak
The Artist Project, Art Chicago 2007
2006 POLVO at the Pool Art Fair, Miami Beach
Silk Road Festival, Chicago Tourism Center
Stitched in Time, Mess Hall, Chicago
2005 Juried Show 2005, Center for Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Faker, LIPA, Chicago
Bridge Magazine Shoebox Series, 2005
2004 Summer Summit, Ptujskem gradu Galerija with LIPA, Ptuj, Slovenia
2002 Memento Mori, LIPA, Chicago (Vesna Rebenak)
Chicago Sculpture Now, Part 2, Columbia College (Adam Brooks, Corey Postiglione)
She-bang, Three Arts Club, Chicago (Lisa K. Erf)
Knotty Dotty Witty Gritty, LIPA, Chicago
2001 3 Acres on the Lake, Gallery 312, Chicago (Laurie Palmer)
2000 Millenium Fusion Project, ARC Gallery
1999 Cows on Parade, Chicago Cultural Center
Butter, Margin Gallery, Chicago (Nathan Mason)
Gri-Gri, installation for Hyde Park Art Center auction
Bookmarks, Benefit Auction for Whitewalls Magazine, NIU Gallery, Chicago
1998 Not in My Lobby, You Don't, Hyde Park Art Center, (Chuck Thurow/Ruth Horwich)
You Need to Bring a Gift to Attend this Exhibition, Tough Gallery
Gri-Gri, installation for Hyde Park Art Center auction
1996 Plane Speak, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago. (Ed Maldonado).
ART Chicago 1996, Uncomfortable Spaces.
1995 Art Chicago 1995, Uncomfortable Spaces, Chicago, IL
PUBLIC/PRIVATE Women Artists Negotiate the Terrain, NIU Gallery
St. Valentine's Day Exhibition, NAME Gallery
1994 The Uncomfortable Show, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago. (Joel Lieb)
Pages, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York. (curated by Elisabeth Condon.)
SHAPE, The Peace Museum, Chicago.
St Valentine’s Day Exhibition, NAME Gallery, Chicago.
Erotic Wicker Park, Flat Iron Gallery, Chicago.
1993 Official Pictures, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago. (Joel Lieb)
Categories of Robert Smithson, NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL. (Stephen Lapthisophon.)
Emerging Chicago Abstraction, Rockford Art Museum
St. Valentine's Day Invitational Exhibition, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago.
1992 Grit and Polish/Art and Space, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago. (Robert Sill.)
1991 itch, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, (Irene Tsatos, John Pakosta.)
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Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/artreviews/2007/071129/
Time Out Chicago http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/art-design/24864/die-now-and-save
Cunningham, Matt. WBEZ - Hello Beautiful
Artner, Alan. Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/arts/chi-1129artnov29,1,6213485.story
New City http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/7186.html
Pusaliek, Leah. TimeOut Chicago, November 16, 2006
www.iconoduel.org NOVA review
Artner, Alan. Chicago Tribune. April 25, 2005.
_______.“Spicy Artwork” Chicago Sun-Times May 2003 (photograph).
Artner, Alan. “Preserving passing cultures,” Chicago Tribune, July 12, 2002
Noll, Damien. “Why we live downtown,” Chicago Journal, May 2, 2002 (illus.)
Camper, Fred "Spring Fever" The Chicago Reader, February,12 1999
_______. “Using art to enhance economic development” The Baltimore Sun, June 24, 1999 p.16A
Williams, Kevin. “What’s Wrong with this Picture?” Chicago Sun-Times, October 24, 1999.
Secunda, Allegra. “Bull” Gravy Magazine, October, 1999.
Grabner, Michelle. "Abstraction in Chicago", New Art Examiner, September, 1998. (illus.)
Williams, Kevin. "Tripping on Art: Artist Koenen not just marking time" Chicago Sun-Times 6/12/98. (illus)
Camper, Fred. "True Grid", Chicago Reader, 12/12/97 p. 42 (illus.)
Hixson, Kathryn. "Plane Speak at Chicago Cultural Center", New Art Examiner, March 1996.
Snodgrass, Susan. "Chicago: Barbara Koenen at Ten in One," Art in America, March 1996.
Michely, Viola. "Zwischen Unruhe, Konfusion und Aufbruch/Die Art 1995 Chicago" Kunst Forum International, Bd. 131 Aug-Oct 1995, p.447.
Artner, Alan. "Heroic Painting," The Chicago Tribune, November 16, 1995, sec. 5, p. 7.
Williams, Enos. "Artbreak", New City, November 2, 1995, p. 26 (illus.).
Leming, Warren. “Paper,” NNWAC Newsletter, January, 1994.
cCracken, David. The Chicago Tribune, November 6, 1992.
Herrmann, Andrew. "Timely piece of art has 720 tales to tell," Chicago Sun-Times, 10/16/89, p. 2. (illus.)
_________. "Can you spare a minute?," The Globe, June 20, 1989 (illus).
Grisko, Carolyn. WBEZ Radio interview, March 30, 1989.
WGN Radio interview, February 14, 1989.
McNamee, Tom. "720 broken clocks would not alarm her," Chicago Sun-Times, 2/12/89, p. 38 (illus.)
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1999-2006 Residency, Acadia Summer Art Program, Acadia, Maine
1996 Residency, Westwerk e.V., Hamburg, Germany.
Chicago Artists International Program Travel Assistance Grant.
1993 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago.
1986-89 Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
1987 Traveling Fellowship Honorable Mention, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Consuming War, Exhibition curated for the Hyde Park Art Center. 11/07 - 1/08, with artists Lynda Barry, Adam Brooks, Wafaa Bilal, Burtonwood & Holmes, Fred Holland, Ellen Rothenberg, Harold Mendez, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Paula White, Dolores Wilber, Michael Rakowitz, and Mary Brogger.
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2007 Chicago Birthday Calendar, Chicago Office of Tourism
2002 A Force of Nature: The Life and Work of Jens Jensen, exhibiton guide, Chicago Cultural Center
1997-2002 Chicago Tribute Markers of Distinction
1996 The Public Art of Bronzeville, City of Chicago Public Art Program.
1994 Target Choice '94 auction catalogue.
SHAPE, catalogue essays, The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL
Stained Glass from the E.B. Smith Collection, catalogue essay, Chicago, IL.
N.A.M.E. Gallery auction catalogue.
1991 PRIMER, "Sour Grapes", issue #5, collaborative publication, Chicago.
1990 PRIMER, "Fame and Ecology", issue #4.
1989 American Architects, Associate Editor, American References, Inc., Chicago.
PRIMER, issue #3.
PRIMER, issue #2.
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