Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

Anna Von Mertens
Glass, Metal, Thread: Building Our Observable World
January 17-April 2, 2023
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story
August 17-October 16, 2022
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Nazafarin Lotfi: A Garden to Build
August 11-October 16, 2022
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Caroline Kent: What the stars can't tell us
August 11-December 16, 2021
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Alice Hargrave: The Canary in the Lake
March 4-May 16, 2021
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect, Selected Works (1997-2020)
August 15-December 13, 2020
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky
January 10-February 19, 2020
University Galleries of Illinois State University
Artists: Amy Balkin, Jen Bervin, James Bridle, william cordova, Rohini Devasher, Ala Ebtekar, Spencer Finch, Dianna Frid, Carrie Gundersdorf, Basim Magdy, Brittany Nelson, Demetrius Oliver, Kambui Olujimi, Lissa Oppenheim, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Dario Robleto, Cauleen Smith, and Kerry Tribe. More

Alison Ruttan: Unmaking of Places and Histories
October 25-December 15, 2019
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Aram Han Sifuentes: We Are Never Never Other
August 15-October 10, 2019
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Erin Hayden: Flower-o'-the-Moon
August 9-October 21, 2019
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Bethany Collins: A Pattern or Practice
February 15-March 31, 2019
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Basim Magdy: To Hypnotize Them With Forgetfulness
October 26-December 16, 2018
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william cordova: kuntur: sacred geometries
August 16-October 14, 2018
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Cecil McDonald, Jr,: In the Company of Black
August 16-October 14, 2018
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Gina Hunt: Azimuth
May 20-August 4, 2018
The Franklin, Chicago
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Ebony G. Patterson: they were...
February 23-April 1, 2018
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Rana Young: The Rug's Topography
February 23-April 1, 2018
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Carrie Schneider: Reading Women
November 1, 2017-February 28, 2018
Unscripted Bal Harbour, Miami
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Dianna Frid: IT TAKES TIME, Selected Works from 2009 through 2017
October 21-December 17, 2017
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Jason Reblando: Home and Away, In the Wake of the Filipino Diaspora
September 30-November 15, 2017
Terrain Biennial, Outpost at Enos Park neighborhood in Springfield, Illinois
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Alice Hargrave: Paradise Wavering
August 8-October 18, 2017
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Edra Soto: Manual GRAFT
February 21-April 2, 2017
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Photo credit: Daniel Hojnacki

Deb Sokolow: Schematics, Surveillance, Murder
February 21-April 2, 2017
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Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy
October 25-December 18, 2016
University Galleries of Illinois State University
Artists: Jen Bervin, Stephanie Brooks, Anne Collier, Bethany Collins, Moyra Davey, Marcelline Delbecq, Abigail DeVille, Eve Fowler, Dianna Frid, Coco Fusco, Sabina Ott, Melissa Pokorny, Dawn Roe, Kay Rosen, Carrie Schneider, Xaviera Simmons, Lisa Tan, Cecilia Vicuna, Catherine Wagner, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis.
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Terry Adkins
Soldier Shepherd Prophet Martyr: Videos from 1998-2013
February 23 - April 3, 2016
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Lori Waxman: 60 wrd min art critic
March 24-26, 2016
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Carrie Schneider: Nine Trips Around the Sun
Selected Works from 2006-2015
October 28 - December 20, 2015
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Juan Angel Chávez: Winded Rainbow
February 24 - April 4, 2015
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Laura Letinsky: A Moment on the Lips
February 24 - April 4, 2015
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Carrie Schneider: Burning House
January 15 - February 15, 2014
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Stanya Kahn: Blood, Paper, and Mud (leave your slippers at the door)
January 16 - February 16, 2014
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Melanie Schiff: The stars are not wanted now
May 17 - September 1, 2013
CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina)
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The House of the Seven Gables
February 22 - April 7, 2013
University Galleries of Illinois State University
Artists: Reed Barrow, Corinne May Botz, Jan Bünnig, Anne Collier, Bill Conger, Drew Conrad, Sue de Beer, Rachel Feinstein, Andreas Fischer, Anya Gallaccio, Benjamin Gardner, Katy Grannan, Alice Hargrave, Bob Jones, Brian Kapernekas, Rachel Khedoori, Peter Krashes, Jacco Olivier, Robert Overby, Dario Robleto, Gregor Schneider, Sarah E. Wood More

Melanie Schiff: The stars are not wanted now
October 27 - December 16, 2012
University Galleries of Illinois State University (later traveling to CAM Raleigh, North Carolina)
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Kendell Carter with Darren Hostetter: WE
October 27 - December 16, 2012
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Orison for the Forest
September 15, 2012
Best Friends Gallery, Arlington Heights, IL (presented in collaboration with Violet Poe Projects)
Artists: Stephanie Brooks, Jennifer Gustavson, Jenny Hansen, Claire Hedden, Youna Kwak, Dawn Roe, Sarah Stonefoot

This one-night exhibition was inspired by Youna Kwak's poem, Orison for the Forest. Read the full text of Kwak's poem here. Looped ecordings of Kwak, Gustavson, and Hedden reading the poem played from speakers hidden throughout the yard. More

An Experiment in Collectivity
February 28 - April 1, 2012
University Galleries of Illinois State University
(Artists co-selected with Barry Blinderman and Tony Preston-Schreck)
Artists: Daniel Bainbridge, Jennifer Gustavson, Melanie Hunter, Tim Kowalczyk, Colin Nesbit, Beatrix Reinhardt
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Irena Knezevic: Here Comes the Darkness
October 29 - December 18, 2011
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University Galleries' participation in The Present Perfect with Art21
June 17, 2010
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Jason Lazarus: Your Time is Gonna Come
co-curated with Barry Blinderman
February 22 - April 3, 2011
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Schuyler Maehl: NOWHERE
October 26 - December 2, 2010
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TASK+ selected work by Oliver Herring
co-curated with Barry Blinderman
February 16 - March 28, 2010
University Galleries of Illinois State University
(traveled to Bethel University Art Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota/Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, and to Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis)
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ISU TASK Party with Oliver Herring
February 6, 2010
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Shinique Smith: My Heart is My Hand
February 19 - March 28, 2010
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Bob Jones: The Witching Hour
February 16 - April 12, 2010
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Adam Farcus: My Universe and Yours
August 25 - September 13, 2009
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John Arndt: Gardening at Night
November 17 - December 13, 2009
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Stephanie Brooks: Distance Intimacy
February 24 - April 5, 2009
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but you gave me flowers
April 4 - May 7, 2006
University Galleries of Illinois State University
Artists: Leslie Baum, Benjamin Gardner, Danielle Gustafson-Sundell, Karen Reimer
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