Selected Exhibitions and Projects

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An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky
January 10-February 19, 2020
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Alison Ruttan: Unmaking of Places and Histories
October 25-December 15, 2019
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Aram Han Sifuentes: We Are Never Never Other
August 15-October 10, 2019
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Erin Hayden: Flower-o'-the-Moon
August 9-October 21, 2019
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Bethany Collins: A Pattern or Practice
February 15-March 31, 2019
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Rana Young: The Rug's Topography
February 23-April 1, 2018
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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​Edra Soto: Manual GRAFT
February 21-April 2, 2017
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Photo credit: Daniel Hojnacki
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Deb Sokolow: Schematics, Surveillance, Murder
February 21-April 2, 2017
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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Schuyler Maehl: NOWHERE
October 26 - December 2, 2010
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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
University Galleries of Illinois State University
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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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