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Anna Kunz

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Education:

The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2009
MFA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2000
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1991

Projects 2009 EVENT- Décor in collaboration with Merce Cunningham Dance Company NYC NY
Décor for In the Mirror Room, Paige Cunningham, Choreographer, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Eidolon, Commissioned Courtyard Installation, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
2009 Do I make you Happy, Installation at Robin Richman, Chicago, IL
2008 New Paintings, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2007 Illinois State University Gallery
2006 Anna Kunz, Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Arts Center
2005 Dayfield, The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
2002 Pink, Green, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2001 Painting Lounge, Special Project for the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Works on Paper, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Paintings, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Feelie, Northwestern University, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston, IL
1998 Poetic Abstractions, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1997 Inflorescence, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
 
Group Exhibitions: 2010 2010 Quarterly Project- REGISTERS, Gallery LVL3, Chicago, IL
I Know What You Did Last Summer, St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Collage From Then to Now, Thomas Mc Cormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bad At Sports, Apex Art, NYC, NY
Portable Caves, HJBK Space, Brooklyn, NY
2009

Industry of the Ordinary, 39 VERBS, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
_________place, Columbia College Chicago Annual Faculty Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Mike Lash and Friends, Lyons Weir Ott Gallery, NYC, NY
The Bad Art Show, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
The New York International Print Show, Park Avenue Amory, NYC, NY
This is not a print show, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, IL
Infrastructure, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Summer Mix, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale Heights, MI
Echo: collaboration with Eli Robb, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Thinking in Color: Pamela Fraser, Suzanne Silver, Anna Kunz, Melissa Oresky, John Parot,David X. Levine, curated by Judy Ledgerwood, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Tory Folliard Gallery, 20th Anniversary Show, Milwaukee, WI
2007 inland see, traveling exhibition curated by James Yood
Paper, curated by Chris Kahler, I Space, Chicago, IL
2006 Takeover, The Hyde Park Art Center, new facility inaugural exhibition, Chicago, IL
Into the Woods, curated by Jessica Moss & Mary Beyer, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Drawn, Instigator Gallery (formerly leadbased) Brooklyn, NY
think small, Illinois State Museum, traveling exhibition, IL State Galleries
2004 Remarkable Women, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Being; Beyond, MN Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
The Big Picture Show, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Color Bias, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Color Abstractions: Dough Holtz, Jason Rolf, Ariana Huggett, Anna Kunz,
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Pac, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco International Art Fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Art Chicago, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX,
Riverhouse Editions, Clark, CO
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Summer Abstraction Show, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2002 FFWD: Miami, (Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX) Miami, FL
Paper Products, Evanston Art Center, curated by Dan Devening
Transcultural Visions, National Museum of Sczecin, Poland
2001 College Proofs, The Block Museum , Evanston, IL
San Francisco International Art Fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
LOOK; Paint; Spaces, Cleveland, OH
Almost Giddy, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
New Abstraction in the New Century, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
Prints, Untitled Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Prints and Plants, A Human/Nature Production, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Special Project Space, Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago 2001, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Artist/Alumni, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
LOOK PAINT; Gundersdorf, Kunz, Scott, Reitmeier, Murphy, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 RED, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Art Basel, Riverhouse Editions, Basel, Switzerland
Three Chicagoans, Alyia Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
1999 Art Basel, Riverhouse Gallery, Basel Switzerland
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Award Recipients, Chicago, IL
Anna Kunz, Dan Rizzi, Matt McGee, Wilson Stevens Gallery, London, UK
Art Chicago 1999, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Big Ten, Big Ten College MFA Candidates, Park Ridge, IL
Group Show, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Wilson Stevens Gallery, London, UK
1998 New York Print Fair, Quartet Editions, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
San Francisco International Art Fair, Thomas McCormick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
D'Nell Larsen, M.W. Burns, Anna Kunz, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1998 Art Chicago 1998, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Art Chicago 1997, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Contemporary Show, Love Gallery, Chicago, IL
Nineball, curated by Tony Fitzpatrick, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Wesley Kimler Picks Four, Lineage Gallery, Chicago, IL
Space Gallery at Hotel Phoenix, San Francisco, CA
1994 Inspiration Cafe, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Space Gallery, New Pier Show, Chicago, IL
1993 Gallery Artists, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Artists, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
New Talent, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
1991 Mo Ming Gallery, Chicago, IL

Curator:

2011 (upcoming)  “Untitled” International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL
2010 “Indestructible Youth” Kunz, Vis, Gonzalez, Chicago IL. Artists: Erol Harris, Elena Ballara, Scott Frigo, Peter Clodfelter, Tommy Tunks, Racer Le Van, Ryken Bailey and others
“Angels,” Kunz, Vis, Gonzalez, Chicago IL, June 2010. Artists: Christopher Cosnowski, Andrew Falkowski, Aukje Koks, Matthew Metzger, Lester Monzon, Craig Yu and Essayist: Debra Riley Parr
2009 “Abnormal Formal 1,” Kunz, Vis, Gonzalez, Chicago IL, October 2009. David X. Levine, Pamela Fraser, Amy Feldman, Ivan Brunetti, Martina Nehrling, Rick Therrio, Racer LeVan, Emre Kocagil
2001 "Serendipity," Judy Ledgerwood, Fandra Chang, Pamela Fraser, Shirley Tse, Sue Scott, Francesca
Pastine and emerging Chicago painters,  Thomas McCormick Gallery, Summer 2001
 
Selected Awards: 2010 Marie Walsh Foundation, Space Program, NY, New York
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2000 Union League Civic Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL
1999 Union League Civic Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
1998 Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL
Professional Artist in Residence, SAIC, Chicago, IL
1997 Grant: Community Arts Assistance Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
1991 Byron Lanthrop Traveling Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Public
Collections:
The Philadelphia Museum
The Block Museum
Fidelity Investments
Aaron Corporation
R.R. Donnelly, Citicorp
Progressive Corporation
Turner Broadcasting Company
Colonel Eugene Myers
University of North Dakota
Columbia University Teacher’s College
St. Salvador’s College, Scotland, West Virginia University
The Graduate School, Northwestern University
Numerous local, national and international private collections
   
Instructor: Full Time Lecturer, Columbia College Chicago, Department of Art and Design
Part Time Instructor
2001-2008, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Painting and Drawing
2000, 2002, 2005-2007 Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art Theory and Practice, and The School of Continuing Studies
Teachers Institute in Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Northwestern University, Evanston,  IL
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