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Anna Kunz |
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Statement:
I am an artist because I take a
critical view toward how the world looks. Through the process of
painting, I examine relationships between the object and the subject,
the ambiguous with the metaphorical, the “real” with the illusion. I
build my paintings through a series of actions and reactions that rely
heavily on the intuition. I use color as my primary device, and in
such a way as to excite the viewer’s eye; to make the heart beat
faster through the experience of looking. |
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Education: |
MFA, Northwestern
University, Evanston,
IL
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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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,
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Solo
Exhibitions: |
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2008 |
New Paintings, Tory Folliard Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI |
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2007 |
Illinois State University Gallery |
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2006 |
Anna
Kunz, Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Arts Center |
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2005 |
Dayfield, The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL |
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2002 |
Pink, Green, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX |
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2001 |
Painting Lounge, Special Project for the
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Works on Paper, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2000 |
Paintings, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
IL
Feelie, Northwestern University, Dittmar
Memorial Gallery, Evanston, IL |
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1998 |
Poetic Abstractions, Evanston Art
Center, Evanston, IL |
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1997 |
Inflorescence, Thomas McCormick
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1994 |
Space Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1992 |
Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL |
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Group Exhibitions: |
2008 |
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 |
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2007 |
inland see, traveling exhibition
curated by James Yood
Paper, curated by Chris Kahler, I Space, Chicago, IL |
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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 |
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2005 |
Drawn, Instigator Gallery (formerly leadbased) Brooklyn, NY
think small, Illinois State Museum, traveling exhibition, IL State
Galleries |
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2004 |
Remarkable Women, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Being; Beyond, MN Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1998 |
Art Chicago 1998, Thomas McCormick
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1997 |
Art Chicago 1997, Thomas McCormick
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1996 |
Contemporary Show, Love Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Nineball, curated by Tony Fitzpatrick, Jean
Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1995 |
Wesley Kimler Picks Four, Lineage Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Space Gallery at Hotel Phoenix, San Francisco,
CA |
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1994 |
Inspiration Cafe, Gallery 312,
Chicago, IL
Space Gallery, New Pier Show, Chicago, IL |
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1993 |
Gallery Artists, Space Gallery,
Chicago, IL |
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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 |
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1991 |
Mo Ming Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Curator: |
2001 |
"Serendipity," Judy Ledgerwood, Fandra Chang,
Pamela Fraser, Shirley Tse, Sue Scott, Francesca
Pastine and emerging Chicago painters, Thomas McCormick Gallery,
Summer 2001 |
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Selected Awards: |
2000 |
Union League Civic Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL |
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1999 |
Union League Civic Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL |
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1998 |
Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL
Professional Artist in Residence, SAIC,
Chicago, IL |
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1997 |
Grant: Community Arts Assistance Program, Department of Cultural
Affairs, Chicago, IL |
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1991 |
Byron Lanthrop Traveling Fellowship, The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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Public
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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 |
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