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Stephanie Brooks



EDUCATION


1997 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, MFA, Studio Arts.
1995 The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, Post-Baccalaureate Studio Program, Painting and Drawing.
1994 Ohio University, Athens, OH, BFA, Painting.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS




2008 Illinois State University Art Museum (Autumn)
2007 Gahlberg Gallery, College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, IL, I'm sentimental

2004 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Down Time: New Paintings and Sculptures
2003 Peter Blum, New York
2002 Rocket Gallery, London 00 + 1
2001 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2000
Ten In One Gallery, New York
Barat College, Lake Forest, IL Reach for the Stars
1999 Ten In One Gallery, Project Space, Chicago
1998 Ten in One Gallery, Chicago Last Name First

1997 UIC (site specific), Chicago I Haven't Felt This Good Since the 80s


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS




2007
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Schalter, Berlin
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
A+D Gallery, Chicago Girl on Guy
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago 1990-2007


2006
site specific, Chicago Art 44/46
New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY Past Imperfect: Future Tense

2005
Chicago Cultural Center, Situation Comedy
Nurture Art Gallery, Brooklyn Well Read


2004
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Strange Days
Indianapolis Muceum of Contemporary Art When the Artist Speaks
Pond Gallery, Chicago, Swerve/Break
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL Books and Shelves
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Uncovered

2003
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago It Is What It Says
1926, Chicago Oops, I Did It Again

2002
Gallery 312, Chicago, Repo(session)
Bodybuilder and Spotsman Gallery, Chicago Eight and a half by Eleven

2001
Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, En Avant
Rocket Gallery, London Counting Colour
Gallery 400, Chicago Inside the City
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Con/textual: Art and Text in Chicago
Ispace Gallery, Chicago REMIX

2000
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Sites Around the City
Ten In One Gallery, New York The Thrill of It All
Three Arts Club, Chicago Digital Art

1999
Copenhagen, DE (site specific) Dispensing With Formalities
Lenora Vega Gallery, New York Disorienting Signs
Rocket Gallery, London Gridlocked
TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago; Gallery 400, Chicago Concerning Truth

1998
Rocket Gallery, London Chicago Hip
Gallery 400, Chicago Sculpture In Chicago-The Next Generation
Post Gallery, Los Angeles Taste of Chicago
Remba Gallery, Los Angeles Text and Numbers
Carlton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN; Lawrence University, Appleton, WI; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
(touring exhibition, 1997-1998) 10,000 Lincoln Cheese Logs: Something Different from Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin

1997
DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago eee! Motional
Chicago (site specific) Dispensing With Formalities
TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago Distractions
Chicago Project Room, Chicago BYOB
Ikon LTD/Fine Arts, Los Angeles Works on Paper

1996
NAME Gallery, Chicago Word Up
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL Evanston and Vicinity 13th Biennial
NAME Gallery, Chicago FRESH


PUBLICATIONS

Critical Inquiry "On the Case" Volume 34, No. 1, Autumn 2007

Diagram “Proofreader’s Marks” (image), issue 5.2, 2005
"May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor." Perennial Currents/Harper Collins. 2004.

Journal of Mundane Behavior “Resume/Executive” (image) Issue 2.3, October 2001
"U.S. Donut Exchange Rate Board" (image). In These Times, 2 May 1999, 31.
"The Artist and Society: A Survey." Cakewalk 2 (Winter 1999), 48-51.
"Untitled (U.S. Tax Form 1040EZ)." Whitewalls 38 (Winter 1997), 28-29.


CATALOGUES


2007
Berlant, Lauren, Hard Feelings: Stephanie Brooks. Gahlberg Gallery. 2007
Swanson, Pat, Another Story. Hyde park Art Center. 2007
2005
Molon, Dominic; Rooks, Michael: Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art.

2004
Spector, Buzz; Books and Shelves. 2004
2001
Whitewalls: Silverman, Lanny; Spector, Buzz: Con/Textual.

2000
Lineberry, Heather. Sites Around the City: Art and Environment.
Tempe: Arizona State University Art Museum, 2000.

1999
Di Stefano, John. "Travel and Identities of Displacement." Not on Any Map. Chicago: Betty Rymer Gallery and the Film Center, 1999.
Estep, Jan. Disorienting Signs. New York: Lenora Vega Gallery, 1999.

1998
Hixson, Kathryn. Stephanie Brooks. Chicago: Ten in One Gallery, 1998.

1997
Maldonado, Ed, Nadine Wasserman, and Tina Wasserman. Distraction.
Chicago: Contemporary Arts Council, 1997.
Wasserman, Nadine. Tour Book. Appleton, WI: Wriston Art Center/
Lawrence University, 1997.


ARTICLES AND REVIEWS




2007
"Art and language, Stephanie Brooks, Ian Wilson, Helen Mirra" Galleries Uptown, New Yorker, 25 June, 2007
Furnari, Rachel.  New City Chicago. October, 2007

2006
Review: "Art 44/46" Time Out Chicago, October, 2006

2004
Yood, James. "Stephanie Brooks at Rhona Hoffman Gallery" Artforum, Dec. 2004

2003
"Stephanie Brooks." Galleries Uptown, New Yorker, 31 March, 2003
2002
Charlesworth, J.J. "Stephanie Brooks: 00+1 New Sculpture at Rocket Gallery" 100 Reviews (3), Alberta Press, London 2002
2001
Purcell, Greg. "Stephanie Brooks" New Art Examiner, July/August 2001, 91.
Tan, Eugene. "Counting Colour." ArtReview, April 2001, Volume LIII, 76.

2000
Johnson, Ken. "Stephanie Brooks." New York Times, 29 September 2000, B29.
Review of Sites Around the City Exhibition. "Art and Environment." Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 27

1999
Review of Gridlocked. Time Out (London), 26 May 1999, 43.
Evening Standard (London), 6 January 1999.

1998
Review of Chicago Hip. WhatÕs On (London), 30 December 1998, 20.
Herbert, Martin. Review of Chicago Hip. Time Out (London),
16 December 1998, 69.
Evening Standard (London), 29 October 1999, 43
Gustafson, John. "Stephanie Brooks." New Art Examiner 25 (May 1998), 45.
Camper, Fred. "Emotional Signposts." Review of Last Name First.
Chicago Reader, 6 February 1998, 26-28.
Wiens, Ann. "Tip of the Week." ChicagoÕs New City, 22 January 1998, 24.

1997
Anon. "Reviews." Umbrella 20 (October 1997).
Swartz, Mark. "Art People" Chicago Reader, 22 August 1997.
Erickson, Karl. "Word Up." New Art Examiner 24 (February 1997).


TEACHING EXPERIENCE



The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Adjunct Assistant Profressor, Sculpture Department
Beginning Sculpture
Intermediate Sculpture
Advanced Sculpture
Undergraduate Sculpture Seminar
Graduate Seminar
Graduate Advising

First Year Program, Research Studio

University of Illinois at Chicago
Beginning Sculpture (Fall 2001)
Video 1, Graduate Teaching Assistant (Spring 1996)

The University of Chicago
Visiting Artist, Committee on Visual Arts, (Winter 2002, Winter, 2006)
courses taught: Intermediate Sculpture, Visual Language (2-D), Graduate Advising

Vermont College
Artist/Teacher- Graduate Student Advisor (Fall 2001, Spring 2002)

Visiting Artist, Girl Scout Troop 117, January, 2002

RELATED EXPERIENCE


Web designer and graphic designer



(updated January, 2008)