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Artist Statement
Anna Kunz
My current work has involved the creation of paintings, sculpture and installations that are inspired by experiential interactions with the urban environment, art, and architecture. These works are positioned in an operable, site- responsive way within a given space. In keeping the works interchangeable, I am asking my paintings to seep out of the frame into the viewer’s space, the way light enters into a room through a window.
Since New Yorkers spend a lot of time underground- in the darkness, getting places, I have become sensitive to the way light can transform experiences and the sense of time. I am noticing the importance of the window in my studio, and I have been considering the meaning of the window for a painter ; as an illusion of a space, a metaphor with multiple associations, an illusion and as reality in architecture. Illumination has been a constant interest during the last years, and, through color, I attempt to formalize the element of light in my paintings. I use various qualities of paint, both mirror-like and light absorbing (opaque) to move the viewer through the paintings, and to reflect the other works within them. The color in each piece is choreographed to create shifting atmospheres by using hues that create afterimages that carry on to other works.
Through the process of painting and a physical engagement with materials, I wish to convey some quality of light, space and time to the viewer. I want my work to excite the viewer’s eye ; to heighten the experience of looking.
Anna Kunz
My current work has involved the creation of paintings, sculpture and installations that are inspired by experiential interactions with the urban environment, art, and architecture. These works are positioned in an operable, site- responsive way within a given space. In keeping the works interchangeable, I am asking my paintings to seep out of the frame into the viewer’s space, the way light enters into a room through a window.
Since New Yorkers spend a lot of time underground- in the darkness, getting places, I have become sensitive to the way light can transform experiences and the sense of time. I am noticing the importance of the window in my studio, and I have been considering the meaning of the window for a painter ; as an illusion of a space, a metaphor with multiple associations, an illusion and as reality in architecture. Illumination has been a constant interest during the last years, and, through color, I attempt to formalize the element of light in my paintings. I use various qualities of paint, both mirror-like and light absorbing (opaque) to move the viewer through the paintings, and to reflect the other works within them. The color in each piece is choreographed to create shifting atmospheres by using hues that create afterimages that carry on to other works.
Through the process of painting and a physical engagement with materials, I wish to convey some quality of light, space and time to the viewer. I want my work to excite the viewer’s eye ; to heighten the experience of looking.
CV
Anna Kunz
akunz@sbcglobal.net
www.annakunz.net
Home-
260 East 10th Street #3
NYC NY 10009
Mail- P.O. Box 605
NYC NY 10009
STUDIO through August 2011-
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
20 Jay Street, suite 720 Brooklyn NY 11201
STUDIO after August 2011- 1027 Grand Street,
Brooklyn NY 11211
Education
2009 The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2000 MFA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1991 BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Projects
Upcoming 2011 Oehme Graphics, Steamboat Springs, CO
Upcoming 2011 Collaboration with Industry of the Ordinary at The Chicago Cultural
Center, Chicago IL
2009 Event- Décor in collaboration with Richard Woodbury, Takehisa Kosugi, and
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
New York City, NY, Chicago, IL
2009 Décor -“In the Mirror Room,” Paige Cunningham, Choreographer, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Eidolon, Commissioned Courtyard Installation, Smart Museum of Art,
University of Chicago, 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, Normal IL
2006 Anna Kunz, Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston,IL
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
Thomas Mc McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Paintings, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL Feelie,
Northwestern University, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston, IL
1998 Poetic Abstractions, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL
1997 Inflorescence, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
Upcoming 2011 COLOR, curated by Jami Lee Polson, A+D Gallery, Chicago IL
Upcoming 2011 Spectral Landscape, curated by Pamela Fraser and John Neff ,Gallery
400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston MA
2010 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Open Studio DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Quarterly Project- REGISTERS, Gallery LVL3, Chicago, IL
2010 I Know What You Did Last Summer, St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Collage From Then to Now, Thomas Mc Cormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Bad At Sports, Apex Art, New York City, NY
2010 Portable Caves, HJBK Space, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Industry of the Ordinary, 39 VERBS, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 _________place, Columbia College Chicago Annual Faculty Exhibition,
Chicago, IL
2009 Mike Lash and Friends, Lyons Weir Ott Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 The Bad Art Show, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
Skowhegan ME
2009 Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2009 The New York International Print Show, Riverhouse/Van Straaten Gallery,
Park Avenue Amory, NYC, NY
2009 This is not a print show, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Infrastructure, ZG Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, IL
2008 Summer Mix, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale Heights, MI
2008 Echo: collaboration with Eli Robb, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2008 Thinking in Color: Pamela Fraser, Suzanne Silver, Anna Kunz, Melissa Oresky,
John Parot,David X. Levine, curated by Judy Ledgerwood, Lemberg Gallery,
Ferndale, MI
2008 Tory Folliard Gallery, 20th Anniversary Show, Milwaukee, WI
2007 inland see, traveling exhibition curated by James Yood
2007 Paper Now, curated by Chris Kahler, I Space
2006 Takeover, Opening exhibition for the New Hyde Park Art Center
2005 Into the Woods, curated by Jessica Moss and Mary Beyer
2004 Think small, curated by Robert Sill, The Illinois State Museum
2004 DRAWN, leadbased, Brooklyn, NY, July, 2004
2004 Thomas Mc Cormick Gallery, Art Chicago, May 2004
2004 Remarkable Women, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, March 2004
2004 Being; Beyond, MN Gallery, Chicago IL, March 2004
2003 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Part Art Center, Chicago, IL
2003 Color Bias, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 The Big Picture Show, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 Color Abstractions: Doug Holtz, Jason Rolf, Ariana Huggett, Anna Kunz,
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2003 Pac, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 San Francisco International Art Fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2003 Art Chicago: Navy Pier: Thomas Mc Cormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2003 Riverhouse Editions, Clark, CO
2003 The Summer Drawing Show, Mixture Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, TX
2002 FFWD: Miami, (Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio TX), Miami, FL
2002 Paper Products, Evanston Art Center, curated by Dan Devening
2002 Transcultural Visions, National Museum of Sczecin, Szczecin, Poland
2001 College Proofs, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2001 San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, CA
2001 LOOK; Paint; Spaces, Cleveland, OH
2001 Almost Giddy, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2001 New Abstraction in the New Century, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
2001 Prints, Untitled Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
2001 Prints and Plants, A Human/Nature Production, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City,
MO
2001Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Special Project Space, Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2001 Art Chicago 2001, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Artist/Alumni, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2001 LOOK PAINT; Gundersdorf, Kunz, Scott, Reitmeier, Murphy, Beacon Street
Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 RED, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2000 Art Basel, Riverhouse Editions, Basel, Switzerland
2000 Three Chicagoans, Alyia Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
1999 Art Basel, Riverhouse Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Award Recipients, Chicago, IL
1999 Anna Kunz, Dan Rizzi, Matthew Magee, Wilson Stevens Gallery, London, UK
1999 Art Chicago 1999, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Big Ten, Big Ten College MFA Candidates, Park Ridge, IL
1999 Group Show, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
1999 Group Show, Wilson Stevens Gallery, London, UK
1998 New York Print Fair, Quartet Editions, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
1998 San Francisco International Art Exposition, Thomas McCormick Gallery, CA
1998 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, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Contemporary Show, Love Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Nineball, curated by Tony Fitzpatrick, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Wesley Kimler Picks Four, Lineage Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Space Gallery at Hotel Phoenix, San Francisco, CA
1994 Inspiration Cafe, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1994 Space Gallery, New Pier Show, Chicago, IL
1993 Gallery Artists, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Gallery Artists, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1992 New Talent, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
Artist Organizer/Curator
2011 NATURE, Unframed: Art at the Arboretum, Site-responsive, International, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Kunz, Vis, Gonzalez. International Exhibition Space in a Garage in Chicago run by Niels Vis, of Amsterdam via Skype, and Rosalinda Gonzalez of NYC via Skype, and Anna Kunz, live. Exhibitions travel quarterly.
2011 Chuck Webster/Ida Kveyny and poets on paper
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
2010 “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” Thomas McCormick Gallery, Summer 2001 Judy Ledgerwood, Fandra Chang, Portia Hein, Pamela Fraser, Shirley Tse, Sue Scott, Francesca Pastine, and emerging Chicago painters.
Selected Awards
2010 Space Program Marie Walsh Foundation, NY, New York
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2000 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
2000 Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL
1999 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Scholarship, Chicago, IL
1998 Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL
1998 Professional Artist in Residence, SAIC, Oxbow, MI
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, Chicago, IL
Commissions
The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Logan Square Library Branch featuring a 800 square foot painting in the clearstory of the building made in collaboration with the children and teens of the Association House, Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL
Numerous Private Commissions
Nominations
2011 Rena Hort Mann Foundation Individual Artists Grant
2010 Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, Columbia
College Chicago
2008 Dreihaus Foundation Artists Award
2008 Young Artists Award/ Midwest, National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington D.C.
2007 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2003 The Rolex Mentor Protégé Arts Program
Selected Bibliography
Alan Artner, “Recommended” Chicago Tribune, Arts section, September 14,
2001.
Alan Artner, “A h3 Opener” Chicago Tribune, Arts section, May, 2006.
Bloom, Mina, “Artist behind multimedia spectacle revealed” The Chronicle,
September 8, 2009.
Buchholz, Barbara. “Anna Kunz, Joseph Seigenthaler,” Chicago Tribune, October 17, 1997.
Bulka, Michael. “Anna Kunz,” New Art Examiner, September, 1996, pp.38.
Bulka, Michael. FGA, http://www.uncomfortablespaces.org, September 10, 2000.
Conger, William, Yood, James, Artist/Alumni, Catalog, Northwestern University, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, summer, 2001.
Connelly, Patrice. “Helping Verbs,” New City- Arts Section, October 15, 2009.
Dobbins, Hamlet, Almost Giddy, Rhodes College Press, essay for exhibition, October 2001.
Footlik, Jennifer. “Artists to Watch,” The Chicago Social, April, 1998.
Fuller, Janet-Rausa. “Showcase. Lucky 13,” Chicago Sun-Times, October 8,
2000, pp. 4E.
Grabner, Michelle, “Serendipity” New Art Examiner, Nov-Dec, pp.84.
Grajina. “An Interview with Anna Kunz,” WPNA, Radio Polish National
Alliance.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Breaking Boundaries,” Chicago Sun Times, Saturday, May 6, 2006, pp.13.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Recommended,” Chicago Sun Times, Weekend, Dec. 21,
2001.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Being: beyond” Exhibition Essay, MN Gallery, March 2004.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Art Chicago Review,” Chicago Sun Times, May 11, 2004.
Hawkins, Margaret, CACA Lecture: Chicago Critics on Chicago Art, Art Chicago, Navy Pier, May 2004.
Kaplan, Kathy. “All in the Family,” Chicago Tribune Magazine, January 30, 2000, pp.23 - 24.
Koscielak, Gosia, Catalog, “Transcultural Visions,” Traveling exhibition, Poland, March 2002.
Kushner, Marilyn, Sandback, Amy, College Proofs, Exhibition catalog, The Block Museum of Art, October 2001.
Maes, Nancy. “Portrait of the Artists,” Northwestern, Summer 2001, pp.19.
Parr, Debra Riley, “Serendipity”, essay for exhibition, Thomas McCormick Gallery, September 2001.
Rowe-Shields, Michelle, “Anna Kunz - Poetic Abstractions”. Concentrics, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 1998.
Sandler, Carrie. “Short and Sweet,” UR Chicago, March 11, 2004, pp.19.
Smith, Sid. “Cunningham Dance is a must-see tribute,” The Chicago Tribune,
September 18, 2009, pp. 15
Smith, Sid. “Cunningham Dance Review,” The Chicago Tribune, September 25,
2009.
Stein, Lisa, ”Kunz’ new work revels in Layers,” The Chicago Tribune, Dec. 21,
2001.
Stein, Lisa. “Shaping MFA’s at Weinberg,” Cross Currents, Spring 2001,
Volume 2, Number1, NU Press, and pp.11.
Savage, Tracey. “Business - The Art Chicago 1998 Show,” Chicago Sun Times,
May, 11, 1998.
Swartz, Mark. “Out From Under the Influence,” Chicago Reader, December 15, 1995, pp.34 - 35.
Weins, Ann. “Season Openers,” New City, September 4, 2000.
Wenzel, Eric. “Quarterly Site #4 Registers,” ArtSlant, October 10, 2010.
Yood, James. “ANNA KUNZ: PAINTINGS”, Exhibition Catalog, Thomas McCormick Gallery, September 2000.
Selected 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
Other
Published Etchings and Monotypes, Riverhouse Editions, Clark CO
Master Printer, Sue Hover Oehme / assisted by Susan Thompson
Published Water Based Monotypes, White Wings Press, Chicago, IL/ Printer, Teresa Mucha
Professional Artist in Residence
1998 The School of the Art institute of Chicago-Oxbow, MI Volunteer Art
Instructor
Juror
2010 CSPACES review committee, Columbia College Chicago
2010-2012 Committee: Three Walls Exhibition Space, Seasons for SOLO Exhibitions
1999-2001 The National Foundation of Advancement in the Arts, Presidential
Scholarship Award, Miami, FL
2001 Artists Assistant, John Hogan, NYC for Sol LeWitt- various projects and
installation, Rhona Hoffman Gallery Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Community Projects
2006 The Association House of Chicago Children and LISTO Teen Group in Collaboration with Anna Kunz
2005 Author: The Glimmer Project: Second Graders and Abstraction, The University of Chicago Lab School
2004 Lycee Francais, Chicago, IL Color Workshop, Visiting Artist
1997 Our Lady of Tepeyac High School, Volunteer Art Instructor
Anna Kunz
akunz@sbcglobal.net
www.annakunz.net
Home-
260 East 10th Street #3
NYC NY 10009
Mail- P.O. Box 605
NYC NY 10009
STUDIO through August 2011-
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
20 Jay Street, suite 720 Brooklyn NY 11201
STUDIO after August 2011- 1027 Grand Street,
Brooklyn NY 11211
Education
2009 The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2000 MFA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1991 BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Projects
Upcoming 2011 Oehme Graphics, Steamboat Springs, CO
Upcoming 2011 Collaboration with Industry of the Ordinary at The Chicago Cultural
Center, Chicago IL
2009 Event- Décor in collaboration with Richard Woodbury, Takehisa Kosugi, and
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
New York City, NY, Chicago, IL
2009 Décor -“In the Mirror Room,” Paige Cunningham, Choreographer, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Eidolon, Commissioned Courtyard Installation, Smart Museum of Art,
University of Chicago, 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, Normal IL
2006 Anna Kunz, Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston,IL
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
Thomas Mc McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Paintings, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL Feelie,
Northwestern University, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston, IL
1998 Poetic Abstractions, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL
1997 Inflorescence, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
Upcoming 2011 COLOR, curated by Jami Lee Polson, A+D Gallery, Chicago IL
Upcoming 2011 Spectral Landscape, curated by Pamela Fraser and John Neff ,Gallery
400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston MA
2010 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Open Studio DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Quarterly Project- REGISTERS, Gallery LVL3, Chicago, IL
2010 I Know What You Did Last Summer, St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Collage From Then to Now, Thomas Mc Cormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Bad At Sports, Apex Art, New York City, NY
2010 Portable Caves, HJBK Space, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Industry of the Ordinary, 39 VERBS, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 _________place, Columbia College Chicago Annual Faculty Exhibition,
Chicago, IL
2009 Mike Lash and Friends, Lyons Weir Ott Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 The Bad Art Show, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
Skowhegan ME
2009 Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2009 The New York International Print Show, Riverhouse/Van Straaten Gallery,
Park Avenue Amory, NYC, NY
2009 This is not a print show, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Infrastructure, ZG Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, IL
2008 Summer Mix, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale Heights, MI
2008 Echo: collaboration with Eli Robb, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2008 Thinking in Color: Pamela Fraser, Suzanne Silver, Anna Kunz, Melissa Oresky,
John Parot,David X. Levine, curated by Judy Ledgerwood, Lemberg Gallery,
Ferndale, MI
2008 Tory Folliard Gallery, 20th Anniversary Show, Milwaukee, WI
2007 inland see, traveling exhibition curated by James Yood
2007 Paper Now, curated by Chris Kahler, I Space
2006 Takeover, Opening exhibition for the New Hyde Park Art Center
2005 Into the Woods, curated by Jessica Moss and Mary Beyer
2004 Think small, curated by Robert Sill, The Illinois State Museum
2004 DRAWN, leadbased, Brooklyn, NY, July, 2004
2004 Thomas Mc Cormick Gallery, Art Chicago, May 2004
2004 Remarkable Women, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, March 2004
2004 Being; Beyond, MN Gallery, Chicago IL, March 2004
2003 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Part Art Center, Chicago, IL
2003 Color Bias, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 The Big Picture Show, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 Color Abstractions: Doug Holtz, Jason Rolf, Ariana Huggett, Anna Kunz,
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2003 Pac, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 San Francisco International Art Fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2003 Art Chicago: Navy Pier: Thomas Mc Cormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2003 Riverhouse Editions, Clark, CO
2003 The Summer Drawing Show, Mixture Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, TX
2002 FFWD: Miami, (Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio TX), Miami, FL
2002 Paper Products, Evanston Art Center, curated by Dan Devening
2002 Transcultural Visions, National Museum of Sczecin, Szczecin, Poland
2001 College Proofs, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2001 San Francisco International Art Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, CA
2001 LOOK; Paint; Spaces, Cleveland, OH
2001 Almost Giddy, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2001 New Abstraction in the New Century, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
2001 Prints, Untitled Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
2001 Prints and Plants, A Human/Nature Production, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City,
MO
2001Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Special Project Space, Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2001 Art Chicago 2001, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Artist/Alumni, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2001 LOOK PAINT; Gundersdorf, Kunz, Scott, Reitmeier, Murphy, Beacon Street
Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 RED, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2000 Art Basel, Riverhouse Editions, Basel, Switzerland
2000 Three Chicagoans, Alyia Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
1999 Art Basel, Riverhouse Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Award Recipients, Chicago, IL
1999 Anna Kunz, Dan Rizzi, Matthew Magee, Wilson Stevens Gallery, London, UK
1999 Art Chicago 1999, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Big Ten, Big Ten College MFA Candidates, Park Ridge, IL
1999 Group Show, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
1999 Group Show, Wilson Stevens Gallery, London, UK
1998 New York Print Fair, Quartet Editions, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
1998 San Francisco International Art Exposition, Thomas McCormick Gallery, CA
1998 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, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Contemporary Show, Love Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Nineball, curated by Tony Fitzpatrick, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Wesley Kimler Picks Four, Lineage Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Space Gallery at Hotel Phoenix, San Francisco, CA
1994 Inspiration Cafe, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1994 Space Gallery, New Pier Show, Chicago, IL
1993 Gallery Artists, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Gallery Artists, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1992 New Talent, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
Artist Organizer/Curator
2011 NATURE, Unframed: Art at the Arboretum, Site-responsive, International, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Kunz, Vis, Gonzalez. International Exhibition Space in a Garage in Chicago run by Niels Vis, of Amsterdam via Skype, and Rosalinda Gonzalez of NYC via Skype, and Anna Kunz, live. Exhibitions travel quarterly.
2011 Chuck Webster/Ida Kveyny and poets on paper
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
2010 “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” Thomas McCormick Gallery, Summer 2001 Judy Ledgerwood, Fandra Chang, Portia Hein, Pamela Fraser, Shirley Tse, Sue Scott, Francesca Pastine, and emerging Chicago painters.
Selected Awards
2010 Space Program Marie Walsh Foundation, NY, New York
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2000 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
2000 Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL
1999 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Scholarship, Chicago, IL
1998 Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship, Evanston, IL
1998 Professional Artist in Residence, SAIC, Oxbow, MI
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, Chicago, IL
Commissions
The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Logan Square Library Branch featuring a 800 square foot painting in the clearstory of the building made in collaboration with the children and teens of the Association House, Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL
Numerous Private Commissions
Nominations
2011 Rena Hort Mann Foundation Individual Artists Grant
2010 Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, Columbia
College Chicago
2008 Dreihaus Foundation Artists Award
2008 Young Artists Award/ Midwest, National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington D.C.
2007 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2003 The Rolex Mentor Protégé Arts Program
Selected Bibliography
Alan Artner, “Recommended” Chicago Tribune, Arts section, September 14,
2001.
Alan Artner, “A h3 Opener” Chicago Tribune, Arts section, May, 2006.
Bloom, Mina, “Artist behind multimedia spectacle revealed” The Chronicle,
September 8, 2009.
Buchholz, Barbara. “Anna Kunz, Joseph Seigenthaler,” Chicago Tribune, October 17, 1997.
Bulka, Michael. “Anna Kunz,” New Art Examiner, September, 1996, pp.38.
Bulka, Michael. FGA, http://www.uncomfortablespaces.org, September 10, 2000.
Conger, William, Yood, James, Artist/Alumni, Catalog, Northwestern University, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, summer, 2001.
Connelly, Patrice. “Helping Verbs,” New City- Arts Section, October 15, 2009.
Dobbins, Hamlet, Almost Giddy, Rhodes College Press, essay for exhibition, October 2001.
Footlik, Jennifer. “Artists to Watch,” The Chicago Social, April, 1998.
Fuller, Janet-Rausa. “Showcase. Lucky 13,” Chicago Sun-Times, October 8,
2000, pp. 4E.
Grabner, Michelle, “Serendipity” New Art Examiner, Nov-Dec, pp.84.
Grajina. “An Interview with Anna Kunz,” WPNA, Radio Polish National
Alliance.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Breaking Boundaries,” Chicago Sun Times, Saturday, May 6, 2006, pp.13.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Recommended,” Chicago Sun Times, Weekend, Dec. 21,
2001.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Being: beyond” Exhibition Essay, MN Gallery, March 2004.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Art Chicago Review,” Chicago Sun Times, May 11, 2004.
Hawkins, Margaret, CACA Lecture: Chicago Critics on Chicago Art, Art Chicago, Navy Pier, May 2004.
Kaplan, Kathy. “All in the Family,” Chicago Tribune Magazine, January 30, 2000, pp.23 - 24.
Koscielak, Gosia, Catalog, “Transcultural Visions,” Traveling exhibition, Poland, March 2002.
Kushner, Marilyn, Sandback, Amy, College Proofs, Exhibition catalog, The Block Museum of Art, October 2001.
Maes, Nancy. “Portrait of the Artists,” Northwestern, Summer 2001, pp.19.
Parr, Debra Riley, “Serendipity”, essay for exhibition, Thomas McCormick Gallery, September 2001.
Rowe-Shields, Michelle, “Anna Kunz - Poetic Abstractions”. Concentrics, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 1998.
Sandler, Carrie. “Short and Sweet,” UR Chicago, March 11, 2004, pp.19.
Smith, Sid. “Cunningham Dance is a must-see tribute,” The Chicago Tribune,
September 18, 2009, pp. 15
Smith, Sid. “Cunningham Dance Review,” The Chicago Tribune, September 25,
2009.
Stein, Lisa, ”Kunz’ new work revels in Layers,” The Chicago Tribune, Dec. 21,
2001.
Stein, Lisa. “Shaping MFA’s at Weinberg,” Cross Currents, Spring 2001,
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Selected 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
Other
Published Etchings and Monotypes, Riverhouse Editions, Clark CO
Master Printer, Sue Hover Oehme / assisted by Susan Thompson
Published Water Based Monotypes, White Wings Press, Chicago, IL/ Printer, Teresa Mucha
Professional Artist in Residence
1998 The School of the Art institute of Chicago-Oxbow, MI Volunteer Art
Instructor
Juror
2010 CSPACES review committee, Columbia College Chicago
2010-2012 Committee: Three Walls Exhibition Space, Seasons for SOLO Exhibitions
1999-2001 The National Foundation of Advancement in the Arts, Presidential
Scholarship Award, Miami, FL
2001 Artists Assistant, John Hogan, NYC for Sol LeWitt- various projects and
installation, Rhona Hoffman Gallery Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Community Projects
2006 The Association House of Chicago Children and LISTO Teen Group in Collaboration with Anna Kunz
2005 Author: The Glimmer Project: Second Graders and Abstraction, The University of Chicago Lab School
2004 Lycee Francais, Chicago, IL Color Workshop, Visiting Artist
1997 Our Lady of Tepeyac High School, Volunteer Art Instructor
untitled,2011installation, 14’ x 22’ x 15’d,
latex on scrim ,window,wall painting, acrylic and oil on panel(ptgs), mirrored plastic and enamel on panel(sculpture)
untitled with shadow and light,2011wall painting with paintings
14’ x 20’ x 8"d
paintings,window,daylight,latex on scrim, acrylic and latex on canvas. (cut hole on layered painting leans)
curtain, 201114’x 22’x3’d
latex on scrim, daylight, window
light, 2011latex on canvas
60” x 60” x3” d
shadow, 2011latex and hi gloss enamel on canvas
60” x 60"x3"d
fracture, 2011acrylic, latex, hi gloss enamel, oil on panel
54” x 58"x 3"d
storm, 2011acrylic, latex, hi gloss enamel, oil on panel with painted scrim section,
54” x 58” x 3"d
afterimage, 2011oil and hi gloss enamel on panel,
24” x 24” x2"d
day and night, dyptich, 2011latex, oil and high gloss enamel on panel, wall painting-
(small rectangle on wall connecting paintings)
68” x 108” x 3"d
2nd ave shroud, 2010latex, scrim, wall painting, latex on paper( floor)
14” x 22” x 6"d
wall is painted through the scrim, scrim is pulled away from paintng
2nd Ave pm, 2010installation, latex on scrim, daylight, and wall painting, latex on paper , painting on panel, 14’x50’ x 15’d
pryamus and thisbe, 2010installation, latex on scrim, daylight, latex on wall
12’x20’x15’d
fugative, 2010netting, spray paint, reflective mylar, latex on scrim, wooden frame, 38” x 34” x 6” d
heart constellation, 2010purple heart wood, paper, reflective mylar, acrylic on paper 20” x 8” x 6” d
satellites, 2010purple heart wood, balsa, plaster, acrylic on wood, wax
8” x 14” x 14” d
complicated relationship, 2010plywood, felt, hi gloss enamel and acrylic , glue
10” x 15” x 15” d
Erebos, 2010hi gloss enamel on panel, mirrored plastic, reflective mylar, foam, glue
12"x48” x 36"d
painting lounge, (installation), 2003-2010acrylic on cardboard moving boxes, hi gloss enamel (floor), seating, lighting, oil on panel
20’x 40 round
painting lounge detail, 2003-2010acrylic on cardboard boxes, hi gloss enamel, painting on panel
in the mirror room, 2009curtain. plastic, tape, netting, latex on scrim, theatrical lighting, hi gloss enamel, found materials. 20’ x40’ x 6’d