Mindy Rose Schwartz
MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
State of Illinois Art Teaching Certificate K–12, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, Sculpture, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2012
Living By Example—Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
2011
SOLO Show—Three Walls Gallery, Chicago
Heads on Poles—Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2010
IAAFBJHMJNMOMRSATSW (Nine Artists From Chicago)—Fountain Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Now Is The Time: Slab In Temporary Space—the temporary space, Houston, Texas
2009
Sweeping The Inside Out—Side Car Gallery, Hammond, Indiana
Zombie: A Mindless Affair—Antena Gallery, Chicago
“They will not ruin us through the things that we like”—Western Exhibitions, Chicago
Macrame Intervention—Façade Installation, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago
Artists Run Chicago—Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Mini Fair—Mini Dutch Gallery, Chicago
$(Heart)—NFO XPO, Versionfest, Chicago
2008
“An Associates Degree in Science”—Finch Gallery Chicago, IL
Liv Ullman, Anaerobic Digestion, Post-Psychiatry—Open Lot Studios. St. Louis, MO and Pampered Banana, Kansas City, MO
Three Hundred Six—Hoffman Lachance Contemporary, St.Louis MO.
Can Bigfoot get you a Beer?—Alagon Gallery, Chicago, IL
Solo Show—Old Gold Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shape Shifters—Contemporary Art Council, Jason Foumberg curator, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL
The NewAuthentics—Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
NEXT Fair Chicago—Jail Gallery (LA, CA) and (Old Gold Gallery, Chicago, IL)
Overlooker—LosAngeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2007
The NewAuthentics—Spertus Museum, Chicago IL
Night Light—SLAB Projects, Glendale, CA
COMA #16—California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
COMA #14—California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2006
COMA #7—California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
COMA #5—California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Takeover—Hyde Park Art Center New Space Opening, Chicago, IL
Strange Fictions—NIU Art Museum Gallery, Chicago, IL
COMA #1—California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Exposed: Envisioning the Invisible Body—McLean County Arts Center
2005
Nook—The Guest Room Project, Chicago, IL
BMOMA #2—Bridgeport Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2004
Frisbee Art Fair—Joymore Gallery, Miami, FL
Cha Cha Cha—Worm-Hole Laboratory, Miami, FL
Combine: Mixing Media—Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage—WhiteWalls Show, Hyde Park Art Center
The Stray Show—MULE, North Kinsbury, Chicago
Good and Bad Things Come from Explosions—PAC Edge, Chicago
2003
Designs for Modern Living—1942 N. Wolcott, Chicago
Thrill 3: The Party—1723 Humboldt Blvd., Chicago
White Walls Booth—Installation Art Expo Navy Pier, Chicago
The Stray Show—Joymore Gallery, North Kingsbury, Chicago
2002
Solo Show—Joymore Gallery, Chicago
The Stray Show—Joymore Gallery, North Kingsbury, Chicago
Watery, Domestic—The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Best of Chicago 2011, Best Solo Art Show, New City, 12/15/11
Foumberg, Jason, Imaginary Monuments for Chicago: An Artists’ Project, New City Chicago, 9/8/2011
Havrelock and Bunzl, eds., AJS Perspectives, New York, Front, Inside and Back covers, Fall 2011
Stabler, Bert, Best of Chicago, Critics Picks, Best Artists 2011, Chicago Reader, 6/23/11
Gunn, Dan, Interview with Mindy Rose Schwartz, Bad at Sports Blog, March 13, 2011
Ise, Claudine, Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports, Podcast on Art:21 Blog, March 9, 2011
Velez, Pedro, Chicago-Build-Up, artnet Magazine, 1/29/10
Sash, Beautifuldecay.com, 3/10/10
Cochran, Jessica, CS Interiors, 2010
Weber, Candice, “Dutes Miller and they will not ruin us,” Time Out Chicago, 7/2/09
Viera, Laura, Two from Western Exhibitions, Chicago Tribune, 6/19/09
Artner, Alan G., Art for All, Chicago Tribune Magazine, 4/19/09
Foumberg, Jason. Portrait of the Artist: Mindy Rose Schwartz. Newcity Chicago, 10/6/08
Grabner, Michelle. Critics Picks, Can Bigfoot get you a Beer? ArtForum, 10/08
Stein, Jesse, Shape-Shifters, Flavorpill. 5/08
Artner, Alan G., ArtReview, Chicago Tribune 12/6/07
LaBelle, Monica, TheCraft Trend: That's not an LSD flashback-that's macramé! F News Magazine, 12/07
Foumberg, Jason, The NewAuthentics: Artists of the PostJewish Generation, Frieze Magazine, 11/07
New AmericanPainters #71, 8/07 The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
Snodgrass, Susan, Report From Chicago, Window of Opportunity, Art in America, 1/07
Stabler, Bert, CriticPicks 2006, ChicagoReader 12/22/06
Artner, Alan G., Visions of the future, Chicago Tribune 4/21/06
Elms, Anthony, FineWords, Cabbage No Butter, 26 years of Whitewalls, Spring/06
Hawkins, Margaret, Breaking Boundaries, Chicago Sun-Times 5/6/2006
Elms, Anthony, ed., Whitewalls Issue 45, 2004
Farstad, Julie, ed., Mouth to Mouth, Spring 2003
2010—3Arts Fellowship at Ragdale
2005—Frankel Foundation Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center
1998—Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Grant
1996—Randolph Street Gallery Project Space, Grant
1996—Faculty Prize for Graduate Study, Studio Arts, UIC, Grant
2012—Co-Prosperity School, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
2012—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Research Studio, First Year Program
2012—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Intermediate Sculpture
2011—Threewalls Gallery Chicago, Artist Talk Solo Project
2008—Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions at My Friend’s Place, Los Angeles, CA, public workshop
2004—Spertus Museum, Chicago, public lecture with James Yood
2002—Illinois State University, public lecture, University Galleries, Normal Illinois
2002—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, First Year Program, public lecture
2002—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Beginning sculpture, visiting artist lecture
1999—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Advanced sculpture, visiting artist lecture
2011—Ragdale Artist Residency, Lake Forest Illinois
2005—Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2002—Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois