Education 1987 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1987 The Slade School of Art, the University of London Exhibitions (listings in bold indicate solo exhibitions) 2010 Earthworks: Robert Smithson, Sam Durant, and Mary Brogger. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2007 Consuming War, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 2006 Artists and Automobiles, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Washington Park, Chicago 2004 Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, curated by Bob Nickaus and Steve LaFreniere The Center is Anywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2003 Fashionism, Performance Fashion Show, The Open End, Chicago 2000 Contemporary Decorative Arts in Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1997 Events at the Horizon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (exhibition catalogue) Threshold, Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary art, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (exhibition catalogue) 1996 Sciogliere, ViaFarini Gallery, Milan, Italy Time Arts Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Untitled, Gallery 312, Chicago Hall20, Der Bliss Ins Wasser, Hall, Austria (exhibition catalogue) 1995 Heaven's in the Back Seat of My Cadillac, N.A.M.E., Chicago Untitled group exhibition, Dilmos, Milan, Italy Inside, The California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California (exhibition catalogue) 1994 Strip, N.A.M.E., Chicago 1993 Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (exhibition catalogue) Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California Serious Beauty, The Metropolitan Momentary Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, California Chicago Drawings, Madeira, Portugal Tattoo, The Permanent Mark, The Food House, Santa Monica, California Don't Slam the Door on Your Way Out, 312 North May Street, Chicago 1992 Plot, N.A.M.E., Chicago 1991 Rezac Gallery, Chicago Immagina Proiettate, ViaFarini Gallery, Milan, Italy Comfort, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California The Foreign Policy Show, Flat Iron Building, Chicago 1990 Looking at Labor: What Price Beauty, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago 1988 Functiononfunction, Rezac Gallery, Chicago Performance and Performance Related Activities 1995-1997 The Swans (remix), and the The Swans by Lawrence Steger, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Club Lower Links, Chicago, Set / Props 1995 Friends with Firearms: A Farwell to Feminism by Paula Killen, Chicago Filmmakers Set and Costume Design 1991 STAVE, by Lawrence Steger at Club Lower Links, Special Effects Design Tragedy Strikes, solo performance at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC When I regain my Foliage, a Film by Robert Metrick and Allan Ross; Costumes Worn Grooves by Lawrence Steger at Cleveland Public Theater, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, and Club Lower Links, Chicago Awards 2004 The Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, Nominee 2002 The Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, Nominee 1999 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, Nominee 1994 Chicago Artists International Program, Sculpture 1992 Illinois Arts Council, Artists Fellowship Grant, Sculpture 1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, Sculptors Selected Public Art Commissions 2004 Haymarket Memorial monument, Chicago 2003 Mandarin Hotel, New York, NY 2000 Park Hyatt Hotel, Chicago, Michigan Ave, curated by Staci Boris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1996 City of Chicago Martin Luther King Drive Gateway Project, the Recognition Panels 1995 Chicago "Circulator" Train project, station stop design, Finalist. (project not realized) 1994 City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for the Arts Commission at Mount Greenwood Branch Library, Chicago Selected Bibliography 2007 World Wide Web: "Apartment Therapy- Chicago" March 5 Dwell magazine. Dec./Jan. 2008 "Off the Grid" David A. Greene 2006 House and Garden Television. "Small Spaces Big Style": episode 306 "Sculpting a Small Space" Gala, Deutschland edition, December World Wide Web: "Apartment Therapy- Chicago" August 11 Chicago Sun Times, June 30, Misha Davenport 2004 New York Times, September 15, National Report, review, Stephen Kinzer New York Times, Friday July 23, Arts Section, review Chicago Journal, September 16, Review, Katheryn Rosenfeld Chicago Tribune, September 7, 15, 24, Reviews, Tom McNamee, Alan Artner Illinois Issues, December, Pat Guinane 2002 Artforum, May, "Top Ten", Steve Lafreniere 2001 Metropolis, April, reproduction, Park Hyatt Hotel, Chicago 1997 Flash Art, Nov/Dec, Katherine Hixson Frieze, Nov/Dec, Michelle Grabner New Art Examiner, November, Ann Wiens 1995 Casa Vogue, Italy, May, Laura Maggi Modo, Italy, July