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Joan Livingstone

 

Born

1948 Portland, Oregon


Education

1974 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1972 B.A., Portland State University, Portland, OR
1967 Beloit College, Beloit, WI


Selected One Person Exhibitions

2006 MetCap Private Bank, Chicago
"Membranes.Margins.Disruptions," Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, NY,
Dorothy Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH,
Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
2005 "Borderlines," Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago (Also 1997, 1995, 1992)
"Re/Locations," MN Gallery, Chicago
2004 "Migrations," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland OR (Also 2001, 1995)
2000 "Jane Lackey   Joan Livingstone," Roy Boyd Gallery
1998 "Limits of Capacity," Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI
1997 "resistSTANCES," Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI (also 1994, 1992)
"Joan Livingstone: Sculpture, Prints and Collages, 1990-1997," Jack Olson Gallery, NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1996 "Collages, Prints, Sculpture," Cabell Center for the Arts, The Catlin Gable School, Portland, OR
1995 "Sculpture," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 "Recent Sculpture," Hoffman Gallery, The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR (brochure)
1992 "Organic Sensibilities," The Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1990 "Joan Livingstone: New Sculpture," Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (Also 1988)


Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 "Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works," Chicago Cultural Center
"The Body in Fiber," Tarble Arts Center, Eastern IL University, Charleston, IL
2005 "Material Inquiry," Macalester College Art Gallery, St Paul, MN
"ABSTRACT VOCABULARY, Rockford College in conjunction with Roy Boyd Gallery"
"Cranbrook to Lancaster and Back," Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2004 "Voices of Site: Tokyo-Chicago-New York, Tokyo Gei Dai National University of Fine Arts and Music Museum, Japan 
Daegu Textile Art Documenta 2004: The Garden of Hybridization," Daegu Korea
"Soft Edge," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"turning home," Track House, Oak Park, IL
2002 "Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia A. Groot Awards," Groot Foundation Space, Chicago
"In the Material World," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL (4 One Person Exhibitions)
1999 "Embodiment," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1997 "Assemblage," Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit
"Ingestions," Sabbatical Exhibition, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1998 "Sum Greater Than the Parts: Contemporary Sculpture," Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL
1996 "Contemporary Work," Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL
"Pleasure (Beyond Guilt)," Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
"Ten Years: 1986 - 1996," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 "Chicago Prints," Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea (catalog)
"Fiber as Sculpture," Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL (catalog)
"National Objects Invitational," Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR
1994 "Fabricated Nature," Boise Museum of Art, ID (catalog)
1993 "Another View," University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
"State of the Art," Loveland Museum of Art, Loveland, CO (catalog)
"A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture of Illinois Artists," Chicago Cultural Center
1992 "Few and Far Between," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
"Domestic Ontogeny," California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
"Artful Nature," Evanston Art Center, IL (brochure)
"International Contemporary Fiber Art, Now," Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea (catalog)
1991 "Natural Forces/Human Observations," The Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, MO (catalog)
"New Acquisitions: the MCA Collects," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Contemporary Works in Felt," School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, OH and Western Carolina University, NC (catalog)
"New Ends," Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1990 "The Chicago Show," The Chicago Cultural Center, (catalog)
"Crossovers," The Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO (catalog)
"U.S.A./Colombia:Fibers," Florida State University Gallery and Museum Tallahassee, traveling to Bogota, Medellin, Calle, Colombia (catalog)
1988 "Imagining Form: Six Sculptors," State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago
1987 "The Matter of Sculpture," Bowling Green State University Gallery, OH
1985 "Sculpture Textile," 12th Biennale Internationale de la Tapissierie, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Vivid Form: New Inventions," The Kemper Gallery, The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1984 "American Fiber: A New Aesthetic, Diverse Works,"  Houston, TX
"Fiber Crosscurrents," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1982 "Cloth Forms," Dayton Art Institute, OH
"Dimensions: Felt," Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
"Fiber Directions," Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1981 "Fiber in Collusion," The Banff Center Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada also University of ND Art Galleries, Grand Forks, ND
"Old Traditions-New Directions," The Textile Museum, Washington, DC


Selected Awards and Grants

2000 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship (Also 1989, 1986)
1998 Virginia A. Groot Foundation, Illinois, Individual Artist Grant
1997 Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC (also 1994,1992,1989,1988,1984)
1993 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship (Also 1986, 1979)
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Also 1984, 1988 and 1989)
1989 The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Artist's Fellowship, Brown University, RI
1990 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist's Fellowship (catalog)
 

 

Selected Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Boise Museum of Art, Idaho
Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection, Lancaster, PA