DENNIS KOWALSKI
1932 Hafor Dr
Iowa City Iowa 52246
319-339-0061
mayfIyd@yahoo.com
Images: Google: picasa web albums Dennis Kowalski
EDUCATION
1932 Hafor Dr
Iowa City Iowa 52246
319-339-0061
mayfIyd@yahoo.com
Images: Google: picasa web albums Dennis Kowalski
EDUCATION
1966 MFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1964 Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C.
1962 BFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1959 Illinois Institute of Technology
1955-57 University of Illinois at Chicago (architecture)
GRANTS
1995 Traveling Fellowship Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council Travel Grant, Seoul, Korea, University
of Illinois, Chicago
1984 Illinois Arts Council, Artists Fellowship
1980 Illinois Arts Council, Artists Fellowship
Illinois Arts Council, Project Completion Grant
1975 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship Grant
1966 George D. Brown, Traveling Fellowship The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
TEACHING
1966-71 DePaul University Chicago, IL Sculpture, humanities, art history, art appreciation.
Instructor. Began the sculpture program.1971-02 University of Illinois at Chicago,
Associate Professor, Sculpture, seminars, graduate and undergraduate. Along with
Charles Wilson, developed and wrote the undergraduate and graduate curriculum in
studio arts.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago
2014 The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2010 Gosia Kocielak Gallery Chicago
2008 Flatfile Gallery, Chicago
2005 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, John Colloton Pavilion, Iowa City, IA
2004 Retrospective: Evanston Arts Center, Evanston IL and The Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland
Park, Retrospective: 1973-2003 Sculpture on the Grounds, One year installation, Evanston Art Center, IL
2003 William A. Koehnline Gallery Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
2002 Flatfile Gallery, Chicago
2000 Bona Fide Gallery, Chicago
1997 Beret International Gallery, Chicago ( reviewed, Frieze, March/April 1998)
1995 N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1993 Beret International Gallery, Chicago
1992 Robert Morrison Gallery, New York
1991 Deson/Saunders Gallery, Chicago
1990 Art Academy of Cincinnati
1989 Deson/Saunders Gallery, Chicago
1988 Trinity College, Palos Heights, IL
University of Indiana, Gary, IN
1986 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1983 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1982 Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
1981 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1980 N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1978 Artpark, Lewiston, New York Artists Project
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1977 Krannert Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign
1976 Mundelien College, Chicago
1974 Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago
1972 Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago
1971 DePaul University, Chicago
1969 Indiana University Northwest
1966 Silverman Gallery, Chicago
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Whimsy ICON Gallery Fairfield Iowa
2013 ICARCH Gallery House for Lebbeus Woods. Online International.
2010 UB Gallery, University of Buffalo, Artpark 1974-1984
2010 ICARCH Gallery House of War. Online International.
2008 Flatfile Gallery, Chicago
2007 Innovation, Chicago Cultural Center, The Chicago Rehabilitation Institute
2006 Transitions, Goshia Kocielak gallery and studio Chicago
NOVA ART FAIR, Chicago
FIatfile goes to Mars. Mars Gallery, Chicago
2003 Nature, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago,IL
2002 Cultural transformations. Szczecin,Poland. National Museum Travels to: Warsaw, Krakow and Berlin
2001 Cultural Transformations: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
Anti-Iraq Sanctions — Tent/Action, Uptown Peace Park, Chicago
Sculpture Chicago Now: Columbia College, Chicago
Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
2000 2,000 Reasons to Love the Earth, 2000 Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands. Exhibitions in Amsterdam,
Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Essen.
1999 University of West Virginia and Morgantown, UWV
1998 Diverse Works, The Harry Caray Show, Houston, TX
1997 Best of Beret, Volume 2, Beret International Gallery, Chicago Manif 97 International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
Juno Moneta at Mindy OH Gallery, New York
1996 Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea
Total Museum of Art, Cultured Pearl, Seoul, Korea
Museum of Contemporary Art, History of Chicago Art Since 1945, Chicago
Fassbender Gallery, Constellations, Chicago
College of DuPage Art Center, Gallery iO”, Anniversary Exhibition, Glen Ellyn, IL
1995 ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid
1994 Beret International Gallery, Worst Art Show, Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center, 55th Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago
Mindy OH Gallery, Pieces of the Puzzle, three-person, Chicago
Mindy OH Gallery, Cultured Pearl, Chicago
Illinois State Museum, Place, Springfield
1993 Illinois State Museum, Place, Chicago and Lockport
Robert Morrison Gallery, New York
Columbia College Art Gallery, Self/World, two person, Chicago
1992 Betty Rymer Gallery, From America’s Studio, 1 25th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, School of the
Art Institute of Chicago
Galberg Gallery, Arts Center, two person, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn,
1991 West Art and The Law (traveling), New Orleans, LA; American Association of Law New Visions Gallery
of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul; Haggerty Art Museum,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, (curated)Robert T. Buck, I. Michael Danoff and Gudman Vigtal (cat.)
Forum Gallery, Sculpture Invitational, Minneapolis
1990 18 Artists, 18 Major Works, 18 Clybourn, Chicago installation Spirits in the Material World, Deson
Saunders Gallery, Chicago
Structures, Deson/Saunders Gallery, Chicago
Generations, Part I, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University Gallery, Pittsburgh
1989 Previews, Deson/Saunders Gallery, Chicago
1988 Panstwowe Museum na Madanku ul Lublin Poland
The Whole World is Still Watching, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
Redefining the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Ughts, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago
Chairs, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
1987 Space Probe, Hyde Park Art Center (4), Chicago
Axe Street Arena, Art Daw Installation, Chicago
Artists Call, Axe Street Gallery, Chicago
Bates Gallery, Chicago
1986 Voyages, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
In Defense of Richard Serra, Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Art Museum
Northern Illinois University Gallery
Artists Alternative Media, Chicago
Material Media, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1985 International Experimental Art Exhibition, Budapest Young Artists Club
The Shadow, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
Then & Now, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1 + 1 = 2, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago
1984 The Object Transformed, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago
Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Landscape, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
Small But Hot, Burpee Museum, Rockford, IL
1983 Jim & Danielle Sotet Collection, University of Maryland
Illinois State Museum, Invitational, Springfield, IL
Semaphore Gallery, New York
Castles, Sculpture Survey, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
Fans, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
10th Anniversary Exhibition, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1982 Mile of Sculpture, Art Expo Navy Pier, Chicago
Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago Installation
Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh
Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Sculpture Garden, New York
1981 Various Places, 26 Federal Plaza, New York
City Sculpture, Cultural Center, Chicago
1980 Chicago Art Prospective, Navy Pier, Chicago
Steffonotti Gallery, New York
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
Onwardsisland, New York
Dittman Gallery (2), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1979 Wards Island, New York
Dimensions I, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1978 The University of Missouri, Kansas City
Seven Sculptors, De Paul University, Chicago
Works on Paper, The Art Institute of Chicago
7 x 9 Show, NLA.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas
Painting & Sculpture 1978, Indianapolis Art Museum
1977 Kalamazoo Art Institute, Chicago Sculpture
Pollack Gallery, Toronto
MoMing Dance Center, Chicago, Installation
Arte Fiere, Bologna, Italy
1976 Abstract Art in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Marianne Deson Gaffery, Chicago
Distinguished Alumni, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
John Doyle Gallery, Chicago
N.A.M.E. Gallery (2), Chicago
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1975 The Art Institute of Chicago, Vicinity Exhibition
University of Chicago, Bergman Gallery
Midwest Bicentennial Sculpture, Federal Center Plaza, Chicago
Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago-The Other Tradition 1974 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Federal Center Plaza, Chicago 1973
MASS 73, 111 E. Wacker, Chicago
De Paul University, Chicago
1970 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1968 Hyde Park Art Center
1966 De Paul University, Chicago
1965-66 Vicinity Show, The Art Institute of Chicago
COLLECTIONS (public)
DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Chicago Lab School
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Governors State University, Park Forest, IL
Illinois State University, Bloomington
Phillipsborn Corporation, Chicago
Prudential, Newark, NJ
Sidley & Austin, Chicago
Indianapolis Museum of Art
First National Bank of Chicago
Total Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Bank One, Chicago,
CATALOGUES
The Other Tradition, Derek Guthrie, Jane Allen, Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago, 1975
Sculpture for a New Era, Richard Koshalek & Jay BeIloli, Art in Public Places, Chicago, 1 975
Abstract Art in Chicago, C. L. Morrison, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1976
Contemporary Chicago Sculpture, Pauline Saliga, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, 1977
Chicago Abstractionists, Hollister Sturgis, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1978
Chicago the City and its Artists 1945-1978, Charles Lewis, Cynthia Yao, University of
Michigan, 1978
Artpark 1978, Artists Statements, Lewiston, NY
Seven Sculptors, Holly Day, De Paul University, Chicago, 1 978 Painting and Sculpture 1978, Hilary T. Bassett, Indianapolis Museum of Art
New Dimensions 1, Pauline Saliga, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1979
Dennis Kowalski, Holly Day, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, 1980
Klement/Kowalski, Dennis Adrian, Northwestern University, 1980
Mayor Byrne s Mile of Sculpture, Chicago Sculpture Society, May 1982
Small But Hot, Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Martin DeWitt, 1 982
A Guide to Chicago s Public Sculpture, University of Chicago Press, Ira J. Bach and
Mary Lockritz Gray, 1983
Alternative Spaces: a History in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984
Space Probe, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Garret HoIg, 1986
Voyages, Kohler Arts Center, 1986
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Art Museum, 1986
Experimental Art Exhibition, Young Artists Club, Budapest, 1986
Redefining the Object, Wright State University and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Essay, Dan Cameron, 1988
The Whole World is Still Watching, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Maureen Sherlock, 1988
Generations: Part I, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University Gallery, Pittsburgh, Elaine King, 1990
West Art and The Law, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN, 1991; curators, Gudman Vigtal,
Robert Treat Buck, I. Michael Danoff
From America s Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 125th Anniversary Alumni
Exhibition, Neal Benezra and James Yood, 1992
Place, Illinois State Museum, Cheryl Hahn, 1993
Dennis Kowalski, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, publisher, essay Steve Tomasula, 1995
History of Chicago Art 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1996
Manif 97 International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
Diver se Works, David Robbins & Marilu Knodes, 1998
Dennis Kowalski retrospective 1973-2003, Evanston art Center, IL Suburban Fine Arts
Center Highland Park, IL John Brunetti
PERIODICALS
Art Forum, Review, Whitney Halsted, September 1967
Art News, Chicago, Franz Schulze, 1975
New Art Examiner, Devonna Piesek, January 1975
Art in America, Chicago, Letter, Peter Schjledahl, July 1976
New Art Examiner, Seven Wedges for Art World Cross Town, Raye Mitchell, December 1976
Art News Rooms with a Point of View (lead photo), Kay Larson, October 1977
New Art Examiner, Artists on Artists, December 1977
Arts, Artpark s Fifth Year, Lenore Malen, December 1978
Art in America, Reviews, Holly Day, September/October 1978
Arts 1978 ChicagoThe City and its Artists, Mary Jane Jacobs, Art ForumSeptember , Chicago, Dialectic, C. L. Morrision, February 1978
New Art Examiner, Buzz Spector, March 1978
Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, February 1978
Art News, Franz Schulze, Chicago, February 1979
New Art Examiner, Dennis Kowalski, The Syntax of Shelter, Holly Day, March 1980
Chicago Tribune Alan Artner, December 1980
Art News How to Get from Gritty to Great, Franz Schulze, April 1981
Reviews
Hedy Weiss; City Sculpture, October 1981
Arts Artpark and the Leisure Landscape, April Kingsley, summer 1982
New Art Examiner, Summer Solstice, Michael Bonesteel; Art Express,
Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, October 1983
New Art Examiner, The Siting of Chicago, October 1983, Paul Krainak
Chicago Sun-Times Landscape, Review, Christopher Lyon, September 28, 1984
Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, April 1986
Chicago Tribune, Sue Taylor, January 1987, Space Probe
NewArt Examiner, Chicago Sculpture, Steve Luecking, October 1988
Art News, Review Chicago, Garret Holg, September 1989
Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, Review, May 1989
Contemporanea, Chicago Reviews, Tim Porges, May 1990
Cincinnati Enquirer, Reviews, Owen Findsen, October 14, 1990
ArtAcademy News, Cincinnati, commentary, Cat Kowal, December 1990
Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, September 1991
Flash Art, Chicago Kathryn Hixson, Review, November/December 1991
New Art Examiner, Chicago, James Yood, Review, December 1991
Chicago Tribune, Private Stock, Alan Artner and David McCracken, monograph, May 1993
Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner Review, November 1993
New Art Examiner, Michael Bulka Review, February 1994Dialogue, Pieces of the Puzzle, Tina Wasserrman, Nov/Dec 1994
New Art Examiner, Constellations, John Brunnetti, review, October 1996
Art in Ameica, Where the Wild Things Were, Richard Vine, May 1997
Chicago Reader, Landscape Artist, Fred Camper, November 14, 1997
Frieze, Dennis Kowalski at Beret International Gallery, April-May ,1998
Chicago Tribune, Dennis Kowalski, Alan Artner, November 8, 2002
Sculpture Magazine, March 2004 Idea-based sculpture, Claire Wolf Krantz
Chicago Tribune Kowaiski Retrospective, October 28, 2004
Chicago Sun Times Dennis Kowalski, Galleries, Margerat Hawkins November 5, 2004
Evanston Review Double Display, October 7, 2004
Sculpture Magazine Dennis Kowalski March 2005