Education
1984-88
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY - Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
1982-84
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA (solo)
2020
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL (solo)
Judy Ferrara Gallery, Three Oaks, MI
2019
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI (solo)
Breaking Criminal Traditions, The Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA
Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL (solo)
Things That Go Bump in the Night, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
2018
The Starting Point That Will Also be the Exit, Souvenir Museum, Montreuil, France
The Invisible Jew, Detour Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
Judy Ferrara Gallery, Three Oaks, MI
Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2017
The University Club of Chicago (solo)
Outside/Inside: Exploring Boundaries and Otherness, Spertus Institute, Chicago, IL
Regional Juriied Exhibition, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
Abend Gallery, Denver, Co
Elephant Room Blackstone Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Unpresidented, Space 900, Evanston, IL
2016
Spirit in the Land, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Human Form, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Freak Out! Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Breaking Criminal Traditions, Kean University, Union, NJ
Reinventing Ourselves From Another Point of View, Art NXT Level Projects, Chicago, IL
You, Me and Everyone Else, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
Feminism Across the Generations, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
Connections, Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY
Immortality and Vulnerability, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Her Story, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
Judy Ferrara Gallery, Three Oaks, MI (solo)
2014
Gendering Desire: Liberation, Power and Pleasure, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
Josef Glimer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Blue Gallery, Three Oaks, MI
2013
Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
rEVOLUTION ’13, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
70th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
2012
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (solo)
College of the Sequoias, Visalia, CA (3-person)
Love, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
MAMA, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA (online)
2011
Judy Ferrara Gallery, Three Oaks, MI (solo)
Gender Matters, Allbright College, Reading, PA
Womanfully, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, CA
68th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
rEVOLUTION ’11, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2010
No Place Like Home, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
rEVOLUTION ‘10, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Art of the Soul: A Women’s View on Oppression and Sexism, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
Off Center, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
100 Starlings, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
KY7 Biennial, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Women Painting Women, Robert Lange Gallery, Charleston, SC
2009
46th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
The Nude in Contemporary Art, A.D. Gallery, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
Exhibiting You, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA - online
Women Imaging Women: A Study of Female Portraiture, Robert Morris University, Chicago
The Art of Dayton Street Studios, Concordia College, River Forest, IL
2008
65th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
Spring Into Summer, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
rEVOLUTION ‘08, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Women’s and Gender Studies 2008 Biennial, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
11th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Are We There Yet? 40 Years of Feminism, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Loyola National Works on Paper, Loyola Crown Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
Symbolism, Myth and Ritual, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
Loyola National Works on Paper, Loyola Crown Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Through Her Eyes, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
Transfigure, Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Blue Gallery, Three Oaks, Michigan
2005
University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL (solo)
Many Perspectives, Many Lives…, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
The Acquisition Exhibition, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Gallery H, Three Oaks, MI
2004
OtherSide Gallery, South Bend, IN (solo)
Waxworks 3, Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
WCA Midwest Regional Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery at the Gordon Inn, Union Pier, MI
2003
Gallery 415, Chicago, IL (solo)
The Fordham Company Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL (solo)
Chicago Artists Against the War, Chicago Athenaeum Art Museum
Options - Proposed Work for the Corporate Collection, Illinois Institute of Art
2002
Triangle Gallery of Old Town, Chicago, IL (solo)
September 11, Chicago Athenaeum Art Museum, Schaumburg, IL
Skyscraper, The California Building Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
12 Voices, Cliff Dwellers Gallery, Chicago. IL
2001
Clarke House, Lake Bluff, IL (solo)
2000
Maxwell Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Grants and Awards
2017
Midwest Jewish Artists Lab Fellowship - Spertus Institute, Chicago, IL
2016
Founders Award - South Shore Arts 73rd Annual Salon Show
2013
Merit Award – South Shore Arts 70th Annual Salon Show
2011
City of Chicago CAAP Grant
Gardner Memorial Award – South Shore Arts 68th Annual Salon Show
2009
City of Chicago CAAP Grant
Founders’ Award - South Shore Arts 66th Annual Salon Show
2008
Ernestine “Dolly” M. Wisnewski Memorial Award - 65th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts
2007
City of Chicago CAAP Grant
2006
The George Sugarman Foundation Grant
Judith Dawn Memorial Fund Grant
2004
Judith Dawn Memorial Fund Grant
2002
City of Chicago CAAP Grant
2001
City of Chicago CAAP Grant
Cliff Dwellers Artists in Residence Program
Selected Collections
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
Commonwealth Edison, Chicago
Deloitte, Chicago
The University Club of Chicago
The Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, Chicago
Franz Hartl / Sunloft Industries, Sarasota, FL & Vienna, Austria
William Boyce collection, London, UK