Chris Reeves
Education
PhD, Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dissertation title: “Playing Music Badly in Public: Brian Eno, Experimentalism, and the Limits of the Non-Musician." Advisors: Hannah B Higgins, Elise Archias, Simon Anderson, Owen Smith, Deborah Stratman. 2021
MA Art History, University of Cincinnati, Design Architecture Art and Planning, Cincinnati, OH Thesis: “United Front and Action vs. Beautiful Coffee Cups: Fluxus through the Publications of George Maciunas and Dick Higgins.” Advisors: Morgan Thomas, Kimberly Paice, Jessica Flores. 2012.
BA Art History, University of Cincinnati, Design Architecture Art and Planning, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.
Courses Taught
Advanced History of Video (ARTH 4670 Spring 2024: School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Survey of general developments, trends, and innovations with artist video from 1960-2000.
Museum and Exhibition Workshop (AH302, Spring 2024: University of Illinois at Chicago). Practice based course on exhibition creation, design, curation, and organization.
The Image Object: Post-Punk (ARTH 239 Fall 2023; Columbia College, Chicago). The aesthetics of punk and its relationship to various art historical actions and movements in the 20th c to today.
Broken Records: Artists Make Noise (ARTH 599, Spring 2022; Columbia College, Chicago). Histories of vanguard music and its relationship to visual, conceptual, and performance practice. Graduate level. Instructor and course design.
Art & Music (ARTH-299A, Spring 2022; Columbia College, Chicago). Survey of visual and conceptual artists working with sound and music. Instructor and course design.
Art History: Renaissance to Modern (FNA201, Spring 2022, Loyola University). Global survey of art
World Survey of Art (AH111, Spring 2022; University of Illinois at Chicago). Instructor. Global survey of art.
Going Big: Professionalism Workshop (PC201, Spring 2022: The Art Academy of Cincinnati). Instructor. Team taught class on different approaches towards the creative fields. My emphasis on DIY culture, friendship networks, and empirical practices (guest lectures and creative work).
Performance Art Histories of New York in the 70s and 80s (ARTH 5167, Fall 2021; School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Performance art histories from New York City in the 1970s-80s with an emphasis on artist relationships to the vernacular (music, television, etc). Graduate level. Instructor and course design.
Utopias and Provocations (ARTH 5022, Fall 2021: School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Survey ca. 1800-today of select moments throughout art history in which artists aimed to agitate for social, political, or artistic change. Graduate level. Instructor and course design.
Introduction to Visual Culture (ARTH 105, Fall 2021: Columbia College Chicago): Methodological visual practices with an emphasis on contemporary art and culture. Instructor.
Music for Non-Musicians (AOM Summer 2021, Ox-Bow School of Art) Co-taught with Britni Bicknaver. Introduction to experimental music and art practices
Museums and Exhibitions in Motion (AH206, Spring 2020: University of Illinois at Chicago): Contemporary exhibition practices dealing with critique, activism, and DIY ethos.
Creativity and Innovation in Design and the Arts (IDEA 110, Fall 2018/Fall 2019: University of Illinois at Chicago): Introduction to interdisciplinary practices in the arts.
Introduction to Museums and Exhibitions (AH180 Fall 2017/Spring 2018/Summer 2020/Spring 2021: University of Illinois at Chicago): History of exhibition practices 1800-today.
Cool Medias: Artists on Television (AH234 Summer 2017: University of Illinois at Chicago): Survey of video art, home media and mass media artist works.
World Survey of Art Graduate Teaching Assistant (AH110-111 Fall 2015/Spring 2016: University of Illinois at Chicago): Global survey of art, offered online, flipped, and in a traditional classroom.
Art Appreciation (AR1004 Fall/Spring/Summer 2012-2014: Antonelli College, Cincinnati, OH):
Survey of Artist innovations 15th century to today.
Intro to Commercial Design (ID2524 Summer 2014: Antonelli College, Cincinnati, OH).
History of Art Graduate Teaching Assistant (ARTH1001-2: University of Cincinnati): Global art survey.
Books
The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2020. DAP distribution (edited and essay).
“Whipped Cream, Coffee Grounds, and an Ellipsis: Benjamin Patterson’s Fluxus Indigestion,” in The Routledge Companion to Performance, eds. Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless, Routledge, 2022 (essay).
How to Listen to a Record, Chicago: Something Other Press, 2018 (edited and essay).
“Game Day 2k12,” in Emergency Index, ed. Yelena Guzman, New York: Ugly Duckling Press, 2012 (essay & documentation of performance piece).
Academic Publication
“Multiball and Multiplicity: Suzanne Ciani and the Voice of Xenon,” VGA Reader No. 4, ed. Tiffany Funk, (forthcoming)
“Hobie, Hubris, Highwayman: Impossible Tricks,” Incite Journal of Experimental Media No. 7, eds. Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere, 2017.
“Allographies in the Annex: Something Else Press and the Production of Fluxus,” Counter Signals No. 2, ed. Jack Henrie Fisher, 2017.
(Translation) Collecting Collections and Concepts/Uma Viagem Iconoclasta por Colecoes de Coisas em Forma De Assimeds. Mendes, Paulo; Jurgen, Sandra Vieria, FCG + In Transit Editions, 2013.
Art Criticism
“Rethinking Exhibition Making: A Review of Mike Lopez at Material,” New City, October 15th, 2021
“A Praxis of Art and Life: A Review of Moki Cherry at Corbett vs. Dempsey,” New City, September 15th, 2021
“The Banality of Zoom: The Busan Biennial Comes (Virtually) to Chicago,” New City, March 15th, 2021
“Breakout Artist: Tamara Becerra Valdez,” New City, April 30th, 2020.
“Breakout Artist: Roni Packer,” New City, April 24, 2019.
“What Ever Happened to Taking a Chance? A Review of ‘Hairy Who? 1966-69’ at the Art Institute of Chicago,” New City, November 5, 2018.
“There Goes the Neighborhood: A Review of ‘The Strange Fields of this City’ at the Chicago Artists Coalition,” New City, May 30, 2018.
“Breakout Artist: Sherwin Ovid,” New City, April 26, 2018.
“Breakout Artist: Ruby T,” New City, April 26, 2018.
“Enigmatic Propositions on the Past and Present of Human Migration: A Review of Ellen Rothenberg at the Spertus Institute,” New City, February 20, 2018.
“Delayed Departure: A Review of Roni Packer and Mike Lopez at Roots and Culture,” New City, September 26, 2017.
“The Artist’s Corpus Disfigured: A Review of Lilli Carré at Western Exhibitions,” New City, September 20, 2017.
“Drawing American from an Immigrant’s View: A Review of ‘Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg’ at the Art Institute of Chicago,” New City, August 14, 2017.
“Make Art, Be Happy: Radical Artistic Collaboration in Rogers Park,” New City, July 5, 2017.
“Breakout Artist: Liz McCarthy,” New City, April 27, 2017.
“Breakout Artist: Alejandro Acierto,” New City, April 27, 2017.
“Playful Paintings Beguile in Our ‘Post-Truth’ Present: A Review of Erin Hayden at Randy Alexander Gallery,” New City, January 13, 2017.
“Considering Art’s Relational Capacities to Site and Space: Fieldwork’s ‘More Strange than True’ in Profile,” New City, October 6, 2016.
“Art 50: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists: Alberto Aguliar, Margot Bergman, William Pope. L, Judy Ledgerwood, Claire Pentecost, Deborah Stratman” New City, September 15, 2016.
“Not Another Exhibition Catalog: A Review of ‘Rules, Tools, and Fools’ at Spudnik Press Cooperative,” New City, September 6, 2016.
“Artists Play with Objectified Ideas: A Review of ‘PDF-Objects’ at Mana Contemporary,” July 21, 2016.
“Unraveling Art from the Mundane: A Review of Nick Albertson at Aspect Ratio,” New City, June 14, 2016.
“Eye Exam: Charlotte Moorman’s Network for One,” New City, February 11, 2016.
“Katie Pennachio and Matt Mancini at Fernway,” New City, November 15, 2015.
“Philip Maisel at Document,” New City, July 13, 2015.
“Ellen Rotherberg at Sector 2337,” New City, June 13, 2015.
“Cynthia 3000,”Aubuscule, January 2012.
“What is the Light? Doug and Mike Starn, ‘Gravity of Light,’ aeqai, October 22, 2012.
“100 Years from Monday: ‘John Cage: A Centennial with Friends’ at Carl Solway Gallery,” aeqai, February 18, 2012.
“Loading: ‘Is This Thing On?’ at the Contemporary Arts Center,” aeqai, December 15, 2011.
“It’s Oh So Quiet: ‘Mute Motives’ at Semantics,” aeqai, July 25, 2011.
“Steve Kemple,” aeqai, May 23rd, 2011.
“Eric Ruschman,” aeqai, April 5, 2011.
Artist Published
“Smelling, Seeing, Hearing, Touching Fluxus Sound,” Stolen Symphony/Keep Together (Fluxus & NeoFluxus), Sub Rosa Records and Archivo Conz, Belgium, 2022.
“Slow Burning with Breanne Trammell,” Breanne Trammell: Slow Burn (exhibition text), The Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2021.
“On Not Forgetting Selected Works,” The Last Goodbye (exhibition catalogue) Selected Works, Chicago, IL, 2020.
“Court Life Revisions,” Introduction to Sketch Organs (exhibition catalogue) DEMO Projects, Springfield, IL, published by DEMO Projects, 2017.
“Late Night Avant Garde,” Lt. Paper (exhibition catalogue) ed. and published by Jesse Malmed, 2015.
“Continued on Page,” Pretentious Writings, ed. and published by Andre Alves, 2014.
Creative Projects & Publications
An Atlas, edition of 100 (forthcoming). A collection of artist realized speculative and poetic cartographies following a global pandemic. Features 48 contributors. Designer/Organizer/Editor/Writer/Publisher, 2022.
The Old Future’s Almanac, edition of 100, 178pp: An update on The Old Farmer’s Almanac that looks at the nature of forecasting in the long year of 2020. Features 40 contributors. Designer/Organizer/Editor/Writer/Publisher, 2021.
The Hole Black Hole Catalog, edition of 60, 164pp: update on Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog featuring thirty contributors responding to the first photograph of a black hole. Designer/Organizer/Editor/Writer/Publisher, 2019.
The Mountain, edition of 35, 18pp; catalog with written text and ephemera for solo exhibition at Adler & Floyd, Chicago, IL. Designer/Writer/Publisher, 2019.
Operose Music, booklet and cassettes, edition of 50, 18pp; catalog with written text and four recorded contributions (Jane Carver, Josh Rios, Lauren Sudbrink, Tamara Becerra Valdez) on audio cassette accompanying group exhibition, Operose Music at Flatland, Chicago, IL. Designer/Organizer/Writer, 2018.
How to Listen to a Record, Something Other Press, 7” record and booklet, edition of 100, 20pp; essay on the material potentials of the phonograph and featuring an artist, musician, and teacher (Josh Rios, Eddy Kwon, Sampada Aranke) discussing how to listen to a record on the LP. Writer/Organizer/Editor, 2018.
The Madeleine Stowe Show(e), edition of 35, 12pp; catalog accompanying curated group exhibition, The Madeleine Stowe Show(e) at Pique, Covington, Kentucky. Designer/Organizer/Editor/Publisher, 2018.
Escape Orchestra, edition of 30, 40pp; catalog accompanying Lauren Sudbrink’s solo exhibition, Escape Orchestra at Roman Susan, Chicago, IL. Designer/Writer/Editor/Publisher, 2018.
Egresswasm (artist pamphlet series) in three editions: Volume 1: 25; V2: 35; V3: 40; self-published series of pamphlets presenting work by artists who were given a specific theme/prompt around a contemporary problem. Contributors for Volume 1: Thorne Brandt, Chris Collins, Maya Ben David, Caleb Foss, Nellie Kluz, Liz McCarthy, Kyle Schlie, Lauren Sudbrink, Loraine Wible, Evelyn Wilde and a reproduction of Georges Perec’s “Blackbird’; Volume 2: Andre Alves, Ionit Behar, Kelsey Brod, Calcagno Cullen, Maya Ben David, Tiffany Funk, Erin Hayden, Sidney Cherie Hilley, Hanna M. Owens, Emma Safir, Lauren Sudbrink and reproductions of Helen Keller’s “The Frost Fairies,” and Margaret Canby’s “The Frost Fairies”; Volume 3: Elana Adler, Aalap Bommaraju, Arthur Brum, Liz Cambron, Jennifer Chan, Shir Ende, Marlo Koch, Hanna M. Owens, Bailey Romaine, Lauren Sudbrink, Breanne Trammell, Caroline Walp and reproductions of Margaret Cavendish’s “A Conversation Between Patience and Anger,” and Patricia Tijerina’s burning of a national parks sign in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Designer/Organizer/Editor/Writer, 2016-2018.
Whoopee Proclamation, edition of 20, 2pp; two-page proclamation pinned into a rubber whoopee cushion. Writer/Artist, 2017.
A Song an Hour, edition of 25, 18pp; exhibition catalogue to accompany curated group exhibition A Song an Hour at Mana Contemporary. Writer/Designer/Organizer/Editor, 2017.
Thingstead, series of five self-published artists books: Chris Reeves and Aaron Walker, Exercises in Chicago Manual of Style, 24pp, edition of 50; Arthur Brum, Oulaf Pataphysique, 64pp, edition of 50; Ryland Wharton, Legend and History, 24pp, edition of 50; Classical Muddly (edited volume on the Portsmouth Sinfonia), 36pp, edition of 50; Games and Puzzles, pages vary, edition of 50. Writer/Editor/Designer/Publisher, 2016.
The Traveling Show, an exhibition in a box with over thirty contributors: featuring an exhibition catalog, two CDs of Cincinnati local music, six artist postcards, a miniature sketchbook, a fortune cookie with text by Aristotle, a DVD of artist travel films, a whittled spoon, a ceramic magnet and ceramic tile, edition of 50. Writer/Editor/Designer/Organizer/Publisher, 2014.
Scholarly Presentation
“Musical Freedom in 1970s London: Sun Ra and the Scratch Orchestra,” CAA, Chicago, 2/19/22
“The Limits Grant Permission to Stray: John Cage through Charlotte Moorman, Julius Eastman, and Glenn Branca,” ReVIEWING Black Mountain College, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC, 11/13/21
Session Chair, “Quarantine Inside the White Cube,” CAA, New York, NY, 2/13/21.
“On Organizing the World’s Worst Orchestra,” Sounding Contemporary Art, Midwest Art History Society, Houston, TX (Canceled due to COVID-19) 4/19/20.
“The Portsmouth Sinfonia and the Terrible Sound of Effort,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, 1/10/20.
“Institutional Amateurism,” part of Claudia Weber’s Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House Residency at Elmhurst Museum of Art, Elmhurst, IL, 4/6/19.
Session Chair, “Deskilling in the Age of Donald Trump,” College Art Association, New York, NY, 2/14/18.
“Some More Thoughts on a New Destruction in Art Symposium,” (with Loraine Wible) 4th Annual Symposium Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 12/7/18.
“Some Thoughts on a New Destruction in Art Symposium,” Mid-America College Art Association, Lincoln, NE, 10/4/18.
“How Does an Archive Think? On the Spectacle of Contemporary Art Research,” Mid-American College Art Association, Cincinnati, OH, 10/26/16.
“Late Nite Avant-Garde,” as part of A Feast of Astonishments, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 4/29/16.
“Whipped Cream and Coffee Grounds in the Ellipses: Benjamin Patterson’s Aesthetic Indigestion,” part of “Digesting Discourses” conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 3/4/16.
Roundtables, Symposia, Classroom Presentations
In Conversation with VGA Reader for Fireside, Online, 6/22/22
“Discovered Musical Instruments and New Ways of Playing/Making Music and New Ways of Music,” Liz McCarthy, Musical Clay: Clay Instruments (Ceramics, 2009-001), School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago IL, 10/13/21
“A Rearview Mirror or a Portal? Experiencing and Making Art in a Global Pandemic,” Breanne Trammell, Graduate Studio Seminar (ART 6433), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 4/13/21
In conversation with 2020-2021 cohort, Annas Chicago IL, 3/14/21
“Fluxing a Pandemic,” Chris Collins. Art Games (Film, Video, New Media 4865), School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2/9/21
“So, You Want to Start an Accessible Inaccessible Exhibition Space?” Danny Floyd, Spine Intensive (Undergraduate Division 4999), School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL, 11/30/20 & Spring 2021.
“On Organizing The World’s Worst.” Caitlin Ryan, Humanities Through the Arts, (Art 150), McHenry County College, Chicago, IL, 11/5/20.
“Bad Music Networks.” Simon Anderson, Happening, Events, Theatre of Chance (Art History 4334), School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL, 11/4/20.
“Poetics of Research and Practice in Art History,” w/ Deanna Ledezma, University of Illinois at Chicago, 11/11/20.
In Conversation with Liz McCarthy for Nada at 062 Gallery, Chicago IL, 10/1/20.
In Conversation with Tamara Becerra Valdez for By and For at Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL, 8/9/20.
In Conversation with Tosh Berman: The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, ArtBook @ Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA, 8/8/20.
“Episode 743: Chris Reeves and Aaron Walker,” Bad at Sports, 6/23/20.
“On Artist Publishing.” Jack Henrie Fisher, Design Seminar (Design 520), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 11/19/19.
“Fluxus Games and Play,: Chris Collins. Art Games (Film, Video, New Media 4865), School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2/5/18 and Spring 2021.
“Expanded Art History for Plants, Lecture Series” University of Illinois Chicago Greenhouse, Chicago, IL. Featured presenters: Alejandro Acierto, Elizabeth Cambron, Chris Collins, Jen Delos Reyes, Mark Harris, Hannah B Higgins, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Nellie Kluz, Deanna Ledezma, Kelly Lloyd, Deborah Stratman, Lauren Sudbrink. Organizer, speaker, and moderator, 2/16-5/16.
“Mutual Interpretation,” w/Aaron Walker, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2/10/16.
“Q: What is Fluxus.” Alan Pocaro, History of Western Art Renaissance to Contemporary (ART 188) Miami University, Oxford, OH, 6/12.
Performance and Performance Lecture
“Constellations for a Dome Shaped Room,” Society for Literature Science and the Arts, 2023. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Multimedia high speed lecture. 10/22/23
“Nancy and the Voids,” with Breanne Trammell at Madeleine Vaccaro, good morning moon, Co-Prosperity, 6/3/23
“Elegy for Fluxus Dead,” Society for Literature Science and the Arts, 2022. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Multimedia high speed lecture. 10/7/22
Dick Higgins’ Spring Game Opera, “Dick Higgins” at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois. Performer, 3/5/22
“How to Rhythm,” Public Storage, Fayetteville AR. Text and percussion performance. 10/12/20.
“The World’s Worst Book Release,” Lumpen Radio, 5/26/20. Discussion on the book The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, accompanied by 25 non-musicians making musical projects.
“Superconducting the Classics for Benjamin Patterson,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California. Multimedia high speed lecture, 11/8/19.
“Fluxus in the Style of Fluxus,” Society for Literature Science and the Arts 2018, University of Waterloo/York University, Toronto, ON. Multimedia high speed lecture, 11/15/18.
“Egresswasm 3: Entropy, et al,” Chase Public, Cincinnati, OH. Durational lecture, two and a half hours, 7/22/18.
“Egresswasm 2: Shifting Epistemological Premises,” Chase Public, Cincinnati, OH. Durational lecture, two and a half hours, 7/17/17.
“Egresswasm,” Chase Public, Cincinnati, OH. Durational lecture, two and a half hours, 7/22/18.
“Up in the Air,” Skylab, Columbus, OH. Reperformance of George Brecht’s Drip Music, 4/9/16.
“Plays the Hits,” w/Aaron Walker, Wave Pool, Cincinnati, OH. Multimedia lecture, 7/17/15.
“Fluxus Scores,” Popular Library Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Performer and organizer of Fluxus concert, 8/16/14 .
“Consensus Con,” Outer Space, Chicago, IL. Multimedia performance, 11/22/14.
“The Bad Idea Series: The Death Beam” at “The Things that My Friends Say,” CS13, Cincinnati, OH. Public reading and presentation, 4/25/11.
“Craig,” (with Marc Governanti) Performance and Time Arts series, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cincinnati, OH. Actor and co-writer in one-act play, 10/1/10.
Curatorial Practice
Flatland
McKinley Park, Chicago, co-organized with Curtis Miller. Testing lab for artists projects.
Various Artists, “The Old Future’s Almanac.” 11/1/20
Nina Canal, Esther Espino, Leif Fairfield, “What is the Probability that the Sun will Rise Tomorrow?” 7/28/20.
Various Artists, “ESP USA”8/10/20.
Jenn Smith, “Soup Kite Laser Church,” 10/27/19.
Various Artists, “The Hole Black Hole Catalog,” 8/18/19.
Kristen Abhalter Smith & Andre Alves, “Fabrica,” 5/26/19.
Kyle Schlie and Cameron Gibson, “By Way of Today,” 4/13/19.
Sara Condo, “Playing the Blues in Space,” 3/17/19.
Mike Lopez, “Points,” 1/13/19.
Various Artists, “Operose Music,” 12/2/18.
Jesse Malmed and Nellie Kluz, “Memoir-ees or Ms. Ghost-Right,” 11/11/18.
Near*By
Artists collective curating exhibitions in various locations throughout Cincinnati, OH.
Various Artists, “Bail or No? The Impossible Tricks Show” Lohio, Cincinnati, OH, 8/15/15.
Various Artists, “The Traveling Show,” University of Cincinnati, Rock Paper Scissors, and Tinderbox OTR, Cincinnati, OH, 8/9/14.
Various Artists, “The Moon Show,” Semantics, Cincinnati, OH, 5/28/14.
Third Party Gallery
Artists collective curating group exhibitions centering around digital media in Cincinnati’s Brighton neighborhood.
Various Artists, “Standard Formats: Unknown Drawing,” 9/7/13.
Alex Walp, “Storage,” w/Aaron Walker 4/6/13.
Various Artists, “Hit Parade,” w/Aaron Walker, 3/16/13.
Various Artists, “Staring Eyes,” w/Aaron Walker, 12/15/12.
Matt Wiseman, “Art for Sport,” 4/17/12.
Various Artists, “Gameday 2k12,” w/Wyatt Niehaus, 1/7/12.
Various Artists, “A Whole New World,” w/Sheida Soleimani, 12/3/11.
Various Artists, “Dictat” w/Aaron Walker, 10/14/11.
Various Artists, “Reductio Absurdum,” w/Wyatt Niehaus and Sheida Soleimani, 9/3/11.
Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum
Artist collective curating group exhibitions centering around institutional critique and playful strategies for decentering exhibition strategies.
Various Artists, “MGGM and the Mystery of the Closing Gallery,” 10/6/12.
Various Artists, “SandwichFocus,” 9/1/12.
Various Artists, “The History of the Universe Part II: The End,” 8/4/12.
Various Artists, “The History of the Universe Part I: The Beginning,” 7/7/12.
Various Artists, “Phrenological Makeover,” 1/5/11.
Denise Burge and Abby Cornelius, “Good Vibrations,” 8/26/11.
Various Artists, “The Romance Show,” 7/20/11.
Various Artists, “Three Plays that End with an Atomic Explosion,” 8/27/10.
Alan Pocaro, “Not a Member Of,” 8/27/10.
Various Artists, “The Redo Show” 4/7/10.
Other:
Various Artist: “Big Fluxus Show”The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 10/20/23.
Various Artist: “Green Noise,” G-Cadd, Granite City, IL, 9/23/23
Various Artist: “Dance to Anything: Lake Eden,” Black Mountain College, NC, 4/8/23.
Various Artist: “Soft Noise,” w/Aaron Walker, The Plan, Chicago, IL, 11/12/22.
Various Artists: “Dance to Anything,” Drama Club at ACRE, Chicago, IL, 9/24/22.
Various Artists, “Rhythm/Rythmn Society,” The Hoffner Lodge, Cincinnati, OH, 7/12/21
Various Artists, “The World’s Worst Playlist,” DAP Artbook, 5/15/20. Online
Various Artists, “Bail or No 2” w/ Aaron Walker. The Nightingale, Chicago, IL, 10/13/18.
Various Artists, “The Madeleine Stowe Show(e)” Pique, Covington, KY, 7/20/18.
Various Artists, “Bail or No 2” w/ Aaron Walker. G-Cadd, Granite City, IL, 7/14/18.
Various Artists, “A Song an Hour,” Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL for 2nd Floor Rear, 2/4/17.
Various Artists, “Suite” w/ Chris Collins and Jennifer Chan for the Museums and the Web Conference at the Hilton Palmer House with support from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 4/9/15.
Selected Exhibitions of artwork and books
Solo and Two Person
“Unlearning Exercises,” w/ Lauren Sudbrink, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, 3/15/24.
“How to Play the Piano,” Comfort Station, Chicago, IL, 10/22 (forthcoming)
“The Mountain,” Adler & Floyd, Chicago, IL, 6/22/19.
“Villains” w/ Matt Wiseman The Green Building, Louisville, KY, 2/14/14.
“Art? An Exhibition of Potential Misfires,” w/ Brent Lashley, Semantics, Cincinnati, OH, 6/1/13.
“Overcast: A Social Forecast in Collage & Etc,” Semantics, Cincinnati, OH, 2/24/12.
"100 Collages," Southgate House, Newport, KY, 11/3/2007
Group
“I Feel Like a Bootlegger’s Wife,” Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL, 2/27/22,
“Breanne Trammell: Slow Burn,” The Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 7/11/21
“Life in a Tin Can,” The Nightingale, The Nightingale, Chicago, IL, 10/27/20
“The Sloppy Show,” Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 11/11/19.
“You Walk Into,” Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL, 11/4/19.
“The Uncanny Valley,” Wave Pool, Cincinnati, OH, 6/8/19.
“History of the Chess Queen,” Hilton/Asmus Gallery, Chicago, IL, 9/8/17.
“The Dangerous Professors,” Triumph, Chicago, IL, 5/3/17.
“Begin Anywhere: John Cage on Film,” The Carnegie, Covington, KY, 3/31/16.
“The Meanest of Them Sparkled,” Thundersky, Inc, Cincinnati, OH, 6/27/14.
“Gambados,” University of Helsinki, Finland, 4/1/14.
“The Alphabet Show,” Rock Paper Scissors, Cincinnati, OH. 2/28/14.
“Vibrational Natures,” Hobohaus, Cincinnati, OH, 9/27/13.
“Boudin Blanc,” Atelier Recto Verso, Reims, France, 12/21/12.
“Fakin’ It” Philip M. Meyers Memorial Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 4/12/12.
“PDF Release and Party,” CAGE, New York, NY, 2/12/12.
“The. Hall of Shame,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 8/6/11.
“The People Who Make Us Smile,” u-turn, Cincinnati, OH, 3/5/11.
"The Object and You," Southgate House, Newport, Kentucky 8/7/09
“Maps: You Can Create,” London and Northampton, England, 1/24/08.
Service
Student Advisor for IDEAS, School of Art and Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Program organizer for Uptool, an arts organization working with the Plant Research Laboratory, University of Illinois Chicago.
Judge for New City city paper year end arts “Breakout Artists.”
Peer reviewer for Platform, post-graduate journal, University of London.
Judge MFA Gallery University Cincinnati Poster Contest.
Awards & Recognition
Covid-19 Bridge Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY, 2021
Peter Bacon Hales Scholarship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2020.
Circle Art History Dissertation-Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2020.
UIC Art History Department Graduate Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2019.
The Luminary Residency Program, St. Louis, Missouri, 2018.
UIC Art History Department Graduate Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018.
Provost and Deiss Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL, 2017.
Outstanding Art History Graduate Student, University of Cincinnati, DAAP, 2012.
Helen Heekin Travel Award, University of Cincinnati, DAAP, 2011.
Selected Press
“Arts at Home: The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia,” Shana Nys Dambrot, L.A. Weekly, 8/5/20.
“Editors Picks: The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia,” ArtNet, 8/4/20.
“New Music Books: The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia,” Abi Bliss, The Wire, August 2020
“5 fresh musical escapes that will fill an hour – or six,” Michael Andor Brodeur, The Washington Post, 6/4/20.
“Book of the Month: The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia,” Yale Representation, 5/13/20.
“Celebrating Portsmouth Sinfonia and Other Fluxus-Inspired Acts,” Steven Rosen, Cincinnati CityBeat, 7/15/15.
“Thingstead Press,” Cierra McKissick, Chicago New City, 2/26/15.
“Top 5: Villains! At the Green Building Gallery,” Jeffrey Lee Puckett and Elizabeth Kramer, Louisville Courier Journal, 2/26/14.