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Art Green Biography Art Green Biography 1941 1978 Born: Frankfort, Indiana Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, February 4– Lives and works in Stratford, Ontario March Art Green, Arts Center Gallery, University of Waterloo, Ontario, February 8–March 4 EDUCATION 1961–1965 1979 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art Green, Gallery Stratford, Ontario, March 16–April 8 Art Green, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, April 28–May 17 Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, May–June TEACHING 1968–1969 1980 Kendall College, Evanston, Illinois Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, March 1969–1971 1981–1982 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, December 1981–January 1982 1975–1976 University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1983 Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, September– 1977–2006 October University of Waterloo, Ontario Art Green, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, April 21–May 10 1986 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, January– 1968 February Art Green, Art Gallery, Kendall College, Evanston, Illinois, October 1991 Doors of Perception, Cambridge Public Library and 1973 Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario, October 10–November Art Green, Owens Art Gallery, Mt. Alison University, 10 Sackville, New Brunswick, March 31–April 21 Art Green, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British 1992 Columbia, October 3–28 Art Green: Conflicts and Resolutions, Gallery Stratford, Ontario, September 11–October 25; McLaren Art 1974 Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, September 17–October 31 Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, March Art Green, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, May 6–18 1999 Art Green, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, July 16– 1976 September 3 Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, January 2005 1976–1977 Heavy Weather: Art Green Retrospective, Kitchener- Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, December 11, Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, September 1976–January 8, 1977 11–November 20; University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, September 15–October 20 2008 Society for Contemporary Art Annual Exhibit, The Art Art Green: Indirect Objects, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Institute of Chicago, April 16–May 19 Alberta, February 22–March 29 Hairy Who III, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, April 5– May 11 2009 Hairy Who, San Francisco Art Institute, May 3–29 Art Green, CUE Art Foundation, New York, February 5– Jordan Davies, Art Green, and Ray Siemenowski, Allan March 28 Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, October 6–31 2010 1969 Art Green: Unlikely Stories, University of Waterloo Art Chicago: Part II, School of Visual Arts, New York, Gallery, Ontario, September 16–October 30 February 14–March 14 Don Baum Sez ‘Chicago Needs Famous Artists’, 2011–2012 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 10– Art Green: Tell Tale Signs, Corbett vs. Dempsey, April 13 Chicago, December 9, 2011–January 21, 2012 Hairy Who, Corcoran Gallery of Art at Dupont Center, Washington, DC, April 15–May 17 2013 Art Green, Bruce Parsons, and Michael Upton, Anna Art Green: I Should Be Painting, Gallery Stratford, Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Ontario, October 14–March 6 Design, Halifax, October 8–17 Art Green: Certain Subjects, Garth Greenan Gallery, October 17–November 23 1969–1970 Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in 2017 American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Green: Full Nelson, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, October 14–November 30, 1969; Art June 8–July 28 Museum, University of California, Berkeley, January 20–March 1, 1970 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1970 1965 Surplus Slop from the Windy City, San Francisco Art Phalanx III, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Institute, April 16–May 16 November 4–December 17 Wake Up Yer Scalp with Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Vegetable, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, November New York, November 14–December 18 Cynthia Carlson, Art Green, and William Schwedler, Galerie Darthea Speyer, March 18–April 24 1966 Mineral, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, January 11– 1971–1972 February 19 Lithographs from NSCAD, Canadian Centre in Paris, Hairy Who, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, February France, September 15, 1971–September 15, 1972 25–April 9 1972 1967 Group Show, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, May–July Hairy Who, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Scan, Vancouver Art Gallery, September 27–October 29 February 24–March 24 Chicago Artists, Kalamazoo Art Institute, Michigan, 70th Annual Chicago and Vicinity Exhibit, Art Institute October of Chicago, March 3–April 2 What They’re Up to in Chicago, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catherine, Ontario, December 1–13 1968 Six Chicago Artists, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 1973 January 5–February 24 Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, September The Hairy Who Drawing Show, School of Visual Arts, 13–October 23 New York, February–March 1973–1974 1978 Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Chicago-Detroit Exchange Show, Detroit Art Institute Art, New York, October 16–December 2, 1973; Eleven Chicago Painters, Art Gallery, Florida State Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, New University, Tallahassee, February 12–March 3 York, January 15–February 18, 1974; Contemporary Chicago: The City and Its Artists, 1945–1978, Museum Arts Center, Cincinnati, March 8–April 27, 1974 of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 17– April 23 1974 Contemporary Chicago Painters, Art Gallery, University 9 Out of 10: A Survey of Contemporary Canadian of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, April 2–March 3 Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, November Artforms, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, 8–December 8; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, June 1–July 2 Kitchener, Ontario, January 9–February 2; Gallery Stratford, Ontario, February 15–March 15 1978–1979 Art Green and Roger Brown, Pennsylvania Academy of Other Realities, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s Fine Arts, Philadelphia, January 16–February 24 University, Kingston, Ontario, September 16– The Anonymous Image, Renaissance Society, University October 29, 1978; Canada House, London, January– of Chicago, May 7–June 8 February, 1979; Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, March–April, 1979 1975 Prizewinners Revisited, The Art Institute of Chicago, Current Energies, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, October 30, 1978–April 6, 1979 February 24–March 21 Inaugural Exhibition, Alessandra Gallery, New York, 1979 October 4–28 Chicago Currents: The Koffler Foundation Collection, The B.C. Provincial Collection, Provincial Museum, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Victoria, B.C. Institution, Washington, DC, June 8–August 13 1976 1980 The Canadian Canvas, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Chicago Imagists, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, Montreal, January 16–March Tennessee Hyde Park Art Center: 1939–1976, Hyde Park Art Center, Some Recent Art from Chicago, Ackland Art Museum, Chicago, February 20–April 3 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February Old and New Works by Artists from the Phyllis Kind 2–March 9 Gallery, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau 50 Works of Art That Shouldn’t Leave Madison, Madison Claire, Wisconsin, April 19–May 5 Art Center, Wisconsin, June 6–July 9 Olympic Exhibition, British Columbia Provincial Collection, Montreal, Quebec, Summer 1980–1982 Visions—Painting and Sculpture: Distinguished Alumni, Who Chicago?: An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists, 1945 to the Present, School of the Art Institute of Camden Art Center, London, December 10, 1980– Chicago, October 7–December 10 January 25, 1981; Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Pacific Coast Consciousness, Robert McLaughlin Arts Art Centre, England, February 16–March 14, 1981; Centre, Oshawa, Ontario, November 5–December 14 Third Eye Center, Glasgow, March 21–April 30, 1981; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1977 May–June, 1981; Ulster Museum, Belfast, July– Chicago Artists, Ohio State University, Columbus August, 1981 San Francisco Art Institute Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, June 5–August 28 1982 Masterpieces of Recent Chicago Art, Cultural Center, Chicago Imagists, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri; Chicago Public Library, October 3–November 2 Saginaw Museum of Art, Michigan Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection, Museum 1977–1978 of Contemporary Art, Chicago, January 30–March 14 True Confections, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Variations, Wellington County Museum and Archives, Columbia, November 27, 1977–January 8, 1978 Elora, Ontario, August 6–September 6 Dialect Dialectic, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, October 1988 13–November 6 Welcome Back: Works by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, The Gallery of the John Herron School of Art, 1982–1983 Indianapolis, January 16–February 27 New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection, Fort 1989 Lauderdale Museum of Art; Oklahoma City Museum Coming of Age, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Grand Rapids September 9–November 12 Museum of Art; Madison Art Center, Montgomery, Alabama, December 9, 1982–March 13, 1983 1992 View from the Chesterfield, Kitchener-Waterloo Art 1983 Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, February 13–March 29 Contemporary Chicago Images, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois 1993 Kitchener-Stratford-Windsor Exchange, Kitchener- Personal Imagery: Chicago/New York, Phyllis Kind Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, February 10–March 27; Gallery, New York, September 18–October 30 Stratford; Windsor Barbara Rossi and Art Green, Phyllis Kind Gallery, 1994 Chicago, Illinois, December
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