L U C Y S L I V I N S K I www.Lucyslivinski.com

EDUCATION

1984 MFA in Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1980 BFA in Fiber, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (SELECTED) 2018 Phoenix Rising, City of Chicago, 50X50 Neighborhood Arts Project 2014 Reflections on Scott’s Mill, Knoch Knolls Nature Center, Naperville, IL 2013 Spirits Rising, Prudential Plaza, Chicago, Il 2010 Silver Surf Gate, Logan Skate Park, City of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 2009 Mammoth, City of Bolingbrook, Bolingbrook, Illinois 2008 Natural Rhythm, Saint Cloud Public Library, Saint Cloud, MN 2007 Smoke, Lincoln Park Lake View Art Initiative, Chicago, Illinois Natural Order, Installation, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois 2006 Grace, Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Project, Longwood University, Farmville, VA Hedgerow, Allstate and Chicago Public Art: “Artists and Automobiles,” Grant Park, Chicago, IL Surge, Bartholomew Recycling Center, Columbus, IN 2005 Bloom, Art Park, Lewiston, New York Shadow, Skokie North Shore Sculpture Park, Skokie, Illinois 2004 Natural Reactor, Art in the Garden, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois Ode II, South Bend Regional Airport, South Bend, Indiana 2003 Ode II & Drift, GreenART / ParkART, Public Art Project, Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois 2000 Delicate Balance, River of Art, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois The Seed Collector, The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS 2020 The Giving Tree, with Katrin Schnabl, University of Chicago Lab Schools, Chicago, Illinois 2019 Vibration, with Kahil El’Zabar, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Miami Art Basel, N’Namdi Contemporary 2018 Illumination, with Kahil El’Zabar, David Murray, One Eye Shut Gallery, Chicago, IL 2016 Arte Y Moda 2016, With Cuban Fashion designer Yohannia Cabrera, Museo De Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba 2015 Elevation, With Artist / composer Kahil El’zabar, Block 37, Chicago, IL 2013 Elevation, Installation with Artist/composer, Kahil El’Zabar, Fusion MIA, Art Basel, Miami, FL Ancestral Throne, Elevation Project, with Kahil El’Zabar, Blade, Roche De Palmer, Bordeaux, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 2020 Hangin’ In There! EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois Soul Thang! The Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, Illinois True Love, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL 2019 Heavenly Bodies, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois 2018 Luminescence, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois NOW! All Together, Gallery 116, St. Charles, Illinois In There!, Concord 55 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2015 Amor! 300 S Riverside Plaza Building, Chicago, Illinois Sizzle! Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois Rebirth, Chicago Academy of Music, Chicago, Illinois 2014 Sanctuary of Illumination, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA Soul Touch, Packer/Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Up! Up! 300 S Riverside Plaza Building, Chicago, Illinois Lightening Field, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan 2010 Celestial Light in the Forest of Love. Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA 2012 Energy Throne Performance, Art Basel, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL 2009 Inspired Terrain “In the Land of Love, There is No Garbage”, FlatFile Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Lucy Slivinski, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, New York Alchemical Reactions, Bobbit Visual Arts Center, Albion College, Albion, Michigan Alchemical Reactions, Adrian College Art Gallery, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan Gleanings, Freeark Gallery, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, Illinois 2001 “Interwoven,” G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan “Innate Invention,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois “Interwoven,” G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 2018 Sweet, Golden, Delicious, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL Hop, Skip and a Jump, Ari’s Arthouse, Chicago, IL New Observations, Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, July 18-21, 2018 2016 Gateway, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Illinois 2015 Gallery Artists, Packer/Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Gallery Artists, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL SCOPE, Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL 2014 Throne of a Higher Thought Installation, Fusion MIA, Miami, FL Art Basel Miami 2014, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL 2013 Art Basel Miami 2013, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL 2012 Art Basel Miami, 2012, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL Sculpture Today: New Forces, New Forms, Frederik Miejer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI Energy, The Tree of Life Throne, Guichard Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Krasl Biennal Sculpture Invitational, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI 2009 Messages & Magic, 100years of American Collage and Assemblage, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2008 Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA 2007 Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum of Art, Desplaines, Illinois HotHouse: Expanding the Field of Fiber, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2006 They Got the Stuff, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, New York 2005 "Chicago is NOW!" NOVART Festival, Musee D'art Contemporaire, Bordeaux, France 2004 "Live Arts Festival," Performance Sculpture, River East Art Center, Chicago, Illinois 2003 “Not of Iron,” Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois 2002 “Not of Iron,” Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2001 “Gallery Artist’s,” G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2000 “SOFA,” LyonsWeir-Packer Gallery, The Armory, New York, New York

AWARDS 2010 Illinois Arts Council Project Award 2009 Americans for the Arts, 2009 Public Art Network Year in Review Award, June 20,2009 2008 CAAP Grant, City of Chicago 2006 Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant "Light, Energy, & Sound " Temporary Sculpture Project, Finalist, North Hampton Arts Council, North Hampton, Massachusetts 2002 Illinois Arts Council Grant Finalist Award 2000 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award

PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA 2019 Year of Public Art,”Art in Chicago Neighborhoods,” City of Chicago, 2019 Bad at Sports, “Lucy Slivinski’s Heavenly Bodies Hovers over EXPO CHICAGO”, September 19, 2019 Community Connection, “Interview with Lucy Slivinski”, September 5, 2019 ACS Magazine, “Heavenly Bodies, Lucy Slivinski Light Installation,” September, 2019 2018 Uptown Update, “Phoenix Rising Sculpture Dedicated Today”, June 28, 2018 Voyage Chicago, “Meet Lucy Slivinski, in West Side Studio.” August 14, 2018 2017 New Observations, “Industrial Hemp: Paintings on Hemp,” No. 131, 2017 2015 Manderin Quarterly, “Thought Leaders,” Spring 2015 2014 Daily Herald, “Reflections of Scott’s Sawmill,” September 19, 2014 2012 GlobeTrotter Magazine, “Lucy Slivinski,” Winter 2011/2012 Cs Interiors, “Best In Design: Lighting: Lucy Slivinski, Fall 2012 Cs Interiors, “Well Sculpted,” Winter 2012 2011 Luxe National, “Material Girl, Lucy Slivinski,” Style Makers, Winter, 2011 2010 Chicago Magazine, “Forty Reasons to Love Chicago, (#34 Because Chicago’s Shopkeepers put Midwest Designers Front and Center,” December, 2010 Elle Décor, February, 2010 CS Interiors, “Rough Luxe,” Winter 2010 CS Interiors, “Design and Dine,” Winter 2010 CS Interiors, “Objects of Envy,” Winter 2010 2009 The New York Times, “Chandeleirs, Blazing With Recyclables,” November 12, CS Interiors, “Home Front Design, Bright Lights,” Winter, 2009 Chicago Home + Garden, “We Heart Lucy,” February 20, 2009 LUXE Magazine, March, 2009 Messages & Magic, 100 years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Kohler Art Center CS Interiors, “Recycled Creations,” Spring 2009 2008 Sculpture, Exhibition Review, Chicago- Workroom, September, 2008 Maine Antique Digest, “Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques and Garden Fair,” August, 2008 Renew-React, Krasl Biennial Sculpture Invitational, Exhibition Catalogue, Krasl Art Center Chicago Sculpture International, Biennial, Exhibition Catalogue, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago Chicago Home, “Big Time,” July/August 2008 Sculpture, “Chicago: Sculpture in Burnham’s “Paris on the Prairie”, May 2008 St. Cloud Times, “Library gets 1st Piece of Art”, June 11, 2008 2006 Kunstaspekte Internationale, “The Girls Have it!”March 2006-April 2006 Welding Design & Fabrication, “Welding in the Park,” August 27, 2006 The Republic, “Resembling something not required of Abstract Art,” October 20, 2006 Chicago Tribune, “ ‘Hedgerow’, by Lucy Slivinski in Grant Park,” August 4, 2006 WBEZ Public Radio, 848 Show, Chicago, IL, Interview,“Artists and Automobiles,” June 26, 2006 ABC Channel 7, 4:30PM News, Frank Mathie, Interview,“Artists and Automobiles,” June 20, 2006 Chicago Sun-Times, “An Exhaustive Effort in Tailpipe Art,” June 21, 2006 Time Out Chicago, “Splendor in the Grass,” June 1-8, 2006 WBEZ Public Radio, "848 Show", Chicago, Illinois, Interview, "Collaboration", January 27, 2006 ABC Channel 7, "5 O'Clock News w/Frank Mathie, Interview, "Collaboration" January 24, 2006 2005 Art in America, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC. Solo-Exhibition Review, March, 2005 Kunstbeeld, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC. Solo-Exhibition Review, January, 2005 Vietnam Visual Arts, Lucy Slivinski @ Phyllis Kind, Solo-Exhibition Review, May 5,2005

P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S

2019 Guest Speaker, Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN 2016 Guest Speaker, 10th Annual Sustainable Business & Design Conference, “Creativity & Sustainability, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY Guest Speaker, Arte Y Moda 2016, Museo De Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba 2015 The Art of Reclaim, Workshop, Lecture, Knoch Knolls Nature Center, Naperville, Illinois 2014 SAIC Judge, Department of Fashion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Artist in Residence, Erie Museum of Contemporary Art, Erie, PA Guest Lecturer, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI 2013 Artist in Residence, “Elevation Project,” Roche De Palmer, Bordeaux, France 2010 Artist in Residence, Albright College, Reading, PA 2008 Guest Lecture, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan 2006 InterArts Workshop, Installation Performance, South Shore High School, Chicago, Illinois Open Studio Project, Residency, State & Lake, Chicago, Illinois Artist in Residence, Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Project, Longwood University,Longwood, VA Lecture, Skokie Public Library, North Shore Skokie Sculpture Park, Skokie, Illinois 2005 Artist in Residence, ArtPark, Lewiston, New York

P U B L I C & P R I V A T E C O L L E C T I O N S

Roche de Palmer Collection, Bordeaux, France Bodine Condominium Corporation Longhouse Foundation Collection, NY City of Bolingbrook, Illinois City of Chicago, Public Art Collection Artpark, Lewiston, NY Art Enterprises / Burton Kanter City of Naperville, IL Longwood University, Farmington, VA Capital Investments, Chicago, Illinois Delta Institute, Chicago Christy Webber Landscapes, Chicago, Illinois City of St. Cloud, MN Sandro Miller Collection Stuart Grannen Noil Corporation Jumaane N’Namdi Collection Mary Bell Collection