SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: ELLEN LANYON 2011 “Index Extended” Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL 2010 “Curiosities” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY 2009 “The Persistence of Invention” The Century Association, New York, NY 2008 “At The Sign of The Hat” Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago 2007 “Ellen Lanyon A Wonder Production” Curator & Catalog essay, Esther Sparks. Brauer Museum, Valparaiso Un & The Washington County Museum, Hagerstown MD “More Strange Games" Printworks Gallery, Chicago 2005-2006 "Paintings 1960-1990",Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago "Paintings of the 1960s" Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago IL "Wonders of the World" Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York NY 2003 "INDEX" Prints and Books, Printworks Gallery, Chicago 2001 "Recent Paintings" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL 2000 "Riverwalk Gateway Project", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 1999-00 Retrospective: National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (Catalog: essay by Debra Bricker Balken) 1999 "Paintings: 1969 &1999" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "New Works On Paper" Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL 1998 Adrian College, Adrian MI 1997 "Peregrine Proposals", Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA “Archaic Gardens / Recent Paintings", Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY "Recent Paintings", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "Anatomy of an Exhibition" Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica 1996 "Archaic Garden" collaboration with architect Laurence Booth, TBA Space, Chicago 1994 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City IA 1993 Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL Struve Gallery, Chicago IL 1992 Berland-Hall Gallery, New York,NY (Catalog essay by Eleanor Heartney) Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City IA 1990 "Works on Paper 1960-1990, Struve Gallery, Chicago IL 1989 Printworks Ltd, Chicago,IL Julian Pretto / Berland- Hall, New York NY Union League Club, Chicago IL 1987-88 "The Art of Ellen Lanyon: Strange Games" Retrospective. Curator: Stephen Prokopoff. Traveling exhibit: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Il, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT., Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. (Catalog: essay by Donald Kuspit.) 1987 J.L. Becker Gallery, Provincetown MA Barat College, Lake Forest IL 1985 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL 1983 Susan Caldwell Inc, New York NY N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Curators: Diane Lazarus and Pauline Saliga. (Catalog: essays by Lucy Lippard and Dennis Adrian & Ellen Lanyon) St. Louis Community College, St. Louis MO 1982 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 1981 Alverno College, Milwaukee WI 1980 Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis CA Landfall Press, Chicago IL 1 1980 Odyssia Gallery, New York NY 1979 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL Bradley University, Peoria IL Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington IL 1978 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston TX Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL Kentucky State University, Frankfort KY 1977 Women's Building, Los Angeles CA Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL 1976 Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy (Catalog: Essay by Dennis Adrian) Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston MA Krannert Performing Arts Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL University of Missouri, Kansas City MO Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL 1974 Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheyboyan WI Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis CA Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 1973 Stephens College, Columbia MO Richard Gray Gallery, ChicagoIL 1972 Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY Wabash Transit Gallery, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Madison Art Center, Madison WI ( Catalog: essay by Joe Wilfer) National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. 1970 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL 1969 Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY 1968 B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago IL 1967 Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne IN (Catalog: essay by Donn L Young) 1965 B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago IL 1964 Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY 1963 Haydon Calhoun Gallery, Houston TX 1962 Stewart Rickard Gallery, San Antonio TX Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago IL Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY 1958 Superior Street Gallery, Chicago IL 1952 Bordelon's, Chicago IL 1948 Carlebach Gallery, New York NY 2 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: ELLEN LANYON 2011 “Objects/Objectivity” Ellen Lanyon/Phillip Pearlstein Valerie Carberry Gallery Chicago “Luminous Ground/Artists With Histories” Illinois State Museum/Chicago Invitational” American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City NY 2010 “On & Of Paper” Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery—Lockport Gallery etc. Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Painters Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY Summer show, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago 2009 “Eye World” Triple Candie Gallery, New York NY 184th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Prints & Drawings –Collections Installation Annual Painters Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY 2008 Annual Painters Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY “1968: Art And Politics In Chicago” DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago “Summerset” David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY 2007 “8 Women” David Findlay Jr. Gallery New York, NY “Arcadia” Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NYCurator, Linda Horn “Wet” DFN Gallery NYC NY “Drawings”, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago “Flights of Fantasy”, Printworks, Chicago - Curator, Audrey Neffenegger 182nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NYC NY “Drawn To The Edge”, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC NY 2006 "Art in Chicago", Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA "Animal House" Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY "Fine Line", Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY NY “Salute to the National Academy” David Findlay Jr Fine Arts, NY NY "Art of the Bookplate", Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL "Landscape", Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago IL 2005-2007 “Paths To The Press” Organzed by the Beach Museum, Manhattan KS Traveling to: The McNay, The Block, NWU & Louisiana State Museums 2005 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NY NY "John Cain's Side Show", Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL "Opulance", Racine Museum of Art, Racine WI 2004 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY NY "Out Of The Blue" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "The Age of Pluralism in Chicago", Northern Indiana Arts Assoc., Munster IN "The Artist As Collector", Northern Indiana Arts Assoc. , Munster IN 2003 "A Fine Line", National Academy Museum, New York NY "Artists & The Cultivated Landscape" Racine Museum of Art, Racine WI "Challenging Tradition, Women of the Academy" National Academy, New York NY 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York NY 2002 "MADE IN CHICAGO ca. 1970" Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York NY "Natural History", Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago IL 2001 "Reflections", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL Members Bienniel: National Academy of Design, New York NY 2000 "Black And White", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "Chicago Funk: Imagist Art 1950-1975" Whitney Museum at Champion "The Likeness of Being: Self Portraits by 60 Women"D C Moore Gallery, N Y, NY "Exquisite Corpse", Printworks Gallery, Chicago 1999 "Cats and Dogs" organized by Gladys Nilsson & Ellen Lanyon, Jean Albano Gallery "(Un)becoming", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL "The 174th Annual Exhibition" National Academy, New York, NY (catalog) 3 1999 "Contemporary Classicism" Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase,NY (catalog) "Primary Colors", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL 1998 "Collaborations", Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "The Joe Wilfer Show", Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh NY (catalog) 1997 Selections from the Collection, Krannert Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL "Silver and Gold" Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL 1997 "Game of Chance" Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "Small Works" Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "Eleven for Ninety Seven", Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY "Women and Chicago Imagism" Illinois Art Gallery, State Of Illinois Bldg, Chicago IL (cat.) "Landfall Press/25 Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwakee WI & Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL (catalog) 1996 "Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Block Gallery, NU,Evanston IL (catalog) "Women and Chicago Imagism", Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (catalog) Julian Pretto Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT New Drawings, Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL "Moderate Fable", Andre Zarre Gallery New York NY "Generations: Chicago Printers And Printmakers", Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Pk, Il "Art In Chicago 1945-95", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL (catalog) "Patchwork", Andre Zarre Gallery New York NY "Self Portraits 1996", Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL 1995 New Drawings: Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL Lucy Lippard Collection, Bard College, Rhinebeck, New York "Selections From The Toni Gutfreund Collection" Oakton College, Des Plaines IL 1995 “ Book As Art VII,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (catalog) 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York NY 1994 “The Peaceable Kingdom”, Babcock Gallery, New York NY 55th Anniversary Invitational, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL "The Aesthetics of Athletics" Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine WI "Artists' Sketchbooks: The Intimate