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ALISON RUTTAN
Solo/two-person Exhibitions 2008 Family of Man: Frans de Waal and Alison Ruttan, Gallery Wit, Wageningen, Netherlands 2006 Laura Carton and Alison Ruttan: Looking for Love in All the Right Places, Gallery TPW, Toronto, curated by Andrew Harwood 2005 New Video: Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL Flight or Flight: Alison Ruttan & Julia Oldham, 3Arts Club, Chicago 2001 Chromophilia: Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 Alison Ruttan and Mark Allen Jacobs, Beret International, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 �On Origins�, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, (Title -TBA), Festival de Mayo in Guadalajara Mexico, 2010 �Soft Science: The Human Animal�, curated by Rachel Mayeri, a DVD compilation of artists. �Bad at Sports�, Apex Art, New York City. New York �Fantastic Landscape�, 310 conTEMPORARY Gallery, Chicago, Illinois �Midwest Portfolio Project�, Musuem of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois 2009 �Antimatter Film Festival�, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada �Because the Night�, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California �Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art�, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California "Amplifying the Twilight", Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, California �Signs of the Apocalypse /Rapture�, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois 2008 �Ahh� Decadence Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois �Winter Experiment� Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL �Goffo at Next� Imperfect Articles, Chicago, IL �Sexy Time� A Group Effort, Morgan Lehman Gallery. NYC, NY 2007 �Bi-lingual�, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois �Fast Forward� Rockford Art Museum,Rockford, Illinois �The World is Flat�, Life Bomb Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2006 �Take Over !� Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois �Forming Motion: Myth and Magic�, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany �Sublime, Soft-core,Monkey Butts and Scarlett Johansson on Skull Island� Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. IL 2004 �Bits and Pieces�, UCR/California Museum of Contemporary Photography, Riverside, CA �Summer Show� Judith Racht Gallery, curated by Rodney Carswell 2003 �Up and Coming� curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Arco 03, Madrid Really Real Gallery 312, Chicago � I Need Something for Over My Sofa�: Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago 2002 �Luscious Too� Zolla Leiberman, Chicago, Il �journal 3� www.bkyn.com", curator Paul Laster, �Nancy" �Inheriting Matisse� Rocket Gallery, London curated by Michelle Grabner �Digitalis� Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL Moscow International: Novaya Collecksiya, Moscow, USSR 2001 �Bay Area Connections� San Francisco International Airport, Virgin Atlantic, Terminal, San Francisco, CA �Because Sex Sells� Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY �Mixer� Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 �Homewrecker� Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL �Aural Sex� Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA �Out of Line� Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL �Peep Show� The Living Room, San Francisco, CA �The Last Show� Beret International, Chicago, IL �The Millennium Fusion Project� ARC Gallery- Raw Space, Chicago, IL 1999 �Look What Society Made Me Do� Red Chair Gallery, Kansas City, MO Chicago Artists 1999: Gallery 312, Chicago, IL �Otherville: Illinois State Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 1998 �Substance a Corporeal Examination� NIU Art Museum, Chicago, IL 1997 � Uncomfortable�. TZ' ART, New York, NY �Flesh� Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN �Out of the Shadow of Ivan Albright�, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL �Distractions�, TBA Space, Chicago, IL �Group Show�, Beret International, Chicago, IL 1996 �Tag�. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL �Don Baum Says There are Famous Artists in Chicago�, Hyde Park Art Center, IL �Visual Feasting�, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL �Dealers Choice-25 Chicago Artists�, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster
Selected Bibliography 2011 �Through Primates. The evolutionary origins of war�, Interview by Robin Amer, Art/Work-WBEZ, Chicago �Our Origins�, by Abraham Richie, Art Slant �Review: Our Origins/Museum of Contemporary Photography�, by Mathew Weinstein, New City, 8/30/11 �In the beginning there was nothing. The Eloquent silence of �our Origins� by Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 9/1/11 �Our Origins� at the Museum of Contemporary Photography�, by Lauren Weinberg, Time Out Chicago, 8/17/11 �Beguilingly Incomplete: Our Origins at the Museum of Contemporary Photography� by Marta Sturgeon, Daily Serving, 8/3/11 2010 �Alison Ruttan�s �The Four Year War at Gombe�, by Claudine Ise blog.art21.org/2010/05/25/alison-ruttans-the-four-year-war-at-gombe/ �Intelligent Design:Interspecies Art� by Neha Choksi, X-TRA, Volume 12, Number 1 �The Science of Kissing Gallery� By Sheril Kirshenbaum, Science. Art. Primates, Discover Magazine blog 2009 �Going Apesh�t with Alison Ruttan� by Claudine Ise, Bad at Sports, 8/3 �Signs of the Apacolypse /Rapture�,by Lauren Weinberg, Time Out Chicago, Issue 231 �Signs of the Apacolypse /Rapture�, by Bert Stabler Art New City, 7/20 2008 �Ahh� Decadence� by Theoa Liberty Nichols, Art Slant, 8/23 �Signs of the Apacolypse /Rapture�, by Christopher Bucklow, Front Forty Press, �From Department Store to Art Department �By Deanna Isaacs Chicago Reader , Sept 4, 2008 �The Man in the Monkey�, by Wim Boevink, de Verdieping Trouw, (2008-05-29) � Family of Man�. Fotographie.Nl�(2008-05-17) �Kunstige Foto�s van Mensapen� by Door Tijs Goldschmidt, Bio Niiews, (2008-06-07) Reunie met niet zo verre verwanten in Galerie Wit� by Antonie den Ridder, Vallei. (2008-05-29) Chicago Artist Resource, www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/14609, artist story 2006 Michael Workman, Eye Exam, New City, (2006-02-14) Bad at Sports Pod cast , www.badatsports.com Interview, Episode 28, (2006-02-12) 2005 Snodgrass, Susan. �Review: Alison Ruttan� Art in America September 2005 Skolnik, Lisa. �The Mies-ing Thing� Metropolitan Home April 2005 Artner, Alan. �Alison Ruttan�s Mixed Bag of Visual Art Tricks� Chicago Tribune March 4, p.22 Section C7 Camper, Fred. �Body Work� Chicago Reader February 25 Hawkins, Margaret. Gallery Reviews Chicago Sun-Times February 18 Workman, Michael. �Heart Shaped Limbo� Newcity February 10 Workman, Michael. "Eye Exam/Art Speak/Boob Tubes" Newcity January 18 2004 �Art and Pornography, NYARTS, nyartsmagazine.com/63/content.htm 2003 Up and Coming, curated by Victor Taylor Zamudio, Arco 03, Volumne 2 Rubira, Sergio. "Arte Futuribles ARCO" EXIT Express ARCO 2003 pp. 16-17 Marin-Medina, Jose. "Arte Futuribles ARCO" El Cultural February 13, pp. 34-36 Harwood, Andrew. "Art Chicago 2003" C International Contemporary Art Summer Issue 78, p. 48. 2002 Speh, Scott. artnet.com Magazine Reviews �Sex in Chicago� October 3 Artner, Alan. "Luscious Too" Chicago Tribune August 30 Section C7 Hawkins, Margaret "The real thing': sex becomes art and it's luscious, too" Chicago Sun-Times August 18 Wiens, Ann, "It's De-Lovely, It's De-Luscious" Chicago Magazine August www.bkyn.com version 3.0,"Peeps: Nancy", online journal/quicktime presentation Snodgrass, Susan, Art in America, Review �Chromophilia�, March p. Carter, Jeff, Flash Art, Review �Chromophilia�, Mar/Apr 2001 Hawkins, Margaret, Chicago Sun-Times, �Porn-again Creations�, December 14 Robinson, Walter, artnet.com magazine review, �Miami Sun�, December 19 CS: Chicago Social, �In Bloom�, May Strang, Susan, New Art Examiner, �Cover & Interview: Alison Ruttan�, Dec/Jan 2000 Lieberman, Claire, Sculpture, �That Food Thing You Do�, December Helfand, Glen, San Francisco Bay Guardian, �Aural Sex�, September 6 Koppman, Deborah, Artweek,� Peep Show�, April Roche, Harry, San Francisco City Search, �Peep show�, March Graham, Bob, San Francisco Chronicle, �Sneak Peek�, April 8 1999 Walz, Carla, Pitch Weekly, �See What Society Made Me Do�, Aug 12-18 Hackman, Kate, Review, �See What Society Made Me Do�, September Gulf Coast, March 1999 1998 Bulka, Michael, New Art Examiner, �The Last Five Minutes of Art History in Chicago: There's Something Funny Going On�, October 1997 Erickson, Karl, New Art Examiner, �Alison Ruttan, Marc Allen Jacobson�, Dec Snodgrass, Susan �Chicago in Review�, C Magazine November 1997 Rooks, Michael, New Art Examiner,� Out of the Shadow of Ivan Albright�, July Saltz, Jerry, Time Out New York, �Uncomfortable�, July 31-Aug 7 Ramic, Kendra, St. Paul Pioneer Press, �In the Flesh!�, July, 16 Artner, Alan, Chicago-Tribune, May Catalogue, Distractions, TBA Exhibition Space, essay by Ed Moldanado, Tina Wasserman and Nadine Wasserman
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards 2005 Artist Residency, Wild Animal Park, Escondido, California 2004 Wexner Center For the Arts, Art & Technology Residency, Ohio State University 2002 Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Award 2000 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1997 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1996 Illinois Arts Council, Visual Arts Award
Education 1992 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1976 BFA, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Teaching 2006- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 2001-06 The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1994-01 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1993-04 Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist and Lecturer 2011 The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, Gallery Talk The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, �Alison Ruttan in conversation with Laurie Santos, PHD. Moderated by Gabriel Spitzer, WBEZ
2009 De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois, Art Department Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, Art Department 2008 Ars/Scientia: Conversations. Public presentations on innovative collaborations between artists and scientists. Chicago Cultural Center 2007 Minnesota State University, St. Cloud, Visiting Artist, Lecture 2006 De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois, Art Department 2005 University Of Missouri , Kansas City, Art Department 2003 Franke Institute at University of Chicago, IL 2000 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program 1999 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Visiting Artist, Graduate program 1998 Northern Illinois University, Painting Department, Graduate Critiques The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Guest Artist, Graduate Critiques
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