Steven Skinner

Steven Skinner Artist Resume

Education:

1977 - 1981	School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Oil painting, watercolor painting, drawing, figure drawing, lithography, photomechanical lithography, intaglio, metal sculpture, Chicago, IL
2006 - present	Lill Street Art Center, Thrown and hand built porcelain and stoneware pottery, Chicago, IL

Teaching Positions:

2007 - 2009	Associate Professor, Fundamental Drawing, Watercolor Studio, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN
1997 - 2007	Associate Professor, Beginning Drawing, Drawing II, Beginning Oil Painting, Watercolor Studio, Beginning Lithography, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 - Summer	Associate Professor, Italian Architecture and Landscapes in Watercolor, Florence Italy, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2004	Co-Lead Artist, Painting, watercolor painting, printmaking, Gallery 37, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
1999 - 2003	Co-Lead Artist, Architectual Watercolors, Interior Architecture Department, School of the Art Insititute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002	Assistant Artist, Water Soluable Printmaking, Gallery 37 and Anchor Graphics, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL

Affiliations:

2008 & 2009	Gallery Director, Raclin School of the Arts Gallery , University of Indiana South Bend, South Bend, IN
2008 & 2009	Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, South Bend, IN
2002	Co-Curator Hollis Sigler Alumni Exhibit, Hollis Sigler Memorial Fund Exhibition, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
1997, 1998	Curator, Auction Committee Member, Inspiration Cafe, Chicago, IL
1996 - 1999	Studio Arts Technician, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
1996 - 1998	Arts Review Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP), Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL

Exhibits, Pottery:

2010	Dining In III: An Artful Experience, 18 Hands Gallery, Houston, TX
	Visions in Clay, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
	30 Small Works, Gallery UP, Old Town Rock Hill, NC
	Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition, New York, NY
	Containers 2010, Meyers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009	My Watercolors & Ceramics, Lubeznik Art Center, Michigan City, IN

Representation, WaterColors:

1990 - 1992

Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL

Exhibits, WaterColors:

2008	2008 Rockford Midwestern Exhibition, Curator Robert McCauley, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
	Memento Mori, The F.U.E.L. Collection, Curator Katerina Lydon-Warner, Philadelphia, PA
	Focus Midwest, Midwest Museum of Contemporary Art (MiCo), Curator Scott Grow, Indianapolis, IN
2007	Solo Exhibition, "Little Things", South Bend Regional Musueum of Art, Curator Jason Lahr, South Bend, IN
	16th Annual National Exhibition, Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD
2006	49th Annual Chautautqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Institution Juror: Louis Grachos, Director of the Albright Knox Museum of Art, Chautauqua, NY
	20" x 20" x 20" Compact Competition, Juror: Tara McDowell, Associate Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
	2006 Biennial: Contemporary American Realism, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2005	23rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, Juror: Jordan Kantor, Assistant Curator The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
	Juror’s Award, Berkeley Art Center Association’s 22nd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Jurors: Karen Breuer, Curator of Contemporary Graphic Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, & Donald Farnsworth, artist and Director of Magnolia Editions, Berkeley, CA
	American Drawing Biennial 8, The Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Juror: Phyllis Rosenzweig, Curator Works on Paper, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Williamsburg, VA
	Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Curator Joseph Thompson, MASS MoCA, Cambridge, MA
	Landscapes Varied Views, APEX Gallery, Washington, DC
2004	The Drawing Center, Slide Library, Luis Camnitzer Viewing Program Curator, New York, NY
	All Media Juried Exhibition, APEX Gallery, Washington, DC
	22nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, Curator Tracey Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Collections & Exhibitions Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
	NJCVA International Juried show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
	2nd Annual All Media Show, Artists’ Museum, Washington, DC
2003	Options, Proposed work for the corporate collection, The IL Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
	46th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY
	Westmoreland Art Nationals, Youngwood, PA
	Living Art, Gallery 37, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
2002	Drawing/Watercolor: Illinios, 14th Biennial Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinios University, Charleston, IL
	Hollis Sigler Memorial Fund Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001	Columbian Art Exposition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000	First Works, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
	The Chicago Art Open, Chicago Artists´ Coalition, Chicago, IL
1997	Group Show, Faculty, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
	Group Show, Chicago Places + Spaces, Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
	ARC Regional IV Competition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995-2003	Group Shows, Wishing You Were Here, Small Works, Small Packages I & II, Artists´ Kites, Personal Works, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996	Group show, Agora Gallery, SOHO, New York, NY
1983	Solo show, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
	Group show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL

Publications:

2006	Watercolor Magic, October issue, F&W Publications, Inc., Cincinnati, OH
2005	Design & Architecture Magazine, May/June, Chicago, IL
2000	Art Crowd Magazine, Fall issue, NY
	Manhattan Arts International Magazine, New York, NY
1995	Open Studios, New American Paintings, A Quarterly Exhibition
1993	Chicago Office, The 1993 Publication of the Building Owners, Chicago, IL