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EDUCATION
1992MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1989BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1987/89Non-Degree Studies, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, New York, NY
1987AAS, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
 
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2007Whale Oil, Slave Ships & Burning Martyrs, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
2006Imitatio Dei, 12 x 12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2004Proposals for Indestructible Living, mn gallery, Chicago, IL
Administrative Bunker and Rook, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2002Fortifications & Landscape, UCLA Gallery of Architecture and Urban Planning, Los Angeles, CA
1999Bunker, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998Architectural Targets, Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007-08Fast Forward, curated by Wainwright and James Yood, The Rockford Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2006Ruby Satellite, curated by Ciara Ennis, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Ruby Satellite, curated by Ciara Ennis, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Ruby Satellite, curated by Ciara Ennis, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
BIG: Collaboration and Innovation in the Print Medium, Design Gallery, Madison, WI
Version 06, Iron Street Studio, Chicago, IL
2004Things Fall from the Sky, curated and catalog by Ciara Ennis and Ken Fandell, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Things Fall from the Sky, curated and catalog by Ciara Ennis and Ken Fandell, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL
New Chicagoans, Select 04, Chicago, IL
Bit Logic, GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA
Urban Rural Wild, I Space, Chicago, IL
Nothing to Fear, Arts Center, Troy, NY
Out of the Box, Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, collaboration with Garofalo Architects, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
2003War, What is it Good For?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
On the Wall, Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Speculative Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
Domestique, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2002Watery Domestic, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL
2001Field Phenomena, TBA, Chicago, IL
Musings, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2000Seems, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Find, mn gallery, Chicago, IL
Untitled, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
9 mm repeat, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999Abstraction, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Dysfunctional Home, NIU Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998All that is Solid, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Queens, NY
Opening Our Doors, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, New York, NY
City as a Memory, The Athenaeum, Museum of Design and Architecture, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997Design for Life, A Centennial Celebration, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, New York, NY
Public Art Installation, Galloway Farm, Kendrick, ID
Material/Immaterial, The Soap Factory at No Name, Minneapolis, MN
Public Art Installation, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
KUNST Unlimited, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Australia
LANDSCAPE/URBANISM, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL
1996N.A.M.E., Chicago, IL
1995Multiple Constantinople, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan, Australia
New Directions, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
Civic Innovations, Henry P. Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Civic Innovations, UCLA Third Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993When Push Comes to Shove, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

 
PROJECTS/COMMISSIONS
2007The Subject of Tonight’s Sermon Is__, Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
2006Working on the Failed Utopia, commission for Manilow Sculpture Park, Governor’s State University, IL
Garbage Truck “wallpaper covering,” and “Test Patterns”, city-wide installations, Baltimore, MD
Garbage Truck “wallpaper covering,” and “Test Patterns”, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute,
Garbage Truck “wallpaper covering,” and “Test Patterns”, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2004Intern Crates, with Randall Kober, three housing units for interns, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2003Amnesiac Commemorative, project commission, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2002/03Plan-Relief, mass-produced wallpapers based on relief war maps in Les Invalides, Paris, France
2002I Hate Living in Late Capitalism, exterior installation on an abandoned Woolworth Store, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
2001/02Warm, Fuzzy, Fun, permanent installation for Children’s Advocacy Center, Stanley Tigerman Architect, Percent for Art, City of Chicago, IL
Battleship Shed, building wrap commissioned by esam, Goose Island, Chicago, IL
2000The Hub, Garofalo Architects, Chicago, IL
199910 Bathrooms, Capital Z, Architecture Research Office, New York, NY
Wolf-Gordon Inc. Baratloo-Balch Architects, New York, NY
US Robotics, Valerio DeWalt Train Architects, Chicago, IL
1994Community Emergency Shelter Organization, Chicago, IL

 
PUBLICATIONS
2010Seidell, Marla. “Received Notions,” ArtSlant-Chicago (online), February 15, 2010.
Foumberg, Jason. “Art Break: New Sculpture in Chicago,” New City Art, February 8, 2010.
Weinberg, Lauren. “Little Faith,” Time Out Chicago, Issue 257, January 28-February 3, 2010.
2006Thornton, Clara Rose. “Art Break,” New City Chicago, October 13, 2006.
Isaacs, Deanna. “The Traveling Salesman,” Chicago Reader, February 24, 2006.
2005Newmark, Christine. “Breaking Away”, Chicago Magazine, August, 2005.
Lopez, Ruth. “40 Outdoor Artworks We Love,” Time Out Chicago, July 28, 2005.
Ollman, Leah. “Things Fall, but not quite together,” Los Angeles Times, November 23, 2005.
Fardy, Jonathan. "Bit Logic @ GASP," Big Red & Shiny, Issue #27, www.bigredandshiny.com, 2005.
2004Walker, Hamza. "Best of 2004," Art Forum, December, 2004.
Camper, Fred. “Christine Tarkowski’s Rigid Views on Decay,” October 15, 2004.
Brunetti, John. “Administrative Bunker + Rook,” Dialogue, March/April, 2004.
Workman, Michael. "Under Seige," New City, January 8, 2004.
Schmidt, Jennifer. "If We Ran The Whitney," Big Red & Shiny, Issue #6, www.bigredandshiny.com, 2004.
Ciezadlo, Janina. “Critic’s Choice,” Chicago Reader, February 13, 2004.
2003Keller, Julia. “War show seeks to incite thought,” Chicago Tribune, February 9, 2003.
Heiggelke, Brian, “When hawks cry, Art what is it good for?,” New City, March 26, 2003.
Moreno, Shonquis. “Paper Architects,” Metropolis, June, 2003.
2002Gardner, Virginia. "Children’s Advocacy Center," Dwell, February, 2002.
Fiedelholtz, Sarah. “Chicago Makes a Public Statement on Art,” Chicago Sun Times, August 11, 2002.
“Best of Public Art,” Art in America, August, 2002.
2001Lewis, Julia. “Quality of Light," Interior Design, January, 2001.
2000Cassidy, Victor. “Prairie Smoke,” Artnet, 2000.
Rosenfeld, Kathryn. “Gallery 400,” Dialogue, May/June, 2000.
“Architecture Research Office,” A+U, 00:06, #357, 2000.
1999Camper, Fred. “Dysfunctional Home,” Reader, February 19, 1999.
Weins, Ann. “Dysfunctional Home,” New City, January 28, 1999.
1998Conn, Bobby. “The Art Reviewer,” Lumpen Times, August, 1998.
Estep, Jan. “Architectural Targets,” New Art Examiner, June, 1998.
Briggs, Patricia. “Material/Immaterial, The Soap Factory,” New Art Examiner, March, 1998.
 
JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS/CATALOGS
2005"Christine Tarkowski, Administrative Bunker + Rook," Hyde Park Arts Center essay by Hamza Walker, design by Jason Pickleman
“Working on the Failed Utopia,” with response by Kathryn Hixson, Regarding Public Space, 306090, Architecture Journal, 09
2002“Reproduction and Production,” Thresholds 24, MIT Journal of Architecture and Culture, 2002
2001"Notes on Repetition," self-published catalog
2000“Positions in Architecture,” The Chicago Architecture Journal 9
1995-1998"Journal of Ordinary Thought," photojournalist, Chicago, IL
 
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2005Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Individual Artist Award
2008J. M. Kohler Arts in Industry Residency, Kohler, WI
Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council
2004Cité Internationale des Arts, Residency in Paris, France
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Franconia Sculpture Park Grant, Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota
2003J.M. Kohler Arts in Industry Residency, Kohler, WI
2001Creative Capital Foundation
1999Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council
1997Franconia Sculpture Park Grant, Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota
Chicago Artist Assistance Program
1994Chicago Artist Assistance Program
Kosciusko Foundation Grant, New York, NY
 
TEACHING/ LECTURES
2009Chair and Associate Professor, Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (since 2003)
2006"Artists Connect," Artist Lecture, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2005"Public Art/Public Conversations: Community Art? Public Art?," Chicago Cultural Center, IL
2004Artist Lecture, Goldsmiths College, London, England
"PLAN B," a panel in conjunction with “Proposals for Indestructible Living: participants, Ken Dunn, Sharon Haar, Ben Nicholson and Christine Tarkowski"
“Art and Politics,” artists panel, UIC, Department of Art and Architecture, Chicago, IL
2002Artist Lecture & Visiting Critic, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Artist Lecture, European Study Program, I.I.T., Paris, France
Visiting Critic, Rome Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture, Rome
Artist Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Art and Architecture, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2001-02Full Time Visiting Artist, MIT, Visual Arts Program, Cambridge, MA