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EDUCATION
1992MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 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
2007“Whale Oil, Slave Ships & Burning Martyrs”, Priska Juschka Fine Art, NY
2006“Imitatio Dei”, 12 x 12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2004“Proposals for Indestructible Living”, mn gallery, Chicago
“Administrative Bunker and Rook”, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2002“Fortifications & Landscape”, UCLA Gallery of Architecture and Urban Planning Los Angeles, CA
1999“Bunker”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998“Architectural Targets”, Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007-08"Fast Forward," curated by Wainwright and James Yood, The Rockford Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2006“Ruby Satellite”, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago and California Museum of Photography, curated by Ciara Ennis
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HW
“BIG: Collaboration and Innovation in the Print Medium”, Design Gallery, Madison, WI
Version 06, Iron Street Studio, Chicago
2004“Things Fall from the Sky”, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA and Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL, curated and catalog by Ciara Ennis and Ken Fandell
New Chicagoans, Select 04, Chicago
“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
2003“War, 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
2002“Watery Domestic”, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL
2001“Field Phenomena”, TBA, Chicago, IL
“Musings”, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2000“Seems”, Block Museum, NorthWestern University, Evanston, IL
“Find”, mn gallery, Chicago, IL
Untitled, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
9 mm repeat, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999“Abstraction”, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
“Dysfunctional Home”, NIU Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998“All that is Solid”, Socrates Sculpture Park, L.I.C. Queens, NY
“Opening Our Doors”, Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, New York, NY
“City as a Memory”, The Athenaeum, Museum of Design & Architecture, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997“Design for Life, A Centennial Celebration”, Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsonian, New York, NY
Public Art Installation, Galloway Farm, Kendrick ID
“Material/Immaterial”, The Soap Factory @ 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
1995“Multiple Constantinople”, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan, Australia
“New Directions”, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts
“Civic Innovations”, Henry P. Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall and UCLA Third Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993“When Push Comes to Shove”, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

 
PROJECTS/COMMISSIONS
2007“The Subject of Tonight’s Sermon Is__”, Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside
2006“Working on the Failed Utopia”, commission for Manilow Sculpture Park, Governor’s State University, IL
Garbage Truck “wallpaper covering”, “Test Patterns”, City-Wide Installations & Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2004“Intern Crates”, with Randall Kober, three housing units for interns, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer MN
2003Amnesiac Commemorative”, project commission, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2002/03"Plan-Relief”, mass-produced wallpapers based on relief war maps in Les Invalides, Paris, France
2002“I Hate Living in Late Capitalism”, exterior installation on an abandoned Woolworth Store, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
2001/02“Warm, Fuzzy, Fun”, Children’s Advocacy Center, Stanley Tigerman Architect, Percent for Art, City of Chicago, permanent Installation, 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
2006Thornton, Clara Rose, “Art Break”, New City Chicago, 10/13/06
Isaacs, Deanna, “The Traveling Salesman”, Chicago Reader, 2/24/06
2005Newmark, Christine, “Breaking Away”, Chicago Magazine, August 2005
Lopez, Ruth, “40 Outdoor Artworks We Love”, Time Out Chicago, 7/28/05
Ollman, Leah, “Things Fall, but not quite together”, Los Angeles Times, 11/23/05
Fardy, Jonathan, Bit Logic @ GASP, Big Red & Shiny, Issue #27, www.bigredandshiny.com
2004Walker, Hamza, Best of 2004, Art Forum, December 2004
Ca mper, Fred, “Christine Tarkowski’s Rigid Views on Decay”, 10/15/2004
Brunetti, John, “Administrative Bunker + Rook”, Dialogue, March/April 2004
Workman, Michael, Under Seige, New City, 1/8/04
Schmidt, Jennifer, If We Ran The Whitney, Big Red & Shiny, Issue #6, www.bigredandshiny.com
Ciezadlo, Janina, “Critic’s Choice”, Chicago Reader, 2/13/04
2003Keller, Julia, “War show seeks to incite thought”, Chicago Tribune, 2/9/03
Heiggelke, Brian, “When hawks cry, Art what is it good for?”, New City, 3/26/03
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, 8/11/02
“Best of Public Art”, Art in America, August 2002
2001Lewis, Julia, “Quality of Light:, Interior Design, January, 2001
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
1999Camper, Fred, “Dysfunctional Home”, Reader, 2/19/1999
Weins, Ann, “Dysfunctional Home”, New City, 1/ 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
2005Christine 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
2001Notes on Repetition, self published catalog
2000“Positions in Architecture”, The Chicago Architecture Journal 9
1995-1998Journal of Ordinary Thought, photojournalist, Chicago, IL
 
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2005Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Individual Artist Award
2004Cite´ Internationale des Arts, Residency in Paris, France
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant
Franconia Sculpture Park Grant, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota
2003J.M. Kohler Arts in Industry Residency, Kohler WI
2001Creative Capital Foundation
1999Illinois Arts Council, Fellowship
1997Franconia Sculpture Park Grant, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota
Chicago Artist Assistance Program
1994Chicago Artist Assistance Program
Kosciusko Foundation Grant, New York, NY
 
TEACHING/ LECTURES
2003-PresentSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chair and Associate Professor, Fiber and Material Studies
2006Artists Connect, Artist Lecture, Art Institute of Chicago
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Artist Lecture
2005Public Art/Public Conversations: Community Art? Public Art?, Chicago Cultural Center
2004Goldsmiths College, Artist Lecture, London, England
PLAN B: a panel in conjunction with “Proposals for Indestructible Living: participants, Ken Dunn,
Sharon Haar, Ben Nicholson and Christine Tarkowski
UIC, Dept of Art and Arch, participant on Panel “Art and Politics”
2002Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Artist Lecture & Visiting Critic, Cambridge, MA¬
European Study Program, I.I.T., Artist Lecture, Paris, France
Rome Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture, Visiting Critic, Rome,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Art and Architecture, Artist Lecture, Chicago, IL
School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Artist Lecture, Boston MA
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Artist Lecture, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2001-02MIT, Full Time Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Program, Cambridge, MA