ARTISTS
KEN FANDELL
American, b. 1971
Lives in Brooklyn and Chicago
EDUCATION
1996 M.F.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
1993 B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1989-90 University of California at Santa Barbara
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Part II: Until it Doesn't Matter, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
Part I: The Most Important Picture Ever, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
Old Pictures, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2007
Of Ignorance (and) or Mystery, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
Rise & Set (collaboration with Diana Guerrero-Maciá), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2005
The Planets, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Planets, Howard House, Seattle, WA
Some Durations and Distances, Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, MT
It's Hard and I Could Use Some Help, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2004
From Up and Down and Still Somehow, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Two Skies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2003
Three Skies, Howard House, Seattle WA
More Oscillations Between Infinity and Proximity, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley CA
Ever, ever, and ever (almost), Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI
2002
Finales, Revisions, and Asides, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sitting on My Porch as the Sun Goes Down in the Year 2000, Suite 106, New York, NY
The start. Or the end. I think., Farm, Missoula, MT
Project: Ken Fandell, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
1998
Well, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Synthetic Supernova, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Dropped Frames, Elk Gallery, New York, NY
Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Art Museum,
Asheville, North Carolina
2007
Wall Works 3, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
Hump Pink, paulkotulaprojects, Ferndale, MI
Antennae, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2007 DePauw Biennial, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University Greencastle, IN
InWords: The Art of Language, University Gaallery, University of Delaware Newark, DE
2006
an incomplete map of everything, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
5,000,000 Tons of Pure Energy (per second), Three Seasons, Chicago, IL
New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Fest, Chicago, IL
2005
In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen:one Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Bevy, Revolution, Detroit, MI
Into the Midst, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX
Fake Snow (screening), Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence, RI
Still, Things Fall from the Sky, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
2004
Uncovered: Recent Acquisitions from the Artists’ Books Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Great Indoors, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Out of Place Two, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Note*Think*Process, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Occurrences: the performative space of video, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
About the House, Howard House, Seattle, WA
PSEUDONONYMOUS, 1506 Projects, Seattle, WA
Subvisuals, Dreizehnzwei, Vienna, Austria
Drunk vs Stoned, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
2003
Acts of Futility, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
There Goes My Hero, University of Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle, England
Red Square Film and Video Festival, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Escape Vehicles, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL
Oops, I did it again, 1926 Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
A Clearing (curated by Michael Wilson), Cover-Up, London, England
Coming to Terms with the Everyday, Indiana University SoFA Gallery, Bloomington IN
Can You Repeat the Question?, Universtiy of Southern California/ F-Space Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2002
The Body Present: Effigies: Decoys, and Other Equivalents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Tasty Dog, Ateiler Top 25, Krems, Austria
8.5 x 11 Limited Edition Portfolio (organized by Gabriel Fowler), Chicago, IL
Sculpture in Chicago Now II, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
About The Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted To Know), Queens Museum of Art Queens, NY
2001
SOUND VIDEO IMAGES OBJECTS, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Under the Impression That When You Were Walking Forward You Would End Up Further Onward, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
In Through the Outdoors, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
Group Show of Gallery Artists, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lifelike: Alternative Realities in Recent Photography, Rockford Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2000
Bad Directions, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Techno – Residium, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
1999
Lost Horizons: California Landscapes, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fact or Fiction, Red Chair Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Depth of Field, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Ordinary Magic, 9251/2 Tularosa, Los Angeles, CA
Baywatch, DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Square Pegs, Ron Breeden Gallery, Orange, CA
1997
Shebang, Collision, San Francisco, CA
Switch-Stance, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
SHOVE, PUSH Artspace, San Francisco, CA
Distractions, TBA Space, Chicago, IL
RoadShow’97, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Redundant Redundant, DiLeia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH
1996
25andUnder, Center for Documentary Studies/DoubleTake Books (travelling exhibition)
Inter-Galactic, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
They Might Be Giants, Ten in One,Chicago, IL
Profiles, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Glow, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Whoosh, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Blue Lagoon, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
Tag (about play), Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, IL
Custom Complex, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Xenophobia-As Adrian Piper Observed "It’s a Personal Problem", Seigfred Gallery
Athens, OH
1994
6x9, Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006
Artforum International (New York, NY) Ken Fandell
Art in America (New York, NY) Ken Fandell
2005
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) Things Fall
Seattle Weekly (Seattle, WA) Visual Arts Pick
Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) Flat Objects Gain Fresh Dimension
Chicago Magazine (Chicago, IL) Studio City
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Things fall into place for "Sky" group show
Missoula Independent Magazine (Missoula, MT) Ambitious Art
Art Access (Seattle, WA) Partners
Pioneer Press (Evanston, IL) The sky is falling in Evanston
TimeOut Chicago (Chicago, IL) Things fall from the Sky
2004
artUS (Los Angeles, CA) Ken Fandell
Chicago Tonight (television program - Chicago, IL) ArtBeat: Ken Fandell
The Detroiter (Detroit, MI) Breaking Space and Time
Dialogue (Columbus, OH) Coming to Terms with the Everyday
Mouth to Mouth (Chicago, IL) CoverStory
Chicago READER (Chicago, IL) Seamsters
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Ken Fandell
The Falter (Vienna, Austria) Picks
2003
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) The Skies the Limit
C Magazine (Toronto, ON) Art Chicago 2003
New City (Chicago, IL) Eye Exam/Space Travel
ArtNet (internet publication/New York, NY) A Tale of Two Fairs
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) Artists Respond to Bio-Technology
2002
Chicago SunTimes (Chicago, IL) The Body Present at the MCA
Journal of Mundane Behavior (internet publication/Fullerton, CA) Volume 3, Number 2
Artkrush (internet publication/Boston, MA) News
The Art Newspaper (international) Steady Sales
Pioneer Press (Glenview, IL) SRO
Chicago Arts & Entertainment (Kenilworth, IL) Ken Fandell gives a show of hands at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Where Chicago (Chicago, IL) Destination Art
2001
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) Outdoors
SF Gate (San Francisco, CA) In Through the Outdoors
New Art Examiner (Chicago, IL) I've Got This Friend
NewCity (Chicago, IL) Art
10x10 (Chicago, IL) Fold
FlashArt (Milan, Italy) Sound Video Images Objects
1999
LUMPEN (Chicago, IL) There’s Two Kinds of People in this World
Chicago READER (Chicago, IL) Distancing Techniques
NewCity (Chicago, IL) Depth of Field/Peter Miller Gallery
1998
ArtWeek (San Jose, CA) Ken Fandell,…at Southern Exposure
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) Postmodern Humor at Southern Exposure
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) Raw Talents
WorldArt (Sydney, Australia) Twentyfive and Under/Review
1997
Self Magazine (New York, NY) Unsentimental Journey
SPEAK (San Francisco, CA) Twentyfive
Everybody’s News (Cincinnati, OH) The Art of Endurance
NewCity (Chicago, IL) Artbeat: Under Developed Photographers
1996
DoubleTake Books/Center for Documentary Studies (Duke University, NC) 25andUnder
Bay Times (San Francisco, CA) Longing for the Sublime
ArtWeek (San Jose, CA) "Glow" at New Langton Arts
1994
ZYZZYVA (the last word: west coast writers & artists) (San Francisco, CA) Entitled
1993
RayGun (Santa Monica, CA) contributing photographer for three issues
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA
The LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, IL
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Collection of Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA
The Government of the United States of America (The US Embassy in Bulgaria)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Artadia Award
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Polk Brothers Foundation
The University of Illionois at Chicago Merit Graduate Scholarship
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship