ARTISTS
SCOTT WOLNIAK
American, Born in 1971
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
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EDUCATION
2002
M.F.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
1995
B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Scott Wolniak, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (upcoming)
2008
New Works, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
Tamed and Wild, Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Drawing with Outer Space, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
The Buddy Cycles, (w/ Derek Fansler) Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Video and Sculpture, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Time and Space, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
New Ghosts, mn Gallery, Chicago IL
1996
Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2008
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Replicants, Virgil de Voldére Gallery, New York
The Leaf and the Page, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL
Capricious and Mercurial Systems, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2007
Direct, Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Obsessive/Expolsive, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Video and Painting, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Pass It On: Connecting Contemporary Do-It-Yourself Culture, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2006
Specious: A Momentary Video Exhibition, Art 2102, Los Angeles
Video Lounge, curated by Michael Rush, Art Basel Miami Beach
Takeover, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2005
Red White Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Into the Woods, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago IL
Six Projects at Suburban, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
The 4-color Pen Show, (curated by Heather Hubbs and Elysia Borowy), Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago IL
2004
Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizen, Munich Germany
Drawing: Seven Curatorial Responses, Catherine E. Nash Gallery, University of MN, Minneapolis, MN
Summer Drawings, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX
Pierogi a Go-Go (Brooklyn Gravity Racers), Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Derek Fansler and Scott Wolniak, Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago IL
Uncovered: Recent Acquisitions from the Artists' Books Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
2003
Summer Jam, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Cheap, White Columns, New York, NY
Paper Chase, Muller-DeChiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Artissima 10, Turin, Italy
#20, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Knockabout, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Fountain of Youth, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Video with Headphones, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Sculpture in Chicago Now, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
8.5x11 project: Microsoft, Seattle
8.5x11 project: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
8.5x11 project: Museum of Modern Art, NY
8.5x11 project: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2007
Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Video and Painting, exhibition catalog
2006
Scott Fife, Robyn O’Neil, David Schutter, and Scott Wolniak; Valerie Carberry by Ruth Lopez, Reviews, Art News
Video: A New Way of Working by Victor M. Cassidy, Chicago Artists News
2005
Nature Denatured by Tony Adler, Chicago Reader
Unwanted Things by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
One Man's Trash...is an Art Exhibit by Sara Burrows, Pioneer Press
A Weed Grows in Market Square; Exhibit Debuts at Downtown Park by Jennifer Mathieu, Houston Chronicle
2004
Derek Fansler and Scott Wolniak (Dogmatic Gallery) by Michelle Grabner, artUS
2003
Critics' Picks New York, by Martha Schwendener, Art Forum
"Knockabout" at Spencer Brownstone, by Steven Stern, Time Out New York
Galleries-Soho, Recommendations, The New Yorker
Galleries, Recommended, by Kim Levin, The Village Voice
Scott Wolniak at mn, by Ginger Wolf, Bridge Online
An Everyday Optic: Scott Wolniak's time and Space, by Jonathan Miller (exhibition catalog)
2002
Chicago Diary, by Walter Robinson, ArtNet
Chicago's New Rivalry, by Pedro Velez, ArtNet
Chicago, by Kristen VanDeventer, Contemporary
2001
Guts and Glory, by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
Boosterism at its Best, by Greg Purcell, New Art Examiner
When Life Imitates Art, Kris Belden, F magazine
Home is Where the Art Is, by Fred Camper, CS Magazine
2000
Prairie Smoke, by Victor M. Cassidy, ArtNet
Cold Conceptualism, by Michelle Grabner, Frieze