TOM DENLINGER
web: tomdenlinger.com
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1983
BA California State University, Hayward, California 1978
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Free Space/In Estasi, ART3160, Venice, Italy
2017 Tom Denlinger, Randy Alexander Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Ekstatic Edgewater, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Piazza, CTA Red Line, Jarvis stop, permanent installation. Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago
2012 Cielo: Rome e Chicago, VerA, Rome, Italy
2012 Artists Connect: Tom Denlinger Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009 Lo Sguardo di Pavese: Le colline intorno, il demone dentro
CEPAM (Centro Pavesiano Museo Casa Natale), Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy
2008 Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2008 Imperfect Recall, Chicago Academy of Sciences Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL
2002 Plenum, Tom Blackman Associates, Chicago, IL
2001 Castelli di Fiori, Castelli d’Acqua, Installation, Watertower City Gallery, Chicago
2000 Barbara Von Stechow Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2000 Ten In One Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Ten In One Gallery, Chicago, IL
Uncomfortable Spaces, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
1996 Kunstlerhaus e.V., Hamburg, Germany
1995 Ten In One Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2021 Trees Give Us Life, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
2020 Art In Place, Terrain, Oak Park, IL
2019 Elmdale 01, Permanent Installation, The Music School, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2019 Terrain Biennial, Oak Park, IL
2014 When Worlds Collide: the Prokaryotic Kingdom of Monera, Terrain, 704 S Highland, Oak Park, IL
2013 Streamlines, Mahaprajapati Temple, Vaishali, India
2013 Faculty Exhibition (juried), DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2012 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Industry of the Ordinary “Portrait Project”
2011 Skyline, 310 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago
2011 Faculty Exhibition, DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2010 House-Warming NR.VII, artEmbassy, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
2008 In Sede: Che Schatto!, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Turin, Italy; The Third Mind, “Memorials to Future Catastrophes,” video / sound collaborative work, Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Sonic Impact, New Music Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Oct. 28-29, 2006: Yago, a video / sound collaboration with composer Gene Coleman
2005 Location Matters, artMbassy, Berlin, Germany; First part of a two-part collaborative exhibition with four Chicago-based artists and four artists based in Berlin, Germany; Kyoto In_Ex., Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, World Music Festival; Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2004 Yago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Soundfield Festival of New Music; International Currents Gallery, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, IL
Photography, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, benefit exhibition.
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2003 Yago, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, Transsonic Festival of New Music
2002 ArtCouncil (Artadia) Awards Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, 2002, Artadia Organization
2001 Sight, Site, Insight, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
1999 Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1997 Art Exchange, Downtown Alliance for NY, New York, NY
Distractions, Tom Blackman Assoc., Chicago
1996 Uncomfortable Spaces, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1995 Pure Hinterland, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pressed for Time.Shin Se Gae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Residue, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1994 Location, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Little Things, Art In General, New York, NY
1993 In Flux, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
The Landscape Show, Tom Blackman Associates, Chicago, IL
Tom Denlinger-Luke Dohner, Ten In One Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 The Landscape: Subject of Renewed Scrutiny, Foster Gallery, Univ. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Address, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1991 Divide and Multiply, NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Reliable Machines, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1986 Installations, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 80th Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Alibi, Moming Dance and Arts Center, Chicago, IL; set design, dance performance
1977 Palo Alto Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Palo Alto, California
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Imperfect Recall: Recollecting the GDR, Cecilia Novero, ed., Univ. of New Zealand, Otago, NZ
2010 Financial District: Mirror Stage – 16 Suggested Positions for the Middle Class, Center for Functional Recuperation, Chicago, IL
2009 The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game Tom Denlinger, Kanta Kochar Lindgren, and Davis Schneiderman, eds. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
1992 Territorial by Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
REVIEWS AND CATALOGS
2017 “Tom Denlinger’s More-than-Human Photography,” Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 41, Summer, 2017, United Kingdom, interview by Cecilia Novero, University of Otago, New Zealand.
2009 Art in America, February, “Tom Denlinger at Rowland Contemporary,” Susan Snodgrass
2008 Artforum online, 15 June, “Tom Denlinger,” Alicia Eler
2008 New City, 22 May, “Tom Denlinger,” Michael Weinstein
2008 Chicago Tribune, 7 March, ‘Where color borders on danger and landscape is reduced to essentials,” Alan Artner
2007 La Repubblica, 17 November, “La Fotografia,” Marina Paglieri
2007 In Sede: Che Scatto, 15 November, catalog essay by Francesco Poli
2006 Location Uncertain, NIU Gallery, DeKalb, IL, exhibition catalog, essay by Bertha Husband
2005 Berliner Morgenpost, “Location Matters,” Mbassy Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004 Subjective Realities, Revco Collection catalog
2002 Catalog for The ArtCouncil Awards Show, Artadia Organization
2001 New Art Examiner, April: “Tom Denlinger,” John Brunetti
2000 Tom Denlinger, exhibition catalog, essay by Hamza Walker
Frankfurt Allgemeine, November 4: “Blauen Himmel über Chikago,” Marc Peschko
1998 Art In America, October: “Tom Denlinger,” Susan Snodgrass
1998 New Art Examiner, September: “Tom Denlinger,” Ellen Steinberg
1997 Chicago Tribune, May: “Distraction,” Alan Artner
1996 Szene (Hamburg, Germany), August: “Dunkles Lachen,” Julia Mummenhof
1995 New Art Examiner, December: “Tom Denlinger,” Jason Greenberg
Art Papers, Nov.-Dec.: “Tom Denlinger,” Jennifer Riddell
1994 New Art Examiner, June: “Refried,” Michael Bulka
Chicago Tribune, May 13: “Of What Use?,” David McCracken
Hyde Park Herald, March 16: “Blurring the Lines Between Art
and the Everyday,” Cara Glatt
1992 Crain’s Chicago Business, Feb.10: “Address” Editor’s Choice
1991 Chicago Tribune, March 1: “Divide Delves into Serial and Atomistic
Art,” David McCracken
1988 Chicago Tribune, April 22: “Gallery Scene,” David McCracken
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL Bank of America, Chicago, IL
City of Chicago, Edgebrook library, Chicago, IL Molinette Hospital, Turin, Italy
Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, IL Telos, SpA, Rome, Italy
University of Iowa Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014 Chicago Transit Authority, Red Line, Artists Fellowship, Chicago, IL
2009 Governor’s International Exchange Award, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL
2004 Japan Study Center, Earlham College, Lake Forest College video project, in Kyoto, Japan
2003 Japan Study Center, Earlham College, Lake Forest College video project, in Kyoto, Japan
2003 ACM, ACS, GLCAI, Tri-Consortial Global Partners Project, three-week seminar, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Individual Artist Fellowship
2002 Artadia Foundation, New York, NY, Individual Artist Fellowship
2002 Midwest Instructional Technology Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2002 ACM Development Grant, Exquisite Corpse Collaborative Project
1996 Kunstlerhaus e.V. Hamburg, Germany, Visiting Artist (July –August)
1990 Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL, Individual Artist Fellowship
1985 Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL, Individual Artist Fellowship
PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS (abbreviated)
2018 Tom Denlinger, DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2017 Photography and Literature, Institute of Arts, Turin, Italy
2016 Tom Denlinger, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana
2012 Artists Connect: Tom Denlinger at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 &Now Lake Forest College Literary and Arts Festival, Lake Forest College,
Lake Forest, IL
2005 Media, New, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, June 7-9. “Exquisite Corpse Project.”
2004 &Now, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April 5-7
2003 Teaching and Learning with Technology in the Humanities, Midwest Instructional Technology Center, hosted at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
CURATOR, JUROR, COMMITTEE AND BOARD MEMBER
1997-2005 Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, Programming Committee.
2004 De Paul University, Annual Student Exhibition, juror and guest speaker.
2000 City of Chicago Public Art Program, Project Advisory Panel.
1993-1996 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Chairman, Exhibitions Committee.
1992-1994 New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, board member.
Contact:
Tom Denlinger
Department of Printmedia
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art School at Depaul
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
cell: 773. 865-4885