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Artist Bio
BRENDA BARNUM

EDUCATION:

1980  San Francisco Art Institute, Painting major
1978-80  Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Painting/Film major
1975-77  Milwaukee Area Technical College, Design major
1973-75  Gateway Technical College, Interior Design major

SELECTED ONE PERSON SHOWS:

2000 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Butters Gallery, Ltd. Portland, OR
1990 Walter Bischoff Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
1988 The Broadway Gallery, Detroit, MI
1986 Bates Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:

2000 Persistence: Botanica, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 ArtFair Vancouver B.C., Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Objets d'Art, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 20 at Knox, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
1996 Painterly Abstraction, Hyde 1996 Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1996 Indiana University, Gary, IN
1995 Wanderlust... abstraction in Chicago, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Group Show, Fach Hochschule, Offenburg, Germany
1994 ART EXPO, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Chicago Drawing Exhibition, Madeira, Portugal
1993 ART EXPO, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993&nsp;Emerging Chicago Abstraction, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1992 &nsp;Burns Fine Art, New York, NY
1991 Gallery North West, Indiana University, Gary, IN
1991 18 Artists, 1800 Clybourn Building, Chicago, IL
1991 Aktuelle Kunst Aus Amerika, Amerika Haus, Stuttgart, Germany
1991 Randolph Street Gallery Auction, Chicago, IL
1991 Rapture, Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Paint, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Los Angeles Art Expo, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Cologne Art Expo, Cologne, Germany
1990 New Work for a New Decade, Gallery Vienna, Chicago, IL
1989  Transcultural Exchange Show, Chicago, IL and Vienna, Austria
1988  Abstractions, Zola Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Arts Midwest Fellowship, The Wursum Museum, Racine, WI
1998 Arts Midwest Fellowship, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1987  Arts Midwest Fellowship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1987 Masks, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986  International Contemporary Art Fair, Fort Apache Art Gallery, London, England
1986 Hippodrome Nightclub, London, England
1986 Fort Apache Expo Show, Fort Apache Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Limelight Nightclub, Chicago, IL
1985  Convergence: Mind, Myth, and Material, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Wish You Were Here, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Chicago, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984  Post Industrial Paint, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

GRANTS:

1986  Arts Midwest N.E.A. Fellowship Awards

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Bourrie, Sally. Art Aloft, New City, May 1991
McCracken, David. Gallery Scene, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 1991
Hardt, Su. Brenda Barnum aus Chicago- Born to be Wild, Kunst Magazin, Stuttgart, Germany, May 1990
McCracken, David. Gallery Scene, Chicago Tribune, July 19
Yanson, Julia. Choices: Twenty Painters from the Midwest, catalog essay Waddington, Chris. Different Strokes, Art Paper, Nov. 1987
Hixon, Kathryn. New Art Examiner, Jan. 1987
Leonhart, Mark. Brenda Barnum/ Linda King, New Art Examiner, Feb. 1986
Segard, Michel. Chicago's New Expressionism, New Art Examiner, May 1985
Lyons, Christopher. Post Industrial Paint, Chicago Sun Times, July 1984 Artner, Alan. Post Industrial Paint, Chicago Times, July 1984

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Arthur Anderson & Co., Chicago, IL
Walter Bischoff, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Anthony Brucke, Chicago, IL
John Hancock Center Signature Room at the 95th
I.M.C. Inc., Northbrook, IL
Peter Miller, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, NJ
Saks Fifth Ave, New York, NY
Terminal Freezers Corp.


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