Ken Fandell

           

American, Born in Evanston, IL, 1971

           

Lives in Chicago

 

EDUCATION

1996

MFA in photography and new genres University of Illinois at Chicago

1993

BFA in photography and the history of photography,

  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990

University of California at Santa Barbara

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 (upcoming solo), Howard House, Seattle, WA
  (upcoming solo), Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Wall Works 3, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  Of Ignorance (and) or Mystery, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  MCA Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography 1967-2007,
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  Rise & Set, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
  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 Gallery, University of
  Delaware, Newark, DE
2006 an incomplete map of everything, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2005 The Planets, Howard House, Seattle, WA
  In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen:one Gallery Santa Monica, CA
  Into the Midst, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX
  The Planets, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Chicago, IL
2004 Two Skies, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  From Up and Down and Still Somehow, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery
  Chicago, IL
  The Great Indoors, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
  Out of Place Two, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art,
  Indianapolis, IN
  subvisuals, Dreizehnzwei, Vienna, Austria
  Drunk and Stoned, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
2003 Three Skies, Howard House Seattle, WA
  There Goes My Hero, University of Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle,
  England
  Red Square Film and Video Festival, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
  More Oscillations Between Infinity and Proximity (girlfriends, sneakers,
  basketball, pizza, martinis, the sky, inspiration and my place in the
  cosmos), Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  Three Skies, Howard House, Seattle, WA
  ever, ever, and ever (almost), Revolution, Detroit, MI
2002 The Body Present: Effigies, Decoys, and Other Equivalents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  Finales, Revisions, and Asides, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Chicago, IL
  Sitting on My Porch as the Sun Goes Down in the Year 2000, Suite 106, New York, NY
  8.5x11 (Chicago, IL) Limited Edition Portfolio (20 artists projects in edition of 100 + an opening exhibition of works)
  Project: Ken Fandell, Traywick Gallery Berkeley, CA
  About The Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted To Know), Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

2001
  

Lifelike: Alternative Realities in Recent Photography,
Rockford Art Museum, Chicago, IL

 

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 and Sportsman Gallery, 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

 

Well, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

 

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 exhibit/various locations)

 

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

1993
  

A Pair of Kids and a Dog photographs by Ken Fandell,
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2007  

Ludwin, Torie. "Antennae," Artshouston (July).

 

Mylonas-Orwig, Laurel. "One Fine Day," Chicago Tribune (July 14).

 

Sozanski, Edwarrd J. "The Power of Language as Image," The Philadelphia Inquirer (January).

2006     

Yood, James. "Ken Fandell," Artforum International (February).


  

Snodgrass. Susan. "Ken Fandell," Art in America (May).

2005   

Ollman, Leah. "'Things Fall', But Not Quite Together" Los Angeles Times (November 23).


  

"Visual Arts Pick," Seattle Weekly.


  

"Flat Objects Gain Fresh Dimension," Seattle Times.


  

Wilk, Deb. "Studio City," Chicago Magazine (November).


  

"Things Fall Into Place for 'Sky' Group Show," Chicago Tribune.


  

"Ambitious Art," Missoula Independent Magazine.


  

"Partners," Art Access.


  

"The Sky is Falling in Evanston," Pioneer Press.


  

"Things Fall From the Sky," TimeOut Chicago.

2004   

Hixson, Kathryn. "Ken Fandell," artUS (September/October).


  

"ArtBeat: Ken Fandell," Chicago Tonight.


  

"Breaking Space and Time," The Detroiter.


  

"Coming to Terms with the Everyday," Dialogue.


  

"CoverStory," Mouth to Mouth.

 

Artner, Alan G. "Granite is Ruckriem's Path for Artistic Power," Chicago Tribune (May 28).


  

Stamets, Bill. "Seamsters," Chicago Reader (May 21).


  

"Ken Fandell," Chicago Tribune.


  

"Picks," The Falter.

2003   

"The Skies the Limit," Seattle Post-Intelligencer.


"Art Chicago 2003," C Magazine.


  

"Eye Exam/Space Travel," New City.

 

Hall, Emily. "Mass of Vapors," The Stranger (November 20-26).


  

"A Tale of Two Fairs," ArtNet.


Baker, Kenneth. "Artists Respond to Bio-Technology,"San Francisco Chronicle (October 4).

2002   

"The Body Present at the MCA," Chicago Sun Times.


  

Journal of Mundane Behavior (Volume 3, Number 2).


  

"News," Artkrush.


  

"Steady Sales," The Art Newspaper.

 

Hawkins, Margaret. "Beyond the Horizon," Chicago Sun-Times (April 26).


  

"SRO," Pioneer Press.


  

"Ken Fandell Gives a Show of Hands at the Museum of Contemporary Art," Chicago Arts & Entertainment.


  

"Destination Art," Where Chicago.

2001   

Fandell, Ken. "Hey, I've Got This Friend," New Art Examiner (November/December).


  

Ferrera, Annette. "Do Ferns Experience Self-Loathing?- The Art of Ken Fandell," TenbyTen, vol. 1 no. 3, pp. 29-31.

1999   

"Sound Video Images Objects," FlashArt.

 

Mutscheller, Chuck. "There's Two Kinds of People in this World," LUMPEN, June, p. 47.

 

Camper, Fred. "Distancing Techniques," Chicago Reader, January 22, p. 33.


  

"Depth of Field/Peter Miller Gallery," NewCity.

1998

"Ken Fandell...at Southern Exposure," ArtWeek.

 

Baker, Kenneth. "Postmodern Humor at Southern Exposure: Installations Play Tricks on Language and Landscape," San Francisco Chronicle (March 10).

 

Curtis, Cathy. "Raw Talents," Los Angeles Times (March 10).

 

Mifflin, Margot. "Twentyfive and Under/Review," WorldArt, #15 (Spring), pp. 66-67.

1997

"Unsentimental Journey," Self Magazine.

 

Berk, Amy. "Twenty-Five and Under/Photographers Speak Out," SPEAK Magazine (Spring).

 

"The Art of Endurance," Everybody's News.

 

Weinstein, Michael. "Artbeat: Under Developed Photographers," NewCity (January 16-22).

1996   

DoubleTake Books/Center for Documentary Studies (Duke University, NC) "25andUnder."

 

Reiter, Artemesia. "Longing for the Sublime," Bay Times vol. 17, no. 19, June 27.

 

George, Alice Rose. "25 and Under: Photographers," (New York: Norton).

 

Rapko, John. "'Glow' at New Langton Arts," ArtWeek (June).

1994

"Entitled," ZYZZYVA (the last word: west coast writers & artists).

1993

RayGun (contributing photographer for three issues).

 

"Toast and The Family Album Visited," INK.

 

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