Diana Guerrero-Maciá

 

Cuban-American heritage

 

Born in Cleveland, OH, 1966

 

Lives Chicago, IL

 

EDUCATION

1992
  

MFA Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art

1992

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1988 BFA, Villanova University
1987 Villanova Study Abroad, Siena, Italy

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006

Words Make Wide Open Spaces; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dominican University; Forest Park, IL

2005

ArtPace, Hudson Show Room, January 27 – April 17

2003

My First Painting, Twenty-one Years Later; 12 x 12: New Artists New Work – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
This Cowboy Nation; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000

Perfect Lovers; Museum of Contemporary Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO

1998 Position is Where You Put It; Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sewings; NETWORK [a Cranbrook Alumni Gallery Project], Pontiac, MI
1996

Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

1994

Flock; Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL

   

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006

Wallworks 2; Traywick Contemporary, Berkely, CA
Leaving Aztlán [redux]; Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
Groupshow; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005

Leaving Aztlán: Art in a Post-Chicano Age; Center for Contemporty Art, Denver, CO

2004

Group Summer Show, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003

Social Patterns; Curated by John Brunetti Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
The Big Picture Show: Size Does Matter; Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Color Value [Kota Ezawa, John Parot, People Powered, and Diana Guerrero-Maciá]; Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Cheap; Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

2002

Cheap; White Columns, New York, NY
Just What It Says; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hobby Lobby; Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Blue Blood Blue Collar; Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Prestar = borrow + lend [Juan Angel Chavez, Dianna Frid, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, and Marcos Raya]; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2001

Chicago and Vicinity with a Bias; Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL [catalogue]
Fluid Interfaces; Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

2000

Soap Number Three; No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory; Minneapolis, MN
Of Intrinsic Nature: transformando lo ordinario; Chicago Park District, Chicago,IL

1999

Washington University Art Faculty Exhibition; Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
Faculty Exhibition; Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO

1998

One Night Stand; Critical Mass, St. Louis, MO
Re-Design; Fifo Re-Design, Chicago, IL
 Faculty Exhibition; Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO

1997

White Gloves for the 90's; Three Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Knock-Out; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1996

Abstract Chicago; Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
13th Biennial Exhibition; Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
No N.A.M.E., N.A.M.E.; Chicago, IL
Mujeres de Pelo en Pecho; National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicago, IL
Facelift; Optimus, Chicago. IL

1995

Corazón Latino, Four Latina Artists; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Mujeres de Pelo en Pecho; Northwestern University Settlement House, Chicago, IL
Latino Artists in Chicago Region; Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN
Klown; Kozuch Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL

1994

Visual Play; Textile Art Center, Chicago, IL
The Shape of Things; Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
ToyBomb!; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

1993

12" x 12"; Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
Car Radios and Other Great Stuff Stolen From Past Art Expos; Beret International, Chicago, IL

1992

IMAGE/TEXT; Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI [catalogue]
Michigan Fine Arts Exhibition; Bloomfield Hills Art Association, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1991

New Detroit Work; Opus One, Detroit, MI

   
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2004 Resident Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony
2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany, Foundation Award
2000 Artist's Grant, The Soap Factory
1999 Project Room Grant, Museum of Contemporary Art Saint Louis
1998 Resident Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony
1992 Resident Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1990-92 Philip Morris Foundation Fellowship for the Arts,
Cranbrook Academy of Art
   
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 Artner, Alan G. "Concept of 'non-place' places behind Mandell sculpture, video," Chicago Tribune, March 3, p. 23.
2005 "Challenging Stereo-Types," Southwest Art, April, p. 106-109
  Motian-Meadows, Mary, "Rethinking Contemporary Latino Art," Spectrum, Volume 19, No. 1, April.
  Paglia, Michael, "Nuevo and Improved," Westword, westword.com,
volume 28, no. 23, April 14.
  Rodriguez, Cindy, "Art Helps Us Understand Each Other,"
The Denver Post. March 1.
  Chandler, Mary Voelz, "Global Context,"
Rocky Mountain News. February 24.
2000 Abbe, Mary, "Under One Big Top (No Name Exhibitions)," Star Tribune. August 4.
1999 Daniels, Jeff, "Without a heavy hand, exhibit reflects imprending millenium," St. Louis Post-Dispatch. December 12.
1996 Buchholz, Barbara, "Sense of Reality," Chicago Tribune. December 20.
1995 Helguera, Pablo, "Mujeres de Pelo en Pecho," Exito! October
  Mason, Nathan, "Diana Guerrero-Macia and Her Quirky Balances," Subnation. January
1992 Miro, Marsha, "Michigan Fine Arts Exhibition," Detroit Free Press. April 5