D'nell Larson

  

American, Born in San Francisco, CA, 1970

  

Lives and Works in Los Angeles

 

EDUCATION

1996

MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago

1993

BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

SOLO EXHIBITONS

2006

Close Your Eyes and Think of Me, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004 Haze, Arco project, curated by Peter Doroshenko, Madrid, Spain
  You Kill Me, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2003 You Kill Me, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Straight to You, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  Salon Series, BlackBird, Chicago, IL
  Project Room, Art Chicago 2002, Chicago, IL
2001 Forever Ever..., Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 The Space Between Us, Artists Space, New York, NY

1998

Soft, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI

 

Almost Paradise, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL

 

GROUP EXHIBITONS

2006 Fair Exchange, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles County Fair

Objects of Desire, Sixspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  Group Show of Gallery Artists, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 There Goes the Neighborhood, Sixspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  ArtLA, project booth curated by Julie Rodriguez
2004 Soft Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  Group Show of Gallery Artists, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Fitter Happier, Depaul University, Chicago, IL
  Art in the Gardens, public art project, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
2003 Warped Space, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
  Materiality, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  Group Show of Gallery Artists, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Artpoint, Miami Beach, FL
  Hobby Lobby, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2001 Humid, The Moore Building, Miami, FL (catalog)
  Group Show of Gallery Artists, Bodybuilder&Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  The ArtCouncil Awards Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
  Zone, MU Foundation, Eindhoven Netherlands
  Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum, New York, NY

2000

Bad Directions, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

 

Under the Influence, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1999

The New Art Examiner, Invitational Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL

1998

Sculpture, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

 

Aggressive Beauty, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

 

Blind Faith, White Columns, New York, NY

 

Funny Pictures, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Illuminating, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

1997

Deadpan, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

 

Romper Room, Diverseworks, Houston, TX

 

Chicago Conceptual Video, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

 

The New Art Examiner, Invitational Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL

 

NAME Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL

 

New Langton Arts, Invitational Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

1996

Romper Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

 

Untitled, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

 

Glow, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

Whoosh, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

 

Superconcentrated, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL

 

The All Girls, Berlin, Germany

 

Saint Valentine's Invitational Group Exhibition, NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

What's Love Got to Do With It?, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995
  

Whitewalls Invitational Group Exhibition,
Northern Illinois University Gallery Chicago, IL

 

Poof!, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Radius, organized by Feigen Gallery and Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Heaven's in the Backseat of my Cadillac, NAME Gallery

 

The Matter of the Body, Reicher Gallery, Lake Forest, IL

 

Saint Valentine's Invitational Group Exhibition, NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL

1994
  

Investigations into the Physical and Metaphorical Hole,
Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

 

Chicago Critics Choose Chicago Artists, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, IL

 

Photographic, NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004 Annette Ferrara, Ten by Ten, Romance, pp. 30-31
  Catherine Malone, C-Ville Weekly, You Kill Me: Installation by D'nell Larson
2003 Deborah Wilk, Chicago Magazine, The Look of Love, September
  Fred Camper,Critics Chocie, The Chicago Reader, September 12
  Michael Workman, Art Tip of the Week, New City, September
2002 Olga Zdanovics, New Art Examiner, Review May/June pp. 92-93

2001

The New Yorker, January 29

1999

Grabner, Michelle. Frieze, March/April, p. 91

1998
  

Grisham, Esther. "TBA Space Invigorates Chicago",
Dialogue, May/June, p. 28-29

 

Cotter, Holland. "Blind Faith", The New York Times. January 9, p. B35

1997
  

Camper, Fred. "Almost Paradise", Chicago Reader, section 1,
December 19, p.41

 

Weins, Ann. "Grrl Art", New Art Examiner, March, pp. 28-32

1996

Weins, Ann. "Tunnel Vision", Chicago Magazine, May, p.22

 

Artner, Alan. "Art, Not so Super", Chicago Tribune,
Friday, April 26, section 7, p. 52

1995

Weins, Ann. "Studio View Chicago", New Art Examiner, April, p. 34

1994

Wills, Sheri. "Photographic", New Art Examiner, September, pp. 42-43