Scott Wolniak

American, b. 1971

  

Lives and works in Chicago

 

EDUCATION

2002

MFA - University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002

1995

BFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

SELECTED EXHIBITONS

2007 Obsessive/Expolsive, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
2006 Drawing with Outer Space, Hyde Park Center, Chicago IL, Solo Installation Project
  18th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL

Takeover, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

 

Perpetual Art Machine, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY

 

The Buddy Cycles, (Derek Fansler & Scott Wolniak, collaborative) Western Exhibitions, Chicago IL

2005

Into the Woods, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago IL

  RED WHITE BLUE, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
  Scott Wolniak, (solo show) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 12x12 New Artists/New Work
  Six Projects at Suburban, (curated by Michael Thomas) Space Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
  Video and Sculpture, (solo show) Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery Project Space, Chicago, IL
  The 4-color Pen Show, (curated by Heather Hubbs and Elysia Borowy) Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago IL
  City Selections, Chicago Public Art Program, Chicago IL
2004

Drawing: Seven Curatorial Responses, Catherine E. Nash Gallery, University of MN, Minneapolis, MN

  Pierogi a Go-Go (Brooklyn Gravity Racers), Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
  Spacemakers, (courtesy of The Suburban) Lothringer Dreizen, Munich Germany
  Summer Drawings, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX
  Derek Fansler and Scott Wolniak, Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago IL
  Uncovered: Recent Acquisitions from the Artists' Books Collection, (courtesy of 8.5x11) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
2003

Paper Chase, Muller-DeChiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany

  Artissima 10, Courtesy of Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Turin, Italy
  #20, (Curated by Reed Anderson) Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
  Movement, Renaissance Society Benefit Exhibition, Chicago IL
  Knockabout, (Curated by Mark Orange) Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
  Summer Jam, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  New Ghosts, (Solo Exhibition) mn Gallery, Chicago IL
  Time and Space, (Solo Exhibition) Gahlberg Gallery at McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
  Cheap, (Curated by Lauren Ross and Elizabeth Ferguson Madden) White Columns, New York, NY, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2002

Fountain of Youth, (Curated by Law Office) Locust Projects, Miami, FL, Stray Show, Chicago, IL

  8.5x11, (Curated by Gabriel Fowler) - Box set, edition of 100; www.8.5x11.org Project exhibition at Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago IL
  Video with Headphones, (Curated by Jack Sloss) Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago IL
  Sculpture in Chicago Now, Part II, (Curated by Adam Brooks and Corey Postiglione) Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL
2001

10 White Male Painters Paint the Same Painting, Part Deux, Law Office at Stray Show, Chicago, IL, Hotel Show, Miami, FL, Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL

  First Parking Lot Biennale, (Curated by Helidon Gjergji) S. Wells Street Public Parking Lot, Chicago IL
  In Flagrante Delicto (caught in the act), Rembrandt Studio, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Solo Exhibition, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
  Buena Onda, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1998 10 White Male Painters Paint the Same Painting, Law Office @ Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL
1997 I Paid $25 to Exhibit My Art in this Show, Beret International Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

1996

Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

1995

Unknown Chicago, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

   

 

TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
2001-2004 Bad Touch 1-6, (Curated by Bill Thelen) Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA; Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL; Rose Museum, Boston, MA; Keith Talent Gallery, London, England; Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL

 

SCREENINGS
  Cinemascope, (Curated by Lee Wells), Scope Art Fair, 2005, London
  Bilingual, (Curated by Tracy Taylor), 2005, UIMA, Chicago, IL
 

CTA Video Projection, 2003, Garden Fresh, Chicago, IL

 

Result, Issue 2: Screening and Tape, (Curated by KDP), 2002, H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

 

Inside/Outside, (Curated by Michael Smith), 2002, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  -Collection of Peter Norton, Santa Monica
  -Collection of Peter R Stern, New York, NY
  -Collection of Zach Feuer, NY
  -Collection of Thomas Blackman, Chicago, IL
  -Collection of Dean Geleynse, Honolulu, HI
  -8.5x11 project: Microsoft, Seattle; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 


PUBLICATIONS FOR ART AND CURATORIAL WORK

2006 Video: A New Way of Working by Victor M. Cassidy, Chicago Artists News
2005 Nature Denatured by Tony Adler, Chicago Reader
  Unwanted Things by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
  One Man's Trash...is an Art Exhibit by Sara Burrows, Pioneer Press
  A Weed Grows in Market Square; Exhibit Debuts at Downtown Park by Jennifer Mathieu, Houston Chronicle
2004

Derek Fansler and Scott Wolniak (Dogmatic Gallery) by Michelle Grabner, artUS

2003 Critics' Picks New York, by Martha Schwendener, Art Forum
  "Knockabout" at Spencer Brownstone, by Steven Stern, Time Out New York
  Galleries-Soho, Recommendations, The New Yorker
  Galleries, Recommended, by Kim Levin, The Village Voice
  Scott Wolniak at mn, by Ginger Wolf, Bridge Online
  An Everyday Optic: Scott Wolniak's time and Space, by Jonathan Miller (exhibition catalog)
2002 Chicago Diary, by Walter Robinson, ArtNet
  Chicago's New Rivalry, by Pedro Velez, ArtNet
  Chicago, by Kristen VanDeventer, Contemporary
2001 Guts and Glory, by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
  Boosterism at its Best, by Greg Purcell, New Art Examiner
  When Life Imitates Art, Kris Belden, F magazine
  Home is Where the Art Is, by Fred Camper, CS Magazine
2000 Prairie Smoke, by Victor M. Cassidy, ArtNet
  Cold Conceptualism, by Michelle Grabner, Frieze