Resume

Solo Exhibitions

2017

  • University Club, Chicago, IL

  • 116 GALLERY, St. Charles, IL

2016

  • “Mutino Mother Earth,” Museum of Modern Art, Bogota Columbia

  • “Residue,” University of Maine, Farmington, Maine

  • Installation of “The Fall,” Chicago, IL

2014

  • “Art on Armitage,” Chicago, IL

2012

  • Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL

2004

  • Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

2000

  • “Cycle of Rituals,” Galeria De Arte Fotografico, San Miguel de Allende, MX, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia, South America                            

1999

  • Lithuanian Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe

  • “Medicinal Plants,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998

  • Pilgrimages Toward The Sacred,” Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA

1997

  • International Art Festival of Medellin 1997, Public Sculpture, Medellin, Colombia                                      

1996

  • “Peregrinajes hacia lo sagrado,” Museum of Modern Art, Pereira, Colombia

  • “Peregrinajes hacia lo sagrado,” Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia

  • Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, VT

1995

  • “Peregrinajes hacia lo sagrado,” Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia

1991

  • “Urban Series,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • One Illinois Center, Chicago, Il Curator, Dennis Adrian

  • “Greenhouse Effect,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL     

1988

  • Common Boundary Conference, Washington, D.C.

1986

  • “Photo Plus,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL                                      

1985

  • “Beyond The Cave,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1983

  • “Morphogenetic Fields,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1981

  • “Ontology at 36,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group Exhibitions

2023

  • Re/Sisters, Women, Nature, and Survival.” Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK.

2021

  • “Performance Ecologies” curated by Patricia Watts/ecoartspace, Currents

  • 826, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2020

  • Deerfield Village Hall

2017

  • “Reclaiming Earth,” SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA

  • Woman Made Gallery,  Chicago, IL

  • Illinois Women Artists Project, Bradley University, IL

2015

  • “Obsession,” Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

2014

  • “What We’re Lost: Recalling the Passenger Pigeon,” The Cornell Lab of

  • Ornithology, Ithaca, New York.

  • “Moving Targets,” (Passenger Pigeons), Brushwood Center, Riverwoods, IL

  • “Moving Targets,” School of Natural Resource & Environment at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • “Artemisia After 40,” Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago

2012

  • 2ND International Photography Festival, Israel

2011

  • Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia

2010

  • Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia

2007

  • HUB Robeson Galleries, Pennsylvania State U., PA

  • HOSU-Newark Art Gallery, The Ohio State U., Newark, OH

2007

  • The Fine Arts Center Gallery, U. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

2006

  • Gallery 908, Reading, PA

2005

  • Portland Art Museum

  • “Sacred Wild,” Apexart, New York, NY

  • Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown U., Kutztown, PA

2004

  • “A Moment in Time,” Evanston Art Center, IL

2002

  • Museo Gilardi, Lucca, Italy

  • www.greenmuseum.com

2001

  • “Environmental Interactions,” Kutztown University, PA            

  • “Sculpture in Chicago Now”, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • “Cows on Parade”,  Public Art, Chicago, Illinois

  • “Amazon Rising” Public Art, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois

  • “Spiritual Passports”, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

  • “Spiritual Passports”, Lockport, IL

  • “ Painting in Chicago Now”, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • “Spiritual Passports”, Southern Illinois Art Gallery

  • “Spiritual Passports”, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

  •  “Myths and Legends”, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska

  • “Then & Now”,  NIU Art Museum Gallery in Chicago, IL

1997

  • “Festival Internacional de Arte”, Medellin, Colombia, SA

1996

  • “Art in Chicago, 1945-95”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

  • “Inside out-Outside in”, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

1995

  • “Garbage,” Thread Waxing Space, New York

1994

  • “Garbage,” R.A.W., Real Art Ways Gallery, Hartford, CT

  • Transitions Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

1993

  • “20th Anniversary Show,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • “Latina/Americana,” Fertile Ground, BucamangaColumbia

  • “Latina/Americana,” Fertile Ground, Cali, Columbia

1992

  • “Grit and Polish Art and Space,” State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • “Latina/Americana,” fertile Ground, Bogota, Columbia

  • “Fate of the Earth Exhibition,” Ceres Gallery, New York

  • “Latina/Americana,” Fertile Ground, Medellin, Colombo

1990

  • Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

  • “For the Birds,” Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI

  • “Self Portrait,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1989

  • “Tropical Rain Forest Show,” Sundered Ground, New York

  • Artemisia Invitational, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • Wichita Art Assoc., Wichita, KS

  • Ruben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, KS

1988

  • 15th Anniversary Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • Detroit Focus, Detroit, MI

1987

  • SoHo 20, New York, NY

  • “Myth and Magic,” Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

  • “Artemisia/A Show To Go,” Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL           

  • “Artemisia/A Show To Go,” Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL

  • “Artemisia/A Show To Go,” Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

1986

  • “Artemisia/A Show To Go”, Traveling Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL                                            

1985

  • Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

1984

  • 10th Anniversary Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • “Artists Call,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1982

  • 34th Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

1980

  • Chicago Abstract Artists’ Invitational, Bensonville, IL

  • Works on Paper, Springfield, IL

1978

  • Benjamin Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • Northwestern University Faculty Club, Evanston, IL

1977

  • Benjamin Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

1976

  • Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

Professional Activities

2022

  • Horasis Global Meeting, Think tank located in Switzerland Panel discussion

2020

  • Embodiment Unlimited Global Conference Panel discussion

2017

  • Midwest Women Artists Symposium, Panel Discussion, Bradley, University

2012

  • Guest Lecture and Exhibit invited by the Embassy of the United States of   

  • America, Tel Aviv, and The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Office. Cultural       

  • Scientific Affairs, Israel

2004

  • Guest Lecturer, Colombia College, Chicago, IL

  • Judge for the “X Salon Regional De Artistas 2003”, Aona 3  Antioquia, Colombia, South America, Lectures at University of Antioquia and the National University EAFIT of Medellin, Colombia, SA 

2001

  • Panelist at the College Art Assoc. “Nature Nurtured and Nurturing: Art to Restore and Enliven Nature.”

2000

  • Keynote Speaker, Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia, S.A.

  • Guest Lecturer, Galeria Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia, S.A.

1999

  • Guest Lecturer, Art Institute of Chicago

  • Guest Lecturer Jewish Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe

1998

  • Guest Lecturer, Ethical Humanist Society of Greater Chicago, “Pilgrimages to the Sacred: Art, Ritual &The Environment” Guest Lecturer, Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA

  • Guest Lecturer, Colombia College, Chicago, IL

1997

  • “Festival Internacional de Arte”, Lecture, Medellin, Colombia, SA

  • Teaching Basic Workshop “Art and The Environment,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • Panelist, “Alternative Spaces and Criticism,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

  • Lecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1996

  • Panelist, “Affirming Feminist Identity Through Art and Religion,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

  • Guest Lecturer, Colombia College, Chicago, IL

  • Guest Lecturer, Museo De Arte De Pereira, Pereira, Columbia

  • Guest Lecturer, University Autonoma, Medellin, Columbia

  • Guest Lecturer, University De Antioquia, Medellin, Columbia

1995

  • Guest Lecturer, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL

  • Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago

  • Guest Lecturer, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va

  • Juror, Senior Citizens Art Network, Chicago, IL

  • Guest Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

1994

  • Guest Lecturer, School of the Art Institute, Chicago

  • Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago

1993

  • Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago

  • Panelist, Awards Jury Panel, Illinois Academy of Fine Arts

  • Moderator: Women’s Work/Women’s Words sponsored by The Chicago Artist’s Coalition at Artemisia Gallery

1992

  • Guest Lecturer, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan

  • Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

  • Library Project Advisory Panel, % For Art, City of Chicago, Dept. of Cultural Affairs

  • Chairwoman, Community Arts Assistance Program, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago

1991-92

  • Chairwoman, Chicago Conference, Chicago, Feb. 1992, Women Caucus for Art

  • National Board of Directors, Women Caucus for Art

  • Guest Lecturer, the City of Chicago and The Department of Cultural Affairs, Gallery 37

1982-92

  • President, Artemisia Gallery

1991

  • Panelist, Women’s Caucus for Art, National Conference, Washington, DC. “Artists: Activists/Ecologists”

  • Guest Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

  • Guest Lecturer, Harper College, Palatine, IL

1990

  • Guest Lecturer, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

  • Panelist, Assistance Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • Moderator, Panel Discussion, “What is the Artists’ Responsibility to Society Today?” with Vito Acconci, Carol Becker, and Suzi Gablik, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • Panelist, North Central Education, Steinmetz High School, Chicago, IL

1989-91

  • Program Director, The Humanitas Institute, Chicago, IL

1989

  • Guest Lecturer, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va

  • Keynote Speaker, New Directions Conference, Wichita Art Assoc., Wichita, KS

1987-88

  • Curator for Morton College, Cicero, IL

  • Panel Discussion “Women in The Arts”, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Campus

1987

  • Panel Discussion “Women in The Arts”, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society.

  • Panel Discussion “Is There Life After Art School”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Keynote Speaker, Northern Illinois University, “Women Artist, Contemporary Trends.” DeKalb, IL.

  • Guest Lecturer, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

1985-87

  • A.R.T. Art Resources in Teaching, Teacher

1984

  • Guest Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

1983

  • Panel Discussion “Focus on Feminism, Feminist Art: What Does It Say, Why Is It Different,” 8th Annual Illinois N.O.W. Conference

1982-83

  • Editorial Advisory Board, New Art Examiner

1981-82

  • Advertising Director New Art Examiner

1981-93

  • Member Artemisia Gallery

1980-81

  • Board of Directors, Art Encounter, a not-for-profit alternative art education    

Publications

  • Juan Alberto Gaviria,”Desde el Silencio”, El Mundo, Maginario, Aug. 1997 p.5,6.

  • Suzi Gablik, Orion, ” Arts and the Earth”, Autumn,1995, p.44

  • Baile Oakes, Sculpture with the Environment, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995 p.90-93.

  • Suzi Gablik, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 1993, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, P. 231

  • Suzi Gablik, “The Artist As Enchanter”, Common Boundary, Vol. 10, Issue 2 March/April 1992, p.21

  • Garrett Holg, Art News, Jan. 1992, Vol.91, No 1, p.135

  • Suzi Gablik, “The Ecological Imperative”, An Interview with Fern Shaffer and Othello Anderson, Art Papers, Nov. 1991. 

  • Michelle Grabner, Review, New Art Examiner, Sep. 1991, Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 38

  • Mike Isaacs, “Exploring the Unorthodox in Art, in Life”, Skokie Review, Aug. 1, 1991, “Diversions”, p. D3

  • Thomas McEvilley, “The Selfhood of the Other”, Africa Explores:  20th Century African Art, Susan Vogel, The Center for African Art, New York, 1991, p. 273

  • David McCracken, Review, Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1991, Sec. 7,p. 56, “Friday”

  • Suzi Gablik, The Re-enchantment of Art, Thames & Hudson, 1991

  • Peter J.W. Elstrom, Crain’s Chicago Business, Nov. 5-11, 1990, Vol. 13, No. 45, p. 1

  • Gloria Orenstein, The Reflowering of the Goddess, Pergamon Press, Athena Series, 1990

  • Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein, Reweaving the World, Sierra Club, 1990

  • Suzi Gablik, The World & I, Dec. 1988, Vol. 3, No. 12, p. 240

  • Suzi Gablik, Psychological Perspectives, Fall-Winter 1988, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 283-93

  • High Performance, Fall, No. 43, 1988, p. 20

  • David McCracken, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 6, 1988, Sec. 5, p. 17, “Tempo”

  • Margaret Hawkins, Review, Chicago Sun-Times, “Weekend Plus”, Oct. 31, 1986

  • Garrett Holg, Review New Art Examiner, December 1986

  • Chicago, David Jackson, May 1984, Vol. 33, No. 5

  • Patricia O’Brien, Review, New Art Examiner, Summer 1983, p. 7

  • Buzz Spector, Review, New Art Examiner, Vol. 9, No. 2, Nov. 1981, p. 16

Catalogs

  • “Art In Chicago 1945-1995” Museum of Contemporary Art, Lynn Warren 1996         

  • “Pilgrimages Towards the Sacred” Banco de la Republica, Jose Roca, 1996

  • “Pilgrimages Towards the Sacred” Centro Colombo Americano, Juan Alberto Gaviria, 1995

  • Artemisia Catalog, 1983, 1988, 1993

Published

  • Chicago Medicine, Healing Through the Arts, Phillip S. Epstein, M.D., Howard Kaplan, PhD., Fern Shaffer, M.A., Vol 94, No 22, p.16-20, Nov. 21, 1991

  • Proceedings from the Fifth International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing, 1988,

  • “The Arts… If Wishes Were Horses…” Chicago, Vol. 34, No. 1, Jan. 1985, p. 52

  • “The Chicago and Vicinity Show Imagism/Chicago” New Art Examiner, Vol. 11, No. 8, May 1981, p. 8-11

  • Alice Thorson, “Young Chicagoans Prefer Engagement to Avant-Gardism”, New Art Examiner, Vol. 9, No. 8, May 1982, p. 1

Public Art Commissions & Collections

  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

  • Midway Airport, Painting for Pedestrian Walkway, Chicago, IL

  • John G. Shedd Aquarium, Painting for Amazon Rising Exhibition, Chicago, IL

  • Chicago Flower and Garden Show, Vases for Exhibition

  • Chicago Cows on Parade, “Fern Cow”

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Medellin, Columbia, South America

  • Morgan Freeman Collection

  • Marshall Fields, Chicago, IL

Awards & Grants

2003

  • Honor Roll of Feminist Artists presented by Veteran Feminist of America

2000

  • Andrea Frank Foundation

1999

  • Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment

  • “Cows On Parade”, Public Art, Sponsored by Advocate Health Care, Chicago, IL

  • “Amazon Rising” Public Art, Mural, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL

1998

  • Copenhaver Grant Artists-in-residence, Roanoke College, VA

1994

  • Community Arts Assistance Grant Special

1992

  • International Friends of Transformative Art Grant

1990

  • Katherine J. Horwich Scholarship Fund

1990

  • Weisman Memorial Scholarship

1990

  • Fellowship, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

1987

  • Community Arts Assistance Grant

1986

  • Illinois Arts Council Grant

Education

1991

  • M.A., Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

1983-89

  • Graduate Study: the University of Illinois, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

1981

  • BA, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

1970

  • Northeastern University of Illinois

1964-65

  • University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

1962-64

  • University of Illinois, Navy Pier, IL

1961-62

  •  I.I.T. School of Design, Chicago, IL