Maria Tomasula

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MARIA TOMASULA (b. 1958) Education 1989 Northwestern University, MFA, Graduate Fellowship 1987 University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA, Summa Cum Laude Grants and Awards The Michael P.

MARIA TOMASULA (b. 1958) Education 1989 Northwestern University, MFA, Graduate Fellowship 1987 University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA, Summa Cum Laude Grants and Awards The Michael P. Grace Endowed Chair in Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame Howard Foundation Grant Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University, Department of Art Theory and Practice Andrew W. Mellon Preceptorship, Northwestern University Phi Kappa Phi Scholarly Project Grant (University of Illinois at Chicago Chapter) One Person Exhibitions 2010 ìSaturation: New Paintings by Maria Tomasula,î Brainard Gallery, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 2006 Solo Exhibition, Snite Museum of Art, Notra Dame, IN 2005 ìMeridian,î Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 ìVast,î Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003 ìSecond Nature,î Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2000 ìAccretion,î Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 ìCorpus,î Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 1998 ìEncanto,î Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago, IL ìRecognitions,î South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN 1997 ìIm/Mutable,î Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL ìConvergence,î Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN 1995 ìDevotion and Dominion,î Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL ìMaria Tomasula,î Vander Velde Gallery, Trinity College, Palos Heights, IL 1994 ìDesire and Devotion,î Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 Contemporary Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer Selection, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2010 ìSacred and Profane,î Portsmouth Museum of Fine Arts, Portsmouth, NH 2009 ìSummer Selections,î Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2008 "Contemporary American Realism: 2008 Biennial," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2007 ìAn Eye For Detail: Works by Selected Artists,î Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 ìThe Feminist Figure,î Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2006-7 ìTransitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life,î Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY 2006 ìCollective Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collectionî, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL (catalogue) 2003 ìLarger than Life: Women artists making it big,î Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA 2002 ìRecent Acquisitions,î Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago, IL ìNew Works by Forum Gallery Artists,î Forum Gallery, NY 2001 ìDreams and Dreamers,î Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL ìObsessive Drawing,î Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, DE 2000 ìThe Object Considered,î Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH (catalogue) ìLibidinal,î Thomas Blackman Associates, Chicago, IL ìSelf-portraits,î Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 ìNew Visions by Nine Contemporary Women,î Forum Gallery, New York, NY ìExamination and Practice: Painting in the Late 20th Century,î Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI ìWILDflowers,î Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalogue) ìExquisite Corpse,î Printworks, Chicago, IL ìNew Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection,î Warner Gallery, South Bend, IN ìAl Paso del Tiempo: Day of the Dead, the Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago, IL 1998 ìFlora,î Elise Goodheart Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY ìNew Season,î Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL ìDisposition: Replacing the Figure,î Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL ìMillennium Art & Architecture,î Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL ìOn Your Mark,î Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 ìOut of Eden,î Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, Missouri (catalogue) ìThe Chicago/Indiana Connection,î Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN (catalogue) ìNatural Selection,î Peter Mille Gallery, Chicago, IL 1996 ì(Un)Earthly Delights,î State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago and Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL (catalogue) ìAccretion,î Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL ìNew Art Examiner Benefit Exhibition, SPACE Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 ìTimely and Timeless,î The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue) ìGravity and Grace,î Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA ìContemporary Realists,î Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI ì(Un)Real,î Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, NY 1993 ìSelections,î Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL ìThe Dreamer Awakens,î Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 ìFinesse,î Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL ìNew Sensations,î Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL 1991 ìHome is Where the Art Is,î N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL 1990 ìDomestic Realisms,î C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH 1989 ìReverse Angle,î Transcultural Exchange, Chicago, IL and Kulturverein Transcult, Vienna ìUnion League Club Exhibition,î Union League Club, Chicago, IL and Prince Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Selected Bibliography: Goings On About Town - Art. ìNew Visions.î The New Yorker August 23 & 30, 1999: Galleries-Uptown 30. Grisham, Esther. ìEncanto: Contemporary Still Lifes by Maria Tomasula.î Dialogue: Voicing the Arts, January/February 1999: 14. Braff, Phyllis. ìFlora.î The New York Times 9 August 1998: Art Reviews. Artner, Alan. ìLatest from Tomasula intrigues in new ways.î Chicago Tribune 18 Sept. 1997: Tempo 2. Kuspit, Donald, Robert Sill, and James Yood. (Un) Earthly Delights Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1996. Holg, Garrett. "Maria Tomasula." ARTnews, Dec. 1995: 155. Maxwell, Douglas F. Timely and Timeless, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1994. Raynor, Vivien. "An Optimist's Eye in Ridgefield," The New York Times 5 December 1993: 30. Professional Experience 1994- 2006 University of Notre Dame, Department of Art History and Design: from 2002, the Michael P. Grace Endowed Professor of Arts and Letters; from 2000, Associate Professor; from 1994, Assistant Professor Collections The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection, Chicago, IL The Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT

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