Mary Ellen Croteau — Resume
Born 1950, Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
1998 MFA, Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts
1990 BFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
1987-88 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
AWARDS (selected)
2011 First Prize, 3rd Annual Green Arts Show, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL
First Place Mixed Media, 7th Annual Self-Portrait Exhibition, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Juror’s Choice Award, “Green Too,” Annmarie Garden, Dowell, MD
2004 Honorable Mention, “22nd Annual Small Works Exhibition,” Schoharie Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY
2003 Invited to represent USA in virtual exhibit “10Women/10Countries” Noosa.org
2002 Cash Award, “Photo National,” Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
1998 Award of Merit, “Matrix International Exhibition,” Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1995 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs CAIP Travel Grant to Seoul, Korea
1993 First Prize, “Corpus Mutilatio,” Urban Park, Detroit, MI
1991 First Prize 3D, “Women Artists ‘91” Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1990 Talent tuition waiver, University of Illinois at Chicago
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Plastic World,” Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
2012 “Plastic World,” East Durham Artist Network Galleries, Seaham, Co.Durham, England (two person)
“Endless Columns,” Art On Armitage, Chicago, IL
2011 “Plastic World,” Harrington Mill Studios, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire, England (two person)
2010 “AD ME,” Art On Armitage, Chicago, iL
2009 “Manmade,” Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL
2008 “Manmade,” StartArt, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007 “Bag World,” WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 “A Measure of Consumption,” Chun Chun Hee, Seoul, Korea
2004 “War Games,” WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “Art Herstory,” Roanoke College, Salem, VA
2002 “New Political Figures,” Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL (two person)
2001 “Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance,” Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH
2000 “American Landscapes,” Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Mary Ellen Croteau,” Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance”, Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State University at Marion
1999 “Mercy,” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 “Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance,” Feral Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance,” Civic Square Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1997 “Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 “War Memorial,” Spaces Gallery ‘Space Lab’ Cleveland, OH
1995 “Good Girls and Bad,” Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
1994 “Good Girls and Bad,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Icons, Idols and Blasphemies,” Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
“Latex Fantasies,” No. 10 00 22, Stockholm, Sweden
“Mary Ellen Croteau,” Urban Park/Detroit Art Center, Detroit, MI
1993 “Slight Alterations,” Liz Long Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 “Slight Alterations,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 “Icons, Idols and Blasphemies,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 “Monoprints,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2013 “Portfolio 2013” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Fragile Relations” Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL
2012 “Anxious Objects: Masterpiece or Junk?” Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago IL
“Fragile Relations: Art & Environment” Illinois State Museum, Chicago
“The Darkness of Light” Keum San Gallery, Seoul, Korea
“Consumer Culture” WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Chicago’s 12” Zhou B Art Center and Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL
2011 “3rd Annual Green Art Show,” Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston IL
“7th Annual National Self-Portrait Exhibition,” 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
“About Face,” Annemarie Garden, Dowell, MD
ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Supermarket 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 “Green/Green Too,” Annemarie Garden, Dowell, MD
Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
Supermarket 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm Sweden
2009 Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
WomanMade Gallery, Chicago
2008 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Exit Art, New York, NY
Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL
Cornell University Student Center, Ithica, NY
2007 Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL
WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, Il
2006 Koenline Gallery, Oakton Commnity College, Des Plaines, IL
South Union Arts, Chicago, IL
Acme Building Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Colfax Gallery, South Bend, IN
Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
ARC Gallery, Chicago,IL
Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2004 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Gallery Chicago, Chicago, IL
Gallery 415, Chicago, IL
Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY (honorable mention)
Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL
Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
2003 Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 10 Women-10 Countries2, www.noosagallery.com (int’l invitational)
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA (cash award winner)
Studio Art West Art Center, House Springs, MO
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Judith Racht Gallery on Lake, Chicago, IL
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2000 Gretel’s File, Josephstrass 79, Zurich, Switzerland
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL
1999 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Illinois State Gallery, Chicago, IL
3 Arts Club Gallery, Chicago, IL
Limner Gallery, New York, NY
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1998 Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ
Northern Illinois Art Museum, Chicago, IL
1997 College Art Assoc. New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, NYC
Civic Square Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 Texas Womens University, Denton, TX
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Nylistasafnid/The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Art Gallery Woong, Seoul, KOREA
Bernhard Arts and Humanities Center, Bridgeport, CT
Red Doors/The Bearded Lady, San Francisco, CA
1994 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
SACI Gallery, Florence, ITALY
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
NEXUS Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (award of merit)
1993 Sala de Exposiciones, Camara de Comercio de Cali, Cali, Colombia
“1920,” Exit Art, New York, NY
Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Edge Gallery, Denver, CO
1992 Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia
R. H. Love Contemporary, Chicago, IL
“37 Raume,”Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1991 San Francisco State University, Union Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA (first prize - 3D)
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
“SisterSerpents ‘91,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Peace Museum, Chicago, IL
VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS/ VIDEO
2013 http://www.dumbanenguebyceleste.blogspot.com/2013/02/super-market-feb-2013-stockholm.html (video interview)
http://www.thenaked.nl/contributors/mary-ellen-croteau/culture-heretics
2012 http://www.itch.co.za/?article=656
2011 http://www.arte.tv/de/Die-Welt-verstehen/arte-reportage/4243638.html (tv interview)
http://utnereader.tumblr.com/post/10775319468/artist-mary-ellen-croteau-assembles-chuck
http://www.lidovky.cz/autoportret-z-plastovych-vicek-podivejte-se-fng-/ln-bydleni.asp?c=A110920_113257_ln-bydleni_ter
www.miscology.com, Winter 2011, p. 104
http://art.newcity.com/2011/05/16/review-mary-ellen-croteauart-on-armitage/
2010 http://www.redding.com/news/2010/sep/24/natural-appeal-n-chicago- (video interview)
http://art-ontv.com/live/index.php? (streaming video interview)
2009 http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/21889
2008 women’s action network (Sculpture/Mary Ellen Croteau)
(Painting/Mary Ellen Croteau)
2007 womanmade bag world
2006 saatchi gallery
2005 art on armitage war games
2004 womanmade wargames
2003 noosa gallery 10 women, 10 countries
2002 womanmade “Women Artists you should know”
2000 - present womanmade
REVIEWS AND MEDIA(selected)
2013 http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/02/garbage-art-ideas-mary-ellencroteau/
http://chicagoist.com/2013/03/31/plastic_world_at_northwestern_unive.php
http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Chicago-Guide/March-2013/The-Top-5-Things-to-Do-This-Week/
2012 http://www.sparknotes.com/mindhut/2012/11/30/check-out-this-amazing-art-made-from-garbage
UPPERCASE #15, Calgary AB, Canada
Time Out Chicago, Sept. 27 - Oct 3, p. 48
Art Block By Block, Chicago Artists Month 2012 catalog (featured artist)
Avianca en Revista, Bogata, Colombia (Avianca Airlines in-air magazine)
ITCH #10: ≠, Cape Town, South Africa http://www.itch.co.za/?article=656
http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive/?p=15314
http://www.e-junkie.info/2012/03/mary-ellen-croteaus-self-portrait.html
http://philiphartiganpraeterita.blogspot.com/2012/01/brancusi-in-plastic.html
2011 Evanston Review, Evanston IL, Sept 15
New City, Chicago, IL, May 16 (review)
2010 Redding Record-Searchlight, Redding, CA, Sept 24
2009 Chicago Tribune, Art Reviews, October 16 (interview)
2009 News-Press, Ft. Myers/Southwest Florida, January 9, 2009
2008 The Daily Northwestern, Evanston, IL, October 3, 2008 (interview/feature article)
Morganbladid, Reykjavik Iceland, April 13, 2008
2005 The Daily Californian, Berkeley CA, October 28
2002 Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, August 9
2001 Rockford Register Star, April 15
2000 The State Journal-Register, Springfield, IL, November 16
American Artist, February
Peoria Times-Observer, January 12
1999 New City, Chicago, IL, May 8
The Reader, Chicago, IL, June 18
1998 Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, TX September 10
The Brooklyn Papers, Brooklyn, NY April 17
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL March 22 & September 27
1997 Reader, Chicago, IL November 14
Chicago Quarterly Review, v2 n2, Summer
1996 Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH March 26
Reader, Chicago, IL January 19
ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX TV (news interviews) January 22 & 23
1995 DV, Reykjavik, Iceland December 4
F Newsmagazine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL Feb (interview/feature)
WCFC-TV Chicago (televised interview)
1994 Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, MI June 22
Village Voice Art In Brief (Levin), New York, NY March 29
1993 New York Times Art In Review (Holland Cotter), April 16
Westword, Denver, CO February 17-23
Dialogue/Arts in the Midwest, Jan/Feb
1992 “American Art Forum” with Richard Love (televised interview)
AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, v.10 no.2
Reader, Chicago, IL October 2 & December 25
1991 Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, CA November 17
New Art Examiner, April
1990 Village Voice (Arlene Raven), New York, NY June 19
In These Times, April 4-10
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
2012 Where Chicago, October (cover image)
Peace Calendar, Syracuse Cultural Workers (April illustration)
Women Artists Datebook 2012, Syracuse Cultural Workers, NY
2011 MISC, Winter 2011, Creativity Talks Back, p 104
2007 Women and Body Hair: The Last Taboo, Dr. Karin Lesnik-Oberstein:
Manchester University Press/St. Martin’s Press (cover image)
2006 Religion and the Arts, vol 10-2, Brill Publishers, Boston (illustration)
“MERCY,” catalog of work from 1999 Mercy exhibition (collection of Northern Illinois University)
2004 NewCity, v.19 no. 856, October 28 (cover image)
2003 Women Artists Date Book 2003, Syracuse Cultural Workers
2000 Manhattan Arts, March-April (artist profile)
1999 Ms. Magazine, v.IX no.3, April/May (reproduction)
1998 On The Issues, v.VII no.2, Spring (cover illustration)
1997 Suffragettes to She-Devils, Liz McQuiston: Phaiden Press, London
1991 Artpaper, September (cover illustration)
GUEST LECTURES (selected)
2012 “Cafe Society,” Illinois Humanities Council at Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago (panel)
2011 “Artists at Work Forum: Alternatives to For-Profit Galleries,” Chicago Cultural Center (panel moderator)
Waubansee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL (guest artist)
2010 Art Hop, Redding, CA
133 W. Main, Urbana IL
2009 Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
CAN-TV Chicago (interview taped for broadcast and netcast)
Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL
2008 WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Oakton Community College, Skokie IL
2006 Intuit Gallery, Chicago, IL Indiana University at Kokomo
2005 Columbia College, Chicago
WLUW FM - “Live From the Heartland”
2004 Oakton Community College, Skokie IL
2003 Roanoke College, Salem, VA
2002 Women’s Day, Oakton Community College, DesPlaines, IL
2001 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH
2000 Southern Illinois Art Gallery, Rend Lake, IL (panel)
1999 Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Feral Art, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, NYC (panel)
Harold Washington Public Library, Chicago, IL
Blackout Books, New York, NY
1996 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Blue Rider Theater, Chicago, IL (panel)
1995 Nylistasafnid/The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, ICELAND
University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse
Indiana University Northwest, Gary
Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, KOREA
Sook Myung Women’s University, Seoul, KOREA
Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, KOREA
1994 Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Accademia de Belle Arte, Florence, ITALY
1993 Colorado University, Boulder, CO
University of Colorado, Denver, CO
1992 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Crux Gallery, Chicago, IL
Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference, (panel)
1991 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (performance)
National Organization for Women, Illinois State Conference (panel)
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Chicago (panel)
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE (selected)
2003-present Curator, director, Art On Armitage window gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 “Culture Heretics”, The Naked, Hague, Netherlands: www.thenaked.nl
2008 Juror & Curator, “Are We There Yet? 40 years of Feminism” ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 City of Chicago Arts In Transit panel member
2005, 2006 Exhibition Jurist, “Art in the Barn” Barrington, IL
2004 Chicago City Arts grant advisory panel
2003 Awards Juror, “Art in the Barn,” Barrington, IL
2000 “Here, There, and Everywhere,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Program Chair, Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference
1996 “Hall of Shame,” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 “Attitudes: Good Girls, Bad Women” Nylistasafnid / Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
“Contract On America” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 “A Family Matter: Confronting Domestic Violence” Artemisia Gallery
“Sacred Cows,” Artemisia Gallery
“Home Improvements: Demolishing Domesticity” Woman Made Gallery
1993 “Return Trip: Photographs by Ann Noggle” Artemisia Gallery
“SisterSerpents at the Edge” Edge Gallery, Denver, CO
1992 “Surveying the Political Landscape” Artemisia Gallery
“Piss on Passivity, Piss on Patriarchy” At The Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 “SisterSerpents ‘91: Art Against Dickheads” Artemisia Gallery
WORKS IN COLLECTION (partial)
Dr. Sydney and Bernice Bild, Chicago, IL
Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Springfield, IL
Fay Clayton and Lowell Sachnoff, Evanston, IL
Ellen Craig, Chicago, IL
James and Janet Fennerty, Chicago, IL
Big Chick’s / Michelle Feuer, Chicago, IL
Jan Zita Grover, St. Paul, MN,
Kim, Jy Hyun, Seoul, Korea
Dr. Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Reading, England
Pat Murphy, Chicago, IL
Mary C. O’Neal, Ridgecrest, CA
Peace Museum, Chicago, IL
Ruri, Reykjavik, Iceland
Lynn Sacco, Los Angeles, CA
Selen-Odenstrand A.B., Stockholm, Sweden
Nicoletta West, Zurich, Switzerland
Rob Wolf, New York, NY
WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
Yoon, Jin Sub, Seoul, Korea
