Biography
DAN DEVENING
Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois
Adjunct Professor, Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Director, Devening Projects and Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago
EDUCATION
1983 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
1980 BFA, University of Nebraska at Omaha
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
Unknown Repair Wave, Dan Devening and Andy Hall, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
2018
Let Me See a Further Thing, Grölle Pass:projects, Wuppertal, Germany (catalog)
Laura Davis and Dan Devening, 65Grand, Chicago, IL
Dan Devening, Seerveld Gallery, Trinity College, Palos Heights, IL
2016
This and Something Else; Dan Devening and Gary Stephan, Grölle pass:projects, Wuppertal, Germany
2014
KIOSK, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2013
Pendant Ex Ea, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL
2003
Dan Devening and Richard Rezac, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany (catalog)
2002
Linda Ross Contemporary, Royal Oak, MI
2001
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Isis Gallery, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)
1998
Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Local Comfort, curated by Vincent Uribe, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, curated by Jordan Martins, CAC, Chicago, IL
Warm Front: Dan Devening, Allison Wade, Paul Erschen, Gary Stephan at Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo, Japan
Fernwey Farewell, Fernwey Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pushing Up Daisies PEANA, Monterrey, Mexico
Fugitive Narratives, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Museum for Zeichnung in Ute Parduhn Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
2017
Backboard, Dan Devening, Gary Stephan, Jason Karolak, Kim Piotrowski, Grölle Pass:projects, Wuppertal
Mon Uncle, Museum for Zeichnung, Hunningen, Belgium
UnFunction. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Painting Not Painting, Sindikit, Baltimore, MD
Works on Paper, galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany
Door, Triumph, Chicago, IL
7UP, Grölle Pass:projects, Wuppertal
Not Knowing, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016
Sweet, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany
Paper File on Tour, Artothek & Bildersaal, Munich, Germany
2015
Paperfile, Positions Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
Noir/Blanc, Espace d’art St. Chamas, France
2014
Pro-Text; When Words Become Art, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago
Rocket Run; Abstraction from Chicago, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE. Curated by Alexander Herzog
On Stranger Ways w/ Allison Wade, Volker Saul, Sterling Lawrence and Michael Pfisterer. Scotty Enterprises, Berlin
Scrap Heap, Tusk, Chicago
Caps for Sale w/ Matt Morris, Michelle Grabner, Karsten Lund, Adelheid Mers and Edra Soto. Bike Room, Chicago
Sticky and Sweet, Terrain, Oak Park, IL. Curated by Scott Hunter
2013
Paperworks, kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne
Reason and Romance, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Kiosk, Launch F18, New York, NY
Working Abs(tract), Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialog, Center for Book and Paper Art, Columbia College, Chicago
Spring 2012 CSA, ThreeWalls, Chicago
galerie oqbo at Preview Berlin, Germany
2011
Irritable Abstraction, Julius Caesar, Chicago
Paperfile on Tour, galerie oqbo at Preview Berlin, Germany
Rich and Creamy, MPAC Gallery, College of St. Francis, Joliet, IL. Curated by Dominic Moore and Sarah Ebers
2010
Gravity Matters and Shadowy Folds, dok25a, Dusseldorf, Germany
Ah Wilderness!, ebersmoore, Chicago
Up to the Edge, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
Where There Is, galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany
Speed Bump, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Netherlands
oqbo paperfile on tour, Edvard-Munch-Haus e.V., Warnemünde, Germany
oqbo + NEUES PROBLEM BERLIN, Raum 3 fur Zeitgennossische, Essen, Germany
2009
Paper Offensive, galerie oqbo, Berlin
2008
Push, Pull, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Rockford, IL
2007
Open End, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Linda Ross Contemporary Fine Art, Huntington Woods, MI
2005
Editionen, Secession, Vienna, Austria
En/Of Editions 01-030, Museum Kuhrhaus, Kleve, Germany
Galerie des Multiples, Paris
Printed Matter, Inc., New York
2004
01-030, Art Metropole, Toronto
i.peg, Bethanian, Berlin
2003
En/Of, Heeresbaeckerei-Kultur, Berlin, Germany
Museum Night, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland
Kontor, Cologne, Germany
Summer Show, Renate Schroeder Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2002
Abstract Truths, Hinsdale Art Center, Hinsdale, IL
Repetive, IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
2001
Almost Giddy, Clough-Hansen Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN (catalog)
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA (catalog)
Art Cologne, Renate Schroeder Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2000
Painting Today—Overseas and Here, Renate Schroeder Gallery, Cologne (catalog)
Seems: Integrations with the Physical and Social Periphery of the Museum, Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (catalog)
Out of Line: Drawings by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center
Quilt, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL
1999
Abstraction: A Major and Continuing Influence in 20th C. Art, Roy Boyd Gallery
Tabula Non Rasa, Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, IN (catalog)
TEACHING
1988-present Adjunct Professor, Department of Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1993-2008 Senior Lecturer, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University
1991-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Brown Foundation Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Dora Maar House Residency, Menerbes, France
2017 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2014 MacArthur Foundation International Connections grant (with Shannon Stratton and Jonathan Middleton for Slow Frequency at Or Gallery, ThreeWalls and Devening Projects.
2011 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2005 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003 Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Fellowship, Northwestern University
2002 University Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University
Illinois Arts Council, Visual Artist Fellowship
2000 Illinois Arts Council, Special Assistance Grant
RECENT COMMISSIONS
2018 Fidelity Corporation, Boston, MA
2017 Chicago Transit Authority, Irving Park Blue Line stop
2015 Four Seasons Hotel Corporation, Chicago, IL
2014 Nieman Marcus Corporation, Chicago, IL
2012 New York Hilton Americas and Park Suites
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2010 Kabinett Series, Devening Projects, Chicago
2009 Home Wreckage, Devening Projects, Chicago
2007 The Nature of Disturbance, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago
Go Between, Devening Projects, Chicago
2005 Wherever, devening projects + editions, Chicago
2003 Infra-Thin, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage (catalog)
2002 Paper Projects, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL (catalog)
2001 Subject Matters, Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalog)
2000 Seems, Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (catalog)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
AT&T, New York, New York and Chicago, IL
ArtColl Trust, Seattle, WA
Benziger Family Winery, Glen Ellen, CA
Bishop-Freeman Company, Evanston, IL
City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
DeLoitte, Chicago, IL
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
First National Bank of Chicago, London, UK
Four Seasons Hotel Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Kunstverien Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
Nieman Marcus, Chicago, IL
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Safeco Insurance, Seattle, WA
United States Trust Company, New York, NY
University of Illinois, College of Health and Human Development Sciences, Chicago, IL
Winston and Strawn, Chicago, IL