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Education

1983
1981
1979
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, Grand Valley State Colleges, Allendale Michigan
Slade School of Art, University College London

Solo Exhibitions

2007
2006
1998
1997
1995

1994
1993
"Close-Ups and Stick-Ups ", Old Gold, Chicago
"Are You Ready? ", artLedge, Chicago
"Scar Stories", Institute For Visual Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Ducks in a Row", Tough, Chicago
"Frozen Turkey Dinners", Tough Gallery, Chicago
"Clepsydras", Dahlberg Gallery, College of Dosage, Glen Ellyn, Il.
"A Charm Bracelet", I Space, Chicago
"Inflorescence", Tough Gallery, Chicago
"Oil Spills", Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Il.


Two Person Exhibitions

2007
2000
"No Blind Date ", Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
"Gail Fitzgerald and Jo Hormuth" Deven Golden Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions

2007

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1990
"Guns and Ammo," Gallery 40,000, Chicago, IL
"I am the Walrus," Gallery 40,000, Chicago, IL
"Spooktacula," private residence, Chicago, IL
"All the Right Moves," Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
"Round/Rounded", S. Cano, Brooklyn
"Sculpture in Chicago Now, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
"Ego-berry", Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya, Japan
Traveling - University of Kyoto, University of Osaka, Japan
"Electraslip Knife," private loft, Chicago
"Libidinal" TBA, Chicago
"Observation/Revelation" Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
"Interior Spaces/Still Lives" McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
"Donald Young Invitational" Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
"San Miguel Art Project" Gallery 400, Chicago, IL.
"Sextablos", Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park Illinois
“Taste of Chicago ”, Post, L.A., California
“Reality Bites”, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
“The Harry Carey Show”, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
“Warm”, I Space, Chicago
“Klein Gallery Sculpture Garden”, Chicago,
“Art Chicago”, Navy Pier, Chicago
"Thing", Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, New York
"Arco International”, Madrid, Spain
"10th Anniversary Ex.", Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Il.
 "Art Chicago", Navy Pier, Chicago
"Uncomfortable Show 2", MWMWM Gallery, Chicago
"Art Chicago", Navy Pier, Chicago
"Home: Domestic Narratives", NIU Art Museum, Dekalb, IL.
"New Museum, Invitational Exhibition and Benefit", NY, New York
"Post Haste”, Tough Gallery, Chicago
"Real Small (Little Things)", Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Traveling
Exhibition, Memphis, New York, Budapest
"Alterniture", Lorenzo Rodriquez Gallery, Chicago
"Chicago Drawings", Galleria Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal
"A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists", Chicago Cultural Center
"Living Room", Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago
"Not Working in L.A., Nomadic Site Project", Pasadena, California
"Forecast", Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
"Installations", Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago
"Personal PAC-Target Choice”, Exhibition and Benefit, World Tattoo, Chicago1991
"Buy / Low", Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago
"Home Sweet Home", Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago
"Looking at Labor: What Price Beauty?". Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.

Grants/Fellowships

2004
1995
1979
Nominee Dreihaus Award
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant
Alexander Calder Fine Arts Scholarship

Public Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Art Institute of Chicago, prints and drawings
City of Chicago for the Rogers Park Library
Grand Valley State University
Shedd Aquarium
Betzold Investment Group

Teaching Experience

1997-99
1995
1993
Visiting Artist, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Adjunct Professor, Sculpture, The University of Illinois, Chicago
Graduate Advisor, Sculpture, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago

Curating Experience

1991-96
1995
1995
Exhibitions Committee Member, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
Co-Curator "VAST", N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
Co-Curator "You Are Here" The School of the Art Institute, Gallery 2, Chicago