Deborah M. Boardman
Education
1987 Tufts University - School of the Museum of Fine Arts - MFA
1984 Massachusetts College of Art - BFA
1981 Atelier Lucio Louget, Paris, Study in Painting
1984 Massachusetts College of Art - BFA
1980 Mount Holyoke College - BA
Teaching
1997-Present The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois - Instructor
2001 Illinois State University, Normal - Visiting Artist
1999 University of Chicago - Visiting Artist
University of Southern Indiana - Visiting Artist
1989-95 University of Iowa - Assistant Professor in Painting
1992-93 Boulevard Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois - Visiting Instructor
1992 Bateman Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois - Visiting Instructor
1991 Moorehead State University, Moorehead, Minnesota - Visiting Artist
1988-89 University of Iowa - Visiting Assistant Professor in Painting
1987-88 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Summer School, Boston - Instructor in Drawing
Selected Exhibitions
2007 • CROSSMEDIALE 2 April 13 - May 12, 2007. An exhibition of American and International art in new media curated by Gosia Koscielak.
• CROSSMEDIALE 2 at Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery's Booth # 12 at Bridge Art Fair Chicago; April 27-30, 2007.
• Asian/Pacific/American (A/P/A) Institute at NYU, Exquisite Crisis and Encounters
Feb 15-May 31
2006 • THE BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA SECOND INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL FOR THE ARTIST'S BOOK, Alexandria, Egypt, April 15- June 1, 2006
• Picturing Death Project, Portage Public Library, Spring 2006
2005 • Gescheidle Gallery (Chicago, IL)
• Performing in Site Unseen: Multi-Disciplinary Performance Festival at Chicago Cultural Center
• The Alliance of Pentaphilic Curators, Experiment 400/5 University of Illinois Chicago, Gallery 400
2004 • The Stray Show (Chicago, IL)
• Track House, Deborah Boardman, Richard Rezec, Amy Vogel (Oak Park, IL)
• Evanston Art Center, Evanston + Vicinity Biennial (Evanston, IL)
2003 • The Work Space, Figure of Invention (New York, NY)
• Evanston Art Center, Remembrance (Evanston, IL)
2002 • Jan Cicero Gallery Project Space, Deborah Boardman (Chicago, IL)
• Open Studio Press, New American Paintings Midwest (Boston, MA)
2001 • McLean County Arts Center, Picturing Death Project (Bloomington, IL)
• CSPS, Picturing Death Project (Cedar Rapids, IA)
• Chicago Cultural Center, Heraldic Emblems, G.A.R. Memorial Hall (Chicago, IL)
• What's So Funny/CESTA, Collaboration with Oleg Soulimenko (Tabor, Czech Republic)
• Illinois Women Artists: The New Millenium, Travelling Exhibition - On catalog at Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, IL), Quincy Art Museum (Quincy, IL), Parkland Art Gallery (Champaign, IL)
2000 • Chicago Cultural Center, Out of Line: Drawings by Illinois Artists, Sydney R. Yates Gallery (Chicago, IL) - Catalog
• Union League Club, Selections from Out of Line: Drawings by Illinois Artists (Chicago, IL)
• Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts, Harwick College, Figures of Invention (Oneonta, NY)
• ARC Gallery, The Millennium Fusion Project (Chicago, IL)
• GwendaJayAddington Gallery, End of the Rainbow: Following the Ragdale Experience (Chicago, IL)
• Illinois Women Artists, The New Millennium, Travelling Exhibition - Illinois State University (Normal, IL) / Southern Illinois Art Gallery (Rend Lake, IL) / Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences (Peoria, IL)
1999 • Chicago Cultural Center "Death, Dreams & Heraldry" Installation (Chicago, IL)
• National Museum of Women in the Arts "Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium" (Washington D.C.)
• Illinois State Gallery, "Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium" (Chicago, IL)
• Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 9th International Biennial Print and Drawing
• Exhibition, Taipei (Taiwan, R.O.C.) - Catalog
• Betty Rymer Gallery "A Book Is Not A Book Is Not A Book" The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
1998 • Houston Public Library, "Book/Art/Book: A National Invitational"
• Exhibition of Contemporary Books (Houston, TX)
• Suburban Fine Arts Center, "Domestic Taboo" (Highland Parks, IL)
• Harper College, "Small Works Exhibition" (Palatine, IL)
1997 • Prairie Avenue Gallery, "Illumination.Ornamentation.Collaboration.Decoration"
Collaboration Installation with Jeff Hilliard (Chicago, IL)
1996 • Columbia College, "Paper in Particular" (Columbia, MO)
• Women Made Gallery "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" (Chicago, IL)
• Aron Packer Gallery, Group Exhibition (Chicago, IL)
1995 • N.A.M.E, The Enunciation (Or What The Oxen Said), An opera by Robert Metrick - Set Design
• Community United Methodist Church, Fresco Project (Chicago, IL)
• University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Home.Casa.Domu, Faculty Exhibition (Iowa City, IA)
1994 • Community Methodist Church, Mutual Borders, Installation based on community oral histories, Back of the Yards Neighborhood (Chicago, IL)
1993 • Armstrong Gallery, Good Luck (Lame Horse), Installation, Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, IA)
• Hermit Foundation, Growthrings, International Art Symposium
• When Ready, Bear Fruit, Installation (Plasy, Czech Republic) - Catalog
• Daley Center, Positive Images, in cooperation with the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (Chicago, IL)
• Rockville Arts Place, Drawing Coast to Caost (Rockville, MD)
1992 • McAuley Gallery, Memento Mori, Installation, Mt. Mercy College (Cedar Rapids, IA)
• Betsey Rosenfield Gallery, Six Painters (Chicago, IL)
• University of Iowa Museum of Art, Songs of Bridal (In my father's house)
• Installation, Faculty Exhibition (Iowa City, IA)
• Anonymous Museum, Bestiary, Installation (Chicago, IL)
• North Laekside Cultural Center, Masters as Motif (Chicago, IL)
• Slocumb Gallery, Positive/Negative, East Tennessee University (TN)
1991 • Des Moines Art Center, 1991 Iowa Artist Show, Installation (Des Moines, IA) - Catalog
• North Dakota Museum of Art, "Memory and Influence," Installtion (Grand Forks, ND)
• Forum Gallery, Summer Exhibition (Minneapolis, MN)
• The Auditorium Gallery, "Drawing the Figure Inside Out" (Mason City, IA)
• World Tattoo Gallery, Winter Exhibition (Chicago, IL)
1990 • N.A.M.E. Gallery, "The Mussel Secretes The Shell Which Shapes IT" (Chicago, IL)
• Hyde Park Art Center, "Beneath the Skin" Installation (Chicago, IL)
• McLean County Art Center, Annual Drawing Invitational (Bloomington, IL)
• University of Iowa Museum of Art, Stations of Mary, Installation, Faculty Exhibition (Iowa City, IA)
1989 • Crane Gallery, Stations of Mary, Installation/Performance (Chicago, IL)
• Sioux City Art Center, 42nd Annual Juried Competition, Juror's Award (Sioux City,, IA) - Catalog
• Slocumb Gallery, Positive/Negative, East Tennessee University (TN)
• Berkeley Art Center Association, Exhibition 1989 (Berkeley, CA)
Gallery 1935, Constructive Anxiety (Chicago, IL)
1988 • Mobius Performance Space, Stations of Mary, Installation/Performance (Boston, MA)
1986 • The Brattle Theater, Some Fixed(E)Motions, Commissioned Performance (Cambridge, MA)
• Celebration (Boston, MA)
• Straight Studio, Paint Moves, Performance 24x36
• 10 Dances in a Small Space (Boston, MA)
• Basement Galery, Paint Moves, Performance
• Performances and Projections (Boston, MA)
• Massachusetts College of Art, Paint Moves, Performance (Boston, MA)
Grants and Awards
2007 2007 Roger Brown Artist Residency
2001 Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship
Gilmore Foundation Grant
BroMenn Hospital Foundation Grant
2000 Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Fellowship
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant
1999 Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency (Lake Forest, IL)
Illinois Arts Council, Special Assistance Grant
Illinois Arts Council, Finalist, Visual Arts Fellowship
1998 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant
1996 Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency (Lake Forest, IL)
1995 Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
1994 University of Iowa, Committee on International Travel of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs: MUCIA, Office of the Vice President of Research and Stanley - UI Foundation
1993 Regional Artists' Project Grant
1992 Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
University of Iowa Development Assignment
1983 Massachusetts College of Art David Berger Award for Excellence in Painting
1976-80 Wilhemina Denning Jackson Art Scholarship
Public Collections
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artist Book Collection
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Library
• Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, John M. Flaxman Memorial Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• Newberry Library, Wing Collection (Chicago, IL)
• Houghton Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• University of Illinois, Chicago, Health and Nutritional Center
• Loyola University Medical Center
• Western Michigan University, Waldo Library, Rare Books Collection
• Boston Public Library, Rare Books Collection
Publications
2000 Picturing Death, limited edition artist book
1994 Mutual Borders, limited edition booklet, distributed by Printed Matter, NYC
1992 Memory and Influence, limited edition booklet, distributed by Printed Matter, NYC
Bibliography
2001 • Margaret Hawkins "Mortal," Chicago Sun-Times (Oct 14, 2001)
• Palm Louis, "Picturing Death," Pantagraph (Mar 10, 2001)
2000 • Steven Zevitas, ed., New American Paintings, Open Studio press, Needham, MA
1999 • Ann Wiens, "Deborah Boardman," New City (May 5, 1999)
1994 • Steven Zevitas, ed., New American Paintings, Open Studio press, Needham, MA
• Elisabeth Condon, "Communion," New Art Examiner (March 1994)
1990 • Elisabeth Condon, "The Mussel Secretes the Shell Which Shapes It," New Art Examiner (September 1990)
• Eliot Nussbaum, "U of I faculty art show offers dynamic dimension," Des Moines Register (Jan 28, 1990)
1989 • Mitchell Stevens, "Station of Mary," New Art Examiner (June, 1989)
Jamirte Trott, "Stations of Mary," P-Form (June, 1989)
1988 • Simon Garfinkl, "Feminist walks the Station of the Cross," The Tech (February, 1988)
1986 • John Grady, "Tangent Directions," New Hampshire Seacoast Sunday (Sept 7, 1986)
Curatorial
2001 Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mortal (Chicago, IL)
1994 Johnson County Art Center, Communion (Iowa City, IA)