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Education and Academic Experience

MFA — The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BS — Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Professor Emeritus and former Chair–Painting Program, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Director and Founder, DIALOGUE CHICAGO, 2003-present
Visiting Professor/Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Professor, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023-24 Epiphany Center for the Arts Chicago, DOUBLE/FORCE, Two-person
2022 OS Projects, Racine WI, .….vroom!, Solo
2021 Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, Line/Force/Burn Rubber!, Two-Person, catalog essay by Jason Foumberg, curator Thoma Foundation, Chicago, IL (video)
2021 Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, Line/Force/Burn Rubber! Two-Person (video)
2020 Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery, University Park, IL, Tatting/Tearing, Solo, (video)
2019 Brauer Art Museum, Valparaiso, IN, Line/Force/Burn Rubber! Two-Person
2018 Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI, Line/Force/Burn Rubber!, Two-Person
2016-17 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Deconstructing the American Landscape, Solo, catalog essay by Lisa Wainwright, Dean of Faculty School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015 University of Northern Iowa Museum, Cedar Falls, IA, BLOW-OUT ll, Two-Person catalog essay by Lynne Warren, curator Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2012-13 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, BLOW-OUT, Solo, essay by Curator Lanny Silverman
2012 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL, The Walking Drawings, Solo
2011 Gallery 175, Chicago, IL, SARAH KREPP, Solo
2009 Indiana University Northwest Gallery, Gary, IN, SARAH KREPP, Solo
2005 Los Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL, Icy/I See: Sarah Krepp and Olivia Petrides, Two-Person
2003 Gallery K, Washington, DC, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1999 Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, TX, SARAH KREPP, Solo Hellenic American Institute, Athens, Greece
1997 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1996 I Space Gallery, Chicago IL, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1994 Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, But Can You See it? Two-Person
1991 Marvin Seline Gallery, Houston, TX, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1989 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto CA, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1988 NAB Gallery, Chicago IL, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1986 B. Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, MO, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1985 ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, Marking Time, Solo
1983 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, SARAH KREPP, Solo
1980-2012 Recurrent Solo Exhibitions, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023-24 Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, Abstraction+Love
2021 Met-Cap Bank, Chicago, IL, Art Works Chicago: SYNERGY Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL, Unrelenting
2019 Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL, A Sense of Gravity.
2019 Three-Person Brauer Art Museum, Valparaiso, IN, New Acquisitions Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL, New Work in Collage
2017 Dubuque Art Museum, Dubuque, IA, Dubuque Art Museum Biennial (1st prize)
2015-18 Illinois State Museum Chicago, IL, Translation: Collage & Assemblage, traveling
2014 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, WHERE THE POWER GOES, visual collaborations with The Seldoms Dance Company
2015 Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI, Untitled
2013 Olympia Center, Chicago, IL, Sarah Krepp and Firat Erdim Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL Gallery Artists, since 1979
2012 Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL, Some DIALOGUE Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University, University Park, IL, Ways of Making: Painting
2009 Drawing Center, New York City, NY, Viewing Program Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, Prints & Drawings: Works on Paper
2008 Metcap Bank, Chicago, IL, Dialogue 4: Mentoring Vision
2007 Metcap Bank, Chicago, IL, Art Works Chicago: A Progressive Corporate Exhibition of Chicago Artists
2004 mn Gallery, Chicago, IL, being, beyond, 4-person
2001-03 Dan Galleria, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Underfoot, (traveling)
2000 I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sheela-na-Gig: Tracing the Walled Women, Three-Person
1999 University of Northumbria, Wolverhampton University, and Norwich School of Art and Design, England, Strands New American Paintings: Juried Exhibition-in-Print No. 23, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, Sarah Krepp
1998 Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL, Contemporary Abstraction Chicago
1997 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA, A Thought Intercepted
1993 Klein Art works, Chicago, IL, Abstract: Chicago
1992 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Few and Far Between
1991 Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, Grand Slam Marvin Seline Gallery, Houston, TX, Paper Works
1988 Wurstum Museum, Racine, WI, Aggregate: Nine Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, Works by Women
1986 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Fetish Art: Obsessive Expressions
1985 Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, 3 Visiting Artists
1984 Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL, Abstract Painting in Chicago
1983 Chaney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA, Chicago Abstract Painting
1982 Pam Adler Gallery, New York City, NY, New Art

Reviews/Essays/Catalogues

2021 Charles Gniech, Professor Joliet Junior College, curator, Sarah Krepp is Relentless, at Hofheimer Gallery, Jason Foumberg, curator Thoma Foundation, Chicago, IL, essay, Sarah Krepp and Olivia Petrides
2019 Barbara Maria Stafford, Professor University of Chicago, Ribbon of Darkness: Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences, included in essay, (image) VOYAGE CHICAGO, SARAH KREPP interview, images
2015 City of Cedar Falls IA Cable Television Division, interview broadcast, Arts Overlook: Sarah Krepp Melody Parker, “Visual Perception: Two visual artists transform mundane, even ugly materials into stimulating art”, WCF Courier (October 6, 2015)”
2012 Paul Klein, “Three Strong Shows: Sarah Krepp,” Art Letter (November 15, 2012)
2009 Jason Faumberg, “Sarah Krepp” exhibition at Roy Boyd Gallery, listed in the “Top Five Gallery Shows” of the year in Chicago, New City (December 31, 2009) Alan Artner, “Sarah Krepp,” Chicago Tribune (March 13, 2009) Alan Artner, “Alan Artner Recommends Pick of the Week,” Chicago Tribune (April 10, 2009) Paul Klein, “Art Letter,” www.artletter.com (March 6, 2009) Claudine Ise, “Review: Sarah Krepp/Roy Boyd Gallery,” New City Art (March 9, 2009)
2007 Kevin Nance, “Just Like the Good Old Days,” Showcase, Chicago Sun-Times (May 1, 2007)
2005 Fred Camper, “Traces of Trauma: Sarah Krepp,” Galleries and Museums: Now Showing, Chicago Reader, (June 24, 2005). Anthony Elms, “Sarah Krepp,” Time Out Chicago (June 23, 2005). Alan Artner, “Sarah Krepp at Roy Boyd Gallery,” On the Town, Chicago Tribune (June 10, 2005). Paul Klein, “Sarah Krepp,” ArtLetter (June 4, 2005). Victor Cassidy, “Art Chicago 2005,” artnet.com Magazine Reviews (April 2005).
2002 Ellen Pritsker, “Artist Sees White—and Red,” Evanston Review, B4 (October 31, 2002).
2001 Alan Artner, “Sarah Krepp’s Strength is Her Sense of Light,” Chicago Tribune (March 1, 2001, p. 34). Harper’s Magazine,“White Noise- Sea Music, a Painting by Sarah Krepp,” March 2001, p. 34
2000 Margaret Hawkins, “Challenging Popular Perception,” Chicago Sun-Times: Arts (September 22, 2000).
1999 Barbara Stafford, Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting, pp. 83-84, photograph (MIT Press 1999). Stella Sevastopoulou, “Four Artists, One Long Journey,” Athens (Greece) News (January 19, 1999).
1997 Linda James, “Art in context: Interview with Barbara Kendrick and Sarah Krepp,” Decadent Public Art: David Harding, ed., with Parel Buchler , Contentious Term and Contested Practice, pp. 84-93(Foulis Press, Scotland, 1997) “Jeff Daniel on Art: Three from Illinois,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Sunday, December 14, 1997).
1994 Lisa Wainwright, “Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest, Put Our Magic to the Test,” New Art Examiner (May 1994)

Selected Public and Corporate Collections

Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art- Chicago, Brauer Art Museum, Inland Steel, Harris Bank, Continental Bank, First Midwest Bank, Hahn, Holland, Grossman, Kemper National Insurance Companies, Belgravia Group, Ltd. , Latham & Watkins, Crocker Bank Polsinelli, Shalton, Welte, Suelithaus, Beigel and Sandler, First National Bank, Greenfield Partners, Focus Development, Levy Corporation, Northern Trust Bank, ArthurAndersen & Co

Elsewhere

Illinois state Museum, Springfield, IL; Galleria Der Brucke, Buenos Aires, Argentina; McDonald’s Corp., Oak Brook, IL; First Midwest Bank, Itasca, IL; General Electric Corporation, Bridgeport ,CT; McDonald’s Corp., New York, NY; TIAA-CREF, St. Louis, MO; Glen Ellen Vineyards & Winery, Sonoma, CA; Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; Prudential Life, Newark, NJ; Leagre, Chandler & Millard, Indianapolis, IN; Thompson Group, Washington, DC; Sherman Plaza Corp, Evanston, IL; Marvin Seline Gallery, Houston, TX; Lawson Products, Des Plaines, IL; Eaton Corp, Cleveland, OH; University of Northern Iowa Museum, Cedar Falls, IA; Milliken University Museum, Decatur, IL

Curatorial Projects

2024 Curator, dialogue; Outloud! Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL
2020 Curator, In Dialogue, 37 DIALOGUE CHICAGO Artists, Governors State University, University Park, IL
2019 Curator, from HERE to THERE, Linda Robinson Gordon, Ellen Holtzblatt, Lilach Schrag, Michelle Stone, Spertus Institute, Chicago, IL
2019 Curator, UnderCurrents, Michelle Stone, Susan Trees, Arts Center, Highland Park,, IL
2016 Curator, DIALOGUE CHICAGO: 12 Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
2016 Curator, DIALOGUE CHICAGO: Full Force, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago IL
2016 Juror, Rockford Art Museum Biennial, Rockford IL
2016 Juror, A Touch of the Blues, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago IL
2015 Curator, Taking Chances: NO-YES?, Noyes Cultural Art Center, Evanston, IL
2014 Curator, Inner Sight/Insight: Driven to Dare" Governor's State University, University Park, IL
2014 Curator, TAKING CHANCES: Animal Vegetable or Mineral, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
2013 Curator, Dialogue Chicago: Taking Chances, 44 artists, Noyes Cul. Arts Center,Evanston, IL
2012 Curator, Some Dialogue, Illinois State Museum at Chicago, Thompson Center, Chicago, IL
2011- present, Curator, Gallery 175, Chicago IL
2010 Curator, Noyesier—30 Artists- DIALOGUE CHICAGO, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston IL
2008 & 2007 Director, New Insight National Exhibition, Art Chicago 2007, Art Chicago 2008, International Expo, Chicago IL
2007-08 Curator, More Noyes- DIALOGUE CHICAGO, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston
2006 Juror, Beverly Art Center Biennial, Chicago IL
2005 Curator, Above the Noyes – 25 Artists –DIALOGUE CHICAGO, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston
2005 Juror, The Big Picture Show: Size Does Matter, Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC, Chicago IL
2005 Curator, Today in 8 Parts, UIUC Graduate Painters, I-Space Gallery, Chicago IL
2005 Juror, Undergraduate Exhibition, Divisioin of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
1997 Curator, Cross Currents, Glasgow School of Art/UIUC Graduates Exchange Exhibition, I-Space Gallery, Chicago IL; Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1996 Curator, Lewis de Soto, I-Space Gallery, Chicago IL
1995 Co-Curator, IN.SIGHT—Art in Context, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign IL