CHRIS KIENKE
2010 Silver Court East | Urbana, IL 61801 | chris.kienke@kw.com | www.kienke.com
EDUCATION
2000 MFA - Painting, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
1994 BFA - Illustration, Kansas City Art Institute
WORK EXPERIENCE
2017- Present Realtor, Licensed Real Estate Agent in Illinois and Colorado
Keller Williams Realty
2013-2019 Assistant Professor of Painting + Sculpture, Graduate Faculty
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design
2006-2013 Professor of Foundation Studies
Savannah College of Art and Design, School of Foundation Studies
2000 -2006 Assistant Professor of Foundations and Design
American University of Sharjah, 2+2+4 year rolling, School of Architecture & Design, UAE
1997-2000 Instructor of Record, Teaching Assistant
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, School of Art and Design
1994-1997 Manager
Gallery Picture Framing, Rochester, NY
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
2020 - Present Director of Sales, Scott Bechtel Group, Keller Williams Realty
2013 - 2018 Chair of the Foundations Curriculum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design
2011 - 2013 Vice President for Biennial Conference, postHaus, 2013 National Conference, FATE
2010 - 2013 Vice President for Communication - Integrative Teaching International
2009 FATE Regional Forum committee, Chair, "Envisioning a New Foundation: Identity and Purpose"
2006 Visiting Artist and Designer Committee – Chair, 05-06, Design Dept., AUS
2002 Admission Management Committee for Foundation Year, SA&D, AUS - Chair
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2016 -present Fuchs Projects, New York, NY
2012 -2020 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2012 -2016 Gallery Gray, www.gallery-gray.com
2008-2009 2 Car Garage Contemporary Art, Savannah, GA
2007-2008 Chroma Gallery Savannah, GA
2001-2006 Majlis Gallery Dubai, UAE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Current Work, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Current Work, Fuchs Projects, New York, NY
2018 You Promised Me Poems, Northwestern University, Illinois
2018 Chris Kienke: Paintings, Luther College, Iowa
2017 Hotrods and Handguns, Gallery of Art, University of Missouri at Kansas City
2016 Exit Six: Just Enough Rope, Fuchs Projects, New York, NY
2016 Exit Six: On the Road, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Flag Bombs, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2016 Exit Six, Monmouth College, Illinois
2015 Kites and Flags, Art Center at the National Central University, Taiwan (two-person)
2014 Chris Kienke: Exit Six, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2014 A Lot Can Happen, Gail Floether Steinhilber Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh
2014 Exit 6: Southern Gothic, Johnson Art Gallery, Jackson State University
2013 Exit Number Six, Tony Hungerford Memorial Gallery, College of Southern Maryland
2012 Exit 6, Gallery Gray, www.gallery-gray.com,
2011 Chris Kienke: The Armada, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
2010 The Armada Series: new works by Chris Kienke, Desoto Row, Savannah, GA
2009 Chris Kienke: Gijon Fractured, 2 Car Garage Contemporary Art Gallery, Savannah, GA
2000 Chris Kienke: Works on Paper, Center at High Falls Museum, Rochester, NY
2000 Chris Kienke: Current Works, University Museum, SIU, Carbondale, IL
1999 Paradise: Model 6, Angus Conference Centre, Arbroath, Scotland
1998 Recent Work, Vergette Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL
1996 Current Works and Collaborations, Tea House Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2017 Governor's Island Art Fair, New York City
2015 Select: Contemporary Art Fair, New York City, showing with Fuchs Projects
2012 Verge Art Fair, Miami Beach
2011 Florence Biennale 2011, Florence, Italy
2009 Brussels Biennial 1, Center for Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
2008 C’est la vie, GARDENfresh, Chicago, IL
2007 Recognise, N4 Contemporary Art Platform, in conjunction with In Focus project, London, UK
2005 Sharjah International Art Biennial 7, Sharjah, UAE, curator Jack Persekian
2004 Chobi Mela 3 – International Festival of Photography, Russian Cultural Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2003 Sharjah International Art Biennial 6, Sharjah, UAE, curator Peter Lewis
1997 25th Annual Upstate Invitational Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Cedarhurst Midwestern Biennial, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt Vernon, IL juror Barry Blinderman
2016 Freak Out, Zhou B Art Center, curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Garcia
2016 Art and Lounge VIP Club, Newark International Airport, 3 months showing with Fuchs Projects
2015 fall.out, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI exhibition reviewed in Detroit Free Press
2015 Birds and Bees, Fuchs Projects, Brooklyn, NY, in collaboration with The Big Lean
2015 Painting is Dead!?!, Figure One Gallery, Champaign, IL, curated by Rehema Barber
2014 Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, juror William Lieberman
2013 Faculty Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2013 New Members Exhibition, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
2013 2nd Biennial FATE Members Exhibition, Alexander Hall, Savannah, GA, juror Elaine Gustafson
2013 Tilting At Windmills, Porter Butts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2012 Diverse Works, DeSoto Row Gallery, Savannah, GA
2012 Faculty Exhibition, Wallin Hall, Savannah, GA
2012 Low Fidelity, Tower Galley, SUNY, College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
2012 Armstrong National 2-D Competition, Armstrong Atlantic University, Savannah, GA juror Shana Barefoot
2011 Art Prize, Grand Rapids, MI
2011 Faculty Exhibition, Wallin Hall, Savannah, GA
2011 Spectrum, Gutstein Galley, Savannah GA juried
2011 Romp & Resolve, Buckram Gallery, Flint, MI juried
2010 13th Annual SECAC/MACAA Members Exhibition,1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, juror Joe Seipel
2010 Planet Home, Gutstein Galley, Savannah GA juried
2009 15th Telfair Art Fair, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, GA juried
2009 New American Paintings issue # 82, Southern Edition, juror Ron Platt
2009 Fresh: An Exhibition of Urban Contemporary Art, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA juried
2008 14th Telfair Art Fair, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, GA juried
2008 QX.net Nude International, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, Best of Show juror Jay Gorney
2008 The Best of 2 Car, 2 Car Garage Contemporary Art Gallery, Savannah, GA
2007 13th Telfair Art Fair, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, GA juried
2006 Opus III – Faculty Exhibition, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2005 Sixteen-Twenty, The Center at High Falls Gallery, Rochester, NY
2004 Opus II - Faculty Exhibition, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2004 L’Affresco e Strappo D’Affresco, Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Piazzetta di Parte Guelfa, 1- Firenze, Italia
2002 Figurative Works (accepted), Armory Center, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
2002 Where are the best paintings in Rochester?, The Center at High Falls Museum, Rochester, NY,USA
2002 Here and Now, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE, Dubai Media City, Dubai, UAE
2001 Summer Group Exhibition, The Majlis Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2000 “miniprint”, Toyura Historical Museum, Nigita, Japan Hotel Kangetsu Gallery, Nigita, Japan
2000 The Glove Factory, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999 The Hospitalfield Legacy: The 20th Century Collections, The Meffan Institute, Forfar, Scotland,UK
1998 Post - Pop Nihilism, Surplus Gallery @ The Glove Factory, Carbondale, IL, USA
1997 Knock Out to Dispense, Wagner Gallery, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, USA
1997 Boxes, Books and Altars, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
1996-97 Verve, Village Gate Square, public installation, Rochester, NY
1996 gravity, Tea House Art Gallery - aka group show, Rochester, NY
1996 Finger Lakes: Salon des Refuses Tea House art gallery - aka group show, Rochester, NY
1996 Hideout Cabaret, Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
1995 19th Amendment: Aftereffects, 468 W. Main St., Rochester, NY
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Campus Research Board Grant, UIUC, Hotrods and Handguns, $25,100.00
2016 Sylvia White ‘72 Artist in Residence, Dickinson College (declined)
2015 Creative Research Award, College of Fine and Applied Arts, UIUC, $4000.00
2015 Teaching Advancement Board, UIUC, Travel to the FATE Conference, $850.00
2015 FATE Emerging Educator Award, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
2015 Travel Grant, Teaching Advancement Board, UIUC, Travel to the FATE Conference $850.00
2014 Travel Grant, UIUC, Travel to the MACAA Conference $650.00
2014 Travel Grant, UIUC, Travel to the SECAC Conference, $650.00
2013 Campus Research Board Grant, UIUC, Exit Six Large Format Paintings $24,188.00
2012 Student Ambassador Choice Award for Exceptional Teaching, SCAD
2011 Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development – SCAD, $5000.00
2010 SCAD Travel Grant Think Tank 5 as an invited workshop leader. $1,208.00
2009 SCAD Travel Grant Think Tank 4 as an invited participant. $1,300.00
2008 SCAD Travel Grant, National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists
2007 Vermont Studio Center, One-month residential fellowship for the month of December.
2004 AUS Research Grant, studied Bon Fresco painting at Bottega del Bon Fresco, Florence, Italy $4000.00
2003 Vermont Studio Center, One-month residential fellowship for the month of August.
2001 AUS Research Grant, Urban Glass: A Study of Form, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
1998-99 Hospitalfield Trust Fellowship, One Year Residential Fellowship (pioneer year) Scotland, UK
1997 NYSCA/NYFA Grant, materials grant for "Verve" a 1-year public installation of sculpture at Village Gate Square $1000.00
COLLECTIONS
United Kingdom National Collection, The Hospitalfield Centre for Art and Culture, Scotland
Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
ABN Amro Bank, Corporate Collection
DRIK Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Fiduciary Group, Savannah, GA
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA
The School of Art and Design, SIUC, USA
Private collections in Scotland, USA, UAE, Mexico, Canada, Vietnam and The Netherlands
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2017 Cedarhurst Midwestern Biennial, catalog essay by Barry Blinderman
2015 Painting is Dead!?!, exhibition catalog, edited by Rehema Barber
2012 Oil Paintings in Public Ownership, Public Catalogue Foundation, United Kingdom
2012 Inaugural Armstrong Atlantic University National 2D Exhibition, catalog essay by Pang-Chieh Hsu
2011 Florence Biennale 8, Catalog Essay by Pasquale Celona, President of the Florence Biennale
2005 Sharjah Biennial 7, Catalog Essay by Jack Persekian, Curator ISBN – 9948 – 04 – 272 – 7
2004 Chobi Mela 3, Catalog Essay by Shahidul Alam, Senior Curator and Event Organizer
2003 Sharjah Biennial 6, Catalog Essay by Peter Lewis, Senior Curator
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CITATIONS
2018 "Launching the Imagination", 6th edition, full color illustration 2.33, page 50 title: From the Hip
2017 "An Art Fair for the 99 Percent" New York Times, August 30, 2017, by Daniel McDermon
2017 "Art Amid Governors Island's Architectural Decay", Hyperallergic, September 25, 2017 by Allison Meier
2017 "The Island of Emerging Art: Governors Island Nourishes Rising Talents With It's Latest Art Fair", Art Net, September 1, 2017 by Sarah Cascone
2017 "Stately Governor's Island 'Colonels Row' Houses Filled With Wild Art" Gothamist, September 3, 2017 by Scott Lynch
2016 “Seeing is Believing: 5 Art Shows Which Question Reality”, Bushwick Daily, April 2, 2016 by Kseniya Baranova
2015 “engagement of place” www.subtle.net/empyre/ work featured for week long discussion
2015 Poets and Artists magazine, Destroying the Figure in the 21st Century, p.10&11, curated by Daena Title
2015 International Painting Annual 5, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH release date Summer 2015
2015 Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (Mew York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, image reproduced, authors Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmerman p.
2014 Launching the Imagination, 5th edition, illustration 2.33, page 49 title: From the Hip
2013 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 19, juror Jonathan Greene
2010 "Ship Shape", Savannah Morning News, by Allison Hirsch
2010 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 11
2009 "State of Play" published in first peer-reviewed journal for Integrative Teaching International
2009 “Urban Depictions” Falls Church News-Press, article by Kevin Mellema May 2009
2009 “Abstract Thought” Savannah Morning News, review by Alison Hirsch, February 22, 2009
2009 “Interview with Chris Kienke”, Connect Magazine interview by Ben Gargash
2008 “Best in Show: Exhibit showcases range of approaches to contemporary art”
Savannah Morning News, Savannah Now, article by Alison Hersh
2008 Cambridge Who’s Who – listed in on-line registry for 2008-2009
2008 Encaustics – catalog preface about Jesse Payne’s current work authored by Chris Kienke
2006 “Reflections on War Room” Judy Bullington,PhD, Department of Art, Belmont University
article published in March issue of the New Media Cacaus journal N-Media
2005 “Bridges of Understanding” Sylvia Naef, University of Geneva, 39th Annual MESA Conference,
panel session Art and War, panel organizer Jessica Winegar, Fordham University
2005 Sharjah Biennial 7 catalog ISBN – 9948 – 04 – 272 – 7
2005 “Smart Arts: Observations on Art in Academia”, Works+ Conversations issue10 by Katina Huston
2005 “A layman's guide to the Sharjah Biennial”, Gulf News, 29/4/2005, (UAE) by Mildred Fernandes,
2005 “Arts and minds” Time Out Dubai, April 2005 pp 30-31, by Antonia Carver
2005 “but home” BIDOUN, Spring/ Summer 2005 ISSN – 15514048, by Jack Persekian
2005 “Sharjah Biennial 7” CANVAS, May 2005, by Peter Wheeler
2005 “War Room” Al-Tashkeel, Spring 2004
2004 Chobi Mella III – International Festival of Photography, Asia 2000, catalog, no ISBN available, www.chobimela.org
2004-05 Universes in Universe – Worlds of Art http://www.universes-in-universe.de
2004 The Gulf Today, "OPUS II Exhibition Opens at Sharjah Art Museum" The Gulf Today, January 23
2003 Exhibition Catalog essay by Peter Lewis, Sharjah International Biennial : 6 , April 8 – May 8, 2003
2003 "Sixth Sharjah Biennial - In The Picture", Gulf Today, Weekend Magazine, April 18, by Kokila Jacob
1997 "Visual Language" Brighton - Pittsford Post, February, 24, 1997, by Linda Quinlan
1997 "At Pyramid: A Sumptuous New 'Invitational' City Newspaper, February 19-25, 1997, Ron Netsky
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
2019 "Beyond Foundations", FATE 2019, panel chair William Potter
2018 "Chris Kienke: You Promised Me Poems" Artist Slide Talk, Northwestern University
2018 "Becoming Posthaus" FATE In Review, 2018 issue
2018 "Chris Kienke: Paintings" Artist Slide Talk, Luther College
2018 "Hotrods and Handguns" CAA 2018, Los Angeles, panel chair Christopher Olszewski
2017 "Chris Kienke: Hotrods and Handguns" Artist Slide Talk, Illustration Department, Kansas City Art Institute
2017 "Hotrods and Handguns" Artist Gallery Talk, Department of Art, University of Missouri at Kansas City
2017 "What Do We Value and What Are We Good At?", FATE 2017, panel chair Elissa Armstrong
2016 Visiting Artist, External Program review and Juror for 5th Annual Foundations Exhibition at University of Kentucky
2015 “The Glitch Aesthetic” Art Is… 28th National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, SVA, NY, NY
2015 This is No Shotgun Wedding, FATE 2015, Tectonic Shifts, panel chair Chris Kienke
2015 Instilling Courage/Fostering Curiosity, FATE 2015, panel chair Michael Arrigo
2015 What do Foundations Professor do in the Studio?, CAA, NYC, panel chair Chris Kienke
2014 Post Modern Abstraction, MACAA 2014, panel chair Jonathan McFadden
2014 Exit Six, SECAC 2014, panel chair Reni Gower
2014 Getting Rid of Digital Media Classes, FATE Panel, session chair, CAA, Chicago
2013 Creative Practice, FATE 2013, postHaus, panel chair Dennis Farber
2013 What is the Value of an Art and Design Education?, CAA 2013, MACAA Panel, panel chair, Stephen Bliecher
2013 “Recent Work and Ideas About Teaching” Artist Slide talk, Department of Art, Florida State University
2013 “Ideas About Teaching & Recent Work” Artist Slide talk, School of Art + Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2012 Exit Six: Florence Biennale, Ideas In Sight, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2012 Pecha Kucha, SECAC 2012, Collisions, panel chair Jason Guynes
2012 “What Do Painter’s Teach?”, SECAC 2012, Collisions, panel chair Chris Kienke
2012 ThinkTank 7, Foundations Now, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 “An Expanded Vocabulary”, SECAC 2011, Text and Texture, panel chair, Reni Gower
2011 ThinkTank 6, University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2011 "Envisioning a New Foundation", FATE Biennial Conference, On Stream, St Louis, MO
2011 “Using the Traditional and Digital” Artist Slide talk, School of Visual Art, Virginia Tech
2010 “Drawing: Beyond Formal Approaches”, SECAC/ MACAA 2010, Panel Session Chair for Curiouser, VCU, Richmond, VA
2010 Think Tank 5 – invited Master Educator and panel session leader for “Visual Narrative”
University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2009 Think Tank 5 – fellowship juror
2009 “Industrialized Society, Material Culture and First Year Modular Design Strategies” MX Design Conference 2009, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico double blind juried
2009 “Zhu pa Zhaie”, SECAC 2009, panel: I Love You, Now Leave: Desire and Repulsion in Visual Arts” chair Lou Haney
2009 Think Tank 4, invited participant, University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2009 “Drawing Studio: Beyond Formal Approaches” Talk About Teaching, SCAD
2009 “The Spare Part and the Module: Using the Industrial Revolution as a Launch Point”
Confluence, FATE Biennial Conference, Portland, OR, panel chair - Steven Bleicher
2009 “Consistent Grading Practices in a Studio Classroom” workshop with Graduate Students
Department of Art, University of Kentucky
2009 “Select Projects from the past Decade” artist slide talk, Department of Art, University of Kentucky
2009 “Representation and Abstraction: Documenting a Process” Art First Lecture series, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2008 “The War Room: Bearing Witness” Design, the Arts and the Political: images and words that propagate and dissent National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, SVA, NY,NY
2008 “The War Room: A Collaborative Construction” Art First lecture series, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2007 “Present(re)present: Toward a Contemporary Regional Identity”,
Translations: 23rd International Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Presenter and invited panel session coordinator, SCAD, Savannah, GA, USA
2007 “Present(re)present: Toward a Contemporary Regional Identity”,
College Art Association, Panel session titled “Western Art Studies in a Middle Eastern Context”
2006 “Physiognomy and the Contemporary Portrait”, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Honolulu, Hawaii
2005 “Books on Landscape – Cultural Perspectives from the Middle East”, MX Design Conference
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 “Bottega del Bon Fresco”, Research Colloquia series, SA&D, AUS
2004 “The War Room”, Chobi Mela 3 – International Festival of Photography, Asia 2004
Lecture and slide presentation titled ‘War Room’, Goethe Institut, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2003 “Landscape: Books on Perspective” 19th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
2002 “Urban Glass – The Creation of New Artifacts”, slide lecture and discussion, SA&D, AUS
2001 “An evolution of a visual language”, Eye Opener lecture, SA&D, AUS
1999 US/Scot Consortium – Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland, UK
Administrative Assistant to the conference director, facilitated program and coordinated events.
1999 “Current Work from Scotland”, Kansas State University slide lecture and graduate studio visits
1999 “Hospitalfield House”, The Colombian Theater, slide lecture, Wamego, Kansas, USA
1999 “Recent Work: An Overview” Glasgow School of Art
Visiting Artist- slide lecture and studio critiques, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1999 “Painting as Space and Form”, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Principle presenter at a seminar on Fine Art and Architecture, Dundee, Scotland, UK
1997 Pyramid Art Center, Exhibiting artist lecture series. In conjunction with the 25th Annual
Upstate Invitational, Rochester, New York, USA