BRUCE THORN


 

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

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 2026   Steven Amedee Gallery, NY, NY,The Red Guitar, solo exhibition

 2025   Madron Gallery, Chicago, Conversations in Abstraction 

 2024   Madron Gallery, Chicago, System and Dialectics of Art

2023-2024  Alma Art and Interiors, Chicago, Casting Shadows

2023   Pirate Contemporary Art, Lakewood, CO, Letters From Distant Galaxies

 2019   Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, 12x12 Ten Year Anniversary Show

 2019   Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, It’s a Small Show After All

 2019   Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL, Earthly Delights, Bruce Thorn and Les Allen

 2018   Sauk Gallery, Dixon, IL, Bruce Thorn: Earthly Delights

 2018   Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, Salute

            Betty Cleeland, William Conger, Donna Hapac, Vera Klement, Eleanor Speiss- Ferris  and Bruce Thorn

 2017   Sugar Row Gallery, Mineral Point, WI, Bruce Thorn: Upstream Paradise

 2017   LaLuz Gallery, Chicago

            Sacred and Profane: Bruce Thorn, Chuck Walker and Paul Lamantia

 2017   The Ukrainian Museum, New York, New York,  Chornobyl: Artists Respond

 2016   Rockford Art Museum, Rockford IL        

           The Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Best of Show Award

 2016   Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Chornobyl: Artists Respond

 2015   Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL, Bruce Thorn: As If There’s No   Tomorrow

 2013   Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago

            Subconscious Eye, Bruce Thorn, Paul Lamantia and J.A. Kurtz

2013   The Beverly Art Center, Chicago

           Chatterbox Fiction, a seven-artist exhibition curated by Bruce Thorn

 2011   Union League Club, Chicago, Bruce Thorn: New Paintings

2006   Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN, Patterning, Bruce Thorn and Liz Quisgard

2004   The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia 

            4th Triennale Graphic Prague 2004

2003    International Center for the Print, NYC, NY, New Prints 2003, Fall

2001    Arena Gallery, Chicago, Influence Chicago Influence

2000   Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Les Chemical Carnales, Curated by Ed Paschke

1996   Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL: Bruce Thorn, Recent Works, solo exhibition

1995   Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Oregon Biennial

1994   Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA: Bruce Thorn, Recent Works, solo exhibition

1986   Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL: Bruce Thorn and Bruce Thayer

1985   Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Bruce Thorn, Spring  Thaw

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GRANTS. AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

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 2016   Rockford Art Museum, Rockford IL, The Rockford Midwestern Biennial 

           Best of Show Award

 2015   March 30-April 21 Residency at Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

 2014, 2011 and 2006  International Residency at Foundation SLAK, Arnhem, Netherlands

 1994   Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

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 EDUCATION

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 1987    MFA in Painting, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL

1975    BFA in Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

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 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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 Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL

 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Art Preserve, Roger Brown Study Collection, Sheboygan, WI

 Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2021   Chris Miller, Mountshang Blogspot, Bruce Thorn; The Red Guitar

 

2015   Chris Miller, New City, review of As If there’s No Tomorrow at  the Koehnline Museum

 

2015  As if There’s No Tomorrow, Margaret Hawkins and Nathan Harpaz, Ph.D.

 

2013    The Subconscious Eye, Robert Cozzolino and Stanislav Grezdo

 

2006 Abstract Imagist, Corbett vs. Dempsey Publications 

 

2004 4th Triennial of Graphic Arts Prague 2004, Arbor Vitae  

 

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