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RICHARD HULL | artist resume
b. 1955 Oklahoma City, OK
Lives and works in Chicago

 EDUCATION 

1979
1977
1976

MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
2012 Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL (April 20 to May 19)
2011 Paintings and Drawings, Charlotte & Phillip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, NC
2010 "Partial Vision", Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2008 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 “37 Day Drawing” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston Illinois
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw Valley, MI
2003 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
2001 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
Collaboration with Ken Vandermark, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago IL
1999 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
U.U., Brooklyn, NY
1998 Bradley University, Peoria, IL
1997 Gallery A, Inc., Chicago, IL
University Club, Chicago, IL
1996 Gallery A, Inc., Chicago, IL
1995 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Rule Modern, Denver, CO
1992 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
PrintWorks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1987 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
SPECIAL PROJECTS 
2012 Ken Vandermark and Richard Hull, "Event" Depaul University Art Museum, Chicago IL
2007 Curator, ”STRUCK” New Paintings by New Painters, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
Visuals, T.S. Elliots “The Wasteland”, The Museum of Contemporary Art
Cover, “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist”
2006-05 Video Visuals, “The Pintura Series. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter”
a Collaboration with Ken Vandermark-music
2005 Visuals,” the Beckett Project” A collaboration with Dan Grzeca, Japp Blonk,Lotta,and Ken Vandermark , The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2001 Performance,”Shadow Music” a collaboration with Ken Vandermark, The Arts club of Chicago, Chicago IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2012 Push,Pull, Riverside Art Center, Riverside IL
Afterimage, Depaul Museum of Art. September 13 – November 15, 2012
Someone Else's Dream
, curated by John McKinnon, Hyde Park Art Center. Chicago, IL
2011 After the Readymade, Smart Museum, Chicago, IL
Anchor Graphics: Surveying the Collection, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
2010 Spaces Within, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Touch and Go, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, IL
ON PTG, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2009 Modern and Contemporary Works On Paper, the Art Institute of Chicago
Submerged Artists, The Dark Fair, Cologne Germany
2008 The Dark Fair, the Swiss Insititute, New York City,NY
Preview, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Passionate Perspective, Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL
2007 Wish you were here, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago,Il
The ChalkBoard Chronicles, New York City, NY
The Exquisite Snake, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. Evanston IL
The Arts Club of Chicago Members Show, the Arts Club of Chicago
2006 Abstract Imagism, Corbett vs, Dempsey, Chicago IL
2005 The Pintura Series: Richard Hull- visuals, Ken Vandermark- solo reeds
Bookmarks, 25th Anniversary Show, Printworks, Chicago IL
Members Exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago IL
2008 Water World, South Bend Regional Museum Of Art, South Bend IN
Departures, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
The Poetry Center Broadside Exhibit ,Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago IL
For The Birds the Clarke House Museum, Chicago IL
2003 Modern Shadows, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002 Shifting, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Plotting, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2001 Members Exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Kitchen Sink, Tom McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Sextablos, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, IL
Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
Self-Portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Gallery A, Inc., Chicago, IL
Collaboration '98, PrintWorks, Chicago, IL
Members Exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drawing Invitational, Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL
1997 Testwalls: The Chalkboard Chronicles, T'Zart Co., New York, NY
Landfall Press: Twenty-five years of Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995, Maryana Liegh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Mental Visual Manual, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, WI
Dwelling, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1996-7 Art in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Art In The Family, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1995 Landfall Press 25 Year Anniversary, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pulp Fiction, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
Surface, Judith Racht Gallery, Michigan
Phyllis Kind Gallery Revisited, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Small, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 Small Details: Intimate Images through Artists' Eyes, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences
Annual Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993 Divided Spaces: Richard Hull, Miyoko Ito, David Richards, Phyllis Kind Gallery, and Chicago, IL
…A Loose Form of Narrative…., Gallery A, Chicago, IL
10th Anniversary of Artists in Residence, The University of Tennessee, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, TN
Annual Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
My Father's House Has Many Mansions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
Ars Nova Judges Show, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
1992 Annual Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Images from the 1980's, Samual P. Harnes Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
1991 Summer Group Show, World Tatoo Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Portraits of a Kind, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 79th Annual Exhibition/Small Bite out of the Big Apple, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA
Regarding Art: Artworks About Art, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
70th Annual Artist Members Exhibition, The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chicago Painters in Print: Brown, Paschke, Hull, Lostutter, Pasin-Sloan, Bamson, Wirsum, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
1989 American Art Since World War II: Recent Acquisitions in the Department of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Recent Acquisitions/1988, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1988 Chicago Now! The South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IN
1987 Richard Hull/ Michael Nakoneczny, The Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Chicago Style: Five Leading Artists, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1986-7 The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, and Travelling Exhibition; The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; Herron Gallery of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1986 Showehegan Alumni Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1985 The Eighty-first Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1984 Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Eightieth Exhibition by Artist of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chicago Cross Section, Trsolini Gallery, Ohio University at Athens
Bright Lights, Big City, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by John Yau)
Sculpture and Painting, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Midwest Invitational, Clark Arts Center, Rockford College, Rockford, IL
Chicago: Emerging Visions, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI
1983-84 Eleven Chicago Artists, Educational Outreach Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and traveling to Chicago area schools
1983 Chicago Scene, Mandeville art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Habitats, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL; and traveling to Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, WI
The Painterly Print, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1982-83 Dialect=Dialect: A Group Show of Artists with Complex
Individual Vocabularies, Phyllis Kind Galleries, New York, NY and Chicago, IL
1982 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis, IN
Selections from the Denis Adrian Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1981-83 Prints and Multiples, seventy-ninth Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL and traveling to The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Portland Art Museum, OR
1981 New Visions, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT
1980 Seventy-Ninth Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (William H. Bartels Prize)
Chicago / Chicago, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
1978 4/4 Show, West Hubbard Gallery, Chicago, IL
1975-77 Thirty Miles of Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1975 First Time Out Together, Cromwell Gallery, Kansas City, MO
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 
  Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority, McCormick Center South Hall, Chicago
American Medical Association, Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
Arthur Anderson Co., Chicago
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Chemical Bank, New York
Samuel P. Harnes Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin
Morningstar Inc., Chicago
Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City
First National Bank Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL
Northwestern University, Chicago
Smart Museum, Chicago
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
The Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
Weatherspoon Art Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 New City. Aronstein, A-J, "Someone Else's Dream", Feb. 14, 2012
2011 BOMB Magazine. “Jim Nutt & Gladys Nilsson” (interviewed by Richard Hull). Bomb 114/Winter 2011
2010

New City Lee, Nate. "Portrait of the Artist: Richard Hull". April 5, 2010
Chicago Art Magazine Dluzen, Robin. "Richard Hull at Western Exhibitions" (review). April 4, 2010
ArtSlant Seidell, Marla. "Humorous Blobs" (review: Richard Hull). April 17, 2010
Simply Magnificent Molon. Dominic. "Art: Un(der)known Pleasures- Richard Hull’s ‘Sleeping is Believing’ (1980)". April 21, 2010
Huffington Post. Klein, Paul. "It's the "Good Art" Time of Year".(Richard Hull) March 26.
Flavorpill. Smigasiewicz, Beatrice. "Richard Hull" (review). Flavorpill. Mar 30-Apr 5, 2010

2008 Newman, Christine “Rooms with Memories” Chicago Magazine, April,
2007 Chicago Life Magazine. "Richard Hull's Jazz: Canvases that explore rhythym." By Sigalit Zetouni. August 07, 2007 
2006 Artner, Alan, “ Imagist Show an Unlikly Collection…”, Chicago
Tribune,Nov. 17th, 2006
Pietrusiak, Leah “ Slow on the Draw” Timeout Chicago November 9 2006
Artner,Alan. “Hull’s artwork becoming more refined….” Chicago Tribune,
March 10, 2006
Workman,Micheal. “Chance Encounter” NewCity’ March 9, 2006
2005 Matthew Lurie, ”the Pintura Series” Timeout cChicago, September 2005
Zwecker, Bill, “ Thomson’s Walk on the North Side” The Chicago Sun
Times
2003 Naves,Mario, “Only The Shadows Know” The New York Observer,April
Ruzicka, Joseph. “Modern Shadows“, exhibition catalogue, The Painting
Johnson Ken. “Modern Shadows,” Art Guide, The New York Times, Friday, February 4, Section B, page 42.
Hawkins,Margeret, “Richard Hull”The Chicago Sun Times, Dec. 19
2001 Hawkins, Margaret. "Gallery Glance," Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, December 7, 2001, Sec. 7.
Stein, Lisa. "Art Scene (review)," Chicago Tribune, Friday, December, 2001, Sec. 7, page 32.
Chandler, Mary Voelz. “Critic’s Choice,” Rocky Mountain News, Saturday, June 2.
Thomas, Mike. “Artist brings light to ‘Shadow’ performance,” Chicago Sun- Times, Monday, July 2, page 39.
2000 Thodos, Diane. “Self-Portraits,” review, New Art Examiner.
MacMillan, Kyle. “Hull brings ‘Chicago style’ to Denver with nine pieces,” The Denver Post, May 1.
Paglia, Michael. “Artbeat,” Westword, June 7-13.
1999 Artner, Alan. "Hull's new works awash in elements of transition," Chicago Tribune, November
1998 Booth, Christi. "Chicago artists bring images to Bradley," The Pulse, March 6.
Panetta, Gary. "Richard Hull's flight of fancy," Journal Star, March 1.
Lyons, Channy. "Hull's exciting artwork defies the senses," Times Newspapers,
Wednesday, March 4.
Coburn, Marcia. "Affairs of the art," Chicago Magazine, July, pg.39.
1997 Williams, Kevin M. "Artist keeps his eye on the ball," Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, November 7, pg.14.
Art in America. Vine, Richard, " Where the wild things were," Art in America, May.
1996 Buchholz, Barbara. " Michael Byron's complicated, mysterious visual narratives," Chicago Tribune, September.
Ruzika, Joseph. "Landfall press: 25 years of printmaking," (exhibition catalogue), Milwaukee Art Museum.
Smith, Courtney. "Art in Chicago 1945-1995," (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art.
Yood, James. "Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995," (exhibition catalogue), Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University.
1995 Hood, Eugene. "Phyllis Kind Gallery Revisited," (exhibition catalogue), Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin
1994 Weins, Ann. "Richard Hull," New Art Examiner, February.
1993 Budoff, Nathan. "Miyoko Ito, Dave Richards, and Richard Hull at Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago," New Art Examiner, May.
Kurka, Don. "Ten Years, Twenty-nine Artists," (exhibition catalogue), Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture
1991 Artner, Alan. "Richard Hull at Phyllis Kind Gallery," Chicago Tribune, March 15
Hixson, Kathryn. "Richard Hull at the Phyllis Kind Gallery/Chicago," Arts Magazine, Summer.
Yood, James. "Richard Hull at the Phyllis Kind Gallery/Chicago," Artforum, Summer.
Bulka, Michael. "Richard Hull at Phyllis Kind," Art in America, October
1990 Hanson, Henry. "Lithographs Set Stage for Theater Festival," Chicago Magazine, July.
Wainwright, Lisa. "Chicago/Beyond Imagism," Art International, Summer.
1989 "Going on about Town/Richard Hull," The New Yorker, May.
1988 Barnes, Stephanie Schoenfeldt. "Chicago Collects," Dialogue, May/June.
Houston Metropolitan, Cover illustration, November.
"Chicago Now!" (exhibition catalogue), South Bend Arts Center.
1987 Hanson, Henry. "Upfront/Chicago Painter Gives Buildings Locomotion," Chicago Magazine, September.
1986 Chors, Timothy. "Review/Richard Hull," Arts Magazine, December.
Neff, John Halmark. "The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial," (exhibition catalogue), Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.
Newhall, Edith. "Galleries/Richard Hull," Arts Magazine, December.
Findsen, Owen. "Contemporary Midwestern artists create art for hearts sake," The Cincinnati Enquirer, July 27.
"Standard Oil Sponsors The Contemporary Art Center's First Biennial," Everybody's News, August 1.
Stein, Jerry. "CAC Biennial show an introspective exhibit," The Cincinnati Post, July 26.
1985 Artner, Alan. "Art: Antiques," Chicago Tribune, October 18.
Hawkins, Margaret. "Chicagoan Richard Hull wraps paintings with dread," Chicago Sun Times, October 4.
Speyer, A. James. "Drawings: 81st Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago.
Yood, James. "Richard Hull/Phyllis Kind Gallery," New Art Examiner, September.
Bourgealut, Cynthia. "Skowhegan: A Ten Year Retrospective 1975-1985," (exhibition catalogue), Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
1984 Drum, Sidney. "Reviews/Chicago: Habitats," New Art Examiner, February.
Speyer, A. James. "Chicago and Vicinity Show: 80th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago.
Yau, John. "Bright Lights, Big City," (exhibition catalogue), Phyllis Kind Gallery.
Harrington, Bev. "Chicago: Emerging Visions," (exhibition catalogue), The Paine Art Center and Museum
Artner, Alan G. "Familiar Shades of mediocracy in area-artist's show," Chicago Tribune, April 1.
Langoussis, Andrew. "Rockford college Midwest Invitational," (exhibition catalogue), Rockford College Arts Center Gallery.
1982 Morgan, Ann Lee. "A Chicago Letter / Selections from the Dennis Adrian collection," Art International, November/December.
Furulli, Hellen and Yassin, Robert. "Painting and Sculpture Today," (exhibition catalogue), Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Neff, John Halmark. "Selections from the Denis Adrian Collection," (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art.
Essay "Richard Hull" by Lynn Warren
Upshaw, Reagan. "Painting in Chicago: Blue Collar Surrealism meets Prairie Abstraction," Portfolio, May/June.
1981 Howarth, Kathryn. "Richard Hull at Phyllis Kind," Art in America, May.
Phillips, Deborah C. "Reviews/Richard Hull," Arts Magazine, March.
Tulley, Judd. "Reviews/Richard Hull," Flash Art, March/April.
Aldrich, Larry. "New Visions," (exhibition catalogue), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sparks, Esther. "Prints and Multiples:70th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago.
1980 Saliga, Pauline. "Chicago/Chicago," (exhibition catalogue), Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati.
Speyer, A. James. "78th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago.
1979 Adrian, Dennis. "Richard Hull," Arts Magazine, December.
Larsen, Kay. "Caws and Effect," The Village Voice, December.
Shanker, Tom. "Memories Painted," The Daily Oklahoma, December 3.



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