MINDY ROSE SCHWARTZ
American, lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago
State of Illinois Art Teaching Certificate K–12, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, Sculpture, University of Illinois, Champaign
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Rude Awakening, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna
2021 Mindy Rose Schwartz, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn
2020 Mindy Rose Schwartz, Et. Al. Gallery, San Francisco
2019 Mindy Rose Schwartz, Prairie at Barely Fair, Chicago
2017 Mindy Rose Schwartz (curated by Sam Lipp and Migual Bendana), Balice Hertling, Paris
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Queer Thoughts, New York
Alien Head Key Chains, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta
2016 Mindy Rose Schwartz, Slow Gallery, Chicago
2015 Neighborhood Watch, Terrain Gallery, Oak Park
2012 Schwartz/Tannat: Two Solo Shows, New Capital Gallery, Chicago
2011 Mindy Rose Schwartz, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago
2008 Mindy Rose Schwartz, Old Gold Gallery, Chicago
2002 Mindy Rose Schwartz, Joymore Gallery, Chicago
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 LIFE – a group show (curated by Arnold J. Kemp), Artists Space, New York
2022 Microwave, Kings Leap Gallery, New York
Bad Budz, curated by Horse and Pony Berlin at Adjunct Positions, Los Angeles
Unsalted, Tusk, Chicago
2012 Conscious Becoming, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
2020 Auction, Julius Caesar, Chicago
2019 Only Human, H. G. Inn Gallery, Chicago
New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
They Who Walk Behind the Rows, False Flag Gallery, New York
2018 Room E 10-27, Center, Berlin
AWHRHWAR Gallery, Los Angeles
Interface Gallery, San Francisco
2017 How Deep is Your Love?, Cooper Cole, Toronto
2016 The Weeping Line, Alter Space, Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles
Putrid Garden, Luis Miguel Bendans, Efrain Lopez, Chicago
Saint Cirq la Popie Bienniel—Saint-Cirq Lapopie
Paramount Ranch II, Queer Thoughts, Agoura Hills
2015 Miami: Nada, Queer Thoughts, Miami
Mindy Rose Schwartz + David Rappeneau, Queer Thoughts, New York
Where The Awning Flaps, Éric Hussenot, Paris
NADA NY: Mindy Rose Schwartz + Alison Veit, David Rappeneau, New York
Small Pillow, Queer Thoughts at Arcadia Missa, London
Rainbow, Queer Thoughts, Nicaragua
(But) Three’s a Crowd, Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago
An Adventure Film Starring Tom Hanks, HOTEL–ART.US, Rockaway
2014 Buying Friends: The Kortman Collection, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids
Burn It Down, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
New Work—solo show, Queer Thoughts, Chicago
This Particular Patch, Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn
Material Art Fair, Queer Thoughts, Mexico City
2013 Ghosts Don’t Burn, Side Car Gallery, Hammond
Rehearsal Attire, Slow Gallery, Chicago
Plant Life, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2012 Euphamize, Slow Gallery, Chicago
Winter CSA, Three Walls, Chicago
Living By Example, Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery, Evanston
2011 Heads on Poles, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2010 IAAFBJHMJNMOMRSATSW (Nine Artists From Chicago), Fountain Studios, Brooklyn
Now Is The Time: Slab In Temporary Space, the temporary space, Houston
2009 Sweeping The Inside Out, Side Car Gallery, Hammond
Zombie: A Mindless Affair, Antena Gallery, Chicago
They will not ruin us through the things that we like, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
Macrame Intervention, Façade Installation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Artists Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Mini Fair, Mini Dutch Gallery, Chicago
$(Heart), NFO XPO, Versionfest, Chicago
2008 An Associates Degree in Science, Finch Gallery, Chicago
Liv Ullman, Anaerobic Digestion, Post-Psychiatry, Open Lot Studios. St. Louis
Liv Ullman, Anaerobic Digestion, Post-Psychiatry, Pampered Banana, Kansas City
Three Hundred Six, Hoffman Lachance Contemporary, St. Louis
Can Bigfoot get you a Beer?, Alagon Gallery, Chicago
Shape Shifters, Contemporary Art Council, Jason Foumberg curator, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago
The NewAuthentics, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
NEXT Fair Chicago, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA & Old Gold Gallery, Chicago
Overlooker, LosAngeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
2007 The NewAuthentics, Spertus Museum, Chicago
Night Light, SLAB Projects, Glendale, CA
COMA #16, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
COMA #14, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
2006 COMA #7, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
COMA #5, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
Takeover, Hyde Park Art Center New Space Opening, Chicago
Strange Fictions, NIU Art Museum Gallery, Chicago
COMA #1, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
Exposed: Envisioning the Invisible Body, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington
2005 Nook, The Guest Room Project, Chicago
BMOMA #2, Bridgeport Museum of Modern Art, Chicago
2004 Frisbee Art Fair, Joymore Gallery, Miami
Cha Cha Cha, Worm-Hole Laboratory, Miami
Combine: Mixing Media, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, WhiteWalls Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
The Stray Show, MULE, Chicago
Good and Bad Things Come from Explosions, PAC Edge, Chicago
2003 Designs for Modern Living, 1942 N. Wolcott, Chicago
Thrill 3: The Party, 1723 Humboldt Blvd., Chicago
White Walls Booth, Installation Art Expo Navy Pier, Chicago
The Stray Show, Joymore Gallery, North Kingsbury, Chicago
The Stray Show, Joymore Gallery, Chicago,
Watery, Domestic, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Escalante-De Mattei, Shaati, The Lucky Jewel Collective, July 14, 2021
Watlington, Emily, Art in America online, The Effervescent Everyday: Mindy Rose Schwartz at Interstate
Ed. Sigler, Jennifer, Into the Woods, Harvard Design Magazine No. 45, p. 150, 2018
Art Space Editors, Eight Artists to Watch this October, 10/6/2017
Art Viewer Editors, 9/29/2017
Contemporary Art Daily Editors, 10/13/2017
Abrams, Loney, Art’s New Wave? An Insider’s Guide to the Secrets of the Rockaway Beach Art Scene, 8/1/16
Duguid, Meg, Moore Women Artists, 2/2016
Kurian, Ajay, NADA New York 2015 Picks, 5/15/2015
Contemporary Art Daily Editors, 12/11/2015
Blidaru, Adriana, Living Content 6, Featured Interview 11/17/17
Profile, Dream the End, 2014
Morris, Matt, Top 5 of Everything Art, Subversively Conceptual Crafters, New City Arts, 12/24/14
Pressler, Collin, Mindy Rose Schwartz at Queer Thoughts, New City Art, 6/17/14
Cristello, Stephanie, Mindy Rose Schwartz // QT, The Seen, 6/25/14
Review/Burn It Down, New City, 9/26/14
Trigg, Sarah, Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process, Princeton Architectural Press 12/17/13
Best of Chicago 2011, Best Solo Art Show, New City, 12/15/11
Foumberg, Jason, Imaginary Monuments for Chicago: An Artists’ Project, New City Chicago, 9/8/2011
Havrelock and Bunzl, eds., AJS Perspectives, New York, Front, Inside and Back covers, Fall 2011
Stabler, Bert, Best of Chicago, Critics Picks, Best Artists 2011, Chicago Reader, 6/23/11
Gunn, Dan, Interview with Mindy Rose Schwartz, Bad at Sports Blog, March 13, 2011
Ise, Claudine, Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports, Podcast on Art:21 Blog, March 9, 2011
Velez, Pedro, Chicago-Build-Up, artnet Magazine, 1/29/10
Sash, Beautifuldecay.com, 3/10/10
Cochran, Jessica, CS Interiors, 2010
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Viera, Laura, Two from Western Exhibitions, Chicago Tribune, 6/19/09
Artner, Alan G., Art for All, Chicago Tribune Magazine, 4/19/09
Foumberg, Jason. Portrait of the Artist: Mindy Rose Schwartz. Newcity Chicago, 10/6/08
Grabner, Michelle. Critics Picks, Can Bigfoot get you a Beer? ArtForum, 10/08
Stein, Jesse, Shape-Shifters, Flavorpill. 5/08
Artner, Alan G., ArtReview, Chicago Tribune 12/6/07
LaBelle, Monica, TheCraft Trend: That’s not an LSD flashback-that’s macramé! F News Magazine, 12/07
Foumberg, Jason, The NewAuthentics: Artists of the PostJewish Generation, Frieze Magazine, 11/07
New AmericanPainters #71, 8/07 The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
Snodgrass, Susan, Report From Chicago, Window of Opportunity, Art in America, 1/07
Stabler, Bert, CriticPicks 2006, ChicagoReader 12/22/06
Artner, Alan G., Visions of the future, Chicago Tribune 4/21/06
Elms, Anthony, FineWords, Cabbage No Butter, 26 years of Whitewalls, Spring/06
Hawkins, Margaret, Breaking Boundaries, Chicago Sun-Times 5/6/2006
Elms, Anthony, ed., Whitewalls Issue 45, 2004
Farstad, Julie, ed., Mouth to Mouth, Spring 2003
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2012—Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Foundation, Arts Achievement Award
2010—3Arts Fellowship at Ragdale
2005—Frankel Foundation Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center
1998—Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Grant
1996—Randolph Street Gallery Project Space, Grant
1996—Faculty Prize for Graduate Study, Studio Arts, UIC, Grant