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b. 1971
Lives and Works in Chicago

Education:
    MFA- University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002
    BFA- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995

Teaching:
2006- present
    University of Chicago
    -Dept. of Visual Art
2002-2007
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    -Dept. of Film, Video and New Media
    -Dept. of Fiber and Material Studies
    -First Year Program

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:
    Scott Wolniak (solo show), 2010
    65GRAND, Chicago
    Scott Wolniak: Ungray: Color, Light and Other Balms (solo show), 2009
    Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
    Scott Wolniak: New Work (solo show), 2008
    Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
    Tamed and Wild: drawing and video (solo show), 2007
    Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
    Drawing with Outer Space, 2006
    Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
    The Buddy Cycles, Vol. 1 (Derek Fansler & Scott Wolniak, collaborative project), 2006
    Western Exhibitions, Chicago
    Scott Wolniak (solo show), 2005
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago-12x12 New Artists/New Work
    Video and Sculpture (solo show), 2005
    Tony Wight/ Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Project Space, Chicago
    Derek Fansler and Scott Wolniak, 2004
    Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago
    New Ghosts (solo show), 2003
    mn Gallery, Chicago, IL
    Time and Space (solo show), 2003
    Gahlberg Gallery at McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings:
2009
    Abhorrence of the Void
    Unit B Gallery, San Antonia TX
2008
    Not Just Another Pretty Face
    Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
    The Leaf and the Page (curated by Doug Stapleton)
    Illinois State Museum, Chicago (traveling)
    White
    Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
    Recent Acquisitions (curated by Julie RodriguesWidholm)
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
    Capricious and Mercurial Systems (curated by Joan Giroux and Whitney Huber-Lazar)
    A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
    Replicants
    Virgil de Voldére Gallery, New York
2007
    Direct
    Tony Wight/Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago
    Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Video and Painting (curated by Tracy Taylor)
    Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
    Drawing Room
    Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert MI
    Evanston Art Center Invitational
    Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
    Experimental Melodies (curated by LiveBox)
    Directors Lounge at Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin     Pass It On: Connecting Contemporary Do-It-Yourself Culture
    A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
2006
    Video Lounge, (curated by Michael Rush)
    Art Basel Miami Beach, courtesy of Perpetual Art Machine
    Specious: A Momentary Video Exhibition
    Art 2102, Los Angeles
    Layer on Layer
    Judith Racht Gallery, Harbart, MI
    Evanston and Vicinity Biennial
    Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
    PAM (Peripheral Art Machine)
    Scope Art Fair, New York NY
2005
    Into the Woods
    Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago
    RED WHITE BLUE
    Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC     Faces and Places
    Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert MI
    Cinemascope (curated by Lee Wells)
    Art Scope, London
    Six Projects at Suburban (curated by Michael Thomas)
    Space Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
    The 4- Color Pen Show (curated by Heather Hubbs and Elysia Borowy)
    Van Harrison Gallery (Chiacgo) in association with General Store (Milwaukee)/Locust Projects (Miami, FL)
    City Selections
    Chicago Public Art Program, Chicago
2004
    Drawing: Seven Curatorial Responses
    Catherine E. Nash Gallery, University of MN, Minneapolis MN
    Pierogi a Go-Go (Brooklyn Gravity Racers)
    Pierogi, Brooklyn NY
    Spacemakers, (courtesy of The Suburban)
    Lothringer Dreizen, Munich Germany
    Summer Drawings
    Mixture Contemporary, Houston TX
    Food For Thought
    Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert MI
    Uncovered: Recent Acquisitions from the Artists’ Books Collection (coutesy of 8.5 x 11)
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2003
    Paper Chase
    Muller-DeChiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
    Artissima 10, Turin, Italy
    Courtesy of Spencer Brownstone Gallery
    #20 (curated by Reed Anderson)
    Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn NY
    Movement
    Renaissance Society Benefit Exhibition, Chicago
    Knockabout (curated by Mark Orange)
    Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
    Summer Jam
    Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
    Cheap (curated by Lauren Ross and Elizabeth Ferguson Madden)
    White Columns, New York, NY, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2002
    Fountain of Youth (curated by Law Office)
    Locust Projects, Miami, FL/ Stray Show, Chicago, IL
    8.5 x 11 (curated by Gabriel Fowler) - Box set, edition of 100; www.8.5 x11.org
    Project exhibition at Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
    Video with Headphones (curated by Jack Sloss)
    Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
    Sculpture in Chicago Now, Part II (curated by Adam Brooks and Corey Pastiglioni)
    Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
    Result, Issue 2: Screening and Tape (curated by KDP)
    H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore MD
    Inside/Outside (curated by Michael Smit)
    Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
    10 White Male Painters Paint the Same Painting, Part Deux
    Law Office at Stray Show, Chicago/ Hotel Show, Miami FL/ Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL
    First Parking Lot Biennale (curated by Helidon Gjergji)
    S. Wells Street Public Parking Lot, Chicago, IL
2000
    Buena Onda
    Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC
1998
    10 White Male Painters Paint the Same Painting
    Law Office @ Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL
1997
    I Paid $25 to Exhibit My Art in this Show
    Beret International Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995
    Unknown Chicago
    Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

Selected Collections:
    -Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
    -Sonke Magnus Müller, Berlin
    -Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    -Zach Feuer, New York, NY
    -Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA
    -Irving Stenn, Chicago, IL
    -Peter R Stern, New York, NY
    -Dean Geleynse, Honolulu, HI

Reviews and Publications:
2009
    Review- Scott Wolniak/ Chicago Cultural Center by Susan Snodgrass, Art in America
    Review- Ungray: Color, Light and Other Balms by Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune
    We Live in Nature’s Colors by Erik Wenzel, ArtSlant
    Review: Scott Wolniak/ Chicago Cultural Center by Tim Ridlin, New City
2008
    Subtle Warning: Photo-based Work Assembled for Essential Cause by Shannon Fitzgerald, Review Magazine
2007
    Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Video and Painting, exhibition catalog
2006
    Scott Fife, Robyn O’Neil, David Schutter, and Scott Wolniak; Valerie Carberry by Ruth Lopez, Reviews, Art News
    The Weeds, self-published project catalog
    Video: A New Way of Working by Victor Cassidy, Chicago Artists’ News
2005
    Nature Denatured by Tony Adler, Chicago Reader
    Unwanted Things by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
    One Man’s Trash… is an Art Exhibit by Sara Burrows, Pioneer Press
    A Weed Grows in Market Square; Exhibit Debuts at Downtown Park by Jennifer Mathieu, Houston Chronicle
2004
    Derek Fansler and Scott Wolniak (Dogmatic Gallery) by Michelle Grabner, artUS
2003
    Critics' Picks New York, by Martha Schwendener, Art Forum Online
    "Knockabout" at Spencer Brownstown, by Steven Stern, Time Out New York
    Galleries-Soho, Recommendations, The New Yorker
    Galleries, Recommended, by Kim Levin, The Village Voice
    Scott Wolniak at mn, by Ginger Wolf, Bridge Online
    An Everyday Optic: Scott Wolniak's Time and Space, by Jonathan Miller (exhibition catalog)
    An Everyday Optic: Scott Wolniak's Time and Space, by Jonathan Miller (exhibition catalog)

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