STEPHANIE SERPICK

Stephanie Serpick’s paintings are intimate and spare compositions about the shared human experience of intense emotion. Working from found photographs, Serpick uses the small size of the paintings to pull the viewer in close to inspect the bedding in disarray and botanical arrangements that are the subject of her current work. The backgrounds are repeatedly painted and sanded, to create a frame and backdrop for the imagery that is flat, yet rough with work and time.

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EDUCATION
MFA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023   Interior Visions: Domestic Sphere, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2022   Vaulted Gallery, Mary Helen Cochran Library, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia
2020   Jacintha Clark and Stephanie Serpick (two-person exhibition), The Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art at Pratt, Utica, NY
2020   Stephanie Serpick—Watercolors (online exhibition), Marloe Gallery, Artsy.net
2019   A New Fall by Stephanie Serpick, Windmill Library Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
            (Traveling to Enterprise Library Art Gallery and Laughlin Library Art Gallery, both Las Vegas, NV)
2019   Stephanie Serpick: It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019   Stephanie Serpick and William Ruller (two-person exhibition), Chesapeake Gallery, Hartford Community College, Bel Air, MD
2018   Stephanie Serpick, Fine Arts Gallery, College of Southern Nevada, NV
2015   Stephanie Serpick: New Paintings, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
2012   The Mechanics of Nature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2005   Stephanie Serpick: New Work, Country Club, Chicago, IL
2003   New Paintings, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas TX
2001   Stephanie Serpick: New Paintings, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000   Tricks and Gifts, Chicago Illini Union, University of Illinois at Chicago
1993   Recent Work, Winchester Thurston Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022   Leonor R. Fuller Gallery (three-person exhibition), South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
2022   King Street Gallery (three-person exhibition), Montgomery College, Tacoma Park, MD
2021   Scatter Terrain, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
2021   Seeing Past the Future (online exhibition), Exhibition of works by 2019–2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients, pkhouse.org and pkf.org
2021   Page Turner (online exhibition), Odetta Digital | SHIM Art Network
2020   Material World (three-person exhibition), Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2020   Linework: Online Exclusive, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020   Stars of the Gallery II, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020   Intersect Aspen, virtual art fair, Marloe Gallery
2019   Stars of the Gallery: A Group Show, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2019   Hard and Soft (three-person exhibition), University of Cincinnati Blue Ash Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2019   Pegs Pongs Applesauce, LoBo, New York, NY
2019   Startup Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA
2019   Familiar Unreal, curated by Marc Dennis, ARCIS Art Storage, New York, NY
2018   Après Coup: Transforming Trauma into Art, (an exhibition presented in tandem with the conference,
2018   Translating Trauma into Art and Literature) Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York, NY
2018   15 YRS!, ada Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018   Shelter, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2018   Civil Discourse, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017   Prismatic Explorations, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glenns Falls, NY
2017   Five Points Gallery Biennial Exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2017   Unreliable Narrator, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ
2017   Open (C)all: Truth, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2017   Art of Grief, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2017   SHIM Invitational 5, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
2016   Words + Text + Numbers, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO
2016   Elegant Simplicity, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2014   Painting Now, Florence Quarter Gallery, Southwest University of Visual Arts, Tucson, AZ
2012   Greatest Hits, Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2012   The Drawing Annual, Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2012   Art: The Icing on the Cake, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2011   The Collective, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011   Normalcy Bias, Listros Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009   Overlap, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009   What is Beauty — A Desire to Decorate, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2008   Unpainted: New Abstract Painting, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008   New Work, ada Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008   One Moment, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2007   Plaza Art Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2006   100% Centennial Exhibition, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2005   Florence Trust Summer Exhibition, Florence Trust Studios, London, UK
2004   Scope London, featured artist, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, London, UK
2004   AAF Contemporary Art Fair, exhibiting with Paul Kopeikin Gallery, New York, NY
2004   17th Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2004   Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003   Introductory Group Exhibit, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2002   Gallery Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001   The Big Show, Dwelling Series, Chicago, IL
2001   Chicago Women Artists, Gallery on Lake Judith Racht, Chicago, IL
2001   Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001   Summer Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000   Pilsen East Artists’ Open House, Chicago, IL
1999   Pilsen East Artists’ Open House, Chicago, IL
1999   Jacqueline Ross Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999   Chicago Artists ‘99, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1997   Latent Exposure, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1997   The Garden Show, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1995   Ecstasy, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995   Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Scholarship Exhibition, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
1994   Midway Graduate Student Exhibition, Midway Studios, University of Chicago
1993   Young and Local Alumni Show, Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1992   First Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, Skibo Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1992   Figure to Form to Image, Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1991   Exhibition of Art in Recovery, Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, Pittsburgh, PA

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2022   Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency, Cuttyhunk, MA
2021   Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency, Ithaca, NY
2020   Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2018   Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant
2017   The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2015   Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Awarded partial scholarship for two-week residency
2013   Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2012   Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2010   Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2009   Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Awarded partial scholarship for four-week residency
2007   Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007   Awarded full fellowship for four week residency and NEA Fellowship to cover travel and expenses.
2007   Non-Representational Award, Plaza Art Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2004–5   Florence Trust, London, UK

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2021   Tulika Bahadur, “It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn: Beds by Stephanie Serpick”, On Art and Aesthetics, February 2021.
2020   “Flinn Gallery Exhibit Opens “Material World” Thursday”, Greenwich Free Press, September 9, 2020.
2020   Ken Borsuk, “Greenwich’s Flinn Gallery offers ‘return to normalcy’ with new exhibit”, Greenwich Time, September 9, 2020.
2019   Alissa Guzman, “From Domestic to Introspective, Highlights From Gowanus Open Studios 2019”, Hyperallergic, October 22, 2019.
2019   Emma Taggart, “Photorealistic Oil Paintings of Empty Beds Capture Feelings of Grief and Isolation”, My Modern Met, November 3, 2019.
2018   Etty Yaniv, “Après Coup: Transforming Trauma into Art”, Art Spiel Blog, April 2018.
2018   Esthetic Lens, “A New Fall, the Paintings of Stephanie Serpick”, estheticlens.com, July 25, 2018
2018   “The Art of Stephanie Serpick”, Ruminate Magazine, Exposure Issue, number 48, Fall 2018
2009   MK Meador. “Recommended,” New City, January 19, 2009.
2005   Josh Tyson. “Stephanie Serpick: New Work,” Time Out Chicago, Issue number 45, January 5-12, 2006, p. 55.
2004   Tracee W. Robertson. “Stephanie Serpick: New Work,” Artl!ies, Number 41, Winter 2003-04, p. 77.
2004   “This is Chicago,” Big Magazine, Number 49, p. 153-157.
2002   New American Paintings,  Number 41. Published by the Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts, Number 41, 2002.
2000   Polanski, Jurek G. “Review, Stephanie Serpick: Tricks and Gifts”, artscope.net
1999   Hawkins, Margaret. “Comic Reliefs,” Chicago Sun-Times, 2 July, p. 52.
1999   Polanski, Jurek G. “Pilsen East Artists’ Open House,” artscope.net.
1999   Wiens, Ann. “Tip of the Week,” New City, 24 June, p. 47.
1997   Ferrara, Annette. “Gallery Seen,” F Newsmagazine, April, p. 20.
1997   Glatt, Cara. “The Seduction of Logic,” Hyde Park Herald, 19 March, p. 8.
1997   Greenberg, Kevin. “HPAC Explores Latent Psychoses,” The Chicago Maroon, 8 April.