EDUCATION
2000-2002 MFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1998-2000 BFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1996-1998 Two years of BFA, Painting/Drawing/Printmaking, School of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade
1991-1995 Visual Communication, Belgrade High School of Design
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, Berea, KY
2019 Barbara A. Kieft Accelerator ArtSpace, Elmhurst, IL
2018 Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
2012 Elon West Gallery, Elon University, Elon, NC
2012 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Fl
2011 Porter Butts Gallery, Union Galleries, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2011 Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
2010 Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2009 University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
2003 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITION
2020 Evanston Art Center, Evanstan, IL
2020 Membranes of Perceptions, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL
2014 Renaissance, Re-visited, The South Side Community Art Center, Chicago IL
2011 22nd Drawing Show, Residue, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA
2011 Gadis Geeslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
2009 Trace/Memory, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2008 Wall-to-Wall, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2007 7th Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Connie Butler, Chief Curator of Prints & Drawings, MoMA
2005 Drawn to Drawing, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 SOFA Chicago 2003, Chicago, IL
2002 Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
2002 New Talent 2, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
2002 MFA Show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002 1+1+1=1, Open End Art, Chicago, IL
2000 Spectrum of Solutions, A.T. Kearney, Chicago, IL
2000 Purveyors of Fine Art, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
2000 New Talent I, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
2023 Physics Fundamentals, Conversation on Excellence with Jim Gates, Brown University, RI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WMbbEu3G2o
2023 Lecture and Workshop, STEM Education Institute at UMass Amherst, MA
2023/24 Invited Artist Lecturer in Roberto Zenit’s ENGN 1350: Art Fluid Engineering Class, Brown University, RI
2023 Multiple workshop at the 2023 APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics, (CUWiP), Brown University, RI
2022 Chicago Art Collective of Iranian artists and scholars, IL
2020 Evanston Art Center, IL
2020 Membranes of Perceptions, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL
2019 Elmhurst College, IL
2018 Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
2017 SAIC, Contemporary Practices
2012 Elon University, Elon, NC
2010 Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2008 Self-portrait Through the Activity of Drawing, Harold Washington College, Chicago
2008 Visiting Artist Talk and Workshop, Harold Washington College, Chicago
2000 Contemporary Art, Student Cultural Center, Belgrade
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2012 Book of Marks, Jelena Berenc
2007 Art in America, June/July 2007, "Girls, Girls, Girls," by Carey Lovelace, pgs. 87 - 94
2003 Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction, by James Elkins, Publisher: Routledge NY
2002 Quarter After Eight, A Journal of Prose and Commentary, Volume 9, Publisher: Ingram Periodicals, Inc., La Vergne, TN
2003 SOFA Chicago 2003, The Tenth Annual International, Exposition of Sculpture Object & Functional Art Published by Expressions of Culture, Inc., Chicago, IL
AWARDS
2020 3Arts Grant
2015 Outstanding Adjunct Award, Harold Washington College
2002 Gelman Graduate Fellowship, for the best painter
2002 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fellowship
2000 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Honorable Mention
1998 Zepter Scholarship
1997 Vera Lubarda Award
1997 Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts Award for the Best Drawing