M A R Y E L L E N C R O T E A U
Abbreviated CV
Born: 1950, Chicago, IL
Deceased: 2019, Chicago, IL
Education 1998, MFA, Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts
1990, BFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
1986-88, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Curator: 2004 - 2017: Art On Armitage window gallery, www.artonarmitage.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 "Mary Ellen Croteau," Fullerton Art Museum, Fullerton, CA
"Endless Columns," Galleria Jänis, Turku, Finland
2015 "Plastic World," Harold Washington Library, Chicago
2014 "Plastic World," Yellow Springs Arts Council Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH
2013 “Plastic World,” Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2011 “Plastic World,” Harrington Mill Studios, Long Eaton, Nottingham, England
2009 “Man Made,” FGCU Art Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
2008 "Man Made," StartArt, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007 “Bag World,” WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 “A Measure of Consumption,” Chun Chun Hee, Seoul, Korea
2004 “War Games,” WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “Art Herstory,” Olin Gallery, Roanoke University, Salem, VA
2002 “New Political Figures,” Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL (two person)
2001 “Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance,” Whittenberg University, Springfield, OH
2000 “American Landscapes,” Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance,” Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1999 “Mercy,” WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL(Catalog)
1998 “Musee de Nouvelle Renaissance,” Feral Art, Brooklyn, NY
1996 “War Memorial,” Space Lab, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1995 “Good Girls and Bad,” Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
1994 “Icons, Idols and Blasphemies,” UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
“Latex Fantasies,” No. 10 00 22, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 “Slight Alterations,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 "Culture Bridge/Kulturbrücke 2018,” Sharpenberg Gallery, DANK Haus, Chicago
“[Exhibit name],” Grenier a Sel, Honfleur, France.
2017 "Umhverfing/Shapeshifting," Hjalteyri, Eyjafjörđur, Iceland
"Curators Create," Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago
"Waste Not, Want Not," Northeastern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago
2016 ZIA Gallery, Winnetka IL
"Dystopian Creations," Water Street Studios, Batavia IL (two person)
"Resurrection" Aron Packer Projects at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
"Precious Little," Harrington Mill Studio, Nottingham UK and Art Athina, Athens, Greece
2015 "Embarrassment of Riches" Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL
OpenART Biennial, Örebro Sweden
"Obsession," Prairie State College, Chicago Heights IL (three person)
2014 "Not Quite Lysistrata," Art Athina Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
2013 “Fragile Relations,” Illinois State Museum, Springfield
“OpenART,” Örebro, Sweden
“Portfolio 2013” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
2012 “Fragile Relations: Art & Environment” Illinois State Museum, Chicago
“The Darkness of Light,” Keum San Gallery, Seoul, Korea
“Chicago’s 12” Zhou B Art Center and Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL
2011 “7th International Self-Portrait Show” 33 Contemporary, Chicago, IL (Award of Excellence)
“Green Show,” Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL (First Place)
“Supermarket 2011” Kulturhuset, Stockholm Sweden
2010 “Green” and “Green Too,” Annemarie Garden, Dowell, MD (Juror’s Choice Award)
2009 “Human/Nature:” Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
2008 “It’s Not Easy,” Exit Art, New York, NY
2004 “Red Alert! War, Peace and Civil Liberties,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2001 “Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium ” Illinois State Museum, Springfield,IL
1999 “Illinois Women Artists” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
“...And Everything Nice,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1997 “C.A.A. New York Area MFA Exhibition,” Hunter College Gallery, NYC
1996 “Mixing Messages,” Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NYC
1995 “Good Girls, Bad Women,” The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
“International Exchange Exhibition” Art Gallery Woong, Seoul, Korea (CAIP Travel Grant award)
1994 “The Pilgrimage Show,” SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy
“No More Nice Girls,” ABC No Rio Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “Latina/Americana:Tierra Fertil,” Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia
"1920: The Subtlety of Subversion" Exit Art, New York, NY
1992 “Berlin 37 Raume: Miss-ing,” Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
Selected Publications and Reviews
CLOSE will also be featured in an upcoming National Geographic travel magazine from Australia and New Zealand. [citation needed]
Medusa Slaying Perseus (2000) is reproduced in a new high school Latin textbook "Perisylum in Belgium from Plantyn Publishers. [citation needed]
2017 “Listabræðsla á heimsenda,” Kjarninn, Iceland
2017 “Creative Extreme,” TOPP publications, frechverlag GmbH, Stuttgart Germany (pp 64-67)
2016 Plastic World: Art and Environment - Mary Ellen Croteau Blurb Press (catalog)
2015 Ars Legendi: Peristylium B, HS Latin textbook, Plantyn Publishers, Belgium (illustration)
OpenART Magazine, Örebro Sweden p 47(interview, reproduction)
ITCH #14: Value, on-line journal, Cape Town, So. Africa (www.itch.co.za)
2014 Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, De Gruyter Press, Berlin. v8 p1146-47, colorplate 15
Art Without Waste: 500 Upcycled and Earth Friendly Designs by Patty K. Wongpakdee, Rockport Publishers (p?)
2013 Wild Art, Phaidon Press, London. p.250-251
2012 Chicago Where magazine, October 2012 (cover illustration)
UPPERCASE Magazine #15, Oct - Dec 2012, Calgary AB Canada
Avianca en Revista, May 2012 (Avianca Airline on-board magazine) Bogotá, Colombia
2011 Science & Vie Découvertes, December 2011, Mondadori publishers, France
New City, Chicago, IL May 16 (review)
Women Artist’s Datebook 2012, and 2012 Peace Calendar, Syracuse Cultural Workers
2010 Redding Record Searchlight, Redding CA (streaming video interview)
2009 Chicago Tribune, Art Reviews, Oct 16 (interview)
News-Press, Ft. Myers/Southwest Florida, Jan 9 (review)
2008 Morganbladid, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 13 (review)
2007 The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, Dr. Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, St. Martin’s Press/
Manchester U. Press (cover illustration)
2006 Religion and the Arts, vol 10-2, Brill Publishers, Boston (illustration, article)
2005 The Daily Californian, Berkeley, CA, October 28 (review)
2004 New City, v.19 no. 856, October 28 (cover image)
2003 Women Artists Date Book 2003, Syracuse Cultural Workers
2002 Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, August 9
2001 Rockford Register Star, April 15
2000 The State Journal-Register, Springfield, IL, November 16
American Artist, February
1999 Ms. Magazine, v.IX, no.3, April/May (reproduction)
1998 On The Issues, v.VII, no.2, Spring(cover illustration)
1997 Suffragettes to She-Devils, Liz McQuiston: Phaidon Press, London
1996 The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, March 26 (interview)
1995 DV, Reykjavik, ICELAND (review, Olafur Engilbertsson)
1994 Village VOICE, New York, NY, March 29 (“Art In Brief,” Kim Levin)
1993 New York TimesArt in Review, April 16(review, Holland Cotter)
Dialogue, Jan/Feb 1993 (review, Deborah Duez Donato)
1992 AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, v.10, no.2 (interview, Victor Margolin)
1991 Artpaper, September (cover illustration)
Selected Guest Lectures
2015 Centre Bang, Chicoutimi, Quebec Canada
2014 Links Hall, Chicago
2012 Illinois State Museum, Chicago
2011 Waubansee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
Kipling Elementary, Chicago Public Schools (visiting artist)
2010 Art Hop, Redding, CA
2009 Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
2008 WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
2006 Intuit Gallery, Chicago, IL
Indiana University, Kokomo, IN
2005 Columbia College, Chicago,IL
WLUW “Live from the Heartland”, Evanston, IL
2003 Roanoke College, Salem, VA
2001 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1997 Women’s Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, NYC
1996 Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
1995 Nylistasafnid - The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
1994 Accademia de Belle Arte, Florence, Italy
1993 Colorado University, Boulder, CO
1992 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL