LINDA LEWIS KRAMER

 

EDUCATION:

1981 M.F.A. School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois

1959 B.A. Scripps College, Claremont, California

 

GALLERIES:

2005-2010 Corbett vs Dempsey Gallery, Chicago Illinois

1999-2016 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1989-1991 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1973-1980 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1972 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

 

ART PROGRAMS:

1980 - Director for “Art After 5”program at Evanston Art Center, Evanson , Illinois

2013 Director for “70+ Chicago Visual Artist Oral Archive “ housed at the Ryerson

Burnham Libraries at the Chicago Art Institute

 

EXHIBITIONS:

2018  " New to Mia  Art From Chicago" ,  MInneapolis

"Linda Kramer" at the Ed Paschke Art Center. Chicago, Illinois

2016  "The Illiad" collaboration with  Carol Harmel, Printworks Gallery, Chicago,  Illinois

2015  "Return of the Exquisite Corpse" Printworks Gallery, Chicago,Illinois  

2015  " Women Artists  "1940-1960" Riverfront Museum, Peoria Illinois

2014   “Inner Sight / Insight: Driven to Dare” Group Show, Governor’s State University, University Park, Illinois

2014“Collaborations II” Group Show, Printworks Gallery, Chciago, Illinois

2013“Linda Kramer, Retrospective” Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois

2012“Face Forward” The Art of the Self Portrait, Printworks Gallery, Chicago Illinois

“Figurism,” Illinois State Museum” Chicago, Illinois

2011 “Portraits of Chicago Artists” a collaboration with Carol Harmel ,Printworks Gallery,

Chicago, Illinois

“Cover Stories ” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2009 “Stray Flowers” Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago , Illinois

2008 “Linda Kramer”Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2007 “Exquisite Snake” Block Museum” Evanston, Ilinois

2006 “Full Frontal” Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, Chicago,Illinois

“ Bookplates” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2005 “Atomically Correct Woman” Corbett vs Dempsey Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“National Biennial Watercolor Invitational” Parkland Art Gallery,

Champaign, Illinois and Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, Illinois

2004 “The Artist as Collector” Northern Indiana Arts Association ,Munster Indiana

2003 “Linda Kramer, China Series”works on paper. Evanston Arts Council , Noyes

Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, Illinois

2001 “Through The Artists Eye” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park , Illinois

“Black and White” Jean Albino Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“Face Off” Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

“Me, Myself and I” Barrington Art Center, Barrington, Illinois

2000 “Selections From Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection”

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina

“Artists of the New Millennium”Rockford Art Museum, Rockford , Illinois

“Pages” Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

“Self Portraits 2000”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1999 “Linda Kramer Retrospective”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

“Cows on Parade” Chicago, Illinois

1998 “Pier Walk 1998-International Scultpure”, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

1997 “Pier Walk 1997,” Chicago, Illinois

“The Artist and the Urban Environment” Art Gallery of Slovenj, Gradec, Slovania

1996 “Self-Portraits”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1996 “Joy.” 900 N. Franklin, Chicago, Illinois

1995 Group Show, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Group Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1994 “Pool,” Installation, Franklin Square Galery, Chicago, Illinois

1993 “Luminous Light,” Installation, Tough Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“Solo American, A Delicate Balance,” Linda Kramer installation at Loyola

University Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1992 “New Horizons in Art” Chicago, Illinois, Juried Show

“Flora” Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois Juried Show

“Amalgamations” School of the Art Institute, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois

“Landscapes” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“From America’s Studio-Drawing New Conclusions” curated by James Yood,

Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois

1991 “Spirited Visions, Portraits of Chicago Artists” by Patty Carroll, State of Illinois Art

Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“Solo American,” Installation, Franklin Square Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1990 “Still Light, “ Installation, Octagon Gallery - Evanston Art Center

Invitational - Evanston, Illinois

1989 “Linda Kramer,” Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“Group Invitational,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1987 “Chicago Contemporary Sculpture,” CAGE Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

“New Art Forms,” Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

“Frida y Diego,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“Contemporary Ceramics,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois

1986 “Her Infinite Variety,” Sculpture Invitational, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

“Materials and Metaphor,” National Ceramic Sculpture Invitational, Chicago Cultural

Center, Chicago, Illinois

1985 “Survey,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

“Egypt,” Linda Kramer at Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1984 “Six Nuclear Cultures,” Chicago Sculpture International Mile 3 Art Expo, Navy Pier,

Chicago, Illinois

“80th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Instutute of Chicago, Levy

Fund Prize,Chicago, Illinois

“Linda Kramer,” Lawton Gallery Invitational, University of Green Bay, Wisconsin

“Alternative Spaces, a History of Chicago,” Museum of Contemporary Art,

Chicago, Illinois

“Scripps College Invitational, International Ceramics,” Claremont, California

“Linda Kramer,” Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona

1983 “Energy Field,” Chicago Sculpture International, Mile 2, Art Expo, Navy Pier,

Chicago, Illinois

“Linda Kramer,” Reicher Gallery, Barat College,Invitional, Lake Forest, Illinois

“Eleven Chicago Artists,” The Museum of Contemporary Art and N.A.M.E. Gallery,

Educational Outreach Program, Chicago, Illinois

1982 “Current Energy,” Linda Kramer, Columbia College, Invitional,Chicago, Illinois

“Fire and Water,” Linda Kramer, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Invitional

Chicago, Illinois

“Magic Mystery Tour,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Invitional,Barnsdall Park,

Los Angeles, California

“Survey of Illinois Clay,” Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois

1980 “78th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago,

Arts and Riverwoods Award, Chicago, Illinois

“Illinois State Museum Invitational,” Painting and Sculpture, Sprigfield, Illiinois

1978 “Painting and Sculpture Today 1978 ,” Contemporary Art Society of The Indianapolis

Museum of Art, Indiana

“7 x 9,” N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illionis

“American Chairs” Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan,Wisconsin

“Chicago Self Portraits” Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1977 “Linda Kramer,” Park Forest Art Center, Invitional, Park Forest, Illinois

“76th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago,

Eisendrath Prize , Chicago , Illinois

“Contemporary Chicago Sculpture,” Invitational,Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan

1980 “Annual Show,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1973 “Ceramics Invitational,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

“New Horizons in Art,” Chicago, Illinois

1969 “72 Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

1958 “Linda (Lewis) Kramer,” Invitational,La Jolla, California

 

TEACHING:

2015   Making Their Mark, Panel,  Bradley  University, Peoria, Illinois

2010-1013 70+Chicago Visual Artists Oral History Archives , Director, Housed at the Ryerson

Burnham Library , Chicago Art Institute Archives. Chicago, Illinois

1997 Master Class for Professionals at Urban Gateways, Chicago, IIlinois

1995 Graduate Critiques - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago ,Illinois

1993 Site specific installations, workshop — Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

1986 Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois

1984 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Guest Speaker, Chicago, Illinois

University of Wisconsin, Guest Speaker,Green Bay, Wisconsin

1983 “4th Midwest Women’s Art Conference,” Guest Speaker,Lake Geneva, Illinois

Barat College, Guest Speaker,Lake Forest, Illinois

1981 Columbia College, Guest Speaker, Chicago, Illinois

1980-1981 Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, Illinois

1979 Artist in Residence, Department of Creative Arts, Purdue University, West LaFayette,

Indiana

 

PUBLICATIONS

2000 “Art Scene Chicago 2000.” Ivy Sundell. Crow Woods Publishing, Evanston ,Illinois

Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection. Mint Museum of Craft and Design. 2000

Charlotte, NC

1999 “Linda Kramer Retrospective” catelogue,Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

1992 “From America’s Studio-Drawing New Conclusions” The School of the Art Institute of

Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, Curated by James Yood

1991 “Spiritual Visions,” Portraits of Chicago Artists by Patty Carroll, text by James Yood,

University of Chicago Press, 1991, Chicago Illinois

1989 “The Chicago Art Review,” Les Crantz,American References, Inc, Chicago, Ilinois

1988 “Artemisia at 15 Years,” catalogue, Chicago, Illinois

“Portraits of Artists,” Chicago Magazine, November 1988, Chicago, Illinois

1987 “Natural and Cultural Energy,” Leonardo, 1987

1986 “Material and Metaphor: Contemporary American Ceramic Sculpture” Catelogue, Chicago

Office of Fine Arts at Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

1984 “Women as Mythmakers Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth Century Women,” by Estella

Laueter, University of Indiana Press , 1984 , Bloomington Indiana

“Linda Kramer,” Profile by Janet Koplos, American Ceramics ,Magazine Winter Issue

“Artemisia Ten Years, 1973-1983,” catelogue,Artemisia Gallery, Chicago Illinois

“Chicago and Vicinity, Painting and Sculpture,” catelogue, The Art Institute of Chicago,

Illinois

“Alternative Spaces, A History in Chicago,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,

“Chicago Enjoys Its Own Eclecticism,” by David Elliot, Art News, May 1982

“Survey of Illinois Clay,” Lake View Museum for Arts and Sciences, catalogue,Illinois

“Chicago Sculpture International Mile 3,” Navy Pier, May 1984, catalogue Chicago, Illinois

1983 “Chicago Sculpture International Mile 2,” Navy Pier, May 1984, catalogue, Chicago, Illinois

1981 “Connections Exposure,” 1981, Society for Phoographic Education Magazine

1980 “Chicago and Vicinity, Painting and Sculpture, Catelogue,The Art Institute of Chicago,

Chicago, Illinois

1979 “American Chairs: Form, Function, and Fantasy,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center,

Sheboygan, Wisconsin, catalogue

1977 “Chicago and Vicinity, Painting and Sculpture,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois,

catalogue

“Box Art, Assemblage and Construction,” Dona A. Meilach, book

 

GRANTS:

1996 Illinois Arts Council Grant, Chicago, Illinois

1986 Artists Fellow, Dorland Mountain Colony for Creative Arts, Temecula, California

1984 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant

1989 Karolyi Foundation for artists - Vence, France

 

COLLECTIONS :

Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pennsylvania  Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illionis

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Purdue University - West LaFayette, Indiana

Ruth Horwich, Chicago, Illinois

Alan Chasonoff ceramic collection at 20th Century Art at the Mint Museum of Art,

Charlotte, North Carolina

Francis and June Spiezer collection at the Rockford Art Museum , Rockford, Ilinois

State of Illinois Museum, Springfield , Illinois

Many private collections in Chicago, New York and California