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Group Exhibitions

2008 The Artist Project, Artropolis, the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL.

2007 RavensHOOD: Art From the Corridor, Images Gallery Co-operative, Chicago, IL.

2007 Art World Digest Magazine, a curated exhibition in print.

2006 The Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA.

2006 The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
2006 18th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial. Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL.
2006 Parks Exhibition Center, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
2006 Flattened: Contemporary Abstraction, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL.
2005 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
2005 Painting's Edge, Parks Exhibition Center, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
2004 The 17th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2003 Painting’s Edge, Parks Exhibition Center, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
2002 Ravenswood Chocolate Factory Art Show, Ravenswood Chocolate Factory, Chicago, IL.
1999 Curator’s Choice, Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL.
1998 65th Stateline Vicinity Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL.
1996 Profiles of Emerging Chicago Artists, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1996 Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Competition, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville,TN.
1994 The Twenty-first Annual Juried Exhibition, The Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA.
1993 39th Annual Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA. Juried by Elizabeth Smith.

 

Solo and 2 Person Exhibitions

2004 New Paintings, Mona’s, Brighton, MI.
2003 “Is it Happening?,” with Elizabeth Tyson, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL.
2001 Phenomena, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1998 Silver Cloud, Chicago, IL.
1994 Recent Paintings and Other Work, The Grit, Athens, GA.

 

Residencies and Workshops

2006 Painting’s Edge, Intensive Painting Workshop. Visiting Artists/Critics included Roberta Smith, Jerry Saltz, Mary Heilman, Kerry James Marshall, and Roland Reiss. IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.

2005 Painting’s Edge, Intensive Painting Workshop. Visiting Artists included Robert Storr, Pia Fries, Shahzia Sikander, Dave Hickey, and Roland Reiss. IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.

2004 Painting’s Edge, Intensive Painting Workshop. Visiting Artists included Elizabeth Murray, Laura Owens, Bruce Pearson, Terry Winters, and Roland Reiss. IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.

2003 Painting’s Edge, Intensive Painting Workshop. Visiting Artists included Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Lydia Dona, Monique Prieto, and Roland Reiss. IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.

2000 Advanced Painting Summer Institute, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

 

Education

MFA Painting and Drawing. University of Georgia, School of Art, Athens, GA.
BFA Painting and Drawing. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
BA History. Kenyon College, Gambier, OH.

 

Slide Registries and Memberships

Artist's Space, New York, NY 2007-present.

White Columns, New York, 2004-2007.

Images Gallery Co-operative, Chicago, IL.

Chicago Artist’s Coalition, Chicago, IL. 1995-present.

 

Awards and Honors

2006  $1000 Juror's Award, 2nd Place,18th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial. Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL.

2000  Merit Scholarship, Advanced Painting Summer Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,    Chicago,IL.

President’s Purchase Award, Sixth Sense: Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.

Ralf Henrickson Award for overall achievement in painting, Department of Art, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

 

Bibliography

Katherine Drake Chial: A New Way of Seeing, Artist Profile on AnswersTV.com, Produced by Sharon Barrett, published May 10, 2006.

http://www.answerstv.com/ArtAnswers/VideoPortal.html?category=all&searchTerm=Keyword.

Lauren Weinberg ,"Flattened," Review, Time Out Chicago, Art & Design, March 23, 2006, photo, p. 63.

Kristen Schiavone, " Flattened", Daily Northwestern, Paint thE-Town: The Daily's Weekend, February 24, 2006.

Myrna Petlicki, " A 'Flattened' Look at Abstract Art", The Evanston Review, February 23, 2006, p. B1.

Margaret Hawkins , "Diverse Cultures Meet in Williams' Evanston Exhibit," The Chicago Sun-Times, Weekend, March 24, 2006, p. 16.

Fred Camper, "Consider the Alternatives," The Chicago Reader, Section One, October 19, 2001, pp. 28-9.

Janell Hobson, "Sixth Sense Exhibit Features Graduates," The Red and the Black, June 4, 1993, p. 4.