Judith Raphael
jraphael2@earthlink.net
 807 West 16th Street  Chicago, Illinois 60608 tel. 312.733.0581
 262 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, New York 11217 cel. 312.375.9321

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012 On the Fly, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
2010 Daughters of Demeter, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 On the Verge, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
2003 Paintings, lyonswiergallery, New York, NY
2002 Paintings and Gouaches, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago. IL
1998 Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

Figurism, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL
2011
Chicago Odyssey - Portraits of Chicago Artists a collaboration with Carole Harmel, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Cover Stories, Printwork Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Printworks Anniversary Show, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, IL
Tethered To My World, The Art Center Highland Park, Curated by Phyllis Bramson
Grand Rapids Art Museum Ox-Bow/GRAM Joint Centennial Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
2008
….Not  Just Aother Pretty Face,  Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.
2007
The Exquisite Snake , Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Relationships, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
The Bookplate Show, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Couples Discourse, Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Mirror Image, ISLIP Museum, Islip, NY
Psyche and Spirit, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2005
Little Rascals: Images of Children in Contemporary Art, Linda Ross Contemporary + Projects, P.F. Gallery, Clawson, MI
Painting the Town Red, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
The 179th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
War and Peace, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Suspended Narratives, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Tony Phillips/ Judith Raphael: Paintings and Pastels, IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
Guest List, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Figures of Invention, The Work Space, New York, NY
2002
Portrait/Self-portrait, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford
The Perception of Appearances: A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Artists to Artists,  Ace Gallery, NY
2001
Snow Globe Invitational, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Reflections, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
Venus, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gesture, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Narrative Sampler, Lyonswier Packer Gallery, Chicago
2000
Self Portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago
Shake the Coat, Carlson Tower Gallery,  North Park University, Chicago
Figures of Invention,  Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Out of Line, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Mirror on the Millennium: Self Portraits, Quincy Art Museum, IL
Reconfiguring the Heroic, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago
1997
My Little Pretty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Figure Eight, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Women’s History Month, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
1996
Silent Spaces, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Prodigal Daughter, Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
1994
Home Girls, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, curator Susanna Coffey
What Are the Signs?, The Peace Museum, Chicago
The Re-Invention of Classicism, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1993
State of the Art 1993: A Biennial National Watercolor Invitational, Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL
Goodbye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View the Family in Crisis, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1991
Artist’s Books, Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York
The Symbolic Field, Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater, MA
Chicago Art Today, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO
Environmental Figuration, Illinois State Museum, Lockport Gallery, Lockport, IL
1990
The Chicago Show, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Midwest Invitational Drawing Exhibit, McClean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
1989
Partners in Purchase, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago
1988
Summer, Ruth Siegel, Ltd. Gallery, New York
1987
Works on Paper, Struve Gallery, Chicago
1986
The Monumental Image, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1985
Contemporary American Still Life, Frumkin/Struve Gallery, Chicago
1+1=2, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
Shadows, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1984
Group Exhibition, Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois, DeKalb, IL
 The Object Revitalized, Payne Art Center, Oshkosh, WI

Publications

2010
Phyllis Bramson's Painters at the Art Center in Highland Park, Chicago Magazine 9/7/10 in Chicago Art News , Robin Dluzen
Grand Rapids Art Museum and Oxbow mark their Centennial year Together, Katie Prior/ On the Town
Judith Raphael solo exhibition at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago Art Examiner: Darrell Roberts examiner.com
2006

Mirror Image, Islip Art Museum catalogue,  Cover Illustration
couples discourse, Palmer Museum of Art catalogue, essays pps.45, 116, Illus. p.117
2005
Hawkins, Margaret. Strong girl subjects ‘On the Verge’ of growing up, Chicago Sun-Times, March 25
Hello Beautiful, Edward Lifson interview with Margaret Hawkins, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, April 10
Artner, Alan. Judith Raphael, Chicago Tribune, Friday, March 18
2004
179th Annual National Academy of Design  catalogue p. 105 Illustration
2003
Johnson, Ken. The 179th Annual National Academy of Design Museum, The New York Times, Art in Review, Friday, May 14, p. B28
Berlind, Robert. Judith Raphael at Lyonswier, Art in America, December, p. 109-110
Art Calendar, The New York Sun, May 13, p. 18
Rodriguez, Bill. Dream Weavers, The Providence Phoenix, October 21, arts, p. 10
Norris, Doug. URI Show Ranges From the Surreal to the Sublime, South County Independent- North East Independent, Arts and Living, C2-C3, October 23
2002
Frankel, David. Artists to Artists, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, illustrations, p. 138- 139
Hawkins, Margaret. Gallery Glance: Judith Raphael, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago Sun-Times, April 5
Artner, Alan. Girls Being Free: Judith Raphael’s art breaks with stereotypes, Chicago Tribune,
April 5, Section 7, page 27
The Perception of Appearances: A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing, catalogue, Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Artists to Artists, catalogue, Ace Gallery, NY
New American Paintings, No. 41, Open Studios Press
2000
Hawkins, Margaret,  Drawings on DisplayChicago Sun-Times, May 3,  Showcase, page 52
Artner, Alan,  It’s Taken 15 Years, but Exhibit is Top Drawer, Chicago Tribune, May 4, sec.5, page 2
1998
Buchholz, Barbara B, Gallery Watch: Judith Raphael, Chicago Tribune, April 10
1997
Artner, Alan,  Innocence LostChicago Tribune, June 3, Illustration page 1
New American Paintings, No.11, The Open Studios Press, page 82-83
1996
Buchholz, Barbara B, Judith Raphael’s Figure Painting Explore Relationships, Chicago Tribune, June 14, Gallery Scene
Becker, Carol, Zones of Contention, State University of New York Press, page 192, 198, 199, Illustration 205, 206
1995
Rockford College Art Gallery, The Prodigal Daughter, essay by Carol Becker, Illustration,
The Gift

1993
Atterberry, Giselle, Subconscious at Work in Art at Parkland, Champaign Urbana News-Gazette, Feb. 21, page E3
Unger, Miles, Spotlight: All in the Family, Art New England, Dec/Jan.
1992
Senay, Elaine, Family in Crisis: Artists’ Fodder, Boston Sunday Globe,West
Weekly, Oct. 11, Image page1
Carlock, Marty,  Artists Examine the Family in Crisis at DeCordovaWayland/Weston Town Crier, Oct. 8,  Illustration page 17
Temin, Christine, At DeCordova, A Piercing Look into Family Secrets, The Boston Globe,
Sept. 25, Art, page 40
1991
Stonitsch, Lonnette M,  Environmental Figuration, New Art Examiner, April, page36
McCracken, David, Gallery Scene, Chicago Tribune, April 12, sec. 7, Illustration  page 68
Foerstner, Abigail, Judith Raphael Paints Psychological Hall of Mirrors, Chicago Tribune, May 5, sec. 6, page 4, w/ illustration
Muster, Michael, Judith Raphael, New Art Examiner, Sept., page 39, 40
Capasso, Nicholas, De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Goodbye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View the Family in Crisis, Lincoln, Ma, page 32, Illustration page 33
1990

Blinderman, Barry,  Illinois State Museum, Environmental Figuration, Bloomington, Il, page 10, 11 Illustration page 24

HONORS & AWARDS

2004
Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize, The National Academy Museum, 179th Annual Invitational, New York, NY
Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Workshop Fellowship, N A Museum & School, New York, NY
2002
Illinois Arts Council Finalist Grant
1999
Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy
1998
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Alma B.C. Schapiro Residency Fellowship
1994-95
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Fellowship
1992-93
Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship
1990
Illinois Arts Council Grant
1987-90
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Resident Fellowship
1987
Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, California Resident Fellowship
Illinois Arts Council Grant
1986
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Resident Scholarship
Springfield Museum Prize, Springfield, MO
1984
Illinois Arts Council Purchase Grant

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection, Chicago, IL
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit , MI
Aramark Corporation, Chicago
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
New State Library, Springfield, IL
Continental Bank of Chicago, Chicago
AT&T, Chicago
St. Xavier College, Chicago
Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago
National Security Bank of Los Angeles, CA
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PA
Hospital Corporation of America.
Chemical Bank, NY

TEACHING

1980-02 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist

VISITING ARTIST / PANELIST/ JURIST

2008
Vermont  Studio Center , Johnston Vermont
2007
Anderson Ranch, Snow Mass, CO  Painting Intensive
2005
Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI 2001,1999,1997
1997
Panel, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Face to Face: Portraits of the Self by Four Women Artists
1995
S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Purchase, NY
1994
Jurist: Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
University of Indiana, Gary, IN
1992
University of Connecticut, Storrs
1991
College Arts Association Panel, Image of Abuse, Washington, D.C.
1990
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1987
University of Iowa, Iowa City
1986
University of Chicago, Chicago



 

 

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