JUDITH RAPHAEL judithraphaelart@gmail.com
807 West 16th Street Chicago, Illinois 60608 tel. 312 . 733 . 0581
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Girls' World Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago IL
2018 Judith Raphael The Freeark Gallery, North Park University, Chicago IL
2016 Twosome The Freeark Gallery, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL, with Tony Phillips
2015 Coming into Bloom, Frick Center, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
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
2018 Considering the Circle, curated by Carole Harmel, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2016 Another Iliad, a collaboration with Carole Harmel, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2015-6 Return of the Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2014 A City to Wear: The Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, Illinois
Collaborations II: Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2012-3 Face Forward: The Art of the Self-portrait, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Figurism, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Chicago Odyssey, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
His and Hers, Beverly Shores Art Gallery, Beverly Shores, Indiana
2010 Printworks Anniversary Show, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, Illinois
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, Michigan
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
1983 Survey of Watercolors, Frumkin/Struve Gallery, Chicago
Fans, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1980 Watercolor, Frumkin/Struve Gallery, Chicago
1979 The Grid Show, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1978 Seven By Nine Show, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1977 Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
The Flower Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1962 First Biennial of Prints, Drawings and Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Mission at Tenth, Calif. Inst. of Integral Studies, vol. 8, Winter 2019/Spring 2020, Illusts, pp.25-29
2019 Evolvings, Paintings of Judith Raphael, 60 page catalogue of paintings with essay by Carol Becker
2018 Considering the Circle, (exhib. cat. curated by Carole Harmel) Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, p.43, Illust.p.42
2010 Judith Raphael solo exhibition at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago Art Examiner: Darrell Roberts, examiner.com
Stapleton, Doug, Djudith Raphael: Daughters of Demeter, Focus 4, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, pp. 1 & 2, Illust. pp. 1 & 2
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 Display, Chicago 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 Lost, Chicago 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 DeCordova, Wayland/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
1983 MacNamara, Peggy, Watercolors, New Art Examiner, March, page 15
Moser, Charlotte, Watercolor Painters Work Deliberately to Create and Refine Personal Images, Chicago Sun Times, Feb. 13,
“show” page 21
Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI, Contemporary Images in Watercolor, Introduction by Bev Harrington,
Illustration No. 9, a.k.a. Judith Raphael.
Landwehr, William, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, Watercolor USA, Illus, page 9
1982 Schultz, Franz, Watercolor Washes Back in Frumkin Struve Exhibit, Chicago Sun Times, page 21
1980 Artner, Alan G, Wondrous Watercolors from Known and Unknowns, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 14, sec.1 page 13
Frumkin/Struve, Watercolors, Introduction by William Struve, Illustration page 17 a.k.a. Judith Raphael
1979 Artner, Alan G, The Grid, Chicago Tribune, May 25, sec. 3, page 12
HONORS & AWARDS
2004 Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize, The National Academy Museum, 179th Annual Invitational
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 ArtsCouncil Grant
1986 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Resident Scholarship
Springfield Museum Prize, Springfield, MO
1984 Illinois Arts Council Purchase Grant
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
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 EXPERIENCE
1980-02 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist
1969-00 Associate Professor in Painting, Drawing and Art History, Moraine Valley Community
College, Palos Hills, IL
VISITING ARTIST / PANELIST/ JURIST
2012 Texas Northern University, Denton, TX.
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
1984 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
State University of New York, Purchase, NY
1983 Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
1982 University of Alaska, Fairbanks
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI
1979 Vincennes University Community College, Vincennes, IN
1978 St. Johns University, Collegeville, MN
1977 University of Wisconsin, Riverfalls, WI
EDUCATION
1962 Master of Arts, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1960 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
CURATED
2001 58th Annual salon show, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN, Sept. 9 - Nov. 7
1979 Narrative Imagery, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Feb. 6 - March 9