S L I V I N S K I
Lucy Slivinski, is a critically acclaimed sculptor and installation artist based in Chicago. Slivinski holds an MFA, from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA, from Northern Illinois University. She has utilized recycled materials in her practice for over 30 years. In 2018, and again in 2019, Slivinski was invited to be artist in residence at EXPO CHICAGO, where she created a large-scale light installation. In 2017, she was the first American to create an installation for the Museo de Bellas Artes, in Havana, Cuba as part of “Arte y Moda.” She has exhibited her work in Miami at Art Basel, Fusion MIA and SCOPE fairs and all over the world having had numerous one person exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Bordeaux, France and Reading, PA to name a few. She has several commissioned public art installations throughout Chicago and abroad, including in 2018, “Phoenix Rising”, in Uptown, and the Logan Skate Park, “Hedgerow”, in Grant Park, “Natural Rhythm”, in Saint Cloud, MN and “Ancestoral Throne,” in Bordeaux, France. Slivinski has also incorporated recycled materials in several collections of sculptural lighting that she has designed and fabricated. In the fall of 2012, CS Interiors Magazine named Slivinski “Best Lighting Designer”, in Chicago. She has work in many private and public collections such as, Capital Investments Collection, Chicago, Illinois, The Longhouse Collection in New York, the City of Chicago, City of Bolingbrook, Illinois and the City of St. Cloud, Minnesota Her work has been written about in Art in America, New York Times, and Sculpture Magazine, Chicago Interiors, and Luxe Magazine.
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EDUCATION
1984 MFA in Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1980 BFA in Fiber, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (SELECTED)
2018 Phoenix Rising, City of Chicago, 50X50 Neighbourhood Arts Project
2014 Reflections on Scott’s Mill, Knoch Knolls Nature Center, Naperville, IL
2013 Spirits Rising, Prudential Plaza, Chicago, Il
2010 Silver Surf Gate, Logan Skate Park, City of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Mammoth, City of Bolingbrook, Bolingbrook, Illinois
2008 Natural Rhythm, Saint Cloud Public Library, Saint Cloud, MN
2007 Natural Order, Installation, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Grace, Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Project, Longwood
University, Farmville, VA
Hedgerow, Allstate and Chicago Public Art: “Artists and Automobiles,”
Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Surge, Bartholomew Recycling Center, Columbus, IN
2005 Bloom, Art Park, Lewiston, New York
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020 The Giving Tree, with Katrin Schnabl, University of Chicago Lab Schools, Chicago, Illinois
2019 Le Mouvement, with Kahil El’Zabar, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Miami Art Basel, N’Namdi Contemporary
2018 Illumination, with Kahil El’Zabar, David Murray, One Eye Shut Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Arte Y Moda 2016, With Cuban Fashion designer Yohannia Cabrera, Museo De Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2015 Elevation, With Artist / composer Kahil El’zabar, Block 37, Chicago, IL
2013 Elevation, Installation with Artist/composer, Kahil El’Zabar, Fusion MIA, Art Basel, Miami, FL
Ancestral Throne, Elevation Project, with Kahil El’Zabar, Blade, Roche De Palmer, Bordeaux, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2019 Heavenly Bodies, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Luminescence, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
NOW! All Together, Gallery 116, St. Charles, Illinois
In There!, Concord 55 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Through the Light of Epiphany, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL
As We Rise, Jeffrey Breslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Amor! 300 S Riverside Plaza Building, Chicago, Illinois
Sizzle! Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
Rebirth, Chicago Academy of Music, Chicago, Illinois
2014 Sanctuary of Illumination, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Soul Touch, Packer/Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Up! Up! 300 S Riverside Plaza Building, Chicago, Illinois
Lightening Field, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
2012 Energy Throne Performance, Art Basel, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL
2010 Celestial Light in the Forest of Love. Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
2009 Inspired Terrain “In the Land of Love, There is No Garbage”, FlatFile Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Lucy Slivinski, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2018 Sweet, Golden, Delicious, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL
Hop, Skip and a Jump, Ari’s Arthouse, Chicago, IL
New Observations, Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, July 18-21, 2018
2016 Gateway, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2015 Gallery Artists, Packer/Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gallery Artists, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. SCOPE, Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL
2014 Throne of a Higher Thought Installation, Fusion MIA, Miami, FL
2013 Art Basel Miami 2013, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 Art Basel Miami, 2012, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
Sculpture Today: New Forces, New Forms, Frederik Miejer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
Energy, The Tree of Life Throne, Guichard Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Messages & Magic, 100years of American Collage and Assemblage, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2008 Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
2007 Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum of Art, Desplaines, Illinois
HotHouse: Expanding the Field of Fiber, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2006 They Got the Stuff, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, New York
AWARDS
2010 Illinois Arts Council Project Award
2009 Americans for the Arts, 2009 Public Art Network Year in Review Award
2008 CAAP Grant, City of Chicago
2006 Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant
MEDIA
2019 Year of Public Art,”Art in Chicago Neighborhoods,” City of Chicago, 2019
Bad at Sports, “Lucy Slivinski’s Heavenly Bodies Hovers over EXPO CHICAGO”, September 19, 2019
Community Connection, “Interview with Lucy Slivinski”, September 5, 2019
ACS Magazine, “Heavenly Bodies, Lucy Slivinski Light Installation,” September, 2019
2018 Uptown Update, “Phoenix Rising Sculpture Dedicated Today”, June 28, 2018
Voyage Chicago, “Meet Lucy Slivinski, in West Side Studio.” August 14, 2018
2017 Rolling Out Magazine, "Gallery Guichard's Featured Artist Turns Scrap Metal into One-of-a-Kind Works,"March 16, 2017
2015 Manderin Quarterly, “Thought Leaders,” Spring 2015
2014 Daily Herald, “Reflections of Scott’s Sawmill,” September 19, 2014
2013 Down and Dirty Radio Show, “Looking Cool!” June 11, 2013
2012 GlobeTrotter Magazine, “Lucy Slivinski,” Winter 2011/2012
Cs Interiors, “Best In Design: Lighting: Lucy Slivinski, Fall 2012
Cs Interiors, “Well Sculpted,” Winter 2012
2011 Luxe National, “Material Girl, Lucy Slivinski,” Style Makers, Winter, 2011
2010 Elle Décor, February, 2010
2009 The New York Times, “Chandeliers, Blazing With Recyclables,” Nov.12, 2009
CS Interiors, “Home Front Design, Bright Lights,” Winter, 2009
2006 Kunstaspekte Internationale, “The Girls Have it!”March 2006-April 2006
Welding Design & Fabrication, “Welding in the Park,” August 27, 2006
Chicago Tribune, “ ‘Hedgerow’, by Lucy Slivinski in Grant Park,” August 4, 2006
WBEZ Public Radio, 848 Show, Chicago, IL, Interview,“Artists and Automobiles,” 6/26/06
ABC Channel 7, 4:30PM News, Interview,“Artists and Automobiles,” 6/20/06
Chicago Sun-Times, “An Exhaustive Effort in Tailpipe Art,” June 21, 2006
2005 Art in America, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC. Solo-Exhibition Review, March, 2005
Kunstbeeld, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC. Solo-Exhibition Review, January, 2005
Vietnam Visual Arts, Lucy Slivinski @ Phyllis Kind, Solo-Exhibition Review, May 5, 2005
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2019 Guest Speaker, Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
2016 Guest Speaker, 10th Annual Sustainable Business & Design Conference,
“Creativity and Sustainability,” Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Guest Speaker, Arte Y Moda 2016, Museo De Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2015 The Art of Reclaim, Workshop, Lecture, Knoch Knolls Nature Center, Naperville, IL
2014 SAIC Judge, Department of Fashion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist in Residence, Erie Museum of Contemporary Art, Erie, PA
2013 Artist in Residence, “Elevation Project,” Roche De Palmer, Bordeaux, France
2010 Artist in Residence, Albright College, Reading, PA
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Longhouse Foundation Collection, NY Longwood University, Farmington, VA
Delta Institute, Chicago City of Chicago, Public Art Collection
City of St. Cloud, MN Art Enterprises / Burton Kanter
Bodine Condominium Corporation Artpark, Lewiston, NY
City of Naperville, IL Christy Webber Landscapes, Chicago, Illinois
Capital Investments, Chicago, Illinois City of Bolingbrook, Illinois
Sandro Miller Collection Lael & Eugenie Johnson Collection
Noil Corporation Jan Petry Collection
Michael Del Piero Stuart Grannen
Bartholomew Recycling Center Chris & Sarah Jilsrud
Cleo Wilson Alan Bolle
Jumaane N’Namdi Mary Bell
Jane Levy Lukas Machinas
Musique de Nuit, Bordeaux, France Tada Nagoya
EDUCATION
1984 MFA in Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1980 BFA in Fiber, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (SELECTED)
2018 Phoenix Rising, City of Chicago, 50X50 Neighbourhood Arts Project
2014 Reflections on Scott’s Mill, Knoch Knolls Nature Center, Naperville, IL
2013 Spirits Rising, Prudential Plaza, Chicago, Il
2010 Silver Surf Gate, Logan Skate Park, City of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Mammoth, City of Bolingbrook, Bolingbrook, Illinois
2008 Natural Rhythm, Saint Cloud Public Library, Saint Cloud, MN
2007 Natural Order, Installation, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Grace, Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Project, Longwood
University, Farmville, VA
Hedgerow, Allstate and Chicago Public Art: “Artists and Automobiles,”
Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Surge, Bartholomew Recycling Center, Columbus, IN
2005 Bloom, Art Park, Lewiston, New York
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020 The Giving Tree, with Katrin Schnabl, University of Chicago Lab Schools, Chicago, Illinois
2019 Le Mouvement, with Kahil El’Zabar, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Miami Art Basel, N’Namdi Contemporary
2018 Illumination, with Kahil El’Zabar, David Murray, One Eye Shut Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Arte Y Moda 2016, With Cuban Fashion designer Yohannia Cabrera, Museo De Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2015 Elevation, With Artist / composer Kahil El’zabar, Block 37, Chicago, IL
2013 Elevation, Installation with Artist/composer, Kahil El’Zabar, Fusion MIA, Art Basel, Miami, FL
Ancestral Throne, Elevation Project, with Kahil El’Zabar, Blade, Roche De Palmer, Bordeaux, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2019 Heavenly Bodies, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Luminescence, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
NOW! All Together, Gallery 116, St. Charles, Illinois
In There!, Concord 55 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Through the Light of Epiphany, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL
As We Rise, Jeffrey Breslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Amor! 300 S Riverside Plaza Building, Chicago, Illinois
Sizzle! Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
Rebirth, Chicago Academy of Music, Chicago, Illinois
2014 Sanctuary of Illumination, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Soul Touch, Packer/Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Up! Up! 300 S Riverside Plaza Building, Chicago, Illinois
Lightening Field, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
2012 Energy Throne Performance, Art Basel, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL
2010 Celestial Light in the Forest of Love. Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
2009 Inspired Terrain “In the Land of Love, There is No Garbage”, FlatFile Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Lucy Slivinski, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2018 Sweet, Golden, Delicious, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL
Hop, Skip and a Jump, Ari’s Arthouse, Chicago, IL
New Observations, Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, July 18-21, 2018
2016 Gateway, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2015 Gallery Artists, Packer/Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gallery Artists, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. SCOPE, Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL
2014 Throne of a Higher Thought Installation, Fusion MIA, Miami, FL
2013 Art Basel Miami 2013, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 Art Basel Miami, 2012, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
Sculpture Today: New Forces, New Forms, Frederik Miejer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
Energy, The Tree of Life Throne, Guichard Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Messages & Magic, 100years of American Collage and Assemblage, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2008 Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
2007 Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum of Art, Desplaines, Illinois
HotHouse: Expanding the Field of Fiber, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2006 They Got the Stuff, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, New York
AWARDS
2010 Illinois Arts Council Project Award
2009 Americans for the Arts, 2009 Public Art Network Year in Review Award
2008 CAAP Grant, City of Chicago
2006 Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant
MEDIA
2019 Year of Public Art,”Art in Chicago Neighborhoods,” City of Chicago, 2019
Bad at Sports, “Lucy Slivinski’s Heavenly Bodies Hovers over EXPO CHICAGO”, September 19, 2019
Community Connection, “Interview with Lucy Slivinski”, September 5, 2019
ACS Magazine, “Heavenly Bodies, Lucy Slivinski Light Installation,” September, 2019
2018 Uptown Update, “Phoenix Rising Sculpture Dedicated Today”, June 28, 2018
Voyage Chicago, “Meet Lucy Slivinski, in West Side Studio.” August 14, 2018
2017 Rolling Out Magazine, "Gallery Guichard's Featured Artist Turns Scrap Metal into One-of-a-Kind Works,"March 16, 2017
2015 Manderin Quarterly, “Thought Leaders,” Spring 2015
2014 Daily Herald, “Reflections of Scott’s Sawmill,” September 19, 2014
2013 Down and Dirty Radio Show, “Looking Cool!” June 11, 2013
2012 GlobeTrotter Magazine, “Lucy Slivinski,” Winter 2011/2012
Cs Interiors, “Best In Design: Lighting: Lucy Slivinski, Fall 2012
Cs Interiors, “Well Sculpted,” Winter 2012
2011 Luxe National, “Material Girl, Lucy Slivinski,” Style Makers, Winter, 2011
2010 Elle Décor, February, 2010
2009 The New York Times, “Chandeliers, Blazing With Recyclables,” Nov.12, 2009
CS Interiors, “Home Front Design, Bright Lights,” Winter, 2009
2006 Kunstaspekte Internationale, “The Girls Have it!”March 2006-April 2006
Welding Design & Fabrication, “Welding in the Park,” August 27, 2006
Chicago Tribune, “ ‘Hedgerow’, by Lucy Slivinski in Grant Park,” August 4, 2006
WBEZ Public Radio, 848 Show, Chicago, IL, Interview,“Artists and Automobiles,” 6/26/06
ABC Channel 7, 4:30PM News, Interview,“Artists and Automobiles,” 6/20/06
Chicago Sun-Times, “An Exhaustive Effort in Tailpipe Art,” June 21, 2006
2005 Art in America, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC. Solo-Exhibition Review, March, 2005
Kunstbeeld, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC. Solo-Exhibition Review, January, 2005
Vietnam Visual Arts, Lucy Slivinski @ Phyllis Kind, Solo-Exhibition Review, May 5, 2005
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2019 Guest Speaker, Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
2016 Guest Speaker, 10th Annual Sustainable Business & Design Conference,
“Creativity and Sustainability,” Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Guest Speaker, Arte Y Moda 2016, Museo De Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2015 The Art of Reclaim, Workshop, Lecture, Knoch Knolls Nature Center, Naperville, IL
2014 SAIC Judge, Department of Fashion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist in Residence, Erie Museum of Contemporary Art, Erie, PA
2013 Artist in Residence, “Elevation Project,” Roche De Palmer, Bordeaux, France
2010 Artist in Residence, Albright College, Reading, PA
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Longhouse Foundation Collection, NY Longwood University, Farmington, VA
Delta Institute, Chicago City of Chicago, Public Art Collection
City of St. Cloud, MN Art Enterprises / Burton Kanter
Bodine Condominium Corporation Artpark, Lewiston, NY
City of Naperville, IL Christy Webber Landscapes, Chicago, Illinois
Capital Investments, Chicago, Illinois City of Bolingbrook, Illinois
Sandro Miller Collection Lael & Eugenie Johnson Collection
Noil Corporation Jan Petry Collection
Michael Del Piero Stuart Grannen
Bartholomew Recycling Center Chris & Sarah Jilsrud
Cleo Wilson Alan Bolle
Jumaane N’Namdi Mary Bell
Jane Levy Lukas Machinas
Musique de Nuit, Bordeaux, France Tada Nagoya