Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts, 2006, Painting and Drawing
School of Visual Arts, New York City, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1980, Painting and Drawing
Skidmore College, major in Studio Art, minor in Art History (pre-BFA)
Atelier Neo Medici, Paris, France, Renaissance Painting Techniques
Exhibitions
2011
Gallery 350, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, Faculty Exhibition
2010
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: Driftless / Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, Birch Eyes Stump Town Gallery
Alma, Wisconsin
Gallery 350, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago Faculty Exhibition
2009
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: Tumbleweed, Stump Town Gallery, Alma Wisconsin
Down to There: Women and Their Relationship to Hair, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton College, Des Plaines, IL
2008
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: Carnal Animates, ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation Chicago, IL
Feminist Ecology: Women and the Earth, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton College, Des Plaines
Kewaunee Art Fair Summer Group Exhibition
Voda Gallery, Kewaunee, WI Second Annual Kewaunee Art Celebrate, Kewaunee, WI
All Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 350, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Institutes Nationwide Faculty Exhibition, The Gallery @ AI, Cincinnati, OH
2007
Symbolism, Myth and Ritual, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton College, Des Plaines, IL
pART time, an exhibition of the part-time faculty, Gallery 350, The Illinois Institute of Art-
Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006
Bare Walls exhibition and silent auction School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Balls Out, 518 East Erie Street Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
MFA Thesis Show, Gallery 2 of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Opt-In: Re-visioning America, Curated by C.W. Ross, Chicago Music Garage, Chicago, IL
2004
Art at War, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art at War Traveling Exhibition, Illinois State University Gallery, Chicago, IL
Internacional 04, Galería Las Dalias, Ibiza, Spain
2002
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: IntroVersions, C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Evanston IL
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: Subtexts, The University Club of Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Tales, Palm Springs, CA
2001
Woman as Woman’s Muse, new works by Nancy Lu Rosenheim, The Core Foundation, Chicago IL Featured Artist: Rogers Park Art Walk and Studio Visits
Two Swans, Sanctuary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Women’s Caucus for the Arts 2001 Conference and Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
Noyes Cultural Art Center, Home, for Black History MonthEvanson, IL
Drawn to Sex, and other Erotica, Sanctuary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Around the Coyote Winter Festival, Thirteenth Floor Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
LolitaThirteenth Floor Gallery, Chicago, IL
Anxiety Attack, Thirteenth Floor Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
Big Girls, New Work by Nancy Lu Rosenheim, Space Gallery of the University of Western Michigan
Kalamazoo, MI
Once Upon a Time / Stories Myths and Legends in Art, Anchorage Museum Of History & Art, Anchorage, AL
Women’s Caucus National Juried Exhibition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
1996
Colectiva, Papagayo, Granada, Spain
Exposición Colectiva, El Primer Puente, Granada, Spain
1992
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: Pinturas y Dibujos, Galería Verlin, Granada, Spain
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: Obra Nueva, Galería Cartel, Granada, Spain
Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain
Nancy Lu Rosenheim: Obra Nueva, Galería Verlin, Granada, Spain
Curatorial
2011
THE BIKE ROOM A new project space in Rogers Park, curated by Nancy Lu Rosenheim
Tie Dyes on the Sunrise, works by Karolina Gnatowski
If and Only If, Necessary and Sufficient Works by Ruyell Ho
Inaugural show: Razzle Dazzle Rose: New Work by Nicole Pérez
2008-2009
Make Me an Offer, Gallery 350 of the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, Chicago, IL; A themed gallery exhibition emphasizing the growing ambiguity between commercial arts and fine arts. It seeks to emphasize the artificial nature of this distinction. Co-curated by Nancy Lu Rosenheim and Lindsay Grace. Participating artists: Alex Jovanovich, Andrew Oleksiuk, Caroline Anderson, Christian Rieben, Clare Rosean, David Opie, Derek Haverland, Diana Baumbach, Francine LeClercq, Jessica Westbrook, Karissa Lang, Lindsay Grace, Matthew Metzger, Paul Sedan, Phil McCollam, Susan Adame
Grants / Awards
2005
George and Isabel Brown Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Gannon Scholars Women in Leadership Award, In honor of outstanding leadership to the Loyola University Chicago and Greater Chicago Communities
2004
George and Isabel Brown Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998-2000
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
These CAAP grants funded three consecutive years of the Big Girls series of larger-than-life,
full-length portraits, a feminist project examining female representation in cultural mythology
1978
National Art Students Association, First prize for painting among BFA students, NY, NY
1977
Liechtenstein Prize for Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Press
2000
- Linda Brady, “Anxiety Attack, Artists at The Thirteenth Floor Gallery Explore ... ”
UR Chicago Culture, Sounds, Attitude, Nov 6, 2000, Chicago, IL
1999
- Dr. Harold Hild, “Growth and Understanding: The Art of Nancy Lu Rosenheim”
Tropel, November, 1999, Chicago, IL
- Linda S. Mah, “Artist Returns to Monumental Female Forms”
Kalamazoo Gazette, February 7, 1999, Kalamazoo, MI
1998
- Once Upon a Time / Stories Myths and Legends in Art
Exhibition catalogue, June 1998, Anchorage Museum of History And Art, Anchorage, AL
- Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art News Letter, Fall Issue, 1998, Chicago, IL
1996
- Karen Berkowitz, “Program Blends Art, Practicality”
Evanston Review, Aug. 1, 1996, Evanston, IL
1995
- Alex Golbin, M.D., Ph.D, The World Of Children’s Sleep
Michaelis Medical Publishing Corp, Salt Lake City, Utah
Selected Commissions
- Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
- Chicago Commons, Chicago, IL
- Development Dimensions International, Pittsburgh, PA
Selected Corporate and Public Collections
- The Industrial Council of West Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Development Dimensions International, Pittsburgh, PA
- School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
- Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Teaching
2006 - PRESENT
- Associate Professor of Art Foundations, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago
2009
- Faculty, Hyde Park Art Center
2006
- Evanston Arts Center
2005-2006
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Early College Program
1994-2007
- Shanti Foundation for Peace
LECTURES / PANELS
2002
- C.G. Jung of Chicago, Evanston, IL
“Penetrating the Surface: The Art of Suggestion in Visual Realism”
- Columbia College, Chicago, IL
“Selling Out or Not Selling Out"
Artists and Media Professionals as Moral Agents; Ethical Dilemmas in the Arts
2001
- The Golden Apple Foundation, Chicago, IL
“Autobiography and Self Portrait as Tools in Art Education”
2000
-Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
"The Use of Metaphor in Narrative Art"
1999
- University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI
"Narrative Art; The 1990's in Historical Context"
Selected Classes and Workshops
2006 - PRESENT
- Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2002-present
- Shanti Foundation For Peace, Greater Chicago Area
Artist-Teacher for a community-based arts initiative that integrates the arts with social justice curricula.
2005
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Early College Program, Life Drawing Workshop: "The Body as Metaphor"
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Teaching Assistantship with Elizabeth Ockwell, Artist's Anatomy II
- Orozco Academy (for Shanti Foundation), Chicago, IL
Mexican "Retablos" project on theme of gang violence
- Walter Reed Elementary School (for Shanti Foundation), Chicago, IL
Mural on theme of African American Heroes
2004
- East Prairie School (for the Shanti Foundation), Skokie, IL
PTA Mural / Multicultural Theme
2002-2003
- Nichols Middle School (for the Shanti Foundation), Chicago, IL
Mural / Bilingualism
- Nichols Middle School (for the Shanti Foundation), Chicago, IL
Mural on animal behavior
- South Shore High School, Chicago, IL
Repurposed Furniture Assemblages on theme of political activism
2001
- The Golden Apple Foundation, Chicago, IL
"Autobiography and Self Portrait as Tools in Education"
Workshop given to Golden Apple Award recipients for teaching in an arts-integrated curriculum.
2004
- Orozco Academy (for Shanti Foundation), Artist's book project / Anatomy, Chicago, IL
- Inter-American Magnet School, Interactive mural project on the Tainos of Puerto Rico, Chicago, IL
2003
- Family Matters (for Shanti Foundation)
- Interactive Mural for a teenage girls’ group on youth/gender rights theme, Chicago, IL
2002-2003
- Dyett Academy (for Shanti Foundation)
Sculptural relief mural on theme of unjust practices by American manufacturers in the Third World, Chicago, IL
1995-1998
Artskills
- Program Director and teacher of painting in a work-study program for “at risk” teenagers, and for “gifted” teenagers, City of Evanston, IL
Artist-in-Residence
- Independent contractor / art teacher at several Chicago Public Schools, Greater Chicago Area
1994-1995
- Chicago Children’s Museum in collaboration with The Shanti Foundation for Peace
- Painted CTA buses on theme of non-violence, Chicago, IL