SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 University Club, Chicago, IL
116 GALLERY, St. Charles, IL
2016 “Mutino Mother Earth,” Museum of Modern Art, Bogota Columbia
“Residue,” University of Maine, Farmington, Maine
Installation of “The Fall”, Chicago, IL
2014 “Art on Armitage,” Chicago, IL
2012 Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL
2004 Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
2000 “Cycle of Rituals,” Galeria De Arte Fotografico, San Miguel de Allende, MX, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia, South America
1999 Lithuanian Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe
“Medicinal Plants,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Pilgrimages Toward The Sacred,” Olin Gallery,Roenoke College, Salem,VA
1997 International Art Festival of Medellin 1997, Public Sculpture, Medellin, Colombia
1996 “Peregrinajes hacia lo sagrado”, Museum of Modern Art, Pereira, Colombia
“Peregrinajes hacia lo sagrado”, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Col ombia
Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, VT
1995 “Peregrinajes hacia lo sagrado”, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia
1991 “Urban Series”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
One Illinois Center, Chicago, Il Curator, Dennis Adrian
“Greenhouse Effect,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Common Boundary Conference, Washington, D.C.
1986 “ Photo Plus”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 “Beyond The Cave”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 “Morphogenetic Fields”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981 “Ontology at 36”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Performance Ecologies” curated by Patricia Watts/ecoartspace, Currents 826 , Santa Fe, New Mexico
2020 Deerfield Village Hall
2017 “Reclaiming Earth,” SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Illinois Women Artists Project, Bradley University, IL
2015 “Obsession,” Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2014 “What We’re Lost: Recalling the Passenger Pigeon,” The Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, Ithaca, New York.
“Moving Targets,” (Passenger Pigeons), Brushwood Center, Riverwoods, IL
“Moving Targets,” School of Natural Resource & Environment at University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
“Artemisia After 40,” Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago
2012 2ND International Photography Festival, Israel
2011 Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia
2010 Museum of Modern Art , Medellin, Colombia
2007 HUB Robeson Galleries, Pennsylvania State U., PA
HOSU-Newark Art Gallery, The Ohio State U., Newark, OH
2007 The Fine Arts Center Gallery, U. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2006 Gallery 908, Reading, PA
2005 Portland Art Museum
“Sacred Wild,” Apexart, New York, NY
Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown U., Kutztown, PA
2004 “A Moment in Time,” Evanston Art Center, IL
2002 Museo Gilardi, Lucca, Italy
www.greenmuseum.com
2001 “Environmental Interactions,” Kutztown University, PA
“Sculpture in Chicago Now”, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Cows on Parade”, Public Art, Chicago, Illinois
“Amazon Rising” Public Art, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois
“Spiritual Passports”, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
“Spiritual Passports”, Lockport, IL
“ Painting in Chicago Now”, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Spiritual Passports”, Southern Illinois Art Gallery
“Spiritual Passports”, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Myths and Legends”, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
“Then & Now”, NIU Art Museum Gallery in Chicago, IL
1997 “Festival Internacional de Arte”, Medellin, Colombia, SA
1996 “Art in Chicago, 1945-95”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Inside out-Outside in”, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
1995 “Garbage,” Thread Waxing Space, New York
1994 “Garbage,” R.A.W., Real Art Ways Gallery, Hartford, CT
Transitions Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1993 “20th Anniversary Show,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Latina/Americana,” Fertile Ground, BucamangaColumbia
“Latina/Americana,” Fertile Ground, Cali, Columbia
1992 “Grit and Polish Art and Space,”, State of Illinis Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Latina/Americana,” fertile Ground, Bogota, Columbia
“Fate of the Earth Exhibition,” Ceres Gallery, New York
“Latina/Americana,” Fertile Ground, Medellin, Colombo
1990 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
“For the Birds,” Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
“Self Portrait,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 “Tropical Rain Forest Show,” Sundered Ground, New York
Artemisia Invitational, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wichita Art Assoc., Wichita, KS
Ruben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, KS
1988 15th Anniversary Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Detroit Focus, Detroit, MI
1987 SoHo 20, New York, NY
“Myth and Magic,”,Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
“Artemisia/A Show To Go,” Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
“Artemisia/A Show To Go,” Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL
“Artemisia/A Show To Go,”,Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
1986 “Artemisia/A Show To Go”, Traveling Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1984 10th Anniversary Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Artists Call,” ,Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 34th Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
1980 Chicago Abstract Artists’ Invitational, Bensonville, IL
Works on Paper, Springfield, IL
1978 Benjamin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Northwestern University Faculty Club, Evanston, IL
1977 Benjamin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1976 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2022 Horasis Global Meeting, Think tank located in Switzerland Panel discussion
2020 Embodiment Unlimited Global Conference Panel discussion
2017 Midwest Women Artists Symposium, Panel Discussion, Bradley, University
2012 Guest Lecture and Exhibit invited by the Embassy of the United States of
America, Tel Aviv and The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Office. Cultural
Scientific Affairs, Israel
2004 Guest Lecturer, Colombia College, Chicago, IL
Judge for the “X Salon Regional De Artistas 2003”, Aona 3 Antioquia, Colombia, South America, Lectures at University of Antioquia and the
National University EAFIT of Medellin, Colombia, SA
2001 Panelist at the College Art Assoc. “Nature Nurtured and Nurturing: Art to Restore and Enliven Nature.”
2000 Keynote Speaker, Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia, S.A.
Guest Lecturer, Galeria Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia, S.A.
1999 Guest Lecturer, Art Institute of Chicago
Guest Lecturer Jewish Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe
1998 Guest Lecturer, Ethical Humanist Society of Greater Chicago,”Pilgrimages to the Sacred: Art, Ritual &The Environment” Guest Lecturer, Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Guest Lecturer, Colombia College, Chicago, IL
1997 “Festival Internacional de Arte”, Lecture, Medellin, Colombia, SA
Teaching Basic Workshop “Art and The Environment”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Panelist, “Alternative Spaces and Criticism”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Lecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1996 Panelist, “Affirming Feminist Identity Through Art and Religion”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Guest Lecturer, Colombia College, Chicago, IL
Guest Lecturer, Museo De Arte De Pereira, Pereira, Columbia
Guest Lecturer, University Autonoma, Medellin, Columbia
Guest Lecturer, University De Antioquia, Medellin, Columbia
1995 Guest Lecturer, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago
Guest Lecturer, Virginia Tech.,Blacksburg, Va
Juror, Senior Citizens Art Network, Chicago,IL
Guest Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1994 Guest Lecturer, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago
1993 Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago
Panelist, Awards Jury Panel, Illinois Academy of Fine Arts
Moderator: Women’s Work/Women’s Words sponsored by The Chicago Artist’s Coalition at Artemisia Gallery
1992 Guest Lecturer, Kalamzoo Institute of Arts, Michigan
Guest Lecturer, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Library Project Advisory Panel, % For Art, City of Chicago, Dept. of Cultural Affairs
Chairwoman, Community Arts Assistance Program, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago
1991-92 Chairwoman, Chicago Conference, Chicago, Feb. 1992, Women Caucus for Art
National Board of Directors, Women Caucus for Art
Guest Lecturer, City of Chicago and The Department of Cultural Affairs,
Gallery 37
1982-92 President, Artemisia Gallery
1991 Panelist, Women’s Caucus for Art, National Conference,Washington, DC. “Artists: Activists/Ecologists”
Guest Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Guest Lecturer, Harper College, Palatine, IL
1990 Guest Lecturer, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Panelist, Assistance Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Moderator, Panel Discussion, “What is the Artists’ Responsibility to Society Today?”, with Vito Acconci, Carol Becker and Suzi Gablik, Artemisia
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Panelist, North Central Education, Steinmetz High School, Chicago, IL
1989-91 Program Director, The Humanitas Institute, Chicago, IL
1989 Guest Lecturer, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,Va
Keynote Speaker, New Directions Conference, Wichita Art Assoc., Wichita, KS
1987-88 Curator for Morton College, Cicero, IL
- Panel Discussion “Women in The Arts”, University of Wisconsin,
Whitewater Campus
1987 Panel Discussion “Women in The Arts”, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society.
Panel Discussion “Is There Life After Art School”, School of the Art Institute
of Chicago,
- Keynote Speaker, Northern Illinois University, “Women Artist,
Contemporary Trends”, DeKalb, IL.
Guest Lecturer, School of the Art Institute,Chicago, IL
1985-87 A.R.T. Art Resources in Teaching, Teacher
1984 Guest Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1983 Panel Discussion “Focus on Feminism, Feminist Art: What Does It Say, Why Is It Different”, 8th Annual Illinois N.O.W. Conference
1982-83 Editorial Advisory Board, New Art Examiner
1981-82 Advertising Director New Art Examiner
1981-93 Member Artemisia Gallery
1980-81 Board of Directors, Art Encounter, a not-for-profit alternative art education
PUBLICATIONS
Juan Alberto Gaviria,”Desde el Silencio”, El Mundo, Maginario,Aug.1997 p.5,6.
Suzi Gablik, Orion, ” Arts and the Earth”, Autumn,1995, p.44
Baile Oakes, Sculpture with the Environment, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995 p.90-93.
Suzi Gablik, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 1993, Vol. XXXII,No. 2, P. 231-.
Suzi Gablik, “The Artist As Enchanter”, Common Boundary, Vol. 10,
Issue 2 March/April 1992, p.21
Garrett Holg, Art News, Jan. 1992, Vol.91, No 1, p.135
Suzi Gablik, “The Ecological Imperative”, An Interview with Fern Shaffer and Othello Anderson, Art Papers, Nov. 1991.
Michelle Grabner, Review, New Art Examiner, Sep. 1991, Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 38
Mike Isaacs, “Exploring the Unorthodox in Art, in Life”, Skokie Review, Aug. 1, 1991, “Diversions”, p. D3
Thomas McEvilley, “The Selfhood of the Other”, Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art, Susan Vogel, The Center for African Art, New York, 1991, p. 273
David McCracken, Review, Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1991, Sec. 7,p. 56, “Friday”
Suzi Gablik, The Re-enchantment of Art, Thames & Hudson, 1991
Peter J.W. Elstrom, Crain’s Chicago Business, Nov. 5-11, 1990, Vol. 13, No. 45, p. 1
Gloria Orenstein, The Reflowering of the Goddess, Pergamon Press, Athena Series, 1990
Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein, Reweaving the World, Sierra Club, 1990
Suzi Gablik, The World & I, Dec. 1988, Vol. 3, No. 12, p. 240
Suzi Gablik, Psychological Perspectives, Fall-Winter 1988, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 283-93
High Performance, Fall, No. 43, 1988, p. 20
David McCracken, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 6, 1988, Sec. 5, p. 17, “Tempo”
Margaret Hawkins, Review, Chicago Sun Times, “Weekend Plus”,Oct. 31, 1986
Garrett Holg, Review New Art Examiner, December 1986
Chicago, David Jackson, May 1984, Vol. 33, No. 5
Patricia O’Brien, Review, New Art Examiner, Summer 1983, p. 7
Buzz Spector, Review, New Art Examiner, Vol. 9, No. 2, Nov. 1981, p. 16
CATALOGS
“Art In Chicago 1945-1995” Museum of Contemporary Art, Lynn Warren 1996
“Pilgrimages Towards the Sacred” Banco de la Republica, Jose Roca, 1996
“Pilgrimages Towards the Sacred” Centro Colombo Americano, Juan Alberto Gaviria, 1995
Artemisia Catalog, 1983, 1988, 1993
PUBLISHED
Chicago Medicine, Healing Through the Arts, Phillip S. Epstein, M.D. ,Howard Kaplan, PhD., Fern Shaffer, M.A., Vol 94, No 22, p.16-20, Nov. 21, 1991
Proceedings from the Fifth International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing, 1988,
“The Arts… If Wishes Were Horses…” Chicago, Vol. 34, No. 1, Jan. 1985, p. 52
“The Chicago and Vicinity Show Imagism/Chicago” New Art Examiner, Vol. 11, No. 8, May 1981, p. 8-11
Alice Thorson, “Young Chicagoans Prefer Engagement to Avant-Gardism”, New Art Examiner, Vol. 9, No. 8, May 1982, p. 1
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Midway Airport, Painting for Pedestrian Walkway, Chicago, IL
John G. Shedd Aquarium, Painting for Amazon Rising Exhibition, Chicago ,IL
Chicago Flower and Garden Show, Vases for Exhibition
Chicago Cows on Parade, “ Fern Cow ”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Medellin, Columbia, South America
Morgan Freeman Collection
Marshall Fields, Chicago, IL
AWARDS/GRANTS
2003 Honor Roll of Feminist Artists presented by Veteran Feminist of America
2000 Andrea Frank Foundation
1999 Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment
“Cows On Parade”, Public Art, Sponsored by Advocate Heath Care,
Chicago, IL
“Amazon Rising” Public Art, Mural, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL
1998 Copenhaver Grant Artists-in-residence, Roanoke College, VA
1994 Community Arts Assistance Grant Special
1992 International Friends of Transformative Art Grant
1990 Katherine J. Horwich Scholarship Fund
1990 Weisman Memorial Scholarship
1990 Fellowship, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1987 Community Arts Assistance Grant
1986 Illinois Arts Council Grant
EDUCATION
1991 M.A., Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1983-89 Graduate Study: University of Illinois, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1981 B..A., University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1970 Northeastern University of Illinois
1964-65 University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
1962-64 University of Illinois, Navy Pier, IL
1961-62 I.I.T. School of Design, Chicago, IL