Koplin Del Rio

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008 New Work, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
“From Life”, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
“Family” The 930 Art Center, Louisville, KY
“rise up children, sing a glorious future”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2007 “Culture of Adormation”, North Park University, Chicago, IL
2006 “ Conversation”, Union University, Jackson, TN
2005 “At Arms Length”, Olson Gallery of Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
2004 “Drawing the Face of the Deep,” Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
“Too Close for Comfort”, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
“Proximity”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2003 “Trouble the Water: Paintings by Tim Lowly,” Westmont College, Reynolds Gallery,
Santa Barbara, CA
“To Be, To Be”, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
2002 “Shift”, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Clarke College, Dubuque, IA
“Turnaround”, Judson College, Elgin, IL
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
Judson College, Elgin, IL
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights
2001 “We Float”, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN
“Peripheral Vision: The Paintings of Tim Lowly”, Elgin Comm. College, Elgin, IL
“National Drawing Invitational”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
2000 “Bath”, Lyonswier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gordon College, Wenham, MA.
Greenville College, Greenville, IL
1999 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Euro Galleries, Minneapolis, MN
Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Snite Art Museum, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
1998 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Proof, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI
Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1997 Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Space Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
1996 Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA
1995 Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Condeso Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Isis Gallery, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
1994 Asbury College, Wilmore, KY
1993 Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 North Park College, Chicago, IL
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
1991 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Saint Francis College, Fort Wayne, IN
1990 The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
1989 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Mott Community College, Flint, MI
1984 Arts Center, Chonju, South Korea

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Upscaled/ Downscaled” Bowling State Univbersity, Bowling Green, OH
2009 “Drawings VIII: West Coast Drawings”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2008 “”Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference” The Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
2008 “The Figure Revealed: Contemporary American Figurative Paintings and Drawings” Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, MI
2008 “Not Without Form”, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
2007 “About Face”, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA
2006 “Reality Effect”, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
“Eighth Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY and
San Francisco, CA
“A Broken Beauty: Figuration, Narrative and the Transcendent in North American Art”
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2005 “Seventh Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Re-presenting Representation VII”, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
“After the Fact”, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
2004 Interlochen Center for the Arts, Michigan
“Realism Today”, Columbus State University, GA
“Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
“Another Look: Frye Viewpoints”, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2003 “small voice”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
ArtChicago, Gescheidle gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Clarke College (two-person), Dubuque, IA
“The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing”,
The Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
“Contemporary Drawing Salon”, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
“Works of Substance: Works of Faith”, Marywood University Art Galleries, Scranton, PA
“Drawings VI”, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Contemporary Figurative Drawing”, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Harboring Beauty”, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “National Drawing Invitational”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
“SnowGlobe Invitational”, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Venus”, Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 “Self-portraits”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Drawings V”, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 “Portraits”, Elmhurst Museum, Elmhurst, IL
“Annual Exhibition”, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Parallel Visions”, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
1997 “Through a Glass Dimly”, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
1995 “Arts in Healing”, The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH
“Spiritual Inquiries”, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 “Veiled Images”, S.F. Austin University, Nacodoches, TX (traveling exhibition)
“Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing”, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993 “View from the Bed: A Personal Look at Illness and Disability”, Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
1992 “Self-portraits”, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, NY
1990 “The Chicago Show”, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1989 “Festival Arts”, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
West-Michigan Regional, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI
1988 “The 1980's: A New Generation”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
1987 “Mid-Michigan Exhibition”, Midland Center for the Arts, MI
“Contemporary Art Workshop” (two-person), Chicago, IL
1986 “The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial”, Cincinnati, OH (traveling exhibition)

PUBLICATIONS
2004 News and Events, June 2004, http://www.northpark.edu/news/story.cfm?ID=682
Weiss, Hedy, “Three Contemporary Painters Give Their Take on ‘La Grande Jatte”,
Chicago Sun Times, June 13
2003 Prescott, Theodore, “Beauty’s Embrace”, American Arts Quarterly, Winter
2002 Artner, Alan, “Lowly’s ‘Shift’ Captures Grace”, The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 22, Sec. 7,
pg. 23
Camper, Fred, “Temma Lowly and the Meaning of Life”, Chicago Reader, Nov. 22,
Sec. 1, pg. 1, 14-20
Woodard, Josef, “The daily art of being”, Santa Barbara News-Press, Sept. 6-12, pgs.
12-13
2001 Brunetti, John, Exhibition catalog, Peripheral Vision, Elgin Community College,
Elgin, IL
Wolfe, Towsend, Exhibition catalog, National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art
Center, Little Rock, AR
2000 Camper, Fred, Camper Reader, Jan. 14
1999 Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, Dec. 23, May 27
Camper, Fred, The Chicago Reader, Aug. 14
Waskowsky, Greg, Christianity and the Arts, Summer
Wiens, Ann, New City (Chicago), May
Kubiski, Joyce, Exhibition Brochure, The Snite Museum, South Bend, IN
1998 Brunetti, John, New Art Examiner, July/Aug.
Bakker, Conrad, The Paper (Grand Rapids), Oct. 22
1997 Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, Aug. 14
Park, Soo-Jin, Exhibition catalog, Art Space Seoul, Korea, May
1995 Green, Roger, The Grand Rapids Press, Oct.
1994 Halvorsen-Schreck, Karen, Image Magazine, Fall
Capasso, Nicholas, Exhibition catalog: Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and
Healing, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993 Pepich, Bruce, Exhibition brochure, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
1992 Krissoff, Sylvia, The Grand Rapids Press, August 20
Bergman, Susan, Exhibition catalog, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
1990 Barckert, Lynda, Exhibition catalog, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
1989 Bakker, John, The Banner, Dec. 18
Barckert, Lynda, New Art Examiner, Nov., p.42
McCracken, David, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 29
Artner, Alan, The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 6
1987 Benson, David, Grand Rapids Magazine, Aug., pg. 13
1984 Huntley, Martha, The Korea Times, July 11

Selected Collections
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Columbus College, Columbus, GA
Davidson College, Davidson, NC
The Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL
The Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
The McDonald's Corporate Collection, Oak Brook, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
The Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI
Grand Vallery State University, Grand Rapids, MI
The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA

GRANTS:
1995 Illinois Arts Council, Fellowship in Visual Art
1987 Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant