Education
MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BS University of Wisconsin-Madison
Grants & Awards
2005
Artist Residency, Lademoen Kunstner Verkstedet, Trondheim, Norway
Artist Residency, CESTA, Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor, Czech Republic
2004
Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Award, Madison, WI
1996
Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Award, Madison, WI Creative Artist Fellowship, Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, WI
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
A Poke in the Eye, Leiminspace, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Girl Bands, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
more ladies, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012
The Ladies, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Biome Series, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, Gallery East, Reno, NV
2010
German Plants, Birds & Insects, International Forest Art Center (IWZ), Darmstadt, Germany
2009
Post-Audubon: Birds and Insects, The Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
Post-Audubon: Birds and Insects, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2006
Nature and other excuses, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
New Photographs, CESTA, Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor, Tabor, Czech Republic
New Photographs, Lademoen Kunstner Verkstedet, Trondheim, Norway
2003
hush, you mushrooms...,Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
New Works, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 STRANGE NATURE, Peep Projects, Philadelphia, PA (Two Person)
2020
FULL CIRCLE: Acquisitions and Exhibitions, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2019
With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
2018
Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: Part III, Galerie Critical Kunst, Berlin, Germany; Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
Hinternational Paper, Real Tinsel Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2017
Taking Sides, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Unreliable Narrator, Art Helix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Ornithology, Dendroica Gallery, Seattle, WA
Aron Packer Projects @ Mars Gallery, Mars Gallery, Chicago, IL
Our Good Earth, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Gallery Artists, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition, Chazen Museum, Madison, WI
Wallflowers, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Criminal, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2015
Summer Salon, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Mother Popcorn, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
Wisconsin Wildlife Biennial, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2014
Hidden Truths, the Mind Unraveled, DAX Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Figuring it Out, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI
Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Sconnies, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA (catalog)
2013
Wisconsin Triennial, MMOCA, Madison, WI
The Beast Within: Images of Animals in Tattoo and Contemporary Art, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Group Exhibition, SPACEWOMb Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Hidden Truths, the Mind Unraveled, 2nd Annual Exhibition & Benefit for the Epilepsy Project, Susan Nelson Gallery,
Newport Beach, CA
25 for 25: SIlver Anniversary Exhibition, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012
Voices from the Warehouse District V8: INNOV8, Voices Gallery, Dubuque, IA
Trio #3, Rogue Gallery & Art Center, Medford, OR
Artists from MMOCAs Triennial, ArtStart, Visual Arts Center, Rhinelander, WI
Compendium 2012: Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Chazen Museum, Madison, WI
2011
E Pluribus Unum: Artists Picture Society, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Pursuant Pharoahs, Collar Works Gallery, Troy NY
2010
A Remembrance of Awakened Birds: Nancy Mladenoff & Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, H.F. Johnson Gallery, Carthage College,
Kenosha, WI (catalog)
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Art Chicago, Dean Jensen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Saving the Sanctuary, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
2008
Girls and Company: Feminist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2007
WintergARTen, Vogelfrei 7, Darmstadt, Germany
Native/Invasive, Forest Art Wisconsin, Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest, Minocqua, WI
2006
From the Ground Up: Linking Art and Nature, Linda Ross Contemporary, Clawson, MI
Between the Lakes, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (Siah Armajani, Matthew Buckingham, Donna House, Lee Mingwei, Truman Lowe, Nancy Mladenoff, and Alec Soth)
Tandem Press Highlights: 1995-2005, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2005
Fantasy Island 2, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
The Promised Land, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Scope/Miami (conjunction with Art/Basel/Miami Beach), Miami, FL
Preview Berlin (conjunction with ArtForum Berlin), Berlin, Germany
Carry On, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
San Francisco International Art Exposition, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Scope/Miami (Art/Basel/Miami Beach), Wendy Cooper Gallery, Miami, FL
Painting without Paint, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
ArtChicago, Project Space, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Photo LA, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Parking Lot, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY
Focus-Pocus: Fact & Fiction in Contemporary Photography, The Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
Centro-Oestes: Nucleo Madison, Museu de Arte de Brazil, Brasilia, Brazil
2002
Waldkunstpfad II, Theater Gallery, City of Darmstadt, Germany
Hysterical, Girl Comics, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Waldkunstpfad, (Forest Art Path), Darmstadt, Germany
On Nature, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Natural History, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL (in conjunction with Art Chicago)
2001
Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, Tandem Press, Baltimore, MD
2000
52 Artists We Like, Wall Street Viewing Room, New York, NY
1999
Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Exquisite Corpse, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalog Essays, Reviews & Citations
Corey Quereshi, “Insects & critters pose in PEEP Projects’ mostly people-free painting show, (Artblog July 20, 2021)
https://www.theartblog.org/2021/07/insects-and-critters-pose-in-peep-projects-mostly-people-free-painting-show/?fbclid=IwAR081Q5GkRMNhNHIGzuTJZRoIca1re31zWRAbktoZHLQwIFmA9lsTjWmbG8
Mary Louis Schumacher, "Gallery Night & Day Can't Miss Shows" photo of painting as part of coloring book
activity in newspaper, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (July 23, 2015)
Art Notes, Papercity Magazine-Dallas, Dallas, TX
New American Paintings blog, "Must See Painting Show: November/December" (Publishers Pick 11/19/14)
http://www.newamericanpaintings.com/blog
Karin Wolf podcast for Milwaukee Sentinel
https://soundcloud.com/mary-louise-schumacher/karin-wolf-on-the-wisconsin Friday 9/27/13
Take it from here..., Coloring book collaboration between Epilepsy Therapy Project and Epilepsy Foundation. (Color image as logo on front cover and another image inside)
Janina Ciezadlo, Review: Nancy Mladenoff/Packer Schopf, New City, Chicago, IL (March 27, 2012)
http://art.newcity.com/2012/03/27/review-nancy-mladenoffpacker-schopf/
German TV, Alle Wetter, Hessischer Rundfunk (November 26, 2007)
Alan G. Artner, "Small parts, big picture", Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL (November 3, 2006)
Jason Mojica, "The Promised Land", Time Out Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 12-19, 2006)
Michael Workman, "Art Chicago/The Stray Show", Contemporary, London, UK (no.65, September 2004)
Nicholas Frank, "Chicago, Illnois", Art Papers, Atlanta, GA (September/October 2004)
Victor M. Cassidy, Art Chicago 2004, artnet.com (May 7, 2004)
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/cassidy/cassidy5-7-04.asp
Odili Donald Odita, "Focus-Pocus," artUS, Los Angeles, CA (Nov./Dec. 2003)
Nahima Maciel, "Fervilhante Center," Correio Braziliense, Brasilia, Brazil (July 16, 2003)
Paul W. Ayres, "Downtown galllery attracts international Artists," Tampa Tribune, Tampa, FL (June 26, 2003)
Frances McCue, The Seattle Times, "'Hysterical' women artists capture scenes from the new world of comics," Seattle, WA (November 22, 2002)
"Waldkunstpfad-Recherche," symposium & art exhibition color catalog, Darmstadt, Germany
James Rhem, "Narrative Abstractions-The Twelve Months," New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL (March 2000)
Laurel Graeber, "Frogs, Myths & Adolescence," The New York Times Book Review (October 9, 1994)
Arlene Raven, "ABC No Lady," The Village Voice (June 19, 1990)