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| Current Position | ||
| Associate Professor, Environment, Textiles and Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Sept. 2001) | ||
| Education | ||
| 1991 | M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois | |
| 1984 | B.F.A Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia | |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2008 | Newark
Museum, Newark, NJ (upcoming) |
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| Written On the Wall,Memphis School of Art Gallery, Memphis, TN | ||
| 2007 | Silver
Wings and Golden Scales,Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI |
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| A Terrible Beauty - Chapter III ,Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec | ||
| 2006 | Terrible Beauty - Chapter II, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI | |
| Agents of Nature, Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec | ||
| 2005 | Terrible Beauty, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON | |
| The Ball and the Feast, Project Room, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, ON | ||
| 2004 | Goliathus Hercules, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI | |
| Chiyogami, Artcite, Windsor, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Carpet Beetles: Patterns of the Orient, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln | top | |
| 2003 | Bugs and Such, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND | |
| The Observation Room, Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| Relic, Gallery Stratford, Stratford ON | ||
| 2002 | Eupholus Bennetti, Tusk Gallery, Toronto ON | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2009 | James Watrous Gallery, Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences, Madison, WI Two person show with John Hitchcock (upcoming) | |
| Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (upcoming) | ||
| 2007 | Haptic, cafka.07, Kitchener, ON, Canada | |
| Native/Invasive, Forest Art Wisconsin, Northern Highland American Legion State Forest, Minocqua, WI, curator Ute Ritschel | ||
Wisconsin Triennial, juried exhibiton, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison |
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| Exquisite Entomology, Greg Museum, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Two person show with Janice Wright Cheney | ||
| Diagnosis of a Knot, a Lump, an Itch and Scratch Open Studio, Toronto, ON Two person show with John Hitchcock | top | |
| A Cancer, University of Wisconsin - Fox Point Two person show with John Hitchcock | ||
| 2006 |
ORANGE, EXPRESSION, Centre d'exposition de Sainte-Hyacinthe, Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada | |
| Forest Art Path Labratory organized by Verein fur Internationale Waldkunst E. V., Darmstadt, Germany | ||
| Bug out of the Box Berkshire Museum, Piitsfield, MA | ||
| Installation/Innovation: Textile Art in the 21st Century, San Francisco Museum of Crafts and Design, CA | ||
| Diagnosis of a Knot, a Lump, an Itch and Scratch, A collaborative installation of monumentally sized prints between Jennifer Angus and John Hitchcock, London Print Studio, London, England | ||
| 2005 | Dimensions Variable, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | |
| Bug City, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba | ||
| Material Inquiry 2005, Invited artist, Macalester Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota | ||
| On and Off the Wall Installations by Jennifer Angus, Adam Davis, John Hitchcock, Cathleen Lewis, Edna Carlsten Gallery, UW Stevens Point, WI | top | |
| 2004 | A Decade of Art, Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, WI | |
| Bug-Eyed, Art, Culture and Insects,Turtle Bay Museum, Redding, CA | ||
| 2003 | Bridges, University of Granada, Granada, Spain | |
| 2002 |
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Continents of Quilts - the American Craft Museum Collection, Invited artist American Craft Museum, New York, NY |
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| Swarm:
Insects and Contemporary Art, Invited artist Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery,Owen Sound, ON |
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| Selected Awards | ||
| Academic Awards at the University of Wisconsin - Madison | ||
| 2008 | Romnes Fellowship | |
| 2007 | Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts | |
| Graduate School Grant - Individual | ||
| 2006 | Graduate School Grant - Individual | |
| 2005 | Vilas Associate Award | |
| Graduate School Grant - Individual | ||
| 2004 | Graduate School Grant - Individual | top |
| 2003 | Graduate School Grant - Individual | |
| Graduate School Grant - Multi-disiplinary (with John Hitchcock, Art Department) | ||
| 2002 | Graduate School Grant | |
| 2001 | Graduate School Grant | |
| External Awards | ||
| 2008 | Wisconsin Arts Board Grant, Visual Arts | |
| 2007 | Canada Council for the Arts Grant, Visual Arts, Mid-Career Artist | |
| 2006 | Exhibition of the Year, Ontario Association of Art Galleries | |
| 2004 | Canada Council for the Arts Grant, Visual Arts, Mid-Career Artist | |
| 2001 | Ontario Crafts Council Critical Writing Award | |
| Ontario Crafts Council Volunteer Scholarship | ||
| Mary Diamond Butts' Award in Embroidery, Ontario Crafts Council | ||
| Selected Reviews & Notes | ||
| 2007 | Hamptons
Cottages and Gardens magazine Front cover, 2007 Idea House, Sept. 2007
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| Wallpaper with Wings, by Penelope Green New York Times, July 12, 2007, p. D3 | ||
| Bug Art beautiful, musical, delightful, by Jacob Stockinger Captial Times, May 25, 2007, p. B1-B2 | ||
| Rooms with a View, by Jennifer A. Smith Isthmus, May 25, 2007, p. 14-15 | ||
| Thousands of Bugs make quite a buzz, by Kevin Lynch Captial Times, May 4, 2007, p. B1, B3 | ||
| How art got in the Chazen's blood, by Heather LaRoi Wisconsin State Journal, May 7, 2007, p. A1, A5 | ||
| 2006 |
In Review, Installation and Innovation, Textile Art in the 21st Century, by Ce Ce Iandoli Surface Design Journal, Fall 2006, Vol. 31, No. 1, p.56-57 | |
| Going Buggy at Dennos by Tom Carr Traverse City Record-Eagle, December 8, 2006, p.1C, 2C | ||
| Hier wird der Mesch zur Ameise Darmstadter Echo, August 25, 2006, p. 8, Darmstadt, Germany | ||
| Tausend Ameisen aus Gummi und ein Teg, der im Nichts endet Frankfurter Rundschau, August 25, 2006, p. 29, Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| Review:
A Terrible Beauty by Gil McElroy, Art Papers Magazine, March/April 2006,
p.72-73 |
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| A Terrible Beauty: an installation by Jennifer Angus, Review by Joe Lewis Selvedge magazine, Issue 10, p. 89 | ||
| Swot Not, Reuters, Auckland Weekend Herald, Canvas, February 25, 2006, p. 6 | ||
| 2005 |
Rooms to
Make you bug-eyed, Review by Gary Michael Dault The Globe and Mail,
Dec. 31st, 2005, R10 |
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| Where'd you get those creepers, Review by Peter Goddard The Toronto Star, Dec. 17, 2005, H14 | ||
| Not so Pretty Paper, Article by Jessica Hemmings, Fiberarts magazine, Nov/Dec 2005, Vol. 32 No. 3, Cover & p. 28- 33 | ||
| Sculptors' art on show, Review by Sasha Grishin, Canberra Times, Relax magazine, July 31, 2005, p. 8-9 | ||
| Artist draws inspiration from insects, Article by Meredith Hinchcliffe, Canberra Times, Panorama section, July 30, 2005, p. 19 | top | |
| Top 10 Art Events in 2004, Article by Kent Wolgamott, Lincoln Journal Star, Jan. 2, p. 6K | ||