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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
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1984 B.F.A Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia  
     
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (upcoming)
 
  Written On the Wall,Memphis School of Art Gallery, Memphis, TN  
2007 Silver Wings and Golden Scales,Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
 
  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
 
  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 

5 Continents of Quilts - the American Craft Museum Collection,
Invited artist American Craft Museum, New York, NY
 
  Swarm: Insects and Contemporary Art,
Invited artist Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery,Owen Sound, ON
 
     
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
 
  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