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| Current Position | ||
| Professor, | Design Studies, 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 | ||
| 2011 | Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, FL, USA |
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| Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||
| 2010 | Diary of a Mad Scientist and Insect Collector |
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Patterns of Insect Life, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA |
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| 2009 | Small World: Secrets of a Collector, Belger Art Center, Kansas City,MO, USA |
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Locusts and Honey, Craft Alliance, St Louis, Missouri, USA |
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| 2008 | Insecta Fantasia: A Centennial Commission by Jennifer Angus |
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| Written On the Wall,Memphis School of Art Gallery, Memphis, TN, USA | ||
| 2007 | Silver
Wings and Golden Scales,Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA |
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| A Terrible Beauty - Chapter III ,Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada | ||
| 2006 | Terrible Beauty - Chapter II, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, USA | |
| Agents of Nature, Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada | ||
| 2005 | Terrible Beauty, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| The Ball and the Feast, Project Room, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, ON | ||
| 2004 | Goliathus Hercules, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, USA | |
| Chiyogami, Artcite, Windsor, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Carpet Beetles: Patterns of the Orient, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska,USA | top | |
| 2003 | Bugs and Such, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA | |
| The Observation Room, Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, WI, USA | ||
| Relic, Gallery Stratford, Stratford ON, Canada | ||
| 2002 | Eupholus Bennetti, Tusk Gallery, Toronto ON, Canada | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2011 | Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY | |
| 2010 | The Sitting Room, Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA |
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| Dead or Alive, Museumof Arts and Design, New York, NY (catalogue) | ||
| Exploded View, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada | ||
Strange Nature,Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada (catalogue) |
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The Garden, Invited artist, Tribeca Project Space, New York, NY |
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Entomologia, Invited artist, Observatory Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2009 | Super Bug, James Watrous Gallery, Wisconsin Academy of Arts & Sciences, Madison. Two person show with John Hitchcock |
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Current Tendencies: Ten Artists from Wisconsin Haggerty Museum, |
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High Honors: An Exhibition of Artwork by the 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellows, |
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Subjective Nature, Engaging the Physical World, |
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| 2007 | NeoCraft Showcase, Anna Leonowens Gallery,Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Work by Faculty, Staff & Selected Alumni held in conjunction with the NeoCraft Conference |
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The Shadow Ball, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada |
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Haptic, cafka.07, Kitchener, ON, Canada |
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| Native/Invasive, Forest Art Wisconsin, Northern Highland American Legion State Forest, Minocqua, WI, curator Ute Ritschel | ||
The Idea House, sponsored by Hamptons Cottage & Garden magazine, East Hampton, NY |
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| 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 | ||
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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 | |
| Selected Awards | ||
| Academic Awards at the University of Wisconsin - Madison | ||
| 2010 | Graduate School Grant - Individual |
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| 2009 | Graduate School Grant - Individual |
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| 2008 | Romnes Fellowship (Funding over 5 years) |
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Graduate School Grant - Individual |
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| 2007 | Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts | |
| Graduate School Grant - Individual | ||
| 2006 | Graduate School Grant - Individual | |
| 2005 | Vilas Associate Award (Funding over 3 years) |
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| 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) | ||
| External Awards | ||
| 2008 | Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) Award, Best Web Project |
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| 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 | ||
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| Selected Reviews & Notes | ||
| 2010 | The Art of Bugs by Lara Bradley Sudbury Star, June 19, 2010, p. C1 |
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Of Compost, Molecules and Insects, Art is Born by Natalie Angier |
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Odd, and Odder: New Exhibition at OAG focuses on “grotesque” |
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Beetlemania by Carolyn Miranda |
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| 2009 | Bug Wings and Bits of Metal by Elisabeth Kirsch |
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On the Fly by Portia Priegert |
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Cabinets de curiosites by Elisabeth Recurt |
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Crawling Wallpaper by Jody Clowes |
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Jennifer Angus and the Insect Kingdom by Jody Clowes |
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Seeing the in 5,000 Bugs on the Wall, by Tammy La Gorce |
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The Art of Entomology by Mary Louise Schumacher |
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Terrible Beauty The Patterns of Jennifer Angus by Jody Clowes, |
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| 2008 | Creepy Crawly Creations, by Jennifer Hughs |
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Museum Displays Exotic Insect Species, by Allison Freeman |
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A Terrible Beauty, catalogue, produced by the Textile Museum of Canada, DennosMuseum Center, Musee d’art de Joliette |
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Contemporary Textiles: the fabric of fine art, editor Nadine Monem |
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| Architectural Digest (Russian edition) No. 4 April, 2008, p. 47 | ||
Super Bugs, by Jessica Hemming |
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School Bugged! by Tim Carpenter |
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| 2007 | Forest Gallery Needles Folks on Invasive Species, by Dennis McCann Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 19, 2007, p. 2H |
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| Hamptons
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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 | ||
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