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ARTIST'S
STATEMENT
“My
images tend to deal with confined spaces containing certain characters
that reach out to one another but do not quite succeed in meeting;
hiding behind reality, masking yourself, or trying to show with
the mask how you really feel. Maybe one's “normal” face
is really a mask?”
SELECTED
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 - Special award: “18th Lessedra World Art Print Annual Mini Print”, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008, 2014, 2015 & 2018 -Artist's Residency: “Ragdale Foundation”, Lake Forest, IL
2011 & 2015 - Artist's Residency: “Guanlan Original Printmaking Base”, Shenzhen, China
2013 - Materials Award: “Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial”
2011 & 2013 - First Prize Established Artists' Category: “One Inspired Evening Art Auction”, Chicago, IL
2012 - Third prize: “Imprima 2012, Mostra Internacional de Gravura”, Sobral, Brazil
2001 - Curator's Choice Artist “Around the Coyote” Fall Arts
Festival, Chicago, IL
1996 - Sponsors' Prize, 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale,
Sapporo, Japan
1995 - Award of Excellence, 12th North Shore Art League Midwest
Print Show, Chicago, IL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (For Current and Upcoming see Links)
Solo Exhibtions
2019 - 2020 - Inspired -Transpired -Expired, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 - 2018 - Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2015 - “Bert Menco Re-invented”, Re-invent Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
2013 - “Bert Menco, Dutch-Chicago Interactions”, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
2010 - Solo show as part of “Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries”, Colapasta Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Group Exhibitions
2014/2016/2018/2020 - “7th-10th International Printmaking Bienal of Douro”, Côa Museum, Vila Nova de Côa; Espaço Corpus Christi, Vila Nova de Gaia; Library and Auditorium, Alijó, Portugal
2018 - “1st International Triennial of Graphic Art Livno”, Art Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2015 - “Current World Graphics par Excellence”, The Exhibition Hall of Vilema Wünscheho, Haviov-Podlesi, Czech Republic
2013 - “Selected Exhibition of Overseas Shortlisted Works; The 4th Guanlan International Print Biennial”, Guanlan Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China
2010 - '13 - “On and Of Paper: Selections from the Illinois State Museum Collections”, Illinois State Museum Galleries, Chicago, Springfield, & Whittington, IL
2012 -Imprima 2012 - “Mostra Internacional de Gravura”, Escola de Cultura, Comunicaçao, Oficíos e Artes (ECOA, Sobral, Brazil
2012 - “Pulled, Pressed & Printed, Chicago”, Chicago Cultural Center, Expo 72 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 - “25th Sint-Niklaas Printmaking Biennial: Printmaking Unraveled; Topic: “Celebration””, International Ex-Libris Center, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2010 - “Art Edition; Seoul International Print, Photo & Edition Works Art Fair (SIPA 2010)” represented by Gallery Mac, Bexon Convention Center, Busan, South Korea
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND/OR REPRODUCTIONS
Books, Catalogues, and Projects
2017 - In: 1st International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Livno, Franciscan Museum and Gallery Gorica-Livno, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2016 - In: Ulrich Goette Himmelblau: Art Compass, Who's Who in Visual Art, Art Domain Group, Quedlinburg, Germany.
2015 - In: Bob Hiebert, Sidney Block: Return of the Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2014 - In: Li Kang: 2008-2014 Growing Wisdom Guanlan Prints, Guanlan Orginal Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China.
2014 - In: Nuno Canelas: Global Print 2013, 90 Artists 90 Prints 60 Countries, Grafica do Norte, Douro Region, Portugal.
2008, '10, '11, '14 - In: Mini Print, 7th, 9th, 1oth, and 13th Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2013 - In: Dennis Michael Jon: Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial, Boston Printmakers, Inc. , Boston, MA.
2012 - In: Francisco Lara Mora, Clemente Barena, Imprima 2012, Mostra Internacional de Gravura, Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
2011 - In: Feest (Celebration), 18de Internationale Exlibris en Kleingrafiekwedstrijd, Internationaal Exlibris Centrum, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.
2010 - In: Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries, Colapasta Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
Articles
Print Art (large review in Chinese, Shenzhen, China)
Chicago Reader (among others) & Reader's Guide (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Weekly (online), The Independent Voice of the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Contemporary Impressions (Peachtree City, GA)
New Art Examiner (an insightful review by Diane Thodos) (Chicago, IL)
Evanston Review (Evanston, IL)
artScope.net (on-line, Chicago, IL)
artdaily (Mexico City, Mexico; The First Art Paper on the Net)
Art in Culture (Seoul, South Korea)
Hokkaido Newspaper (Sapporo, Japan)
Il Gazzettino (Venezia, Italy)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (Coventry, UK)
Arnhemse Courant (Arnhem, The Netherlands)
De Nieuwe Krant (Arnhem, The Netherlands)
De Gelderlander (Veluwezoom, The Netherlands)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
China Print Art Museum, Guanlan, Shenzhen, China
Douro Museum Printmaking Collection, Peso da Régua, Portugal
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, USA
Etching Guild Collection, Riga, Latvia
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Hyundai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, USA
Imprima Collection, Sobral, Brazil
International Ex-Libris Center, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Ion-Ionescu Art Nuseum of Prahova County, Ploeisti, Romania
Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, USA
Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, USA
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
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