EDUCATION:
San Francisco Art Institute, Painting Major, 1980-81
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, BFA. Painting/Film Major, 1977-80
Milwaukee Area Technical College, Design Major, 1975-77
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
"Art from the Heartland", curated
by Paul Klein. Indianapolis Art Center, Jan, 2010.
"new
Abstractions" - brenda barnum & marianna levant, "the architrove" , chicago, march. 2008
Art Chicago, James Corcoran Gallery, Chicago, IL, April, 2007
Art Chicago, Walter Bischoff Gallery/ Berlin, Thomas Masters Gallery/ Chicago. April,
2006
"Blue" Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL Dec.2005
"8 Ball", 4Art, Chicago, IL August, 2004
Works on Paper, Marsha Childs Gallery, Princeton, N.J. April,2000
"Botanicals" Butters Gallery. Portland OR, March, 2000
"Sextablos" Hyde Park Art Center, Aug.1999, Barrister Gallery, New Orleans,
LA,
May.2000,Augen Gallery, Portland
OR, Nov. 2000
New York Expo, New York,NY March 1999
"Davis Street Inaugural", Butters Gallery, Portland, OR Feb.
1999
Art Expo Miami, Marco Fine Arts, Miami FLA Jan.1999
"Contemporary Abstraction", Klein Gallery, Chicago,IL Dec.
1998
Gallery Sur, Carmel, C.A., Oct. 1997
Vancouver International Art Exhibition, Butters Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. June,
1997
Group Show, Butters Gallery, Portland Oregon, April,
1997
Group Show, Jayson Gallery, Chicago, IL Dec. 1996
"20 at Knox", Knox College, Galesburg, IL, Sept. 1996
"Painterly Abstraction" , Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, July, 1996 and
Indiana University, Gary, IN, Sept. 1996
Group Show, Jayson Gallery, Chicago, IL Dec. 1995
"Wanderlust....abstraction in Chicago" A.R.C. Gallery , Chicago. IL,
Sept. 1995
Group show. FachHochschule, Offenburg,
Germany. Oct.1994
ART EXPO, Chicago. Walter Bischoff Gallery,
May 1994
Chicago Drawing Exhibition, Madiera, Portugal,
July 1993
ART EXPO, Chicago. Walter Bischoff Gallery,
May 1993
"Emerging Chicago Abstraction", Rockford Art Museum,
Rockford, IL Jan.1993
Chicago Abstraction, Klein Gallery,
Chicago IL Dec. 1993
Burns Fine Art, New York, NY, Dec.
1992
Gallery North West, Indiana University, Gary, IN,
Aug. 1991
"18 Artists" 1800 Clybourn Building, Chicago,
June 1991
"Aktuelle Kunst Aus Amerika", Amerika Haus, Stuttgart,
Germany, June 1991
Randolph Street Gallery Auction, Chicago,
May 1991
"Rapture" Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago,
May 1991
"Paint" Sazama Gallery, Chicago, Jan. 1991
Los Angeles Art Expo, Dec. 1990
Cologne Art Expo, Germany, Nov. 1990
"New Work for a New Decade" Gallery Vienna, Chicago, Jan. 1990
"Transcultural Exchange Show" Chicago and Vienna, Austria, fall 1989
"Abstractions" Zola Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, June1988
"Arts Midwest Fellowship" Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Oct. 1987,
The Wursum Museum, Racine, WI. Feb. 1988, Evanston Art Center,
Evanston, ILL. May 1988
"Masks" Klein Gallery, Chicago, Sept. 1987
International Contemporary Art Fair, Fort Apache Gallery, London, May 1986
Hippodrome Nightclub, London, England, May 1986
"Fort Apache Expo Show" Fort Apache Gallery, Chicago, May 1986
Limelight Nightclub, Chicago, July/ March 1986
"Convergence: Mind, Myth & Material", Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, April 1985
"Wish You Were Here" Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, April, 1985
"Chicago" Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, Jan. 1985
"Post Industrial Paint", Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, July 1984
SELECTED ONE PERSON SHOWS:
Thomas masters
gallery, Chicago, Il , may 2009
Thomas Masters Gallery,
Chicago, IL , dec. 2006
Butters Gallery, Portland, OR,
Dec. 2004
Thomas Masters GAllery, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2003
Eastwick Gallery, Chicago, IL, May 2002
Eastwick Gallery, Chicago, IL, May 2001
Butters Gallery, Porland, OR, Sept. 2000
Eastwick Gallery, Chicago, IL, March,2000
New York
Art Exposition, Marco Fine Art, March,1998
Butters Gallery,
Portland OR, Sept. 1997
Walter Bischoff Gallery, Stuttgart,
Germany, June 1990
The Broadway Gallery, Detroit, MI. May
1988
Bates Gallery, Chicago, ILL. Nov. 1986
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, ILL. Oct. 1985
GRANTS
1986 Arts Midwest NEA Fellowship Award
REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS
"30 Jahre Fachhochschule
Offenburg" catalogue, Oct.1994
Bourrie, Sally, "Art
Aloft', review of "Rapture," New City, May, 1991
McCracken,
David, " Gallery Scene", review of "Paint", Chicago Tribune, Feb.1991
Hardt, Su, "Brenda Barnum aus Chicago- Born to be Wild", Kunst Magazin, Stuttgart,
Germany, May 1990
McCracken, David, "Gallery Scene", review of "Abstractions",
Chicago Tribune,July 1988
"Choices: Twenty Painters from
the Midwest", catalogue from the Arts Midwest Fellowship Show,
essay by Julia Yanson
Waddington, Chris, "Different Strokes,
review of Arts Midwest Show. Art Paper, Nov.1987
Hixon,
Kathryn, review of one person show at Bates Gallery, New Art Examiner,
Jan. 1987
"Gallery
Preview", Nit & Wit, Dec. 1986
Leonhart, Mark, "Brenda
Barnum/ Linda King", review of show, New Art Examiner, Feb/86
Segard,
Michel, Chicago's New Expressionism", New Art Examiner, May 1985
Lyons, Christopher, "Post Industrial Paint", review of show, Chicago Sun Times, July1984Artner, Alan, "Post
Industrial Paint" review of show, Chicago Tribune, July 1984
COLLECTIONS:
Arthur Anderson & Co., Chicago, Il
Walter
Bischoff, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Billy
Corgin, Chicago, IL
John Hancock Center-Signature Room
at the 95th
Dr. Jerome Hausman, Evanston, Il
I.M.C. Inc. Northbrook,IL
Jay Goltz, Chicago, IL
Edward & Nancy
Kienholz, Hope, Idaho
Robert and Janice Laff, Miami, FL
Judith Mamet, Chicago. Il
Peter Miller, Peter Miller Gallery
Dorothy and Alan Press, Chicago, Il
Prudential
Insurance Co., Newark N.J.
Alan Ravitz, Chicago,
Il
Saks Fifth Ave., New York
Robert Wislow, Chicago,IL
