Academics

Karen Lebergott
Associate Professor
Art

Phone 847-735-5182
E-mail lebergott@lakeforest.edu
Web http://web.mac.com/lebergott/

Specialization
Art - Painting, Drawing
20/21st Century Art
Art in Chicago

Interests
20th Century art - Cubism, futurism, collage. 

Education
MFA, School of the Art Institute
BS in Art, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses Taught
Art 130: Elements of Design
Art 131: Beginning Drawing
Art 231: Figure Drawing
Art 230: Painting
Art 235: Mixed Media
Art 481: Senior Seminar in Studio Art

Exhibitions
2006     
“Location Uncertain – Berlin/Chicago” NIU Museum, DeKalb, IL
“Travel Documents,” A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
“Refugien”, Kulturamt, Berlin, Germany

2005 
“Chicago/Berlin Exchange,” Galerie Art Mbassy, Berlin, Germany    

2006 
“Correlations,” Kunstverein Ingan, Berlin, Germany
Recent drawings, two-person exhibit, Gallery Stella A, Berlin, Germany

2004 
“Recent Work From Berlin,” Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest, IL

2003      
“The Temporaries,” two-person exhibit, Galerie der Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany

Exhibits
Solo Exhibitions
2001 "Property 1990-2001", Eleven year survey, Eleventh St. Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2001 St. James Cavalier Art Centre, Valletta, Malta.

2000 New York Law School Gallery, NYC

2000 The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1998 Reicher Gallery Barat College, LakeForest, IL

1997 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1988 The Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL.

Group Exhibitions
2001 "CAA Gallery Artists", Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago

2000 "Out of Line" The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.,"New Work by Gallery Artists "Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL., "Blink", Northern Illinois U. Gallery, Chicago.

1991-99 Columbia College Eleventh St. Gallery, Chicago, IL., Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL., N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL., Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL., Knox College Gallery, Galesburg, IL., Betty Rymer Gallery The School of The Art Institute, Chicago, IL., Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL.,Lannon-Cole Gallery, Chicago, IL., Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL., Rockford College, Rockford, IL., Paper Press Gallery, Chicago, IL., Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL., Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago, IL. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.

Invited Talks
2000 Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, panel discussion of installation exhibition "Blink", Chicago, IL.

2000 Curated "Citizenship Imagined" in conjunction with philosophy symposium "The Possibilities of Citizenship", Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest , IL.

1999 Curated "Synthesis -Collage and Mixed Media, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake,Forest, IL.

1998 Curated "Abstract Variations", Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest IL.

1997 Curated "Not Renoir", Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest IL.

1996 Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, panel discussion on "The Current State of The Arts in Chicago", Chicago, IL.

1994 Garret Gallery, 10th Annual Juried Fine Arts Competition, St. Louis, Mo. Juror.

1993 Chicago Salon group, Chicago, IL. Visiting Artist slide lecture.

1992 Northern Illinois University, Ars Nova student competition, DeKalb, IL. Visiting Artist/Juror.

Grants / Awards
2006  Chicago Council on Fine Arts, CAAP Grant

2005  Mellon Grant awarded through the Global Partners/ACM

2003  Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, Artist-In-Residence

2003  Illinois Arts Council, Governor International Arts Exchange

2000  Illinois Arts Council, Projects Grant

1993  Illinois Arts Council, Projects Grant