Artist Details
Email
barbaraciurej@gmail.com
First Name
Barbara
Surname
Ciurej
Birth Date
1956
Active In
Chicago, Illinois
Categories
Graphic Designer, Photographer
Training
1978: BS in Visual Communications, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
Exhibitions History
2018: Processed Views , Granary Arts, Ephraim, Utah [solo]
2018: Pink Noise , Veeck Gallery, Chicago Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois
2018: Watch Me Grow , Alfons Gallery, Milwaukee WI [solo]
2018: Women Seen by Women International Exhibition , Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
2018: Follow My Lead , ___timnolas, Vienna, Austria
2017: AWAKE, Protest, Liberty & Resistance , Magnum Foundation, New York, New York
2017: Another Perspective: Women Artists, Then & Now , Heuser Art Center, Peoria, Illinois
2017: Ithaca Symposium, Ithaca, New York
2017: Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Jan.13-March 14, 2017: Processed Views , Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado [solo]
2016: Forged Worlds , Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York
2016: Processed Views , Colorado Center for Photographic Arts, Denver, Colorado [solo]
2016: Lost in Space: Contemporary Landscape , Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York
2016: Changing Circumstances, Looking at the Future of the Planet , FotoFest Bienniel, Houston, Texas
2016: photo+craft: Authentic Constructions , Henco Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
2015: Processed Views , Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana [solo]
2015: Wisconsin Landscapes , Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015: The Fence , a juried outdoor installation, Brooklyn New York, Boston, Massachusetts, Atlanta Georgia, Houston, Texas
2015: Tourists Out of Bounds , Lishui International Photography Exhibition, Lishui, China
2014: Stella: The Nature of a Collective , Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois
2013: Unconventional Photography , Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2013: Pacific Midwest , Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2013: Historic Processes/Contemporary Visions , Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, Florida
2013: Ponder Food as Love , Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
2012: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
2012: Natural History , Portrait Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [solo]
2012: FRESH , Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2012: After Classical Portraiture , Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2012: Digital Darkroom Slide Show Night , Annenberg Center for Photography, Los Angeles, California
2011: Alternative Processes , Soho Photo, New York, New York
2011: Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
2010: At Her Age , A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2010: Consumption , Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2008: Changing Women , Bette Cerf Hill Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
2008: Beyond the Backyard , Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
2008: Highlights from the Collection , Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2006: Portraits , solo exhibit, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2005: Metamorphoses , Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin [solo]
2005: Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration , Pace University Gallery, New York, New York
2004: Super Hits of the Seventies , Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2002: Playtime , Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
2001: Seven Midwest Photographers , Athenaeum, Schaumberg, Illinois
1998: Collaborative Photographs , Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
1997: Photography in Wisconsin Since 1900 , Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1996: Midwest Photographer’s Project , Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
1995: Photography from Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota , Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1994: New Wisconsin Photography , Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1993: Industrial Effects , Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1991: Wisconsin Artists’ Biennial , Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1989: Changing Chicago , Art Institute of Chicago and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
1987: Women Photographers in America , Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1987: Road and Roadside: American Photographs 1930-1986 , Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
1987: Prime Locations , Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
1986: Collaborative Photographs, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
1984: Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1984: Sex Specific: Photographic Investigations of Contemporary Sexuality , Chicago, Illinois
1983: Collaborative Photographs , Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
1982: Collaborative Photographs , Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
1982: Midwest Photography , Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1981: Collaborative Photographs , Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
1981: Woman-Work , The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, California
Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Indie Photobook Library
Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cynthia Sears/Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Washington
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Publications
Chicago Tribune article by Abigail Foerstner, "Recasting Reality Into Fantasy, with a Twist of Satire," October 24, 1986
Awards
2016: Mary Nohl Suitcase Export Award
2015: Ecoonomic Hardship Reporting Project Grant Lens Culture Earth 2015 Awards
2014: PhotoNOLA Portfolio Prize
2013 Grand Prize, Lishui China Internatinal Photographic Exhibition
2011: First Prize, Soho Photo Alternative Processes Competition
2009, 2010, 2013: Critical Mass finalist
2000-2001, 2003-2009: Ragdale Foundation Residency Grants
2008: Featured Artists for Chicago Artists Month
2007: Woodlands Academy Women’s History Award
2005: Gary Goberville Fellowship
1990: Wisconsin Arts Board, New Work Award
1988: Changing Chicago Project, Focus Infinity Fund
Website(s)
website for collaboration with Lindsay Lochman
page on Museum of Contemporary Photography website
Biography
Ciurej and Lochman began collaborating on photography in 1978. They both serve as photographer and model, together developing the theme, editing the work, and shaping the direction of the project. Women, aging, and the domestic world are recurring subjects in their work.