Mary Ahrendt

Artist Details

• First Name Mary
• Middle Name E
• Maiden Name Ahrendt
• Surname Ahrendt
• Birth Date 1940
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Residence(s) Evanston, Illinois
• Categories Conceptual Artist, Performance Artist, Photographer
• Training 1978: BA in sculpture, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
  1980: MFA in painting and performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Exhibitions History 1978: Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1981: NAME Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1981, 1984, 1986: Deson-Saunders Gallery
  
  1982: Recent color : an exhibition of photographs by Mary Ahrendt, Reed Estabrook, Bernard Faucon, Vahé Guzelimian, David Haxton, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
  
  1983: New Photography, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1984: Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1984: CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  
  1984: Constructed Works, Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia
  
  1986: Nude, Naked, Stripped, Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
  1987: Images for human conduct : Mary Ahrendt, Anita David, Robert Peters, Jonathan Waterbury, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1988: First Person Singular: Self-Portrait Photography, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
  
  1990: Toward the Future: Contemporary Art in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1991: Ehlers-Caudill Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1991: Summer Exhibition, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York
  
   
• Collections Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
• Publications Aletti, Vince. "Summer Group." Village Voice (August 13, 1991): 100. Artner, Alan G. "Mary Ahrendt's Photoworks Show Conceptual Development...." Chicago Tribune (March 14, 1991): 15c. Hagen, Charles. "Group Show." The New York Times (August 23, 1991). Reeve, Catherine, and Marilyn Sward. The New Photography. Prentice-Hall, 1984.
• Awards 1981, 1983, 1983, 1987: Illinois Arts Council
• Other Occupation(s) art teacher at Notre Dame High School for Girls
• Biography 1970s and 1980s: photography
  
  1990s onward: drawing
  
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