Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Jeremy Bolen

Saturday, October 08, 2016 @ 10:00am, Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza

Jeremy Bolen

Jeremy Bolen is a Chicago based artist, researcher and educator interested in site specific, experimental modes of documentation and presentation. Much of Bolen's work involves rethinking systems of recording in an attempt to observe invisible presences that remain from various scientific experiments and human interactions with the earth's surface. Bolen received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012 and is a recent recipient of the Oxbow Faculty Artist Residency in Saugatuck, MI, Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency in Wendover, Utah; Catwalk Institute Residency in Catskill, NY; Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology Residency in Mancelona, MI; Signal Fire Residency in Portland, OR; Joshua Tree Highlands Residency in Joshua Tree, CA and the Provost Award for Graduate Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been exhibited at numerous locations including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; La Box, Bourges; IDEA Space, Colorado Springs; The Mission, Houston; Galerie Zürcher, Paris; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Salon Zürcher, New York; The Drake, Toronto; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; Gallery 400, Chicago; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland; Depaul University Art Museum, Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, and Roots and Culture, Chicago. Bolen currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and is represented by Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago.