CV

Artist & Educator

Education

1998 Master of Fine Arts in Printmedia, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

1994 AOCA, Ontario College of Art, with Honors, Toronto, Canada 

1993-94 Ontario College of Art Off-Campus Program, Florence, Italy

Teaching Experience

1999-Present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Printmedia, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

Courses Taught - Artists’ Books, Advanced Artists’ Books

Teaching Award (F2022, F2023) - Radical Approaches: Blending Photography and Book Structures

2018-19,21-22

Faculty, Summer Printmaking, Relief Print to Book Art, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists' Residency 

2004

Visiting Artist, Summer Program, Artists’ Books, Visual Communication Department, SADI, Seoul, Korea

Visiting Artist, Summer Program, Artists’ Books, Fine Arts Dept., Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Datz Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea 

2008 Kookmin Art Gallery, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

2006 Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea

2001 Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL

2000 William A. Koehnline Gallery, Des Plaines, IL

1998 Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

‍ ‍Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026

Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age, Group, San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB), CA 4/25 - 7/19/26 (Upcoming)

Embodied Trace: Mapping Memory and Trace, Duo, a+c architects gallery, Skokie, IL (Current)

2025

Tiny Memories with Stamp, Group, Space Doya, Seoul, Korea

Barely Fair, Group, Fundraiser for the 2026 Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago, IL

2024

조응 Correspondence, Group, Factory2, Seoul, Korea

Between the Leaves: Print, Paper, and Artist Books at Ox-Bow, Group, Ox-Bow House, Douglas, MI

2023‍ ‍

Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women, The 112th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

New Editions 2023, Juried, Biennial Pop-Up Showcase, Main Gallery at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), Minneapolis, MN

The Serenity of Less, The Research House of Asian Art, Chicago, IL

2022

SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL

2017

Heterotopia, Group, 062 Gallery, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

Recto & Verso, Group, 062 Gallery, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

2015

Innovative Forms and Structures, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY

150th Anniversary Exhibition Joan Flasch Artists' Books Collection, Chicago, IL

Selected Book Fairs

2025 Chicago Art Book Fair, Participated with Co-Founded Collective: Form and Imprint

Staple + Stitch Fair, Participated with Co-Founded Collective: Form and Imprint

Artbook & Print Fair, Department of Print Media, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL

2024 Artbook & Print Fair, Department of Print Media,  Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL

2023 Artbook & Print Fair, Department of Print Media,  Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL

2022 Artbook & Print Fair, Department of Print Media, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

‍ ‍. Printed Matter’s Virtual NY Art Book Fair, NY, NY

2021 Printed Matter’s Virtual NY Art Book Fair, NY, NY

2019 Chicago Art Book Fair (CABC), Chicago, IL 

2018 Chicago Art Book Fair (CABC), Chicago, IL

‍ ‍ abC Art Book Fair, Shanghai, China

2017 Chicago Art Book Fair (CABC), Chicago, IL

Publications

2020 Kaleido_Book, Candor Arts, Chicago, IL _ First edition (200 copies) sold out in 2024; second edition in progress.

2017 Book Book, Dreamer FTY, China. Sixth edition released February 2026

Selected Collections

Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Datz Museum, Korea

Bowes Art & Architecture Library at Stanford University, CA

Center for Book Arts, NY

Fleet Library at RISD, RI

Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Residencies

2024 Datz Museum Artist Residency, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

2023 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

‍ Buinho Creative Residency, Messejana, Portugal

‍ Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, Michigan

2022 R1211, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea

2019 Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, Michigan 

Selected Lectures and Workshops

2026 SFCB, San Francisco Center for the Book, “Waterfall Flipbook +  Interactive Book Structures” (upcoming)

2025 SpaceB1 + Doya, Seoul, Korea, “Artist’s Book: Various Folding Technique”

2024 Datz Press, D.ark.room, Seoul, Korea, “New Insights into Artist’s Books”

‍ ‍ Datz Museum, Gwangju-si, Korea, “Artist’s book workshop: Accordion Variations”

2020 2020 KSBDA (Korea Society of Basic Design & Art) Fall International Conference

(Online-Live-streamed), Seoul, Korea, “Artists’ Books – Basic Concepts and Forms”

2019 abC Beijing Art Book Fair, Beijing, China, "Simple Artist’s Book Structure without binding.”

‍ ‍ Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, “Book Art Workshop”

2018 Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea, "Simple Books."

2017 Printmed Matter Inc., New York, NY, "Book Book - Conversation and Workshop"

2008 Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea "What is Artists' Books."

2006 Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea, “Artists’ books: The Book as a Work of Art”

2004 Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

‍ ‍ SADI, Samsung Art & Design Institute, Seoul, Korea

‍ ‍ Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea “What is an Artist’s book?”

Collaborative Projects

2024-25 Collating Mess, Self-published, Edition of 10 each variation,

Ongoing collaboration with R. Clarke-Davis layers everyday mess, residue, and discarded fragments

into an experimental artist’s book format.

Curatorial Projects

2024 New Insights into Artists’ Books, Datz Press, Seoul, Korea

A collaborative exhibition showcased artworks created by students and faculty from SAIC, 

Printmedia Department alongside publications from Datz Press at the D’Ark Room Space

2011-2025 Display Case Exhibition,Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL

2022-2023 Radical Approaches: Blending Photography and Book Structures Class Exhibition

‍ ‍ Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL

2022 a body a book, abode, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2017-2021 Anything but Books, Heterotopia, Recto & Verso, Community Binding, Object Lessons: Book Explorations, Unbinding Self, What Remains‍ ‍

062 Gallery, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

Professional Service

2025 Coordinator, Artbook & Print Fair,Department of Print Media, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL

2024 Coordinator, Artbook & Print Fair,Department of Print Media,  JFABC, Chicago, IL

2023 Coordinator, Artbook & Print Fair, Department of Print Media,  Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL

2022 Coordinator, Artbook & Print Fair,Department of Print Media, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2020 Juror, Caxton Club’s Annual Grant, Chicago, IL

Grants & Awards

2023 Peter Williams Teaching Award, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency

2018, 21-25 Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

2003, 2001,2000   Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grant, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, IL

Selected Press & Interview

2024 Ox-Bow School of Art Summer Course Catalog (pp. 34–35), Peter Williams Award Feature

‍ ‍ The Gyeonggi-do Museum Association, Korea

‍ ‍ Kyeongin Press, Korea

‍‍ ‍ GGCF (Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation), Korea

‍‍ ‍ ‍ Artbava, Korea

2022 Interview, OCI Museum, R1211, Open Studio, Korea