EDUCATION
1989 M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1981 B.S. Zoology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Jackie Kazarian: A Sense of Place, Museum of Modern Art, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2016 Jackie Kazarian: Armenia (Hayasdan), Richard J. Daley Center, Chicago
2015 Jackie Kazarian: Project 1915, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
Jackie Kazarian: Project 1915, Raven Theater, Chicago
2012 Jackie Kazarian, Bellvitge Art, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
2010 Expect Nothing: New Works by Jackie Kazarian, Chicago Cultural Center
Jackie Kazarian, Damascus, Syria
Jackie Kazarian, Lattakia, Syria
2009 Jackie Kazarian, Union League Club of Chicago
2008 Jackie Kazarian: exhale, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago
Jackie Kazarian: breath, Stubbs, Chicago
Jackie Kazarian, The Artist Project, Artropolis, Chicago
2007 Jackie Kazarian, The Artist Project, Artropolis, Chicago
2006 Focus 5, Illinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago
Gebben Gray Gallery, Fennville, MI
2004 Don’t Blink, Three Arts Club, Chicago
1998 From Mariam’s kitchen--the wallpaper series, Boyadjian Gallery,
AGBU Alex Manoogian Center, Pasadena, California
1996 Jackie Kazarian, The Garden Wall Papers, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1994 Klein Art Works, Chicago
1993 55 Mercer, New York, New York
Klein Art Works, Chicago
1991 Klein Art Works, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Toolbox: The Seldoms @20, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2021 Before, After: Reflections on the Armenian Genocide, Stockton University Art Gallery, Galloway, NJ
2019 E Pluribus, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA), Oberlin, Ohio
2017 E Pluribus, Kent State University, Ohio
2016 E Pluribus, UNUM Gallery, Chicago
E Pluribus, Silent Funny, Chicago
2015 Kiss the Ground: A New Armenia, Armenian Museum of America, Watertown, MA (part 2) and Thompson
Gallery, Weston, MA (part 3)
Living Matter(s), Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida
2014 35 Years of Public Art, Chicago Cultural Center
2012 Made In Chicago, Golden Triangle, Chicago
Jackie Kazarian, Carol Ysla and Ron Ysla, Ysla Gallery, Wilmette, Illinois
2011 More is More, Jackie Kazarian, Daryl Morris and Sandra Perlow, Beverly Arts Center, Illinois
2009 39 Verbs, project of Industry of the Ordinary, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)
2008 Rhythms Occupy: four painters examine the Nature within our surroundings, Art Center of
Highland Park, Illinois
Giving Form to Faith: Art at the Cathedral, St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral, New York
2007 Sheets, Planes and Pulp:Works on (and of) Paper, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
2006 Gebben Gray Gallery, Bridge Art Fair, Miami
Outlaw A, Nova Art Fair, Chicago
Gebben Grey Gallery, Fennville, Michigan
2005 Copy Cat, LIPA Gallery, Chicago
2003 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2002 Memento Mori, L.I.P.A. Gallery, Chicago
2000 Interior Spaces Still Lives, McLean County Arts Center , Bloomington, Illinois
1999 Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Abstraction Chicago, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1998 Abstraction: Group Show, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1997 Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1996 Paper Chase, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
Abstractions Now, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1994 Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1993 Aquatic Visions: Contemporary Works by Midwest Artists, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
1992 Grit and Polish: Art and Space, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago
Small Abstraction, Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Armenian Artists Exhibition, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
2008 Monument, video created with Doug Stapleton for The Seldoms, Chicago
2007 Overflow, video created for The Seldoms, Chicago
2006 Wall of Invisible Difference, wallpaper installation and costumes for The Seldoms, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago
2004 Public Domain, Open Studio Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago
2003 The Home Show, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fertile Muck, performance and installation with 58 Group, Chicago
2002 The Welcome Project, exhibition and workshop for RefugeOne’s Program for Refugee Women
From African and Middle Eastern Countries, exhibition at Roosevelt University, Chicago
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Chicago Pacific Founders, Chicago
Accretive Health, Chicago
United States Embassy, Yerevan, Armenia
Chicago Police Department, 17th District Station, City of Chicago
Town of Huntington, New York
Chicago Public Library, Independence Branch
DePaul University Art Collection
State of Illinois Art Museum
McCormick Place Art Collection, Chicago
Rockford Art Museum
Seagrams Art Collection
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection
Ritz-Carlton Chicago Art Collection
Waldorf Astoria New York Art Collection
Renaissance Blackstone Hotel Art Collection, Chicago
AWARDS, PUBLIC SERVICE AND EMPLOYMENT
2018 Art Envoy, United States Embassy, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2014-19 Chicago Park District Public Art Committee
2010 Visiting Artist, United States Embassy, Damascus, Syria
2008 Fellow, Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media,
Columbia College, Chicago
2002-07 Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Art In My Backyard (AIMBYO)
1989-04 Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1985-90 Science Editor, Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago
1996-04 Advisory Board, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago
1998-04 Exhibition Advisory Committee, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago
1997-04 Grants Panelist (Chair), City Arts Program, City of Chicago
1991 Community Artist Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cox, Ted, Armenia, Inspired by Guernica, Takes Up Residence in Shadow of Picasso, DNAInfo, April 8, 2016.
Nari Safavi, WBEZ, Worldview, April 8, 2016 (interview).
Hayes, Danielle, “Painting on Armenian genocide too big to ignore,” United Press International, 2015.
Rucinski. Tracy, “Chicago Artist Marks Armenian Genocide with Guernica-Size Work”, Reuters, 2015
Lulay, Stephanie, “Marking the Armenian Genocide, artist forges path to forgive with painting,” DNAInfo, 2015
Nari Safavi, WBEZ, Worldview, April 17, 2015 (interview).
Kiss the Ground-A New Armenia (catalogue) Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts 2015.
Tatizian, Maria. CivilNet TV, (interview).
Firozi, Paulina, “Painting marks family history, 100-year anniversary of Armenian genocide,” Chicago Tribune, April 23, 2015.
Cunningham, Sima. “Chicago Artist Jackie Kazarian Creates Monumental Painting to Memorialize the Armenian Genocide, Boston Indymedia, January 13, 2015.
Waxman, Lori. “Jackie Kazarian: Con Abrazos, Abraçades, Hugs,” catalog essay, 2012.
Miquel Vidal, “Jackie Kazarian,” VII Jornada Dona, Trasplantament i Qualitat de Vida, Bellvitge Art, Barcelona.
Waxman, Lori. “Stormy Weather, Antarctic Dreams,” Chicago Tribune, September 3, 2010.
Darrell Roberts, “Jackie Kazarian Mammoth Abstraction @ the Chicago Cultural Center,” artexaminer.com,
Paul Klein, artletter.com, July 9, 2010.
Karissa Lang, “Jackie Kazarian at Alfadena Gallery,” Newcity Chicago, March 27, 2008.
Lauren Weinberg, “Focus 5,” Time Out Chicago, December 14-27, 2006.
Leah Pietrusiak, “The Seldoms at Flatfile Galleries,” Time Out Chicago, October 12-18.
Tony Sarabia, “Copyright,” interview at Public Domain for Chicago Public Radio, May 21, 2004.
Not Just Another Pretty Face (catalogue), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Alan Artner, “Preserving passing cultures, Momento Mori.” Chicago Tribune, July 12, 2002.
Richard Christiansen, “Memory lane joyfully leads to local libraries.” Chicago Tribune, January 20, 2002.
Peter F. Spooner, Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, (catalogue), 1991, Tweed Museum of Art, University of
Minnesota, Duluth
Lynn Van Matre, “At Hindsdale show, art is full bloom.” Chicago Tribune, April 19, 2001
Phil Smith, “Interior Spaces Still Lives,” Dialogue, September/October 2000.
Laura Stoland, “Interior spaces still lives.” New Art Examiner, September 2000.
Alison J. Hatcher. Interior Spaces Still Lives. (catalogue), 2000, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois
Janet Samuelian, “AGBU presents Chicago innovator, artist Jackie Kazarian.” The Armenian Reporter International,
August 8, 1998.
“Openings.” Art and Antiques. December 1994.
Michael Muster, “Jackie Kazarian.” New Art Examiner, April 1992.
Kathryn Hixson, “Chicago in review.” New Art Examiner, March 1992.
David McCracken, “Jackie Kazarian marks a good beginning.” Chicago Tribune, Dec.27,1991.
Michael Bonesteel, “Ex-zoologist makes organic art.” Lake Forester