Curators Biographies

Pamela Fraser is an artist, writer, and curator. She has had solo exhibitions at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston; Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; Golden Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne; 1k Projectspace de Ekster, Amsterdam; Casey Kaplan, New York; and Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice. Fraser has participated in group shows at Galerie Bigger and Better, Vienna; the Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago; Apex Art, New York; Feature Inc, New York; threewalls, Chicago; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Kunz Vis Gonzalez, Chicago; Printed Matter, New York; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Exit Art, New York; Max Protetch, New York; and White Columns, New York. Fraser is a recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; the College Research Grant from the College of the Arts, The Ohio State University; The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; and a fellowship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. From 2008 until 2011, she hosted the exhibition and event series He Said, She Said in Oak Park, IL. Fraser earned a BFA in Painting from the School of the Visual Arts, New York, and an MFA in New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles.

John Neff is an artist and writer. His sculptures, photographic images, and collages meditate on the very processes of making and transforming meaning through material contact, the experience of the body, and the mediating mechanisms of technology. Neff has had solo exhibitions at Golden Gallery, Chicago; Marjorie Wood Gallery, San Francisco; Right Window Gallery, San Francisco; Proof Gallery, Boston; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; Occasional Art, St. Paul, MN; and Suitable Gallery, Chicago. He has also participated in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hungryman Gallery, Chicago; the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; the Chicago Cultural Center; The Bower, San Antonio, TX; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Location One, New York; Artists Space, New York; and College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN. Neff is a recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue, as well as an Artists Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council. Neff earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.