Ken Fandell

A Conversation Past Noon in the Year 2005 from The Planets, 2005. Single-channel video, color, running time: 9 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

Hundreds of Skies (Above and Beyond Manhattan), 2005. Composite color photographs/C-print, 90 × 144 inches. Courtesy the artist and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Evanston, Illinois, 1971
Resides: Chicago
Education: University of Illinois at Chicago (M.F.A., 1996); The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A., 1993)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005
“The Planets,” Howard House, Seattle.
“It’s Hard and I Could Use Some Help,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California.

2004
“Two Skies,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“From Up and Down and Still Somehow,” Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago.

2003
“More Oscillations between Infinity and Proximity (girlfriends, sneakers, basketball, pizza, martinis, the
sky, inspiration and my place in the cosmos),” Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California.
“Ever, Ever, and Ever (Almost),” Revolution, Detroit.

2002
“Sitting on My Porch as the Sun Goes Down in the Year 2000,” Suite 106, New York.

1998
“Well,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005
“Still, Things Fall from the Sky,” California Museum of Photography, Riverside.

2004
“The Great Indoors,” San Francisco Art Institute.
“Drunk vs. Stoned,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.

2003
“Acts of Futility,” Bellevue Art Museum, Washington.
“A Clearing,” Cover-Up, London.

2002
“The Body Present: Effigies, Decoys, and Other Equivalents,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“About The Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted To Know),” Queens Museum of Art, New York.

2001
“SOUND VIDEO IMAGES OBJECTS,” Donald Young Gallery, Chicago.
“Under the Impression That When You Were Walking Forward You Would End Up Further Onward,” Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago.

2000
“Bad Directions,” Gallery 312, Chicago.
“Techno—Residium,” Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, California.

1999
“Lost Horizons: California Landscapes,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago.

1998
“Baywatch,” DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago.

1997
“Distractions,” TBA Space, Chicago.
“RoadShow ’97,” Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York.

1996
“Glow,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco.
“Tag (About Play),” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

Selected Bibliography

2006
Yood, James. “Ken Fandell,” Artforum (February).

2005
Lazaraus, Jason. “Ken Fandell,” Ten by Ten (spring).
Ollman, Leah. “‘Things Fall,’ But Not Quite Together,” Los Angeles Times (November 23).
Wilk, Deb. “Studio City,” Chicago Magazine (November).

2004
Artner, Alan G. “Granite is Ruckriem’s Path for Artistic power,” Chicago Tribune (May 28).
Hixson, Kathryn. “Ken Fandell,” ArtUS (September– October).
Stamets, Bill. “Seamsters,” Chicago Reader (May 21).

2003
Baker, Kenneth. “Artists Respond to Biotechnology,” San Francisco Chronicle (October 4).
Hall, Emily. “Mass of Vapors,” The Stranger (Seattle, November 20–26).

2002
Hawkins, Margaret. “Beyond the Horizon,” Chicago Sun-Times (April 26).

2001
Ferrara, Annette. “Do Plants Experience Self Loathing?” Ten by Ten (fall).

1999
Camper, Fred. “Distancing Techniques,” Chicago Reader (January 22).

1998
Baker, Kenneth. “Postmodern Humor at Southern Exposure—Installations Play Tricks on Language
and Landscape,” San Francisco Chronicle (March 10).

1997
Berk, Amy. “Twenty-Five and Under/Photographers SPEAK OUT,” Speak Magazine (spring).

1996
George, Alice Rose. 25 and Under: Photographers. New York: Norton.