Conrad Bakker
Born in Ontario, Canada 1970
Currently lives and works in Urbana, Illinois
Education
1992
Calvin College, BFA
1996
Washington University in St. Louis, MFA
Solo Exhibitions
2010
• Conrad Bakker, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2009
• Untitled Project: SCIENCE FICTIONS, public art project, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
2008
• Conrad Bakker: Objects and Economies [Untitled Projects 1997-2007], Des Moines
Art Center Downtown, Des Moines
2007
• Untitled Project: Commodity Fetishism, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Conrad Bakker: Untitled Projects, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
• Untitled Project: The Production of Space, Kinzelman Art Consulting, Houston, Texas
2006
• Untitled Projects: Auto Economies, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
2005
• Untitled Project: Slacker Economy, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Untitled Project: Dumpster, At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago, UIC Gallery 400, Chicago,
• Untitled Project: eBay/Computer/Flash, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
• Untitled Project: Sidewalk Economies (San Francisco), Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2004
• Untitled Project: Untitled Product Distribution Network
• Untitled Project: Muscle Car, Suitable, Chicago
2003
• Untitled Project: Refreshment, Art Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago
• Untitled Project: Consumer Actions, FARGFABRIKEN, Stockholm, Sweden
2002
• Untitled Project: Untitled Mail Order Catalog
2001
• Conrad Bakker: Objects, NFA SPACE, Chicago
2000
• Conrad Bakker: Art and Objecthood, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
• Untitled Project: Sidewalksale, Revolution Gallery, Detroit
• Conrad Bakker: Sculpture, Bona Fide Gallery, Chicago
1997
• Untitled Project: Garage Sale, October 11, 1997, 1465 Genessee SE, Grand Rapids, MI 10am-4pm
Group Exhibitions
2011
• Subject: Object, Ebersmoore Gallery, Chicago, IL
• New Image Sculpture, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2010
• Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, Contemporary Art Museum Houston
• PUBLIC THINGS + Untitled Project: LIBRAIRIE [Geneva], organized by Conrad Bakker, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
• SIZE DOES MATTER, curated by Shaquille O’Neal, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2009
• Contemporary Culture, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• A Group Show for Daniel Pink, curated by Lane Reiyea, VEGA ESTATES, Chicago, IL
• WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York
• THOUSAND ISLAND, Space B Gallery, New York, New York
• Artists' Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
• Response: Art and the Art of Criticism, ISPACE Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Untitled: Field Work, curated by Jessica Cochran, O'Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, Chicago, IL
2008
• WALL ROCKETS, curated by Lisa Dennison, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York
• Working Men, Galerie Analix Forever, curated by Paul Ardenne and Barbara Polla, Geneva, Switzerland
• Doppelganger, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art about the Art World, Arcadia University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007
• Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art about the Art World, Momenta Art, Brooklyn
• Dollars & More, Galerie Analix Forever, Artissima14, Turin, Italy
• The Irresistable Force, curated by Kerryn Greenberg, Tate Modern, Level 2 Gallery, London
• On Being an Exhibition, curated by Joseph Del Pesco, Artists Space, New York
• Transactions, curated by Kelly Baum, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• The Price of Everything..., Whitney Independent Study Curatorial Program Exhibition at CUNY, New York
• Branded and On Display, curated by Judith Hoos Fox, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
• Possessed, curated by Miriam Kienle, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, New York
2006
• EBAYADAY (Untitled Project: Rolex/eBAY) online exhibition curated by Rebekah Modrek, University of Michigan Project Placement, (curated by Joseph del Pesco), Analix Forever Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland
• The Object of Design, (curated by Titia Hulst & Barbara Mundy) Pelham, NY
• The Coffee Was Very Slow In Coming, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit
• Data Mining, (curated by Joe Scanlan), WALLSPACE, New York
• Group Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Smoke and Mirrors: Deception in Contemporary Art, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Shopdropping, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
• Sellout, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• In the Eye of the Beholder, Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit
• Spectacles of the Real, Opensource/Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at UIUC,
Champaign, IL
2005
• Trade Show, MASS MoCA (curated by Rebecca Uchill), North Adams, MA
• Contemporary Art in the Midwest, 2005 DePauw Biennial, (curated by Kaytie Johnson) DePauw University, IN
• City Selections, Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago Public Art Program, Chicago
• Think Small, Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery (curated by Robert Sill)
2004
• Free Fall, Revolution, Detroit
• Sixth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection (traveling exhibition) Consolidated Works (Seattle, WA); Arthouse (Austin, TX); Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco, CA); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA); New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)
• 10, A Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Revolution, Detroit
2003
• Bakker, Benjamin, Kerr, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
• Untitled Project: Souvenir (Miami), Scope Art Fair, Miami, Rudolph Projects
• Conrad Bakker, Packard Jennings, New China Town Barber Shop, Los Angeles
• Look Out!, Revolution, Detroit
• Living with Duchamp, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
• Make it Real, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis
• really, Gescheidle, Chicago (curated by Tim Lowly)
• Really Real, Gallery 312, Chicago
• Capital-F, University of Texas at Dallas
• Page Me, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
2002
• DIM-SUM, a RED76 project, Gavin Shettler Gallery, Portland
• Bounce, Revolution, Detroit
• Watery, Domestic, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, (Curated by Hamza Walker)
• The Future is Now Right, I-SPACE Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL (Invitational)
• Pas de Deux, Revolution, Detroit
• The Meijer Project: Conrad Bakker/Kevin Hamilton, DYNAMITE SPACE, Grand Rapids, MI
2001
• Garage Wall, The Stray Show, Chicago (NFA SPACE booth)
• Home Installation, North Park University Gallery, Chicago
• Culdesac, window installation, ART IN GENERAL, NYC
• Minute: a boxed set of miniature multiples, ARTISTS SPACE, New York, NY (Invitational)
• Daily Life, Rudoplh Projects, Houston
• Ha-Ha!, Revolution, Detroit
1999
• Souvenirs/Documents: 20 Years, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY (Invitational)
Public Collections
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
Grants / Fellowships
2006
Research Board Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
2005
Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council
2002
Research Board Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
2000
Creative Capital Foundation, Individual Artist Grant