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
2014
• Untitled Project: Robert Smithson's Library, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
• Untitled Project: The Crystal Land, Station Independent Projects, New York
2012
• Conrad Bakker: Untitled Project: Seasonal Economies, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, Vermont
• Untitled Project: RECORD SHOP [45s], Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Conrad Bakker/Untitled Projects, BCA Center, Burlington, Vermont
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], Art Center Downtown, Des Moines, Iowa
2007
• Untitled Project: Commodity Fetishism, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Conrad Bakker: Untitled Projects, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
• Untitled Project: The Production of Space, Kinzelman Art Consulting, Houston, Texas
2006
• Untitled Projects: Auto Economies, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indiana
2005
• Untitled Project: Slacker Economy, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Untitled Project: Dumpster, At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago, UIC Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois
• Untitled Project: eBay/Computer/Flash, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
• Untitled Project: Sidewalk Economies, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
2004
• Untitled Project: Untitled Product Distribution Network
• Untitled Project: Muscle Car, Suitable, Chicago, Illinois
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, Illinois
2000
• Conrad Bakker: Art and Objecthood, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Untitled Project: Sidewalksale, Revolution Gallery, Detroit
• Conrad Bakker: Sculpture, Bona Fide Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1997
• Untitled Project: Garage Sale, October 11, 1997, 1465 Genessee SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Group Exhibitions
2014
• Motopoetique, Musee d'art contemporain de Lyon, France
• Making Now: Open for Exchange, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
2013
• A Study in Midwest Appropriation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Cabana Georgina #00, Jeune Creation Marseille, France
• Summer Break, Station Independent Projects, New York
• A Modest Occupation, The Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
• The Collecting Impulse, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
• Brave New World: The Art of the Book in the Digital Age, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
2012
• Simulacrum, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio
• As Real as it Gets, Apex Art, New York
• Help/Less, Printed Matter, New York
• So Far, So Good, ExtraExtra, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011
• Art is Fashion, Galerie Taiss / Galerie Analix, Paris, France
• Archival Impulse, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Creative Accounting, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• Book Report, Bank of America Center, Houston, Texas
• Reality Revisited, ArtParis 2011, curated by Paul Ardenne for Galerie Analix, Paris, France
• FAX, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• I Like The Art World and the Art World Likes Me, EFA Project Space, New York
• Subject: Object, Ebersmoore Gallery, Chicago
• 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, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
• Size Does Matter, curated by Shaquille O’Neal, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2009
• Contemporary Culture, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• A Group Show for Daniel Pink, VEGA ESTATES, Chicago
• 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
• THOUSAND ISLAND, Space B Gallery, New York, New York
• Artists' Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Response: Art and the Art of Criticism, ISPACE Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Untitled: Field Work, O'Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, Chicago, Illinois
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, New Jersey
• Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art about the Art World, Arcadia University Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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, Tate Modern, London
• On Being an Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
• Transactions, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• The Price of Everything..., Whitney Independent Study Curatorial Program Exhibition at CUNY, New York
• Branded and On Display, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
• Possessed, curated by Miriam Kienle, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, New York
2006
• EBAYADAY (Untitled Project: Rolex/eBAY) online exhibition, University of Michigan Project
• Placement, Analix Forever Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland
• The Object of Design, (curated by Titia Hulst & Barbara Mundy) Pelham, New York
• The Coffee Was Very Slow In Coming, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, Michigan
• Data Mining, (curated by Joe Scanlan), WALLSPACE, New York
• Group Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• 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, New York
• In the Eye of the Beholder, Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
• Spectacles of the Real, Opensource/Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at UIUC, Champaign, Iilinois
2005
• Trade Show, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
• Contemporary Art in the Midwest, 2005 DePauw Biennial, DePauw University, Indiana
• City Selections, Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago Public Art Program, Chicago, Illinois
• Think Small, Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery
2004
• Free Fall, Revolution, Detroit, Michigan
• Sixth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle; Arthouse, Austin, Texas; Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• 10, A Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Revolution, Detroit, Michigan
2003
• Bakker, Benjamin, Kerr, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
• Untitled Project: Souvenir (Miami), Scope Art Fair, Rudolph Projects, Miami
• Conrad Bakker, Packard Jennings, New China Town Barber Shop, Los Angeles
• Look Out!, Revolution, Detroit, Michigan
• Living with Duchamp, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York
• Make it Real, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• really, Gescheidle, Chicago, Illinois
• Really Real, Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois
• Capital-F, University of Texas at Dallas
• Page Me, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
2002
• DIM-SUM, a RED76 project, Gavin Shettler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
• Bounce, Revolution, Detroit, Michigan
• Watery, Domestic, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
• The Future is Now Right, I-SPACE Chicago Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Pas de Deux, Revolution, Detroit, Michigan
• The Meijer Project: Conrad Bakker/Kevin Hamilton, DYNAMITE SPACE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2001
• Garage Wall, The Stray Show, Chicago (NFA SPACE booth)
• Home Installation, North Park University Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Culdesac, window installation, ART IN GENERAL, New York
• Minute: a boxed set of miniature multiples, ARTISTS SPACE, New York
• Daily Life, Rudoplh Projects, Houston, Texas
• Ha-Ha!, Revolution, Detroit, Michigan
1999
• Souvenirs/Documents: 20 Years, PS122 Gallery, New York
Grants / Fellowships
2009
Creative Research Grant, College of Fine and Applied Art, University of Illinois
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
Public Collections
The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
The Flag Art Foundation, New York
The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
The Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign
The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana
The I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign, Illinois
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan