| EDUCATION | ||
| 2003 | Master of Fine Arts, 2-Dimensional area | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | ||
| 2000 | Bachelor of Science, Fine Arts major and minor in Art History | |
| Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY | ||
| 1998 | Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy | |
| 1997 | Wayne State University, Detroit, MI | |
| EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2008 | Gimme Baby Robots, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL. Five in One, Memphis, TN. Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco, CA. | |
| Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA | ||
| 2007 | Open | |
| Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco, CA | ||
| 2006 | Miniatures and Multiples | |
| Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL | ||
| GROUPGROUP | ||
| Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| Two Painters and a Potter | ||
| Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA | ||
| Lowest Common Denominator | ||
| Slingshot Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| New Work | ||
| Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE | ||
| Hastings College Faculty Show | ||
| Hastings College Gallery, Hastings, NE | ||
| 2005 | Performing One Particular Function | |
| Marsh Special Projects Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN | ||
| In a Good Way (solo) | ||
| Graham Gallery, Hastings NE | ||
| Wish List | ||
| Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln NE | ||
| The Bridge Magazine's NOVA Young Art Fair | ||
| Chicago, IL | ||
| Art 101 | ||
| The Space, Austin, TX | ||
| Seven Reasons to Leave Your Home | ||
| Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL | ||
| Upsy Daisy! | ||
| Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| 2004 | Paintings by Debra Kayes, Sculpture by Stephanie Adams, and their Collaborative Work | |
| Graham Gallery, Hastings, NE | ||
| think small | ||
| Illinois State Museum, Chicago, Lockport, Rend Lake, and Springfield IL | ||
| The Stray Show, in association with Art Chicago | ||
| TBA, Chicago, IL | ||
| Pretty Vacant | ||
| And Gallery, Saint Paul, MN | ||
| 13 x 13 | ||
| Red Rocket Gallery, Chicago, IL | ||
| 2003 | Zip (solo) | |
| Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| Small Works | ||
| Limner Gallery, New York, NY | ||
| Turner McGehee and Debra Kayes | ||
| Hastings College Gallery, Hastings, NE | ||
| Domestics by artist group No Fun | ||
| Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| Another Line by artist group No Fun | ||
| The 410 Project, Mankato, MN | ||
| Rock Lock by artist group No Fun | ||
| Effie Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN | ||
| Work by Stephanie Adams and Debra Kayes | ||
| King's Foot Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| The End | ||
| Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| 2002 | Girls | |
| Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| Airplane | ||
| ArtSpace, Chicago, IL | ||
| Work by Ada Gonzalez and Debra Kayes | ||
| The 734 Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| Triagainennial | ||
| One night truck show, March 9, Madison, WI | ||
| Spring Salon | ||
| Limner Gallery, New York, NY | ||
| Kresge Art Center | ||
| Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI | ||
| Otherwise Gallery | ||
| Lansing, MI | ||
| 2001 | Seventh Floor Gallery | |
| Madison, WI | ||
| Catapult | ||
| VU Satellite Gallery, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA | ||
| 2000 | Printmaking All-stars | |
| 734 Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| 1997 | Feast for the Senses | |
| Case Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY | ||
| JURIED EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2005 | Young Painters Exhibition. Juror: Laurie Firstenbert, Assistant Director and Curator of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, CA. | |
| Miami University, Oxford, OH | ||
| 59th Juried Exhibition. Juror: James Rondeau, author. | ||
| Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA | ||
| Expogallery International Art Exhibition. Juror: Eugene Al. Pann, gallery director. | ||
| Backstreet Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | ||
| 2003 | Carry on Drawing. Juror: Avantika Bawa, Curator/ Director, Aquaspace Clubs Project, Inc. | |
| Clubs Project Inc., Australia, Southeastern College Art Conference, NC | ||
| Bite Your Lip. Jurors: Donna Feigel and Michelle Grabner. | ||
| Studio Quest, Madison, WI | ||
| 2002 | Carry on Drawing. Juror: Avantika Bawa, Curator/ Director, Aquaspace Clubs Project, Inc. | |
| Aquaspace, Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI, Traveling exhibition. Other sites include India Habitat Center India, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Minneapolis, MN, Washington State University Pullman, WA, Alternative spaces in the Badlands Glacie | ||
| Autobiographies. Juror: Mary K. O'Shaughnessy, Wood Street Gallery. | ||
| Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL | ||
| National Prize Show. Juror: Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. | ||
| Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA | ||
| 156 Miles. Juror: Wood Street Gallery. | ||
| Wood Street Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Chicago, IL | ||
| 2001 | Annual Juried Show | |
| Porter Butts Gallery, Madison, WI | ||
| PUBLICATIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
| 2007 | New American Paintings, Western Competition, book #72 | |
| 2006 | Two Painters and a Potter at Isadore Gallery 7/1/2006 | |
| Lancaster County Woman, Lancaster, PA | ||
| www.lancasterarts.com/pages/index.php?pID+40 | ||
| Lancaster Arts, Lancaster, PA | ||
| Fresh Produce: Modern Arts Midwest Exhibits its Spring Bounty of 'New Work.' 5/31/2006 | ||
| Michael Krainak, City Weekly, Omaha, NE | ||
| www.three-walls.org/artist_files | ||
| Threewalls, Chicago, IL | ||
| 2005 | Artist's reception just one of 'Seven Reasons to Leave Your House' 3/30/2005 | |
| Eloise Marie Valadez, Daily Southtown, Chicago, IL | ||
| Artists Exert Their Will to Make Blooms Come Early 3/29/2005 | ||
| Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| http://www.artsfestival.net/gallery.html | ||
| Three Rivers Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| http://www.fna.muohio.edu/paintcomp/history05.html | ||
| Miami University Young Painters Exhibition, Oxford, OH | ||
| 2004 | www.museum-of-temporary-art.com, exhibit no. 15 | |
| The Museum of Temporary Art, Tubingen, Germany | ||
| http://www.expogallery.com/dkayes.htm Internet Publication and Promotions Award Expogallery International Art Exhibition | ||
| Backstreet Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | ||
| Public Art 1/29/2004 | ||
| Steven Lincoln, Bronco Bits, Vol. 16, #7, Hastings, NE | ||
| 2003 | Unnatural Materials: A Visual Examination. 9/1/2003 | |
| Laura Berman, Review, Kansas City, MO | ||
| www.no-fun.org | ||
| GRANTS/HONORS | ||
| 2007 | Polished Apple Award, Hastings College Student Alumni Ambassadors | |
| 2005 | Finalist for the Miami University William and Dorothy Yeck Award | |
| 2004 | Hastings College Vocation and Values Grant | |
| 2004 | Internet Publication and Promotions Award, Expogallery International Art Exhibition, Backstreet Gallery Santa Monica, CA | |
| 2003 | Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant | |
| 2002 | Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant | |
| 2002 | Honorable Mention, Annual Juried Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery and Art Space, Inc., Kenosha, WI, Juror: Doug De Vinny. | |
| 2002 | Dedalus Foundation Nominee | |
| 2000 | Graduated Cum Laude | |
| 2000 | Departmental and College Honors | |
| 2000 | Periclean Honors Society | |
| 2000 | Skidmore College Student Opportunities Grant | |
| ORGANIZATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS | ||
| 2004 to 2007 | Nebraska Arts Council | |
| 2002 to date | No Fun artist group | |
| 2003 to 2007 | Hastings College Artists' Guild | |
| 2001 to date | College Art Association | |
| 2001 to 2003 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants Association | |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | ||
| 2007 to date | Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, IL | |
| Two Dimensional Design | ||
| 2003 to 2007 | Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, gallery Director and Curator Hastings College, Hastings, NE |
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| 2003 to 2007 Introduction to Painting 2003 to 2007 Advanced Painting 2003 to 2007 Two-Dimensional Design 2003 to 2007 Directed Study/Independent Study Interim 2006 Visiting Artist Lecture/Workshop Series Interim 2004 Alternative Painting Methods Spring 2004 Color Theory and Composition |
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| Lecture courses: Spring 2006 Postmodernism and Art Now Fall 2006 Foundations of Modern Art Spring 2005 Art History II Spring 2005 Modernism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Art Interim 2005 Performance and Art (team taught with Professor Jim Fritzler, in association with a school trip to NYC) Fall 2004, 05 Art History I Spring 2004 Italian Renaissance Fall 2003 The Human Figure in Contemporary Art |
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| Committee membership: 2006-2007 National Lecture Series Committee 2006-2007 Senior Thesis (Chair) 2005-2007 Fine Arts Division (Chair) 2005 Political Science Hiring Committee 2004 Intellectual Property Rights Sub-committee 2005 Junior Thesis (Chair) 2003-2007 Junior Thesis and Senior Thesis committee 2003-2007 Faculty Advisor for the Artists' Guild, the Hastings College student art organization 2003 Chaperon for a school trip to Chicago's SOFA show |
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| 2001 to 2003 | Teacher's Assistant, Instructor of Record, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | |
| Drawing II | ||
| Two Dimensional Design | ||
| RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE | ||
| 2006 | Juror: Nebraska Art Teacher's Association Show, Hastings. NE | |
| 2006 | Juror for St. Mark's Annual Juried Show, Hastings, NE | |
| 2005 to 2007 | Hastings College Art Gallery Director, Hastings, NE | |
| 2004 | Artists' Guild Invited Artist Lecture Series, Hastings College, Hastings, NE | |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist Lecturer, Minnesota State University at Mankato, Mankato, MN | |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist Lecturer, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI | |
| 2001 | Shop Assistant, Relief Printmaking Studio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | |
| 1999 to 2000 | Teacher's Assistant, Photography Lab, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY | |