Selected Exhibitions (bold titles denote solo exhibitions and projects)

2008
Asheville Art Museum (Asheville, North Carolina) Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape
Howard House (Seattle, WA) Ken Fandell
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago, IL) Ken Fandell

2007
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography from the MCA Collection
The University of Delaware (Newark, DE) In Words: The Art of Language
Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL) Rise and Set (a collaboration with Diana Guerrero-Macia)
DePauw University Art Museum (Greencastle, IN) DePauw Biennial
Paul Kotula Projects (Ferndale, MI) Hump Pink
Houston Center for Photography (Houston, TX) Antennae
Traywick Contemporary (Berkeley, CA) Of Ignorance and or Mystery
Proof Gallery (Boston, MA) Out of the Blue
Harold Arts (Chicago, IL) Concerning Tomorrow

2006
Links Hall (Chicago, IL) an incomplete map of everything
Three Seasons (Chicago, IL) 5,000,000 Tons of Pure Energy (per second)
Version Fest (Chicago, IL) New Trends in Chicago Photography

2005
Howard House (Seattle, WA)The Planets
Sixteen:one Gallery (Santa Monica, CA) In the Neighborhood of Infinity
Revolution (Detroit, MI) Bevy
Mixture Contemporary (Houston, TX) Into the Midst
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago, IL) The Planets
Magic Lantern Cinema (Providence, RI) Fake Snow (screening)
Kirkland Art Center (Kirkland, WA) Partners
California Museum of Photography (Riverside, CA) Still, Things Fall from the Sky
Gallery Saintonge (Missoula, MT) Some Durations and Distances
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA) It's Hard and I Could Use Some Help

2004
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) Two Skies
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago, IL) From Up and Down and Still Somehow
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) Uncovered: Recent Acquisitions from the Artists’ Books Collection
San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA) The Great Indoors
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indianapolis, IN) Out of Place Two
Central Michigan University/University Art Gallery (Mt. Pleasant, MI) Note*Think*Process
Betty Rymer Gallery (Chicago, IL) Occurences: the performative space of video(traveling exhibtion)
Gallerie Soliel (Lexington, KY) Occurences: the performative space of videoo(traveling exhibtion)
Howard House (Seattle, WA) About the House
1506 Projects (Seattle, WA) PSEUDONONYMOUS
Gavin Brown's Enterprise (New York, NY) Drunk and Stoned
Dreizehnzwei (Vienna, Austria) subvisuals

2003
Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue, WA) Acts of Futility
University of Northumbria Gallery (Newcastle, England) There Goes My Hero
Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH) Red Square Film and Video Festival
Traywick Gallery (Berkeley, CA) More Oscillations Between Infinity and Proximity (girlfriends, sneakers, basketball, pizza, martinis, the sky, inspiration and my place in the cosmos)
Dupreau Gallery (Chicago, IL) Escape Vehicles
1926 Exhibition Space (Chicago, IL) Oops, I did it again
Howard House (Seattle, WA) Three Skies
Cover-Up (London, England) A Clearing (curated by Michael Wilson)
Revolution (Detroit, MI) ever, ever, and ever (almost)
Indiana Univeristy/SoFA Gallery (Bloomington, IN) Coming to Terms with the Everyday
University of Southern California/F-Space Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) Can You Repeat the Question?

2002
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) The Body Present: Effigies, Decoys, and Other Equivalents
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago, IL) Finales, Revisions, and Asides
Suite 106 (New York, NY) Sitting on My Porch as the Sun Goes Down in the Year 2000
Atelier Top 25 (Krems, Austria) Tasty Dog
farm (Missoula, MT) The start. Or the end. I think.
8.5x11 (Chicago, IL) Limited Edition Portfolio (20 artists projects in edition of 100 + an opening exhibition of works)
Traywick Gallery (Berkeley, CA) Project: Ken Fandell
Columbia College (Chicago, IL) Sculpture in Chicago Now II
Queens Museum of Art (Queens, NY) About The Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted To Know)

2001
Donald Young Gallery (Chicago, IL) SOUND VIDEO IMAGES OBJECTS
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago, IL) Under the Impression That When You Were Walking Forward You Would End Up Further Onward
Traywick Gallery (Berkeley, CA) In Through the Outdoors
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago, IL) Group Show of Gallery Artists
Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, IL) Lifelike: Alternative Realities in Recent Photography

2000
Gallery 312 (Chicago, IL) Bad Directions
Cerritos College Art Gallery (Cerritos, CA) Techno - Residium

1999
Peter Miller Gallery (Chicago, IL) Lost Horizons: California Landscapes
Red Chair Gallery (Kansas City, MO) Fact or Fiction
Peter Miller Gallery (Chicago, IL) Depth of Field

1998
9251/2 Tularosa (Los Angeles, CA) Ordinary Magic
DePaul University Art Gallery (Chicago, IL) Baywatch
Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA) Well,
Ron Breeden Gallery (Orange, CA) Square Pegs

1997
Collision (San Francisco, CA) Shebang
San Francisco Art Commission (San Francisco, CA) Switch-Stance
PUSH Artspace (San Francisco, CA) SHOVE
TBA Space (Chicago, IL) Distractions
Bronwyn Keenan Gallery (New York, NY) RoadShow‘97
DiLeia Contemporary (Cincinnati, OH) Redundant Redundant

1996
Center for Documentary Studies/DoubleTake Books (traveling exhibit/various locations) 25andUnder
Four Walls (San Francisco, CA) Inter-Galactic
Ten in One (Chicago, IL) They Might Be Giants
Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago, IL) Profiles
New Langton Arts (San Francisco, CA) Glow
Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL) Whoosh
Four Walls (San Francisco, CA) Blue Lagoon
Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL) Tag (about play)
Helen Lindhurst Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) Custom Complex

1995
Seigfred Gallery (Athens, OH) Xenophobia-As Adrian Piper Observed "It’s a Personal Problem"

Selected Publications

2007
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) The Power of Language as Image
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) One Fine Day
ArtsHouston (Houston, TX) Antennae

2006
Artforum International (New York, NY) Ken Fandell
Art in America (New York, NY) Ken Fandell

2005
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) Things Fall
Seattle Weekly (Seattle, WA) Visual Arts Pick
Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) Flat Objects Gain Fresh Dimension
Chicago Magazine (Chicago, IL) Studio City
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Things fall into place for "Sky" group show
Missoula Independent Magazine (Missoula, MT) Ambitious Art
Art Access (Seattle, WA) Partners
Pioneer Press (Evanston, IL) The sky is falling in Evanston
TimeOut Chicago (Chicago, IL) Things fall from the Sky

2004
artUS (Los Angeles, CA) Ken Fandell
Chicago Tonight (television program-Chicago,IL) ArtBeat: Ken Fandell
The Detroiter (Detroit, MI) Breaking Space and Time
Dialogue (Columbus, OH) Coming to Terms with the Everyday
Mouth to Mouth (Chicago, IL) CoverStory
Chicago READER (Chicago, IL) Seamsters
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Ken Fandell
The Falter (Vienna, Austria) Picks

2003
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) The Skies the Limit
C Magazine (Toronto, ON) Art Chicago 2003
New City (Chicago, IL) Eye Exam/Space Travel
ArtNet (internet publication/New York, NY) A Tale of Two Fairs
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) Artists Respond to Bio-Technology

2002
Chicago SunTimes (Chicago, IL) The Body Present at the MCA
Journal of Mundane Behavior (internet publication/Fullerton, CA) Volume 3, Number 2
Artkrush (internet publication/Boston, MA) News
The Art Newspaper (international) Steady Sales
Pioneer Press (Glenview, IL) SRO
Chicago Arts & Entertainment (Kenilworth, IL) Ken Fandell gives a show of hands at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Where Chicago (Chicago, IL) Destination Art

2001
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) Outdoors
SF Gate (San Francisco, CA) In Through the Outdoors
New Art Examiner (Chicago, IL) I've Got This Friend
NewCity (Chicago, IL) Art
10x10 (Chicago, IL) Fold
FlashArt (Milan, Italy) Sound Video Images Objects

1999
LUMPEN (Chicago, IL) There’s Two Kinds of People in this World
Chicago READER (Chicago, IL) Distancing Techniques
NewCity (Chicago, IL) Depth of Field/Peter Miller Gallery

1998
ArtWeek (San Jose, CA) Ken Fandell,…at Southern Exposure
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) Postmodern Humor at Southern Exposure
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) Raw Talents
WorldArt (Sydney, Australia) Twentyfive and Under/Review

1997
Self Magazine (New York, NY) Unsentimental Journey
SPEAK (San Francisco, CA) Twentyfive
Everybody’s News (Cincinnati, OH) The Art of Endurance
NewCity (Chicago, IL) Artbeat: Under Developed Photographers

1996
DoubleTake Books/Center for Documentary Studies (Duke University, NC) 25andUnder
Bay Times (San Francisco, CA) Longing for the Sublime
ArtWeek (San Jose, CA) "Glow" at New Langton Arts

1994
ZYZZYVA (the last word: west coast writers & artists) (San Francisco, CA) Entitled

1993
RayGun (Santa Monica, CA) contributing photographer for three issues

Selected Collections

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Microsoft Collection. Seattle, WA
The LaSalle Bank Collection
The Columbus Museum of Art , Columbus. OH
Collection of Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA
The Government of the United States of America (The US Embassy in Bulgaria)

Education

8/94-5/96
University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Received Master of Fine Arts degree with emphasis in photography and new genres. Graduated with honors.

1/91-5/93
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Received Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with emphasis in photography and the history of photography.

9/89-6/90
University of California at Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
Completed first year of undergraduate study in liberal arts department.

Awards and Grants

Artadia
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
The Univerisy of Illinois at Chicago Merit Graduate Scholarship
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship