American, b. 1971
Lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
2002 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002
1995 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010
Scott Wolniak: You Can Lose Your Balance, 65GRAND, Chicago, IL
Scott Wolniak: Afterimage, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Scott Wolniak: Patterning, 2010, Chambers @ 916, Portland, OR
2009
10 Years of Videos, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
Scott Wolniak: Ungray: Color, Light and Other Balms, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2008
Scott Wolniak: New Work, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
Tamed and Wild, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Drawing with Outer Space, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL The Buddy Cycles, Vol. 1 (Derek Fansler & Scott Wolniak, collaborative project), Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2005
Scott Wolniak, 12×12 New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Video and Sculpture, Tony Wight/ Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Project Space, Chicago, IL
2003
New Ghosts, mn Gallery, Chicago, IL
Time and Space, Gahlberg Gallery at McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2010
Psychotrope, Institute of Visual Art (Inova), Milwaukee, WI
Around, curated by William Staples, Ebersmoore, Chicago, IL
Stop and Go Video Screening, curated by Sarah Klein, International Traveling Program of Experimental Animation
2009
Foto Week DC, curated by Geoffery Aldridge, Arts Festival and Public Video Installation, Washington, DC
Abhorrence of the Void, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2008
The Leaf and the Page, curated by Doug Stapleton, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL (traveling exhibition)
Recent Acquisitions, curated by Julie Rodrigues-Widholm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Capricious and Mercurial Systems, curated by Joan Giroux and Whitney Huber-Lazar, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Replicants, Virgil de Voldére Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Direct, Tony Wight/Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Video and Painting, curated by Tracy Taylor, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
Drawing Room, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert MI
Experimental Melodies, curated by LiveBox, Directors Lounge at Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin
2006
Video Lounge, curated by Michael Rush, Art Basel Miami Beach, courtesy of Perpetual Art Machine
Scott Fife, Robyn O’Neil, David Schutter, Scott Wolniak, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
PAM (Peripheral Art Machine), Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
2005
RED WHITE BLUE, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Cinemascope, curated by Lee Wells, Art Scope, London
The 4- Color Pen Show, curated by Heather Hubbs and Elysia Borowy, General Store (Milwaukee, WI)/Locust Projects (Miami, FL)
2004
Drawing: Seven Curatorial Responses, Catherine E. Nash Gallery, University of MN, Minneapolis, MN
Pierogi a Go-Go (Brooklyn Gravity Racers), Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Spacemakers, (courtesy of The Suburban), Lothringer Dreizen, Munich, Germany
Uncovered: Recent Acquisitions from the Artists’ Books Collection (courtesy of 8.5 x 11), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2003
Paper Chase, Muller-DeChiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
#20 , curated by Reed Anderson, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Knockabout, curated by Mark Orange, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Jam, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Cheap, curated by Lauren Ross and Elizabeth Ferguson Madden, White Columns, New York, NY
2002
Fountain of Youth, curated by Law Office, Locust Projects, Miami, FL/ Stray Show, Chicago, IL
Sculpture in Chicago Now, Part II, curated by Adam Brooks and Corey Pastiglioni, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Sonke Magnus Müller, Berlin, Germany
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Irving Stenn, Chicago, IL
Peter R. Stern, New York, NY
Dean Geleynse, Honolulu, HI
Valerie Carberry, Chicago, IL
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2010
Scott Wolniak at 65GRAND, Michelle Grabner, Art Forum (Review)
Around, Ebersmoore, Lauren Weinberg, Time Out Chicago (Review)
Scott Wolniak at Chambers@916, Portland, OR, Richard Speer, Visual Art Source (Review)
Scott Wolniak Selects some “Suitable Video” for Western Exhibitions, Lauren Weinberg, Time Out Chicago (Interview)
2009
Scott Wolniak at Chicago Cultural Center, Susan Snodgrass, Art in America (Review)
Ungray: Color, Light and Other Balms, Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune (Review)
Scott Wolniak at Chicago Cultural Center, Tim Ridlen, New City (Review)
2007
Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Video and Painting (exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott Fife, Robyn O’Neil, David Schutter, and Scott Wolniak, Valerie Carberry, Ruth Lopez, Reviews, Art News
Video: A New Way of Working, Victor Cassidy, Chicago Artists’ News
2005
Unwanted Things, Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
A Weed Grows in Market Square: Exhibit Debuts at Downtown Park, Jennifer Mathieu, Houston Chronicle
2004
Derek Fansler and Scott Wolniak (Dogmatic Gallery), Michelle Grabner, artUS
2003
Critics’ Picks New York, Martha Schwendener, ArtForum.com
“Knockabout” at Spencer Brownstowne, Steven Stern, Time Out New York
Galleries, Recommended, Kim Levin, The Village Voice
Scott Wolniak at mn, Ginger Wolf, Bridge Online
An Everyday Optic: Scott Wolniak’s Time and Space, Jonathan Miller (exhibition catalog)