Ursula Sokolowska
Education
2001 BFA – School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1997 – 1999 - Attended Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Portraits and Projections, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL, May 12 – July 1
2006 The Constructed Family, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, Dec 1 - 31
2005 Projection Work, PhotoMedia Center, Erie, PA, July 1 – 31
2004 Ursula Sokolowska, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, Jan 9 – Feb 28
Group Exhibitions (Select)
2020 Filter Space, Chicago, IL, Interior Life, Aug 28 – Oct 3
2020 Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL, Invitational Exhibition: Heirloom, Jan 2 - 26
2017 Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Field Work: Shadow and Light, November 1-20 PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, iPhone Imagery, Oct 11 – Nov 4
2016 PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, A Sense of Place, Sept 7 - 30
2015 Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Regarding Beauty, Mar 6 - Apr 17
2015 Lillstreet Art Center Gallery, Chicago, IL, Midwest Contemporary, March 6 - April 19 2014
Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, 25th Anniversary, Dec 5 - 31
Chicago Public Library, Logan Square Branch, Chicago, IL, Polish American Heritage Month, Oct 7 - Nov 22
2013 Art Photo Index, Santa Fe, NM, Fear & Loathing, Dec 3
2013 Städtische Galerie Iserlohn, Iserlohn, Germany photographers:network from 2004–13, July 12 - August 31
2013 Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Detroit, MI, The Family, Jan 12 - Feb 2
2013 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, ArtWork 6, Jan 19 - Feb 1
2012 jdc Fine Art, San Diego, CA, Silent Night, Dec 7 - Feb 23 photographers:network selection Siegen, Germany, Jun 23 - Jul 1
2011 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Home, Mar 2 - 31
2011 Filter Photo Festival, Beginnings: Stories and Starting Points Black Cloud Gallery, Chicago, IL, Oct 4 - 31
2011 Chicago Arts District, Chicago, IL, CS:41 / The Curated Show, Sept 30 - Oct 2
2011 Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL, 33 Contemporary Gallery, 7th Annual National Self-Portrait Exhibition, July 15 - Aug 13
2011 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, Known Artists / New Works, July - Aug
2010 Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL, Hi Tide (featuring ArtSlant’s 2010 Golden Frame winning artists) Dec 2 - 5
2010 Block 37, Chicago, IL, Art Loop Open, Oct 15 - Nov 12
2010 Chicago Arts District, Chicago, IL, CS:40 / The Curated Show, Oct 1 -3
2010 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, Portraits, May 14 - July 3
2010 Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA, Magenta Foundation / Flash Forward 2009 Apr 6 - May 9
2009 FotoWeek, Washington, DC, Magenta Foundation / Flash Forward 2009 November 6 - 14 Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Canada Magenta Foundation / Flash Forward 2009 Oct 8 - 25
2008 Undercurrent Arts, Miami, FL, In the Lives of Dolls, Mar 8 - Apr 5
2008 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, Into the Night, Mar 7 - Apr 12
2008 The Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Re / trato, Feb 25 - June 6
2008 Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition Jan 22- Feb 15
2008 Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL, 15 Years, Jan 18 - Mar 14
2008 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ARTwork 5, Jan 11 - 25
2007 Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburg, PA, Fellowship Exhibition, Dec 5 - Feb 2 Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL, New Art, Nov 17 – Jan 12
2007 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, SPECTRA ’07: National Photography Triennial Oct 14 – Nov 17
2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, BareWalls, Oct 13
2007 Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom Zoo Art Fair, the Royal Academy of Arts Oct 12 - 15
2007 PhotoMedia Center, Erie, PA Juried Exhibition, Sept 10 – Oct 8
2007 Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN “Photocentric”, Mar 31 – May 27
2006 Art in Display, Chicago, IL, Chicago Artists’ Month Featured Program Oct 13-15
2005 Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust, Chicago, IL Chicago Artists’ Month, Oct 6 - 8
2005 Chicago Arts District, Chicago, IL CS:35 / The Curated Show, Sept 30 – Oct 2 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA Snap to Grid, Sept 8 – Oct 1
2005 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Portraits”, July 15 – Sept 3
2004 Projekt 30, Philadelphia, PA Online Juried Exhibition, Aug 15 – Oct 15
2003 Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio, "Appearances: An Alternative Portrait Album” Oct 27 – Dec 5
2003 Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI, Northern Arts Council Juried Exhibition July 29 – Sept 12
2003 Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, “Tanqueray No. Ten Night/Life” Apr 22 – Apr 27
2002 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Past / Future”, June 21 – Aug 31
2001 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “Four Corners of the World” Juried
2001 Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA, 73rd Annual Juried Exhibition, May 12 – June 14
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition Mar 30 – Apr 13 Tiffany & Co., Chicago, IL Art Walk / Art Windows Mar 2 – Apr 2
2000 3rd Annual Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL, Nov 9 – 18
2003 WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL “Science Fiction”, Oct 13 – Nov 10
2003 Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago, IL, “Buildings Brought to Film”: Documentary Architectural Photography Aug 21 – Nov 3
1999 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Spectra ’99: National Juried Photography Exhibition, Oct 17 – Nov 14
Grants and Awards:
2015 Center for Fine Art Photography, Regarding Beauty, Director’s Honorable Mention 2011 Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI
Illinois Arts Council, IAS Artist Project grant in Photography
2010 Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI
2009 Magenta Publishing, Flash Forward – Emerging Photographers Finalist Myartspace /Bridge Art Fair Miami
CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program) 2008 CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program) Texas Woman’s University, Juror’s Award
2007 CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program) PhotoMedia Center, Juror’s Award
2006 Featured Artist during Chicago Artists’ Month Shortlist, Saatchi Gallery and the Guardian UK, ‘Your Gallery’ (Mar 2006) 2005 CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program)
2003 CAAP Grant (Community Arts Assistance Program)
2001 Art Association of Harrisburg, Juror’s Award
2000 Nippon Steel USA / School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presidential Award
Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Tanqueray, New York, NY
Publications:
Heirloom, Perspective Gallery, January 2 – 26, 2020
Beautiful / Decay Magazine, Stephanie Young, “Child-Sized Mannequins With Projected Faces Portray Displacement In The Photographs Of Ursula Sokolowska”, April 2015
Slate, David Rosenberg, “Scenes From an Unhappy Childhood, Hauntingly Re-Created With Mannequins”, April 2015
Magenta Foundation, 2014, (Selected by Magenta Foundation for their 10 year anniversary publication, Top 100 photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States). F-Stop Magazine, "Cities", Issue #61, November – December 2013
People’s Photography China, “The Constructed Family”, September 2013
ProfiFoto Magazine, Photographers Network Selection, “Visions”, July/August 2012 LENSCRATCH, November 2012
Lewis University,The Jet Fuel Review, Spring 2012
NewCity Chicago, Michael Weinstein, Known Artists, New Works, Schneider Gallery, July 2011
Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, 5th Edition, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press Publishing, 2011
Descry Magazine, Catalogue of the Night, Issue No.2, October 2010
NewCity Chicago, Michael Weinstein, A New Angle / Schneider Gallery, May 2010
Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, 2009
CS Interiors Magazine, The Click Clique, Rebecca Mazzei, Summer 2008
Northings – Highlands & Islands Arts Journal, Re/Trato (Travelling Gallery tour), Georgina Coburn, March 2008
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Alumni Calendar, 2008
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press, 2007
Shambhala Sun Magazine, David Loy, May 2007
ArtWorld Digest, The Seed Project, April 2007
Chicago Tribune, Alan G. Artner, December 2006
NewCity Chicago, Michael Weinstein, December 2006
F-Stop Magazine, "Imaginary Worlds", July 2006
Caveat Lector, (Vol. 17, No. 1) 2006
Ladyfriend Zine, Issue #9, “Doll series”, Christa Donner, October 2005
CameraArts Magazine, “Bodies of Light”, Alethea Mock, April/May 2005
Exploring Color Photography, 4th Edition, pg.103, Robert Hirsch, McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2004 Chicago Tribune, “Ursula Sokolowska”, Alan G. Artner, January 2004
Dayton City Paper, “Show, Don’t Tell”, Jud Yalkut, November 2003
Camera Arts, “A Workshop For All Mediums”, Kirk Gittings, August/September 2003
UR Chicago Magazine, “Dancing in the Dark”, Linde Brady, November 2001