Gary Justis
Born: Maize, KS

Education
1979 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1977 BFA, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS


Selected Solo Shows
2008 Quiet Movement, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
2007 Gary Justis, Plush, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Head on Horizon, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2000 Gary Justis, Recent Work, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
1999 Functionality, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
1996 Klein Art Works at Art 1996 Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1996 Gary Justis: Incrementum-Selected Works, 1979-95. At two locations: Klein Art Works and Tough Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Gary Justis: New Work, Mike's Museum, Chicago, IL
1991 Gary Justis: Quiet Works, 1989-1991, CompassRose Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Gary Justis: Time Expanded, Time Collapsed, Merwin Gallery, Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1988 The Causal Garden, CompassRose Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Mechanical Investigations, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
1986 Gary Justis: Recent Sculpture, Patrick King Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
1986 Gary Justis: Recent Sculpture, Tower Fine Arts Center, Brockport, NY
1986 Gary Justis: New Work, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Mythos, Beyond Function, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
1985 Hyperfunctional Icons, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1983 Gary Justis: New Work, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Object-Luminosus-Objectus: Electrokinetic Sculpture, The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL


Selected Group Shows
2006 Eight Contemporary Views, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
2006 Projects 2006, Pittsburgh Society of Sculpture Exhibition, PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Voices from the Warehouse District, Sponsored by the Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuqe, Iowa

2004 The Project MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE is an annual touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications. Traveling by way of a vintage Airstream, the BOOKMOBILE visits a variety of venues in Canada and the US including community centers, schools, libraries, festivals and artist-run centers. A group of coordinators traveling with the exhibition facilitate a series of workshops, artist talks, and educational forums. The project has exposed thousands of visitors to a unique collection of independently produced book works. Works are selected based on inventive explorations of the book as a system and creative manipulations of its form; that are politically engaging, collaboratively produced, and works that challenge conventional conceptions of "the book". The collection was compiled by juried selections from a pool of several hundred applicants.
The Artist’s Book, Lincoln’s Lost Ear, by Gary Justis and LJ Douglas was included in this traveling exhibition.
Show venues included:
Rad's, Montreal, Canada
Conestoga High School, Berwyn, PA
project HOME, Philadelphia, PA
Space 1026, Philadelphia PA
Stroudsburg Public Library, Stroudsburg, PA
the banana factory, Bethlehem PA
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Hostos Community, College/CUNY, Brooklyn, New York
Parsons Gimbel Library, in conjunction with a Booklyn exhibition curated by Emily K. Larned, NYC, NYC
Local Project, Long Island City, NY
Clovis Press, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie, NY
Rosendale Café, (performance space in the Hudson Valley) Rosendale, NY
Flywheel Arts Collective, Easthampton, MA
Palmer Public Library, Palmer Massachusetts
New Urban Arts, Providence, RI
AS220, Providence, RI
Center for New Words Reading Room, Cambridge, MA
Zeitgeist Gallery. Cambridge, MA
Berwick Research Institute, Roxbury, MA
Parc-Extension Library, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Shawinigan Arts Council, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Séminaire Sainte-Marie, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
La Tuque Municipal Library, La Tuque, Quebec, Canada
L'Ilôt Fleurie, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
École La Croisée, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada
Centre d'artistes Caravansérail, Rimouski, Quebec
Centre Culturel Aberdeen Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Novia Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
SAW gallery, Vazaleen Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
OPIRG, Peter Robinson College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontaio, Canada
Cooked and Eaten-reading, Gordon Best Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The University of Western Ontario and Forest City Gallery. London, Ontario, Canada
Niagara Artists' Company, St.Catherines, Ontario, Canada
Women's Resource Centre (WRC), University of Guelph. Guelf Ontario, Canada
Syracuse University, Holly Greenburg, Syracuse, NY
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Edinboro University Art Department, Edinboro, PA
Big Idea Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA
Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

2003 Industrial, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2003 The Me in Team, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2003 SCULPT, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL
2003 Exquisite Snake, Jan Albino Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Exhibition, Cat Chow, Gary Justis, Wesley Kimler, Collaboract, Chicago, IL
2002 Performative Objects, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2000 Interiors, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000 Collections III 2000, International Sculpture Conference, Houston, TX
2000 Libidinal, TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Artist Showcase Exposition, Sponsored by Kay Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Self- Portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Drawings by Sculptors, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Corn on the Curb, community project, Bloomington, IL
1999 Illinois State University Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, Normal, IL
1998 Sculpture on the Move, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
1998 Sound and Vision, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1998 Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
1997 Illuminating: Light as Context, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1997 Abstract Confluence, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
1996-7 Art in Chicago 1945-95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1996 Gary Justis/Wesley Kimler, TBA, Chicago, IL
1996 The Science of Art, The Art of Science, The Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
1996 New Chicago Furniture IV, The Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, IL


Awards and Honors
2001 Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artist's Grant, Sculpture
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist's Fellowship: Sculpture
1984 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist's Fellowship: Sculpture
1984 Illinois Art Council, Individual Artist's Grant: Sculpture
1984 Sculpture Chicago '84, Chicago, Illinois
1979 Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1978 Tuition Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


Commissions
2001-2005 World Engine, sculpture commission for School of Business, Illinois State University, Normal Campus, Normal Illinois
1992 Leafgate Garden. Co-designer for a park construction project commissioned by the City of Evanston, Illinois and The Evanston Arts Council
1989 Compendium. American Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago. Commissioned by Carson International, Inc.
1986 Hyperfunctional City. United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago. Commissioned by Carson International, Inc.


Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, special Artist's Book Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington , DC
New York Public Library, Special Collections
Fogg Museum, Harvard University , Boston, MA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection
McLean County Historical Society
Midland Center for the Arts, Dow-Corning Museum, Midland, Michigan
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
Borg-Warner Corporation, Chicago
Carson's International Corporation, Chicago
Durindal, Chicago
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois (promised gift)
Sierra Systems, Chicago
Stone Container Corporation, Chicago
U.S. Equities Corporation, Chicago


Selected Bibliography
Victor Cassidy, Gary Justis at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Art in America, April, 2008, pg. 72(ill.).
Chicago Public Radio, Gary Justis interviewed by Cherie Caswell Dost, Sunday, November 11, 2007
Kimler, Wesley Plush! Chicago's Long Time Premier Sculptor Lights it up Yet Again!, September 17, 2007
Wirth, Steven, Tip of the Week: Gary Justis at Alfedena Gallery, September 2007
Shaw, Kurt, Sculpture Stylings, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Thursday, June 15, 2006, (ill.).
Thomas, Mary, Sculpture Garden: Impressive exhibition by a dozen artists is on display at PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, June 11, 2006,
Richardson, Katie, Gary Justis Sculpts the Mechanics of Life into Art that Moves, American Concierge Magazine, Winter 2005/2006, Volume 1, issue 2, pg. 32, (ill.).
Campaign Report News Letter, Illinois State University, Summer 2003, Volume 2, Number 1, pg. 3
Ullrich, Polly, Gary Justis, Klein Art Works, Sculpture Magazine, September 2001, pp. 67-68
Holg, Garrett, Gary Justis, Klein Art Works, ARTnews, March 2001, p. 163
Brunetti, John, Gary Justis, Klein Art Works, New Art Examiner, March 2001, p. 48
Hawkins, Margaret, Sculptor evaluates shapes of Things, Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, Dec. 15, 2000, pg. 20W
Ullrich, Polly, Gary Justis, Metalsmith Magazine, Fall, 1997, p.32
Holg, Garrett, Gary Justis, Tough, Klein., ARTnews, April 1996
Yood, James, Essay on the work of Gary Justis for “Incrementum, selected works, 1979-1996, Klein Art Works and Tough Gallery, Chicago, January, 1996
Artner, Alan, Whir, shiver, chug: 17 years of poetic Justis sculptures, Chicago Tribune, January 19, 1996, section 7, p. 56
Baldwin, Bruce, Gary Justis, New Art Examiner, April, 1996, p.43
Luecking, Stephen, Chicago Review, Sculpture Magazine, July-August 1993, p. 57
Hixon, Kathryn, Chicago in Review, Arts Magazine, May 1991, p. 107
Postiglione, Corey, Summer Hydra, Dialogue, November/December 1989, p. 34
Schulze, Franz, Hell-bent on Tradition, New Art Examiner, Summer 1989, p. 27
Warren, Lynne, The Persistence of Modernism, exhibition catalog for Chicago Artists in the European Tradition, Museum of Contemporary Art, February 1989
Yood, James, Gary Justis at CompassRose, Artforum, December 1988, p. 127
McCracken, David, Two Sculptors Father Invention - and Form, Chicago Tribune, Friday, September 23, 1988, p. 46
Kirshner, Judith Russi, Mythos, Beyond Function, catalogue, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana, 1986
Reginato, James, Art and Antiques, New York, April 1986
Bonesteel, Michael, Gary Justis at the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Art in America, June 1985
Golden, Deven, Hyperfunctional Content, catalogue, Chicago Cultural Center, 1985
Cameron, Dan, A New Generation of Chicago Artists, ARTnews, October 1984
McCormick, Carlo, Loisadia in Hoosierland, New York Beat, May 23, 1984
Kirshner, Judith Russi, Gary Allen Justis: Museum of Science and Industry, Artforum, December 1982
Thorson, Alice, Animating Art: The Kinetic Sculpture of Gary Justis, New Art Examiner, Chicago, November 1982
Artner, Alan, Bright Futures: Five Local Artists Who Bear Watching, Chicago Tribune, November 22, 1981
Logan, Thomas Schwartzman. Dimensions Variable, catalogue, The New Museum of Art, New York, October 1979