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ANDREI RABODZEENKO DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH EDUCATION 1985 Vera Mukhina School of Design, Leningrad, USSR 1980 Art Academy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, USSR EXHIBITS 2007 Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, sculpture installation (three years), Skokie, IL “Anywhere but Here,” artist book show curated by Ama Medina-Seabright, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA “Gallery Invitational 2007,” group show, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, OH 2006 “Something to Do With Failure,” group show curated by Chester Costello, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL “Just Good Art,” annual benefit show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL “Sculpture on Ford Road,” outdoor sculpture show organized by Midwest Sculpture Initiative, Canton, MI 2005 "Middle American Riches", two-person show, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, OH “Sculpture in the Park 2005”, Toledo, OH "Wall to Wall: A Survey of Current Regional Sculpture", Flatlanders Gallery, Blissfield, MI "Accidents, Loops and Elements", three-person show curated by Mary Fortuna, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI "Work of art / Art of work", national juried show, Fine Arts Building Gallery 2004 Solo show of oil paintings, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK "Sculpture in the Gardens 2004", Schedel Arboretum & Gardens, Elmore, OH 2003 "Not Just Another Pretty Face", group show of commissioned art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Tenth Year Exhibit, group show, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, OH Ann Arbor Art Showcase, four-person show, The Art Warehouse, Ann Arbor, MI 2002 “Let’s face this”, solo show of oils on canvas, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, OH “Background, an art show of four somehow Ukrainian artists”, The Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL 2001 “Bratwurst”, group show of Chicago artists, Philadelphia, PA 2000 “Family Portraits”, group show, The Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL 1998 “Sculpture & Drawing Exhibit”, group show, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, OH 1997 "Father and Son. Ivan Rabodzeenko, Andrei Rabodzeenko", 20 North Gallery, Toledo, OH 1995 "Culture and Identity", three-person curated show at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL "The Pathos of Reality", video installation/performance with Viktor Snesar, Gallery 21, St. Petersburg, Russia "Hello, Comrade Chicagov", video installation, Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia 1994 Moving the Body Forward, a group show of works on paper, Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993 "Drawings from Nature", solo show of works on paper, Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 1993, represented by Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, IL Solo show of watercolors, The Common Space Gallery, Toledo, OH 1992 "I Just Draw", solo show of graphic works, University of Chicago "Two Full Moons", three-person show, old Robeson's Building, Champaign, IL 1990 First All-Union Biennial of Graphic Art, Kaliningrad, USSR 1989 Fourth Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Won third place in Drawings, Pastels, Coloured Pencils Category 1987 "City, History, People", Exhibition of Young Leningrad Artists, Leningrad, USSR ARTIST’S BOOKS “Profite Things”[sic], “Noses”, “Other Worlds” handmade books. Sold at Printed Matter Bookstore, NYC, FlyRabbit Books, Boston, Seminary Coop Bookstore, Chicago; ZyArt, London “Four Little Poems”, Bookworks, Nantucket
PUBLICATIONS Cover art for “Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and the Mind-Brain Relationship: A New Perspective”, by Shirley M. Ferguson and Mark Rayport, International Review of Neurology, vol. 76, Elsevier, 2006 "Not Just Another Pretty Face" catalogue, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, November 2003, pages 40-41 Etchings for “Between Peter and Leningrad”, poetry by Elena Elagina, Terra Fantastika Publishers, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1995 Illustration for "GIS on the Job" by Mary Lou Gallagher, American Planning Association journal, December 1992, page 21 Drawings for “From Hell to Paradise”, poetry by Natalia Antonova, GEOS Press, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1991 Drawings for “Before Olirna”, poetry by Natalia Antonova, GEOS Press, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1990 PRESS Kaminsky, Simon. "Innovator in an Old Style", Chicago artist Andrei Rabodzeenko tries to change perceptions of contemporary art, "Obzor", April 21, 2008, p. 18 Elagina, Elena. "A Happy Artist is an Artist in Demand", BEG - St. Petersburg magazine, No. 6, 2007, pp. 82-97 “Featured Artist: Andrei Rabodzeenko,” Vvedenskaya Storona, a magazine about art for children (Russian), No. 2, June 2007, pp. 30-31 Gehring, Stephanie. “Artist gets by with a little help from his family, bringing his inspiration from the USSR,” Daily Southtown, March 22, 2006, Local Section, p. 1 & 6 Stein, Lisa. "Art portrait show takes unique view of patrons' faces", Chicago Tribune, November 14, 2003, Section 7, page 17 Dutton, Lisa. Photo feature: "20 North Gallery marks 10th year", Toledo Blade, September 26, 2003, Arts & Entertainment Section, page 1 Wiederhold, Matthew. "In the mind of Andrei Rabodzeenko: Complex Paintings at 20 North Gallery", Toledo City Paper, June 2002, page 11 Anderson, Jon. “Ukrainian art exhibit almost all in family”, Chicago Tribune, January 8, 2002, Metro Section, page 3 Bayne, Martha. “Gallery Tripping: A kind of, not really, almost totally Ukrainian show”, Chicago Reader, January 4, 2002, page 23 Vallongo, Sally. "Father and son paint across generation gap", Toledo Blade, June 15, 1997, Arts & Entertainment section, page 1 Vallongo, Sally. "Love connection helps bring art exhibit to Toledo", Toledo Blade, December 3, 1993, page 45 Weintraub, Jennifer. "Artist Rabodzeenko just draws 'perfectly badly' ", The University of Chicago Maroon, April 14, 1992, page 11 |