GLEN C. DAVIES
cell (217) 898-8049
email: glencdavies@yahoo.com
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1981 M.F.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois (Painting)
1978 B.F.A., Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (Painting)
1968-72 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Undergraduate Studies)
HONORS
1980-81 Ford Foundation Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship
1978 Graduated with honors, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012 - Present
Adjunct Painting Instructor, Honors Course University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Course Title: Found Object/Found Art: Experimental Materials in Painting
2011/2016
Adjunct Painting Instructor, Discovery Course
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008
Sideshow Banner Workshop
Artspace, Shreveport, Louisiana
1985-present
Painting Instructor, Illinois Arts Council, Residency Participant in the Artist in Education Program Courses and workshops in Mural Design and Painting and Community Mural Painting Workshops
1997, 1995
Painting Instructor, Southern Illinois Arts Workshop, Mount Vernon, Illinois. Adult Painting Workshops and Trompel’oeil Technique Workshops
1996
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Painting Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Course titles: Introduction to Painting, Experimental Materials and Techniques
1995
Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Painting Dept., Bradford College,
Bradford, Massachusetts
Dia de los Muertos Workshops
1994
Visiting Artist, Painting Program, Fine Arts Dept.,
llinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Course Title: Painting Seminar
1989
Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Mural Painting Seminar, Bradford College, Bradford, Massachusetts,
Mural Painting Workshops
1979
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Painting Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Course title: Painting for Non-Art Major
ONE PERSON SHOWS
2018 Babel, Preston Jackson Gallery, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Illinois
2016 Alpha and Omega: Forty-Five Year Retrospective, Merwin and Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois
2016 Revelations: Works by Glen C. Davies, Anne Lloyd Gallery, Decatur, Illinois
2016 Revelations: Glen C. Davies Banner Paintings, Frick Center, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois
2015 Glen C. Davies Collages, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, Illinois
2009 Museum of Mystery: A Thirty Year Bannerline of Paintings, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois
2007 Museum of Mystery, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2006 Signs of the Times, Small Works Gallery, Haverhill, Massachusetts
2003 Alpha and Omega, Cinema Art Gallery, Urbana, Illinois
Sideshow (Museum of Mystery!), Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago
2001 Revelations, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago
2001 Crossroads, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2000 Crossroads, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois
2000 Carnival of Images, Wm J. Bachman Gallery, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, Indiana
2000 Signs of the Times, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
1999 Signs of the Times, Contemporary Series, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
1998 Meeting of the Minds, Peoria Arts Guild, Peoria, Illinois
1996 Milestones, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
1995 Eye of the Beholder, McClean County Art Center, Bloomington, Illinois
1994 Paintings, Drawings & Banners, Bicentennial Art Center, Paris, Illinois
1994 Glen Davies: A Drawing Retrospective From One Private Collection, Illini Union Art Gallery, Student Union,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
1993 Glen Davies Paintings, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1993 The Pavilion of Broken Dreams, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
1990 Moments of Mystery, Urania Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
1989 Encounters Eleven, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
1989 Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
1989 Glen C. Davies Paintings & Drawings, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, Massachusetts
GROUP SHOWS
2021 2 Person Show with Steven Hudson, Boneyard Art Festival, Champaign, Illinois
2020 Sing Muses: History and Allegory in Narrative Art, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois
2019 Sing Muses: History and Allegory in Narrative Art, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
2018 Rockford Midwestern, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois, Jurors Award Winner
2018 Around the Block: Artists from our Community, Giertz Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
2018 Thrills & Chills: The Fantastic World of the American Circus Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
2015 Around the Block: Artists from our Community, Giertz Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
2015 Thrills & Chills: The Fantastic World of the American Circus Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
2013 Artists on the Environment, University YMCA, Champaign, Illinois
2013 University of Illinois Alumni Exhibit, Figure One Gallery and Indigo Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
2012, 2011 Faculty Art Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavillion, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
2011 Inked: Tattooed Imagery in Contemporary Art, Jack Olson Gallery Dekalb, Illinois
2011 25th Anniversary Masters Exhibition, La Luz de Jesus Gallery Los Angeles, California
2009/2010 Everything but the Kitschen Sync, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2009 Boneyard, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, Illinois
2008 Rockford Midwestern, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford
2008 Everything But the Kitschen Sync, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2008 Curious, Mysterious and Strange\ Secrets of the Sideshow, Artspace, Shreveport, Louisiana
2007 Circus Acts/ Suspending Disbelief, H.F. Johnson Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin
2007 At the Edge, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, Illinois
2007 Group Show, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2006 Aron Packer Gallery, Three Oaks, Michigan
2006 IGNITE!, a Gen Art Event, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Rockford Midwestern, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
Annually 2004-06 Everything But the Kitschen Sync, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1999-2004 Sextablos: Works on Metal, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (opened in 1999), then traveled to New Orleans, Houston, Portland Oregon, and San Jose California
2003 Here & Now art from greater C-U, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
2003 Non Commercial Art by Commercial Artists, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 Inspired in Illinois, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
2002 Non Commercial Art by Commercial Artists, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2001 From Flesh to Steel, Indiana University Northwest, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Gary, Indiana
2000 Rockford Midwestern, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
1999 Group Show of Gallery Artists, Earthworks Gallery, Chicago
1999 New Figurative Art, Earthworks Gallery, Chicago
1996 Visions Not Far From Normal, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
1996 The Young And/Or the Restless, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1996 72nd Annual Faculty Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
1996 Group Show of Gallery Artists, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1994 Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont
1994 Day of the Dead, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, Massachusetts
1994 A Story Told: The Narrative Impulse in Contemporary Art, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
1994 Works on Paper, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1994 New Art/New Year, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
1994 Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
1993 Imagery: Incongruous Juxtapositions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1993 Skewed Visions: Davies, Grucza and Guthrie, ISPACE, Chicago
1993 The Davies/Ross Show, Seigfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1992 Under Exposed New Talent, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1992 Collections: The Vernacular Object, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
1992 Sexuality in Religion, World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago
SYMPOSIUMS AND MUSEUM INSTALLATIONS
2010 Guest Curator for Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Chanpaign,Illinois
2006 Guest Curator for Cosmic Consciousness: the Work of Robert Bannister, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign, Illinois
1995 Day of the Dead Workshop, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, Massachusetts
1995 Mural Series and Exhibition Design for Children’s Museum of Illinois, Decatur, Illinois
1994 Symposium, How Far Out is Outsider Art?, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign, Illinois
1993-94 Mural Commission and Banners for the exhibition Life Over Time, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Guest Panelist, Thrift Store Paintings, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign, Illinois
1991 Sideshow Installation/Workshop, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
1990 Guest Curator, Palace of Wonders: Side Show Banners of the Circus & Carnival, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Chapter, Painters of the Peculiar: A Guide to Sideshow Banner Artists & their Respective Work, Michael Papa and John Meah
2018 Essay, Leaving the Body, Entering the Cosmos: Robert Bannister’s Work Express a Freedom of Spirit and Imagination, Raw Vision Magazine
2011 La Luz De Jesus 25: The Little Gallery That Could, La Luz de Jesus Press
2010 Exhibition Catalog, Stranger in Paradise:The Works of Reverend Howard Finster, University of Washington Press
2006 Essay, Cosmic Consciousness: The Works of Robert Bannister, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
1995 Essay Contributor, Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls: Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway, Hardy Marks Publications
1990 Essay, Palace of Wonders: Sideshow Banners of the Circus and Carnival, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Elmhurst University Collection of Imagist and Abstract Art, A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst, Illinois
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roger Brown Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
Laura Knott Library, Bradford College, Bradford, Massachusetts
McDonald’s Corporation, Oakbrook, Illinois
The American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Illinois
Lawrence and Evelyn Aronson, Glencoe, Illinois
Jerome and Carol Ginsburg, Glenview, Illinois
Billy Shire, Los Angeles, California