Alex Jovanovich

Education:

BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 2004

Associates of Applied Science in Graphic Design, Associates of Applied Science in Painting,
The American Academy of Art, Chicago; 1996

Solo Exhibitions/Events:

Minor Things; Old Gold; Chicago, IL; March 2008

Forever; Fraction Workspace; Chicago, IL; December 2007

The Loveliness Workshop; Links Hall; Chicago, IL; October 2007

The Loveliness Workshop; Mess Hall; Chicago, IL; April 2007

The Loveliness Workshop; Fraction Workspace; Chicago, IL; October 2006

Happy Birthday, Beverly Nelson; artLedge; Chicago, IL; May 2006

Selected Group Exhibitions/Events:

GLOW; Country Club; Chicago, IL; July 2008

wordsmaybemusic; Rec Room; Chicago, IL; May 2008

Reading from the Factory Floor; Hyde Park Art Center; Chicago, IL; January 2008

Metamorphosis; Rec Room; Chicago, IL; December 2007

Sincerely Yours; Main Gallery; Las Vegas, NV; November 2007

Young Americans; Main Gallery; Las Vegas, NV; April 2007

Theatrical Poetical; Rec Room; Chicago, IL; March 2007

If in heaven we do not meet, hand in hand we’ll stand the heat: Rebecca Ringquist & Alex Jovanovich; Fraction Workspace; Chicago, IL; February 2007

Salon des dessins; Teti Gallery; Chicago, IL; December 2006

Text Off the Page: Readings; collaboration with Dan Beachy-Quick; Gallery 2; Chicago, IL; December 2006

To London from Chicago, with Great Love. Yours, artLedge; artLedge with i-cabin gallery; London, England; June 2006

Best Played with a Straight Face; Hudson Franklin Gallery; New York, NY; June 2006

Post; Rec Room; Chicago, IL; February 2006

Experiment 400/5; Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago; November 2005

Spooktacula; The Mansion; Chicago, IL; October 2005

Ann & Alex; Fraction Workspace; Chicago, IL; September 2005

Sinister; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University; Charleston, IL; August 2005

Martin Esteves & Shenandoah Smith; Fraction Workspace; Chicago, IL; April 2005

Pasle III; Fisch Haus; Wichita, KS; April 2005

RHINO Festival: 16 Students; Curious Theatre Branch; Chicago, IL; October 2004

Performing Arts Chicago: EDGE Festival: Telophase: The Occupation;
Athenaeum Theater; Chicago, IL; April 2004

Contemporary Feelings; Flatiron Building; Chicago, IL; March 2004

Valentine’s Show II; Private loft; Chicago, IL; February 2004

Look What the Cat Dragged In; Spin Nightclub; Chicago, IL; January 2004

Telophase III; InnerTown; Chicago, IL; November 2003

A Very Nice Day with Grey; Hammond Civic Center; Hammond, IN; June 2001


Published Projects:

fold, the reader: lying
January 2005, pp 18 - 19 (reproduction)

fold, the reader: sacrifice
May 2008, pp 82 – 83 (reproduction)

Published Writing:

Artlies, Issue 59, Fall 2008
“WORDSTOBELOOKEDAT,” Liz Kotz, book review

Artlies, Issue 58, Summer 2008
“Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte,” Bernadette Corporation, book review

Artlies, Issue 57, Spring 2008
“An Atlas of Radical Cartography,” Edited by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat, book review

February 2008: Essay for artist Caleb Lyons, solo show at ThreeWalls:
“Slow Dance (backinblackisblackisblackisblackisback)”

Artlies, Issue 56, Winter 2007
“Butt Book: The Best of The First Five Years of Butt Magazine,” Edited by Jop van Bennekom
and Gert Jonkers in collaboration with Wolfgang Tillmans, book review

Artlies, Issue 55, Fall 2007
Aram Saroyan, “Complete Minimal Poems,” book review
Terry R. Myers, “Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me,” book review

Artlies: Issue 54, Summer 2007
David Robbins, “The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (1983 – 2005),” book review

Bailliwik: Issue 4, Spring 2007
“Loveliness: A Manifesto”

New American Paintings: Issue 53, September 2004; Essay for artist Geoffry Smalley

New American Paintings: The 2002 MFA Annual, v. 7; Essay for artist Geoffry Smalley

Visiting Artist Lectures:

April 2008: Loyola University’s Liberal Arts Department

April 2008: School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Liberal Arts Department

March 2008: School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Photography Department

August 2007: School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Early College Program

May 2007: School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Undergraduate Painting Department

December 2006 (with Mrs. Ilinka Jovanovich): School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA in Writing Program

July 2005: Loyola University, Chicago

April 2005: School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s First Year Program

December 2005 - December 2004: School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Undergraduate Painting Department

Bibliography:

Weinberg, Lauren, “Poster Child,” Time Out Chicago, 10 – 16 April 2008, pp68 (reproduction)

Foumberg, Jason, “Isn’t it Lovely?,” New City Chicago, 25 March 2008, pp 16

Interview. “Loveliness/Evil Chicago Politics,” www.badatsports.com, Episode #92, 3 June 2007

Article. “ ‘Sinister’ Exhibit on Display at EIU,” Journal Gazette Times-Courier, 3 September 2005,
pp D1 (reproduction)

Taransky, Michelle, “Another Reason to Skip Those Red Papers,” www.gapersblock.com, 24 August 2005