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Education
MFA, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MA, Painting and Drawing, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
BFA, Painting, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Teaching
Associate Professor of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Painting Area Coordinator, NIU School of Art Fine Arts Division, DeKalb, IL
Assistant Professor of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Adjunct Faculty in Painting and Drawing, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Instructor in Painting and Drawing, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL
Instructor in Painting and Drawing, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Instructor of Record in Painting & Drawing,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Adjunct Faculty,Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Adjunct Faculty,Chicago City-Wide College, Chicago, IL

Selected Solo and 3 Person Exhibitions
Solo Painting Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL
Solo Painting Exhibition, McHenry College, Crystal Lake, IL
Solo Painting Exhibition, Rutsch Award in Painting, Pelham Art Center, NY
Doud, Gearan, Trankina, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Doud, Gearan, Trankina, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions
Paper Love, Devening Projects+Editions, Chicago, IL
Santoro, Swain, Trankina, Waubonsee College, Sugar Grove, IL
40th Anniversary Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL (exhibition catalogue)

Group Show, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Art of Play, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Chicago Sampler, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Think Small!, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL
Faculty Exhibition, NIU Museum Gallery at Chicago (exhibition catalogue)

48th Beloit, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
Think Small!, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL (exhibition catalogue)
Spring Benefit Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, IL

Think Small!, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery (exhibition catalogue)
NIU Faculty Exhibition, NIU Museum Gallery at Chicago

A Passionate Perspective: The Francis and June Spiezer Collection
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (exhibition catalogue)
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (exhibition catalogue)
Fall Exhibition, Limner Gallery, New York, NY
53rd Quad-State Exhibition, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL (exhibition catalogue)
Spring Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA (exhibition catalogue) Juror: Jeffrey Carr, Dean of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Modern Heart, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA 20 x 20x 20, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (exhibition catalogue) Juror: Michael Rooks, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, Hawaii Small Works, 26th National Harper College Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL
Spring Benefit Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Buy the foot 3 , NIU Museum Gallery at Chicago

Small Works 2002, Limner Gallery, New York, NY
Shikishi, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek/San Francisco, CA (exhibition brochure)
2002 Spring Benefit Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Buy the foot 2 , NIU Museum Gallery at Chicago

Objects Considered: Modern and Post-Modern Still Life, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek/San Francisco, CA, (exhibition catalogue)
Snowglobe, Works on Paper, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Still Life in Ohio, Illinois & Indiana, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH, February 9-March 23 Summer Exhibition, Limner Gallery, New York, NY
Part I, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
51st Annual Quad-State Exhibition, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
Juror: Dr. L. Zona, Director, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH (exhibition catalogue)
New Faculty Exhibition, Jack Olson Gallery, Jack Arends Hall, DeKalb, IL
What’s Under Foot, 8th Annual Auction to Benefit individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty, homelessness and substance abuse, Chicago House, Chicago, IL

New Art Showcase, Limner Gallery, New York, NY
Spring Show, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shake the Coat: A Tribute to Gregory Gillespie., North Park University, Chicago, IL
Curator: Tim Lowly, Director, North Park University Art Gallery
Artists of Chicago: Paul Sierra, Hollis Sigler, Frank Trankina, Glen Wexler & Margaret Wharton, The Arts Center, Okaloosa-Walton College, Niceville, FL 2000 National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY,
Juror: Eleanor Heartney, Contributing Editor, Art in America (exhibition catalogue)
Group Show, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Midwestern Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Juror: James Yood, Chair, Dept. of Art theory & Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Dark Humor, The Plant Visual Arts Center, Norfolk, VA
Juror: Carla Hanzal, Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia Ping Pong Art, Chicago Waterworks Center Gallery, Chicago, IL Presented by the Chicago Department Cultural Affairs 15th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Jurors: Gregory G. Knight, Director of Visual Arts, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs; Chief Curator, Chicago Cultural Center & Elizabeth Smith, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Object Considered: Contemporary Still Life in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, (exhibition catalog) Traveled to two venues in 2000:
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
Curators: Nannette Maciejunes, Senior Curator, Columbus Museum of Art; and Anita Dawson, Associate Professor of Art, Columbus College of Art & Design

Altered Objects, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Multiples, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Butter, Margin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Faculty Biennial Exhibition, NIU Museum Gallery at Chicago Visual Feasting, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
Juror: Aron Packer “Trespass” School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Exhibition St. Charles Art & Music Festival, Norris Cultural Arts Center Gallery, St. Charles, IL
Juror: Lynn Warren, Associate Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Still Lifes, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Link, Jan Cicero Gallery Chicago, IL
The Immovable Object, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
On Your Mark, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Animate/Inanimate, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, (exhibition catalogue)

Remaking Reality, Cambridge University Kettle’s Yard Museum, Cambridge, England,
Curator: Simon Wallis (exhibition catalogue)
Don Baum Says: “Chicago Has Famous Artists”, A Retrospective of Chicago Art 1945-95, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curator: Don Baum NIU Collected, Northern Illinois University Centennial Exhibition, NIU Museum Gallery at Chicago (exhibition catalogue)

Fuse, Reninger, Santoro, Schutze & Trankina, NIU Museum Gallery at Chicago, IL
Klown Show, Kozuch Gallery, Chicago, IL Still Life Exhibition, Moraine Valley College, Palos Hills, IL

June & Francis Spiezer Collection, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (brochure) 55th Anniversary Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (brochure), Curator: Don Baum
Toy Bomb!, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL12th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Jurors: Mark Pascale, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago & Beryl Wright, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Is There Still Life in Chicago?, Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, I

Art Chicago ‘93, International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL

The Next Generation: Impact of Race, Class and Sex on Family Life, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Bibliography
Harper College Press. Exhibition Catalogue. Margaret Buchen. Catalogue Essay. Daily Herald. Harper Notes. April 8, Arts Section.

Time Out Chicago. Preview. Lauren Weinberg. Just Good Art, (Aug. 30-Sept. 5): Art & Design Sec.

Time Out Chicago. Review. Lauren Weinberg. Focus 5, (Dec. 14-27): p.60.
Time Out Chicago. Review and Reproduction. Lauren Weinberg.
NIU Gallery Faculty Salon, (Feb. 16-23, 2006): p.61.
Daily Chronicle Online. Focus 5 Features Two NIU Artists, Oct. 8, Arts Section.

Chicago Reader. Exhibition Preview/Reproduction.
Recent Exhibitions, Nov. 14, sec.2, p.27 (ill.)
The Tartan. Review. S. Robertson. For the Love of Art , Nov. 6, p. 13 (ill.).

Art in America. Award Announcement & Reproduction. (Nov. 2002). P.109 (ill.)
Art News. Award Announcement & Reproduction. (Nov. 02)

Chicago Reader. Exhibition Preview/Reproduction.
Recent Exhibitions, April 20, sec.2, p.26 (ill.)
Concentrics. Preview & Cover Illustration. Invitational Part I, Feb. p.1 (cover ill.) & p. .3 (ill).
New City Magazine. Review. Michael Bulka. Invitational Part I. (Mar. 22, 2001): p. 31.
The Pelham Weekly. Review. Rutsch Award Winner at Pelham Art Center, June 1, p. .3 (ill).

Direct Art Magazine. SlowArt Productions, (Volume 4 Fall/Winter 2000-01): p. 35 (ill.)
DeKalb Daily Chronicle. Review. Ben Mahmoud.
“Shake the Coat” A Perfect Example of Realism, Nov. 19, p. D1(ill.)-D2.
Evanston Review. Review. Ellen Pritsker. Curator Plays Favorites, April 12, p. B4 (ill.)
New City Magazine. Review. Michael Bulka. “What's the Sound of One Person Playing”, Sept. 14, p.30.
DeKalb County Weekly. Review. Ben Mahmoud. Artists of the New Millennium, Aug. 30, p. A2-A2 (ill.).
The Columbus Dispatch. Review. J. Hall. Still Life in the Heartland, April 2, p. 1.

New Art Examiner. Article. John Brunetti. Nostalgia as Cultural Discourse: What America’s Twentieth-Century Myths Reveal About Ourselves, (Dec. 1999): p. 18-21, 62 & 63 (ill.).
Benton Harbor Herald Palladium. Exhibition Preview.
`Trespass’ Exhibition Opens Friday, July 8, sec. D, p.3.
Kalamazoo Gazette. Review. Nick Bunkley.
Arts District Adds Chicago Exhibit, July 4, sec. D, p.5. (ill.)
Arts & Entertainment (Press-Republic Newspapers). Review. Renee Tomell. Exhibit Colors Festival, July.
New Art Examiner. Review. Michael Bulka. “Butter” Exhibition at Margin Gallery, (May 1999): p. 50&51 (ill.).

Chicago Tribune. Review. Buchholz, Barbara. “Immovable Object” at Jan Cicero Gallery, Jan. 30, sec.7, p.64.
Chicago Artists’ News. Article. Dan Cleary. Chicago Critics on Chicago Art, July/Aug. 1998, p.7.
Dialogue Magazine. Review & Cover Illustration. Melissa Malnar.
The Immovable Object at Jan Cicero Gallery. (May/June 1998): p.1 (cover ill.) & p.12 (ill.).

College of DuPage, Exhibition Catalogue. John Brunetti. Animate/Inanimate, June 1997.
Daily Herald. Review. Philip Kotulski. Sculpture, Paintings Highlight COD Exhibit, June 27, Time Out Sec., p.59 (ill.).

Hyde Park Herald. Review. Cara Glatt. Chicago “Famous Artists” in Hyde Park, Dec. 4, p.7.
Chicago Tribune. Review. Artner, Alan. Center Gives “Famous Artists” their Due, Nov. 28, sec. 5, p.2 (ill).
London Guardian. Exhibition Preview. Remaking Reality at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Nov. 16, Arts sec. (ill.).
Cambridge University Press. Catalog Essay. Simon Wallis. Remaking Reality. Nov. 16, 1996.
Art News. Article. Garrett Holg. Living with Art: the June & Francis Spiezer Collection. (Oct. 1996): p.102.
NIU Press. Exhibition Catalog Essay. Jerry Meyer. An Aesthetic Symbiosis, June 7, 1996.
Chicago Tribune. Review. Artner, Alan. Realist with a Twist, Aug. 28, sec.7, p.46 (ill).

Hyde Park Herald. Review. Cara Glatt. Local Painters’ Work Elevates the Mundane, Oct. 25, p.9 (ill.).
New City Magazine. Exhibition Preview. Marc Spiegler. Trio Crescendo, Oct. 12, p.26 (ill.).

New Art Examiner. Review. T.J.Demos. Doud, Gearan and Trankina at CAW. (May 1993): p. 41-42 (ill.).

Awards
Purchase Award, Harper College Educational Foundation, Palatine, IL
26th National Harper College Small Works Exhibition

Alexander Rutsch Award in Painting, Pelham Art Center, NYArtist Fellowship Award in Visual Arts, Illinois Arts Council

Cash Award/Honorable Mention, Norris Center Gallery, St. Charles Art & Music Festival

CAAP Artist Merit Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Five Year Service Award, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Teaching Commendation, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

CAAP Artist Merit Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Teaching Commendation, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

Teaching Commendation, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL Graduate Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Graduate Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Collections
National and international collections including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Colorado
Ohio, London and Indonesia