
- 'Big Ten Co-Ed with Ski Mask No.3', 2003
11 x 14" / 28 x 36 cm, Edition of 5
30 x 40" / 76 x 102 cm, Edition of 5
Luke Batten: Born 1968 in Santa Maria, California.
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jonathan Sadler: Born 1965 in Sacramento, California.
MFA Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston.
2001 Review, “Gang of Four”, The New Art Examiner, Winter, Chicago, IL 2004 Exhibition Catalogue, Men and Boys, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI // Review, “Project Mixes Music”, Boston Globe // Review, “Composers, Filmakers Mesh Sites and Sounds”, Boston Globe AWARDS: Artadia Finalist Tanglewood Music Fellowship 2005 Monongraph: Preppy Girls, Big Ten Co-eds, and the Lost Cheerleaders // Exhibition Review, “Mangolds columns gradually reveal variety amidst sameness“, Chicago Tribune // Book Review, “Shooting Strange“, The Telegraph Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, London, UK // Exhibition Review, “The Collecting Urge“, The Reader, Chicago, IL // Exhibition Review, “New Catalogue, Lost Cheerleaders”, Time Out Chicago, Chicago, IL 2006 Exhibition Review, “Bring it On!”, Time Out, Chicago 2007 Exhibition Review, “Location, Location, Location”, Time Out, Chicago // Exhibition Review, “Photos Don’t Always Shed Light”, Chicago Tribune// Exhibition Review, “Laded Landscaped at the Museum of Contemporary Photograph”, Saatchi Gallery Blog // AWARDS: Ansel Adams Fellowship, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Arizona 2008 Cover Story, “What are you Looking At?“
SOLO EXHIBITIONS ( SELECTION )
- 2008
- Tiger Afternoon, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2007
- Facades, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana/Champaign, IL
Concerning Tomorrow, Harold Art Center, Chicago, IL
Straight Photography?, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN - 2006
- Beauty, Illnois Project for the Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, IL
- 2005
- The Lost Cheerleaders, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, IL
- 2004
- Big Ten Co-eds with Ski Mask, (MCA) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 2003
- New Catalogue, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS ( SELECTION )
- 2007
- Loaded Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- 2006
- Spectacles of the Real, Open Source-Illinois Project for the Research in the Humanities, Urbana, Champaign, IL
New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Fest, Iron Studios
Lumpen Magazine
Bring It On, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL - 2005
- Prague Biennial, National Gallery of Prague, Czech Rep.
Depauw Biennial, De Pauw University, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Greencastle, IN - 2004
- New Catalogue, Festival of Contemporary Music, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA
Men and Boys, Walker Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Summer Show, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL - 2003
- There Goes My Hero, University of North Umbria, Newcastle, UK
Summer Show, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL - 2001
- Gang of Four, NFA Space & Ambrosino Gallery, Chicago, IL & Miami, FL
Sight, Site, Insight, Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Institute, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL