Events:
MURALS: City of Chicago Mural commissions:
“Daisy Field” Columbia Ave @ CTA underpass 2011
“Northern Exposure” Northshore Ave @ CTA underpass 2013
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS:
1986 Arts Midwest NEA Fellowship Award
2012 Illinois Arts Council IAS Grant Award
Exhibitions:
Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL - 2003 to 2013.
Eyeporium Gallery,"Dualities, Brenda Barnum & Joanne Aono" , Chicago, IL 2012
Forms Gallery, Del Ray Beach, FL, 2011
Indianapolis Art Center "Art from the "Heartland", 2010
Architrove "New Abstractions" -Brenda Barnum& Marianne Levant - Chicago, IL 2008
James Corcoran Gallery, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2007
Walter Bischoff Gallery,Art Expo Chicago, 2005, 1993 & 1994, one person:1990, Stuttgart,Germany,
Berlin ART EXPO,- 1993
4Art Gallery, "8 Ball", Chicago, IL 2004
Marsha Childs Gallery “Works on Paper”, Princeton, N.J. 2000
Butters Gallery, Portland, OR. - one person show: 2004, 2000,1997- "Botanicals" 2000
Vancouver International Art Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C. 1997
Hyde Park Art Center, “Painterly Abstraction”, 1996
"Sextablos"1999/ Barrister Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2000/Augen Gallery, Portland OR, 2000
Marco Fine Arts (serigraphs)Art Expo Miami, 1999, New York Expo, 1998
Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Contemporary Abstraction",1998, “Masks” 1994, “Chicago Abstraction”, 1993
Gallery Sur, Carmel, CA., 1997
Jayson Gallery , Chicago, IL , 1996 & 1995
Knox College "20 at Knox", Galesburg, IL, 1996
Indiana University, Gary, IN, "Painterly Abstraction" , 1996
A.R.C. Gallery "Wanderlust....abstraction in Chicago" Chicago. IL, 1995
FachHochschule Offenburg, Germany.1994, Chicago Drawing Exhibition, / Madiera, Portugal, July 1993
Rockford Art Museum "Emerging Chicago Abstraction", Rockford, IL ,1993
Gallery North West, Indiana University, Gary, IN. 1991
Amerika Haus "Aktuelle Kunst Aus Amerika",Stuttgart, Germany, 1991
Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery "Rapture", Chicago, 1991
Sazama Gallery "Paint", Chicago, 1991
Cologne Art Expo, Germany, 1990 "Transcultural Exchange Show" Chicago and Vienna, Austria,
1990 & 1989
Zola Lieberman Gallery "Abstractions" one person show: 1988
Minneapolis College of Art and Design "Arts Midwest Fellowship" 1987
Evanston Art Center, "Arts Midwest Fellowship" 1988
Broadway Gallery, Detroit, MI. - one person show ,1988
The Wursum Museum, Racine, WI. 1988,
Fort Apache & Bates Gallery International Contemporary Art Fair, London, & Chicago 1986
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, one person show w/ Linda King, &“Convergence”, "Wish You Were Here", ”Chicago”, “Post Industrial Paint” ,1985-86