STEPHEN LAPTHISOPHON

EDUCATION

1986-1989 Northwestern University, Comparative Literature and Theory

1979 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1977 BFA University of Texas at Austin

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS

2006 My Task, solo exhibition/ installation Kunstverein INGAN Berlin

Also Serve, Only Stand and Wait City of Chicago Cultural Center

Installation as part of “Humans Being: Disability in Contemporary Art” Chicago

2005 My Heritage My Tradition My Voice, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

(Artist in Residence project)

Strategy, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

Plan for the Future, IR Gallery, Dallas, TX

“so many bewildering and obscure processes…”, McKinney Avenue

Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2004 Amanuensis (I Hear a Symphony), Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen

Elyn, IL

Walk on By, Open Studio Project, City of Chicago Department of Cultural

Affairs

Was it for this? Sound installation, Lincoln Park Conservatory, City of Chicago

Park, Chicago, IL

2003 Static, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2002 With Reasonable Accommodation, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago

Les coups de l’histoire University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

2000 Defense D'afficher TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL

1999 Recent Collages, Northeastern Illinois University, Library Art Gallery

Chicago, IL

1983 Ceci n'est pas une vide Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL

1982 After All (for RPW) Artists Space, New York

Polaroid collages: Recent Photographs, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1981 Persistence of Vision Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1980 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1979 A St. Gallery, Boston, MA

AWARDS

2002 Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago IL. Residency grant

2001 The Art Council/ Artadia Award, Jury award recipient

1999 Illinois Arts Council, project completion grant

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Teenage Fan Club, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas TX

2005 Ghost Writing, “Durand Amorphous Solid” lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

Drawing as Alterity, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven School of the Arts, Dallas, TX

Conspicuous Production McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas TX

Material Support University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

2004 Uncovered: Recent Acquisitions from the MCA Artists' Books Collection,

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IIL

2004 Derive, Millennium Park, Sound Art Piece Commissioned by the City of Chicago

for the Opening of Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
The Stray Show, with Gallery 400, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Sound Art Festival, Institute for Contemporary Art Overgaden, Copenhagen

Denmark

Disintegration Effect, “Good and Bad Things Come from Explosions”

Athanaeum Theater, Chicago IL part of Performing Art Chicago

Anonymity, “Sound canopy” Public sound installation, Chicago, sponsored by

Hyde Park Art Center

Constructions: design & architecture, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art,

Dallas, TX

Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, 26^th Anniversary Exhibition, White Walls,

Hyde Park Center, Chicago, IL

2003 Autumn Almanac, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL

Urbs in Horto, Columbus Park, Chicago, IL. radio broadcast

City Views, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas TX

2002 The Art Council Award Exhibition Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

Sculpture in Chicago Now, Part 2 Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College,

Chicago, IL

Digitalis, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL

2001 Between the Folds one night installation, solo show NFA Space, Chicago, IL

Con/textual, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2000 Mean Souls, like mean pictures, are often found in good-looking frames

1935 W. Thomas, Chicago, IL

Agitator Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Site Works Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

Synthesis: Collage and Mixed Media Sonnenschein Gallery,

Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL

1999 Bookmarks, NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998 Earth Escapes Landscapes, organized by Phil Berkman, North Lakeside

Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Way, 3 person exhibition, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL

1997 Addendum: Art in Chicago since 1945 Northern Illinois University Art

Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Corey Postiglione

Not Renoir, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

1993 not/knot Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

1992 Feuilletons, two person exhibition, CCA Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990 10 on 8, storefront window exhibition, 8th Ave., New York City, NY

1986 The Public Art Show traveling exhibition, curated by Ronald Jones travelling

exhibition with catalogue High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

1985 A black, a heap, a page -- tribute to Robert Smithson, outdoor

installation, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985 1840 West Hubbard, Chicago, IL

1985 Permanent Collection of Artists' Books, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1984 Display Windows, 10 on 8, New York City, NY

1984 Hundreds of Drawings Artists’ Space, New York City, NY

1983 Artists Work in Clay Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

1982 As water defines the fish, Part I, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL

1982 Opening New Doors Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1982 Studio as discourse project at 219 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL

1982 Illinois Artists 1982 Illinois State University, Normal, IL (catalogue)

1982 Just Above Midtown/Downtown, New York City, NY

1982 Mixing Art and Politics Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1981 Artists' Books Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1981 Loop Show Fisher Building, Chicago, IL

1981 Working Drawings Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

Our Town, Part 2 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1980 Chicago Art Prospective Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

1980 Chicago Art Alternative Herron School of Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

(catalogue)

Review and Preview Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

EEBEE GEEBEES Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1978 Review and Preview Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1977 4 by 4 East Hubbard Gallery, Chicago, IL

PLAYS, PERFORMANCES AND READINGS

2006 The Failure of Modern Politics, &NOW Literary Festival, Lake Forest College,

Lake Forest IL

2004 Apostrophe, with Fred Lonberg Holm, Buddy Gallery, Chicago IL.

2002 Residency at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago IL

2001 FROM PLOT, sound work, The Kitchen, New York

1999 Reading, with Susan Wheeler, Great Expectations Bookstore,
Evanston, IL

1999 The Page Appears to be Blank, audiotape works, collected and

catalogued, Chicago, IL

1992 Science Fiction presentation to CAA annual meeting

1991 The Black Paintings a play, Blue Rider Theater Festival, Chicago, IL

1991 Instrumental Reason poetry series, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990 Cryptomnesia, a work for three voices with Dan Ursini and William Fuller, Club
Lower Links, Chicago, IL

1989 That Time Problem poetry series, Club Lower Links, Chicago, IL

1988 The Nations poetry series, Club Lower Links, Chicago, IL

1988 The Sound of Music performance in collaboration with Sean Elias, Robin

Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL

1987 The Categories of Robert Smithson Northwestern University, Evanston,

1983 The Sound of Music/The Theory of Praxis, a play, Link's Hall Studio, Chicago

1983 Nobody is ever missing with John Judd, School of the Art Institute of

Chicago, IL

1983 Reading, with John Judd and David McCracken, Spertus Museum of

Judaica, Chicago, IL

1982 Reading, with John Judd and David McCracken, Randolph Street Gallery,

Chicago, IL

1981 No Business with John Judd, EXIT, Chicago, IL

1980 Recent Fiction, reading by Richard Brettell and John Judd

1979 "Psychedelic Shack/a duet" with John Judd, Randolph Street Gallery,

Chicago, IL

1977 "Reasons" with John Judd, University of Texas at Austin

PUBLICATIONS

2006 “Haim Steinbach and Martin Heidegger” InterReview 06

2005 “Freud’s Museum” Artist Project InterReview, 05

2002 the bells (soundtrack to Hotel Terminus) audio work on CD

2001 Hotel Terminus book published by WhiteWalls

2001 Reading Effect, WhiteWalls # 43

1998 "Crossings" WhiteWalls #40 Spring 1998

1994 "Placing Time," catalog essay on Julia Fish for exhibition, Correspondences,

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1990 "Warming of a dish fit for revolution" review of The Futuristic Cookbook

by F.T. Marinetti, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 27

1989 Ottotole, Number 3, Spring issue: "I 1. 30.87-2.88" with William Fuller

and "Interview"

"The place where punk rock and social theory meet" review of Lipstick

Traces by Greil Marcus, Chicago Tribune, May 7

1984 "The Sound of Music/The Theory of Praxis/The Tyranny of Repetition," White

Walls

#10/1, Spring/Summer 1984.

1983 "As water defines the fish, Part 3," magazine project curated by Ronald

Jones, Art Papers, summer issue.

"As water defines the fish, Part 2," magazine project, artists' pages, New Art

Examiner, summer issue

VISITING ARTIST/ LECTURER

2005 “Dan Flavin as Historian” guest lecture, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art,

Ft Worth TX

Visiting artist, University of Texas at Dallas, spring semester

2004 Visiting art, DePaul university, Chicago, IL.
Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

2003 “The Love of Ruins” Artists Connect, The Art Institute of Chicago

2003 Pougialis Award advisor, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.

2002 Visiting Artist University of Texas at Dallas

2002 Visiting Artist, University of Illinois Chicago

2002 "Art Talk" McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2002 "Fight the Power" Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

2000 Visiting Artist, "Post Genre Writing" School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

Chicago, IL.

1997 "Artists lecture... in conjunction with Not Renoir, Lake Forest College, Lake

Forest, IL

1992 Panel discussion with Scott Rankin, John Torreano and Julia Fish, College

Art Association, Annual meeting, Chicago, IL

1985 "Work, the Workplace, 'Other Places,' Ruins" NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985 "Prolegomena to Any Future Art-Making," School of the Art Institute of

Chicago, Chicago, IL

1985 "Photography as an Activity, Photography as Action," University of

Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

1984 "Artists' Diaries, Notebooks, Journals," lecture series, School of the Art Institute

of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1984 "Use of Photography in Postmodernist Art," School of the Art Institute

of Chicago extension, North Shore Art League, Winnetka, IL

1984 Oxbow Summer Art School, Saugatuck, MI -- visiting lecturer

1984 "Conceptual Art," University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI

1983 Oxbow Summer Art School, Saugatuck, MI -- visiting artist

1983 "Art in the Street," Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1983 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, guest, Art History Dept.

1982 Hinsdale South High School, collage workshop, Hinsdale, IL

1982 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, guest, Painting Dept.

1980 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, guest, Sculpture Dept.

1979 Portland School of Art, Portland, ME, guest lecturer and critic

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2005 Simblist, Noah, “conspicuous Production: The First Two Years of the UTD/ South Side

Artist Residency” Artlies Fall 2006

Terranova, Charisa, “Bent Optimism” exhibition essay Conduit Gallery Dallas TX

“Susan Wheeler” interview, BOMB summer 2005

2004 Artner, Alan G., Lapthisophon’s Soundsacpes, Chicago Tribune, September 3.

Brettell, Richard, “Stephen lapthisophon and the Gesture” exhibition cataloguew, College of DuPage Glen Elyn, IL

Rosenfeld, Katheryn. Chicago Summer, Art Net, www.artnet.com August 28.

2003 Hixson, Kathryn review of With Reasonable Accommodation, frieze April 2003

Morse, Annie, Static exhibition essay Conduit Gallery Dallas TX.

Thurston Moore & Byron Coley , review of Hotel Terminus, Arthur Spring 2003

Aveilhe, Tara review of Static, Conduit Gallery Artlies Spring 2003

2002 Wainwright, Lisa, “Found Objects in the Art of Stephen Lapthisophon” exhibition essay

Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago

Jepsen, Cara “On Exhibition: Finding Your Way When Disability Strikes” Chicago

Reader, October 25, 2002

2001Purcell, Greg, review of "Mean Souls..." New Art Examiner October 2000

Snodgrass, Susan, "Agitator: Contemporary Art of Propaganda” C International

Yood, James, Review of TBA exhibition, Artforum, April 2000

Hawkins, Margaret, "Putting up Fun" Chicago Sun-Times March 31, 2000

1993 McCracken, David, "Alternative Spaces Look Back and Sally Forth,"

Chicago Tribune, September 24,1993

1993 review of Robert Smithson exhibition, NAME Gallery, Chicago

1992 McCracken, David, "Bao's Monkeys Evoke Human Moods," Chicago

Tribune, November

1990 Bulka, Michael review of "Your Message Here" New Art Examiner

1989 Taylor, Sue, "Present at the Creation" catalogue essay, Chicago Cultural Center

1988 McCracken, David, "Impossible Pictures," Chicago Tribune, December

1984 English, Christopher, review of "The Sound of Music/The Theory of

Praxis," New Art Examiner, April 1984

1983 English, Christopher, "Artists Work in Clay," New Art Examiner, June, p.17

1982 Lundy, Larry, "Opening New Doors," New Art Examiner, Dec., 17

1981 Elliot, David, "Rube Goldberg meets Spike Jones," Art News, Nov., 181

1981 Artner, Alan, "Loop Show," Chicago Tribune, Aug.

1981 Haydon, Harold, "Our Town, Part 2," Chicago Sun-Times, Jan.

1979 Rickey, Carrie, "Chicago," Art in America, Summer, 47-50