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CARISA MITCHELL 

Exhibitions

Solo

Group

2022 – WRITING, GESTURE, SHAPE, Rountree Gallery, Platteville WI; Curated by Mary Bergs 2022- Age of the Bimbo, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 – I feel like a bootlegger’s wife. Look!, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL 2022 – LA CHARGE, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland, Curated by Andreas Hochuli

2021 – In Good Company, Monira Foundation, Mana Contemporary
2019 – Solo Show, Behind the Times. Guest curated by Abby Lloyd and Alyssa Davis Gallery.
2018 –GROUP Show, LABO; Geneva, Switzerland
ExTime, LiveInYourHead; Geneva, Switzerland; Curated by Charlotte Laubard
Proxy Paradise – New Heads Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards 2018; Geneva, Switzerland; Curated by Balthazar Lovay

2017 – Sugar Politics; LOKAL-INT; Biel, Switzerland; Curated by Marks Blond Project R. f.z.K 2017 – Art’Lib: 2 1/2; Vernier, Switzerland
2017 – Slow School Festival: Performance of “No Fun is No Fun”; Feutersoey, Switzerland

2014 – Unframed: Everyday Objects; Las Cruces, NM
2014 – Kitchen Space Gallery: 11:11; Chicago, IL
2014 – Roman Susan Gallery: Slideshow Spring and Fall 2014 Edition; Chicago, IL

2013- Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography: e Family; Detroit, MI- Juried by Aline Smithson 2013- Center for Neighborhood Technology: Reframing Ruin, A Prelude to the Bloomingdale Trail; Chicago

2012 – ARC Gallery: National Exposure Revisited; Chicago, IL, Juried by Charles Osgood.
2012 – Youngstown State University: Ohio Association for Gerontology and Education: Images of Aging; Youngstown, OH; Juried by Dragana Crnjak and Christine McCullough
2012 – Lillstreet Gallery: “Con gured Spaces”; Chicago, IL
2012 – Clair E. Smith Gallery, “This is Family”; Barrington, IL

2011 – Northern Trust Bank: Returning the Gaze- Contemporary Portraits by Women Photographers; Chicago, IL -Curated by Lily Mayfield

Performances
2019 – Performance.Reading. Reading.Performance, Wedge Projects, Chicago, IL
2019 – Lire à voix haute, Reading at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève In the studio of Sabrina Röthlisberger 2018 – Solo, Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
2018 – Après Midi Person Radio, “a proposition by Omnigroup for Gay Couple” presented “How are we the only ones who ended up here? Next week I may go to Disneyland, but until then I will just daydream.”; Geneva, Switzerland
2017 – Living Room Project; Zurich, Switzerland

Read for
Anaïs Wenger, Wicked Games, Performance Electron Festival; Geneva, Switzerland – 2017 Galaxia Wang, Fairy tales – Searching for Sedna, Milkshake Agency; Geneva, Switzerland – 2016 Galaxia Wang, Cosmose – Globale de L’Usine; Geneva, Switzerland – 2016

Grants

2021 Illinois Arts Council, IAS Artist Grant
2019 Illinois Arts Council, IAS Professional Development Grant
2018 Prix New Heads -Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards
2017 Red Cross Prize, Geneva, Switzerland
2013 Illinois Arts Council, IAS Professional Development Grant
2009-2010 Studio Art Centers International: Teaching Assistant Award; Florence Italy

Public Talks

2016 Panel discussion; “To job + to study : what artists do for money” Centre d’Art Neuchâtel; Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2012 Artists-in-Residence Talk; Lillstreet Art Center; Chicago, IL

Artists-in-residence/ Education Programs 

2021 The Bridge Program – Hyde Park Art Center
2020 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art
2018 HEAD x ISR Summer Academy, Observation Practices and Methods,
Swiss Institute; Rome, Italy
2017 UNIDEE Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, “Socially and Community Engaged Art. What is it and who is doing it?” with Rick Lowe; Biella, Italy
2011-2012 Lillstreet Art Center: Artist-in-Residence; Chicago, IL

Symposium

2015 Work in Contradictions: Open Brief and Incidental Person Revisited; Symposium of  ‘Context is Half the Work- A Partial History of the Artist Placement Group’; Berlin, Germany

Publications

Apparatus Projects; Show Catalog; TBD 2022
Love Letters, curated by Roxane Bovet & Yoan Mudry, Istituto Svizzero, 2021
Uncertain Patterns: Teaching and Learning Socially Engaged Art. les presses du reel. 2019 1859 Oregon Magazine. March/April 2015
Oranbeg NET 08: Contemporary Youth. 2014
Muzzle Magazine: Summer. 2013

Education
MFA, HEAD- Geneva School of Art and Design – 2017; Geneva, Switzerland

BFA, University of Illinois at Chicago – 2009; Chicago, Illinois

SACI, Studio Art Centers International – 2007; Florence Italy

*This website supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency