Education
1995 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1990 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
One-Person and Two-Person Exhibitions
2021 Marginalia, Cultivator, Morris, IL
Time and its Opposite, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
Field Studies (with Adam Fung), Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Fragile States, First Free Church, Chicago, IL
2017 Known by Sight, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 A Bowl Full of Sky, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL (collaborative drawings with Louise LeBourgeois)
Rise and Fall, The University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 Fragile Structures, Elmhurst College, Frick Center, Elmhurst, IL
2013 Collapse, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Improvised Landmarks and Temporary Structures, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Letters from the Storm, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Corpus, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Spectrum, Friesen Galleries, Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID
2002 Nothing/Much, Judson College, Elgin, IL
Flesh-Colored, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Observing Silence, Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
2001 Looking In, Seeing Big: Louise LeBourgeois and Steven Carrelli, College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL (2-person show)
1999 To Fix the Gaze, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Steven Carrelli, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Louise LeBourgeois and Steve Carrelli, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL (2-person show)
1997 New Works, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhitions
2023 Milk and Eggs, Color Club, Chicago, IL
2022 Making Space, The Plan, Chicago, IL
Small Works Exhibition, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Art-In-Place, an initiative of CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago and Oak Park, IL
2018 unLOCK: Merging Art & Industry, a citywide multimedia public art project, Lockport, IL
rePORT, The Gaylord Building, Lockport, IL
Stillness, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
2017 Catamaran Literary Reader Fourth Annual Exhibit, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
The Mind's I, The Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago, IL, collaborative project conceived by Anne Harris
2016 La Mère / La Mer, Moreau Art Galleries, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
traveled to the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN
Resurrection, Aron Packer Projects at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Chicago Paints, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH
2015 Return of the Exquisite Corpse, Printworks, Chicago, IL
2015 Midwest Drawing Invitational, Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN
2014 The Art of Description, Illinois State Museum Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center, Whittington, IL
also traveled to Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery, Lockport, IL
Collaborations II, Printworks, Chicago, IL
2013 The Art of Description, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL
Foundation Drawing: Steven Carrelli, Lelde Kalmite, Todd Serrano, Laurie Shaman, Fermilab Art Gallery, Batavia, IL
2012 The Mind's I, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL, collaborative project conceived and organized by Anne Harris
Black and White, Gillock Gallery, Evanston, IL
2011 Hand Space / Mind Space, IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
The Artist’s Daughter, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Cover Stories: The Art of the Book Jacket, Fisher Gallery, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH
Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2010 Cover Stories: The Art of the Book Jacket, Printworks, Chicago, IL
Allusion to Illusion, Clement Art Gallery, Troy, NY
DePaul University 2010 Faculty Exhibition, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2009 UpScale/DownSize, Bowling Green State University Willard Wankelman Gallery, Bowling Green, OH
{blank} place, Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Next (c/o Packer Schopf Gallery), The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2008 The Drawing Show, The Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL, curated by Brian Ritchard
Vista Novus: New Views of Nature and the Landscape, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Remembering Ruth: 25 Years of Giving, The Ruth Chenven Foundation and NoHo Gallery, New York, NY
The Bridge Art Fair (c/o Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago), The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
The Fortuitous Sequel to Martin Kippenberger's Installation, The Experimental Station, Chicago, IL,
curated by Material Exchange, subsequently installed on the quad of the University of Chicago
2006 Concept Driven, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago 2006 (c/o Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago), The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Something Old, Something New, The Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL
Travel Documents: Artists’ Response to Place, Columbia College A&D Gallery, Chicago, IL
and Koehnline Museum, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, curated by Corey Postiglione
2005 After the Fact, The Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL, curated by Tim Lowly
Senza Titolo, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
2004 The San Francisco International Art Expo, San Francisco, CA (c/o gescheidle, Chicago, IL)
2003 Guest List, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
The San Francisco International Art Expo, San Francisco, CA (c/o gescheidle, Chicago, IL)
2002 The Affordable Art Fair, Pier 92, New York City, NY (c/o gescheidle, Chicago, IL)
About Looking at Things, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Drawing Salon, Northeastorn Illinois University, Chicago, IL, curated by John Brunetti
Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Art Chicago 2002, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (c/o Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
DePaul University Faculty Exhibition, DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Men: The Male Figure in Contemporary Art, Hawthorn Gallery, Birmingham, Al
2001 Snow Globe Invitational, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Venus, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Something Old Something New, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Art Scene Chicago, The Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumberg, IL
Artists/Alumni: Masters of Fine Arts from Northwestern’s Department of Art Theory and Practice, The Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2000 Small Packages III, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shake the Coat: A Midwestern Tribute to Gregory Gillespie, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Union Images 2000, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
First Works, Columbia College Art Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Materials and Techniques, O’Connor Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
1999 In the Unlikely Event, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Small Works, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI
End of the Millennium, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Euro Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Conscious Line, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Images of Silence, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
Graphite, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Small Packages, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
What We Have Seen, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI
1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Chicago: A Spiritual Landscape, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL
1996 In Side Out Side In, North Park College, Chicago, IL
1995 Small Painting – Big Shoulders, Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids, MI
and Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
Ecstasy, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Poetic Images, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
Union League Scholarship Exhibition, Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
Surfacing, 362 W. Erie St., Chicago, IL
1993 Art Chicago 1993, Cityfront Center, Chicago, IL (c/o The Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago)
Public Commissions
2018 Harvest, temporary outdoor sculptural installation, sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and
the National Endowment for the Arts, Lockport, IL
2017 Armitage Ghost Mural, Armitage Avenue CTA station, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
Awards and Grants
2022 Finalist, The Manifest Prize, Manifest, Cincinnati, OH
2020 Individual Artist Program Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2019 Individual Artist Program Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2001 The Ruth Chenven Foundation, New York, NY
2000 Purchase Award, Union Images 2000, Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicago, IL
Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant, Chicago, IL
1995-96 Fulbright Grant, Florence, Italy
1995 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Scholarship, Chicago, IL
Selected Bibliography
2023 Alamo-Costello, Chester, "Steven Carrelli: Complexity in Our Visual Experience," The Comp Magazine. Joliet, IL:
The University of St. Francis Art & Design Department
2022 New American Paintings. Number 161. Wellesley, MA: Open Studios Press, August/September 2022
2021 Gniech, Chuch, “Field Studies: Adam Fung and Steve Carrelli – Hofheimer Gallery,” Chicago Fine Art
(chicagofineart.blogspot.com), 6 June 2021.
2018 Van Eck, Tricia, ed. Art in Chicago Neighborhoods: Year of Public Art. City of Chicago:
Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
2016 Catamaran Literary Reader. Vol. 4. Issue 4 (Winter 2016): 121, 122, 131, 140.
Chicago Paints, Exhibition catalogue. Athens, OH: Ohio University School of Art + Design.
La Mère / La Mer (The Mother / The Sea), a Tim Lowly Project, Exhibition catalogue.
2015 Return of the Exquisite Corpse. Exhibition catalogue. Essay by Lynne Warren. Chicago: Printworks Gallery.
2014 Zetouni, Sigalit. “Natural Expressions.” Chicago Life Magazine Winter 2014:18.
2012 Hotel Amerika. Volume 10. Number 2 (Spring 2012): 17.
2010 Cover Stories: The Art of the Book Jacket. Exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Mark Pascale. Chicago: Printworks Gallery.
Steven Carrelli and Louise LeBourgeois. Exhibition catalogue. Essay by David Lazar. Chicago: Packer Schopf Gallery.
Brickman, David. “…and other Troy shows.” Get Visual. dbgetvisual.blogspot.com, 12 August 2010.
2009 {blank} place. Exhibition catalogue. Essays by Raél Jero Salley and Jennifer Murray.
Chicago: Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago.
Weinberg, Lauren. “(blank) space.” Time Out Chicago 27 August – 2 September 2009.
UpScale/DownSize. Exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Jaqueline S. Nathan. Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Fine Arts Center.
2007 Pietrusiak, Leah. “The Scene: Putt-putt artist design studio.” Time Out Chicago 29 March – 4 April 2007: 4.
2006 Hawkins, Margaret. “’Travel Documents’ lets us tour with artists.” Chicago Sun-Times 17 March 2006: NC44.
2002 DePaul University 2002 Faculty Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Essays by Paul B. Jaskot and Louise Lincoln.
Chicago: Depaul University Art Gallery.
2001 Artists/Alumni. Exhibition catalogue. Essays by William Conger and James Yood. Evanston, IL: The Block Museum of Art.
New American Paintings. Number 35. Wellesley, MA: Open Studios Press, September 2001: 34-37.
Louise LeBourgeois & Steven Carrelli: Looking In, Seeing Big. Exhibition catalogue. Essay by Steve Tomasula. Greyslake, IL:
Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County.
Maes, Nancy. “Portrait of the Artists.” Northwestern (Evanston, IL) Summer 2001: 12-19.
Pritsker, Ellen. “Small Works.” Pioneer Press (Glenview, IL) 22 March 2001: B4.
2000 Mahmoud, Ben. “Shake the Coat.” The Daily Chronicle (Dekalb, IL) 19 November 2000: D1-D2.
Patner, Andrew. Review of “Union Images 2000.” The Chicago Sun-Times 4 September 2000.
Sundell, Ivy. Art Scene Chicago 2000. Evanston, IL: Crow Woods Publishing.
1998 Bakker, Conrad. “The Conviction of Sight.” The Paper (Grand Rapids, MI) 22-28 October 1998.
The Nature of Landscape. Exhibition catalogue. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame.
1995 Camper, Fred. “Household Poisons.” The Chicago Reader 10 November 1995, sec. 1: 30-31.
Publications as Author
“Paola Cabal: The Work of Attention”, Artillery, Vol. 16, No. 5, May/June 2022.
“Crafting Time: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum”, The New Art Examiner (UK), Vol. 35, No. 6, September/October 2021.
“The Presence of Painting”, The New Art Examiner (UK), Vol. 35, No. 1, September/October 2020.
"A Stone in the River", Chicago Quarterly Review, #29, Fall 2019.
"Public Work", excerpted in Art in Chicago Neighborhoods: Year of Public Art. Tricia Van Eck, ed. City of Chicago: Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, 2018.
"Public Work", Chicago Quarterly Review, #26, Fall 2018.
"Among the Living", Crab Creek Review, Vol. 1, 2016.
Selected Collections
The Chicago Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, Chicago, IL
City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Public Art Collection
The DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Elmhurst College Art Collection, Elmhurst, IL
The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Northwestern University Graduate School, Evanston, IL
The Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
Wheaton College, Art Department, Wheaton, IL
The Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, The College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL
Teaching Experience
2019 – present Lecturer, The Art School, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2019 Visiting Scholar, School of Art, College of Fine Arts, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
2007 – 2019 Lecturer, Department of Art, Media and Design, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2000 – 2012 Part-Time Faculty, Department of Art and Design, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2005 – 2006 Painting Instructor, Fine Arts Coordinator, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
1996 – 2004 Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
1999 Visiting Lecturer, Beginning Drawing, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
1998-99 Instructor, Fine Arts Seminar, The Chicago Metropolitan Center, Chicago, IL
1996-98 Instructor, Drawing, Egg Tempera Painting, Oil Painting, The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1995 Instructor, Basic Drawing, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL