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News: September issue, 2024 Artforum review by Jason Foumberg
Practice
Nancy Lu Rosenheim’s narratives explore the exquisite yet sinister elements of the natural world. Her sculptures, printmaking, and mixed media works on paper have been featured in Artforum, the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, and NewCity. Based in Chicago, IL, and Steuben, WI, she has exhibited in venues such as Epiphany Center for the Arts, Hyde Park Art Center, Slow Gallery, and the Koehnline Museum in Illinois; the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska; Galerías Cartel and Verlín in Granada, Spain; and the Singer Sweat Shop in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Rosenheim’s residencies include Studio 88 in Chiang Mai, Thailand; Ragdale Foundation, IL; Atelier Neo-Medici in Monflanquin, France; and the Center Program at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Curate
Rosenheim was the founding director and curator of The Bike Room, a contemporary project space in Chicago, where she showcased the work of over fifty emerging and established artists from 2011 to 2016. She continues her curatorial practice in a popup format under the name TBR@.
Educate
Rosenheim is a faculty member in the Art + Design Department at Northeastern Illinois University. She served as Associate Professor at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago until its closure in 2018. Her commitment to social justice includes leading extensive workshops in mural painting and public art for the Shanti Foundation for Peace and other nonprofit organizations in Chicago. Rosenheim earned her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
