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Curriculum Vitae

MFA     School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois        2006    

BA    University of California, Santa Cruz, California                1990         

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois            2004

University of California, Santa Cruz, California                    1991 

Non-degree Course Work            

Central Saint Martins, London, England                        2000

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin                    1991

Solo Exhibitions

2021    Folly, Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee

2017    Heroic Painting, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

2016    Heroic Painting, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky

2015    Ectoplasm from the Underworld, The Bike Room, Chicago, Illinois
    Ryan Richey: Ghostbuster, The Newhart Promenade, Loyola University,     Chicago, Illinois (curator)

2012    Christian Rieben: The Failure of Rational Thought, The Bike Room,     Chicago, Illinois

2011    Christian Rieben: Meat for the Siren, Gallery UNO, Chicago, Illinois

2009    Christian Rieben: Recent Work, Gallery 73, Belgrade, Serbia
Christian Rieben: Phallusy, Stumptown Gallery, Alma,         Wisconsin
Christian Rieben: Friend of Dorothy, Gallery UNO, Chicago, Illinois

2007    Christian Rieben: How To Make a Painting, Gallery UNO,
Chicago, Illinois

Group Exhibitions

2022    What Strange Water, What Strange Air, Tyger Tyger, Asheville, North Carolina

2021 FLEX, Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee2

018    The Face of Danger, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

Wherefore Art Thou Romeo, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee
Ciao: Virgin Disaster, Il Museo, Spannocchia, Tuscany, Italy
National Juried Exhibition, Knoxville Alliance, Knoxville, Tennessee

2017    Side by Side: Warhol and the Body, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee

2015    Marks from Sparks, Beverly Art Center, Beverly, Illinois 
    Prism Walls: Sexual Identity and the Expression of Desire, The Newhart     Promenade, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois (curator)
    Affordable Art Fair, Gallery Uno Berlin, London, England

2014    Surrealism and War, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
    Art of it All, Featured Artist, Shy Rabbit, Online Exhibition 
    Review, Reflect, The Newhart Promenade, Loyola University, Chicago,     Illinois
     
2013    More than Naked, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois (curator)

2012    Ordinacija #3, Inex Film, Belgrade, Serbia
    Midway Art Fair, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    Faculty Biennale, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

2011    Studio Art Faculty Exhibit, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois

2010    Faculty Biennale: Outside the Classroom, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

2008    Berliner Liste, Cumberland Haus, Berlin, Germany
    Make Me an Offer, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, Illinois
    Summer Show, Castello di Santa Severa, Italy
    Secret Lives Revealed, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
    Kewaunee Art Fair, Voda Gallerie, Kewaunee, Wisconsin
Living Room Paintings, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2007    One by One, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Studio Art Faculty Exhibit, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 
     (Un)restricted, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2006    Balls Out, 518 Erie, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (curator)
Fantastical Dreams and Primitive Desires, Thesis Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois

2005     Love 8, Gallery X, Chicago, Illinois
(W)holeness, Gallery 1926, Chicago, Illinois (curator)
Fluid Motion, Chicago Theater Building, Chicago, Illinois

2004     Thesis Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois
Art Fair Off the Square, Madison, Wisconsin

2003    “Best in Painting”, Art Fair Off the Square, Madison, Wisconsin

Employment:

East Tennessee State University

Courses taught: Introduction to Painting; Intermediate Painting; Advanced Painting; Abstraction; Figure Painting; Protest Painting; Methods of Research (Graduate course); Painting/Drawing Graduate Seminar; Painting in Tuscany (Study abroad course)

2016-2022   Visiting Assistant Professor, Painting

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Courses taught: Painting and Drawing; Beginning Oil Painting; From Drawing to Painting; Drawing 2: the Portrait; Painting 2: the Portrait; Figure Painting; Figure Drawing

2007-Present    Early College Program Faculty

2006     Roving Substitute Professor

Fall 2005         Teaching Assistant, First Year Program

Summer 2005     Teaching Assistant, Advanced Painting

Spring 2005        Teaching Assistant, Multi-level Painting

Loyola University, Chicago

Courses taught: Drawing 1; Painting 1; Painting 2; Senior Advisor

2008 - 2016    Instructor, Department of Fine and Performing Arts

College of DuPage

Courses taught: Drawing 1, Drawing 2, Painting 1, Painting 2, Painting Trends, Visual Fundamentals 2-D, Student Art Gallery

2007-2013    Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts Department

The Dolphin School, Berkshire, England

1999 - 2000     Art Instructor

Other Employment:

2015    Juror, Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2000 – Present    Owner/Designer Outer Space Garden Design, Chicago, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin; London, England

2004 – Present     Host/Disc jockey, “Robot Rock”, www.freeradiosaic.org

2000 - 2001         Production Assistant, Will van der Vlugt Film Productions,
London, England

1996 - 1999         Manager, L'Odeon Restaurant, London, England