Corey Postiglione

Corey Postiglione was born and raised in Chicago.  He received his BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MA in Art History and Critical Theory from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.   

Since the 1970s Corey has exhibited professionally with over twenty solo exhibitions, and numerous group shows at such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago; the Chicago Cultural Center; Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL; Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Beverly Arts Center, Beverly, IL; the Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL; and Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. He has shown internationally in Glasgow, Scotland, Karlsruhe and Munich, Germany, and Vaishali, India.   

He was honored with a retrospective exhibition of his works on paper at the Evanston Art Center in January 2008, and a retrospective of his paintings at the Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL, in February 2010. His work is represented in many corporate and private collections.  He has been an active member of the American Abstract Artists in New York since 2000 and has exhibited many times with the group.   

In addition to his career as a practicing artist, his critical writing has been published in Artforum, The New Art Examiner, Dialogue, and C-Magazine (Toronto).  He has curated numerous exhibitions and contributed essays to many exhibition catalogues.   He was a founding member of the Chicago Art Critics Association.  He has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Evanston Art Center.  He was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Columbia College Chicago from 1990 to 2015, where he taught Art History and Critical Theory as well as studio arts. He retired in 2015 and is currently Professor Emeritus.

The artist is represented by Springboard Arts, Chicago, IL., Space Gallery, Denver, CO, and Westbrook Modern Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.  More of his work can be seen on these gallery websites, or at coreypostiglione.com. The artist is also listed on Wikipedia.