Nina Beall Professional Biography

Nina Beall has been exhibiting in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere since 1980. Nationally, she has had numerous one person shows beginning with Frumkin Gallery, in Chicago, IL, Graham Modern Gallery, NY, NY, Parkerson Gallery, Houston, TX, the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, and several others.

Various group exhibitions include The San Antonio Museum of Art; McNay Museum; Chicago International Art Expo at Navy Pier; Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Jacksonville Art Museum, FL; Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Renaissance Society of Chicago, IL; Monique Knowlton Gallery, NY, NY; Frumkin Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Indigo Galleries, Boca Raton, FL.

Awards received include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1985. Other individual awards include five Chairman's Assistance Grants from the Illinois Arts Council.

Numerous reviews of Beall's work can be found in such publications as: Artforum, Art in America, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Art Matters, Houston Post, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sunday Sun-Times, New Art Examiner, and Flash Art.

Beall has participated in Artists Residencies at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, and Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas.

Selected Collections and Permanent Collections include: Coca-Cola Company, Prudential Life Insurance, Sandoz Crop Protection, Christie Lockwood Foundation, John and Eleanor Mitchell Foundation, Texas A&M University, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Jerome M. Westheimer Collection, and the San Antonio Museum of Art, and numerous private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

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