Awards

2003-2004 Core Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2004 Nominee, Dreihaus Foundation Emerging Artist Award, Chicago

Upcoming Exhibitions

2005
Core Residency Exhibition, Houston
Atlanta Contemporary (two person exhibition)

2006
Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo (solo exhibition)


Solo Exhibitions and Projects

2004
Public Love Letter Reading, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (12.9.4)
Bluebird Burden, (with Carlos Lama), Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

2003
Subject Index, (with Michael Banicki, Peter Barrickman, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Nick Frank, Gaylen Gerber, Brandon Larson and Helen Mirra), The Pond, Chicago

2002   
Snowman Stories, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Waiting Room/Session Room, (with Nicola Axford, Joe Baldwin, Jeremy Boyle & Annabelle Clarke), Deluxe Projects, Chicago
the love letter collection, anonymous love letters @ collectiveexperience.org (ongoing)

2001   
Public Address, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Valentine's Project, love form letters sent to select recipients through the mail

2000   
Nap Room and Other Projects, suitable, Chicago
Nap Room, Installation, Office of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
don't give up magnets, distributed free of charge by the artist and personally selected distributors (ongoing)



Selected Group Exhibitions

2004
Amalgama, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Project Row Houses, 24 Hour Arts and Music Festival, Houston
Apartment Series: 2, curated by Jeremy Boyle, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
The Salon Show, curated by Danny Yahav-Brown and Rachel Cook, The Salon, Houston
Core Residency Exhibiton, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2003  
Ornithology, Monique Meloche, Chicago
Really Real, Gallery 312, Chicago

2002  
Plat and Form: The Portable Hermetic Gallery Exhibition, curated by Nicholas Frank, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Sculpture in Chicago Now, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago
Meet Me in St. Louie, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery St. Louis, MO

2001
ILL, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
The Library Project, Temporary Services, Chicago

2000
More Comfortable and Better, curated by Pedro Velez, Dogmatic, Chicago
Factory Soiree, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee



Selected Bibligraphy

2004
Mary Gustaitis Beyer, "Bluebird Burden," panel-house.com, (March).
Fred Camper, "Critic's Choice," Chicago Reader, (February 27): section 2 page 23.
David Fahl, "These Walls Can Talk", Houston Press, (April 14).
Michelle Grabner, "Cindy Loehr", artUS, issue 3 (June-August) pp.18-19.
Margaret Hawkins,, "Bluebirds' Unusual Role Adds Poignancy to 'Burden'" Chicago Sun Times, (March 5): page 23.
Kristen Brooke Schleifer, "Voicemail", Mouth to Mouth, Spring/Summer: pp.45-46.
Michael Workman, "Flights of Family",  New City Chicago, (February 21): page 16.

2003
Reader, Ah, Wilderness, Fred Camper, (Aug 8): page 24.
Wired.com, Cyrano at Your Lovelorn Service, Jenn Shreve, (May).
NewCityChicago.com, Virtually Art, Michael Workman, (June 18).

2002
Art Papers, Waiting Room/Session Room, Nick Frank, (Jul/Aug): page 45.
Chicago Journal, The Sublimity of Concentration, Damien Noll, (March 2): page 45.
New Art Examiner, Participatory Populism, Lori Waxman, (Mar/Apr): page 56.
Bridge Magazine, Snowman Stories, Ginger Wolfe, (October).

2001
Chicago Social, Home is Where the Art Is, Fred Camper, (Jan/Feb): page 99.
New Art Examiner, FGA is More Comfortable and Better at Dogmatic, Julia Marsh, vol. 28 no. 8/9 (May/June): page 85.

2000
Artnet, Prarie Smoke, by Victor M. Cassidy, (Summer)
Ten by Ten, Cindy Loehr at Suitable. Pedro Velez, vol. 1 no.2 (January): page 47.

Lectures and Presentations

2004
Artist's Talk, Committee on the Visual Arts, University of Chicago
Slide Jam, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

2003
Gallery Talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2001
Artist's Talk, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago



Education

1999-01 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991-94 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1990-91 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

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