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Bob Emser is an internationally recognized and lauded sculptor, with exhibits on 5 continents, 7 countries and 28 states in the U.S. His extensive body of work, dating back to 1978, can be seen in cities and municipalities, sculpture parks, museums and institutions of higher learning. During his 30+ year career he has served as a visiting artist and has taught at several universities, held a tenured professorship, and founded a not-for-profit art center that is still in existence. He has also served as the executive director of Chicago’s international sculpture exhibition, Pier Walk. As well as the founder and past president of Chicago Sculpture International, the local affiliate of International Sculpture Center, on whose Board of Directors he has served.
PUBLIC ART PROJECTSCURRENT PROJECTSKnoxville Kinetic Art Project, City Transit Center, Knoxville, TN Peoria Civic Center Grand Hall Signature Sculpture, Peoria, IL Chattanooga 5th Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Chattanooga, TN, January 2012-May 2013 Private Commission, Highland Park, IL Private Commission, Olympia Fields, IL RECENT PROJECTS515 North State Street, Chicago, IL September 1-November 30, 2011 Avenue of Sculpture, Art Chicago, 2010 & 2011 Olympia Fields, IL, Signature Piece – City Hall, 2010 Governors Island, NYC, 2010 Pinellas County Arts Council, FL, Belleair Causeway, 2010 Park Ridge, IL, Uptown Plaza, 2009 Wayne State College, Wayne, NE, 2008 City of Orland Park, IL, Marcus Theater Plaza, 2007 Dennos Museum, Northwest Michigan College, Traverse City, MI, 2007 Lake Land College, Alumni Park Plaza, Mattoon, IL, 2006 MUSEUM/PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONSSwope Museum of Art, Terra Haute, IN Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, IL Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL University Museum, Rio Grande, OH Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL Hinkhouse Collection, Eureka College, Eureka, IL State of Illinois Collection City of Peoria, Riverfront Festival Park, Peoria, IL Jørpeland, Norway, Commune Sculpture Park AWARDS AND GRANTSUnited States Artist Project Grant 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2010 Artist Foundation of NY Grant 2009 United States Consulate International Grant 2009 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS515 North State Street, Chicago, IL September 1-November 30, 2011 Prudential Plaza, Chicago, IL January-June, 2008 Zone Gallery, Kansas City, MO June 3 – July 7, 2006 Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO March 24-April 30, 2006 FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago, IL January 6- February 24, 2006 Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Shadow Drawings, August 22 - December 12, 2005 Purdue University, North Central Westville, IN November-March, 2004-2005 Krasl Art Center, St Joseph, MI July-August, 2004 Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL February 28-April 18, 2004 SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITSSydney, Australia, Sculpture by the Sea-Bondi, 2002 & 2008 & 2009 & 2010 Perth, Australia, Sculpture by the Sea, 2010 & 2011 Stavanger, Norway, Symposia 18-8 Stainless Steel Symposium, June 2005 Cordoba, Argentina, Mask, Another Skin, November 2004 Rome, Italy, "Six Chicago Sculptors" EUR Lake, September-October 2000 Paris, France, Salon de Marly le Roi, February 1999 Friedrichshafen, West Germany, Stadt Bodensee-Museum, April-May 1985 SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITSDavid Weinberg Gallery, Framework, Chicago, IL July – August 2009 Elmhurst Art Museum, Inside Out, Chakaia Booker & Bob Emser, Elmhurst IL Oct. 18, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009 TADU Contemporary, Fluid Form, Santa Fe, NM June-July 2003 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITSFrederik Meijer Sculpture Park, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Mi, September 22-October 10, 2010 Governors Island Encounters, New York City, May 12-October 10 Krasl Biennial Sculpture Invitational Chicago Sculpture International September 28-October 29,2006 CSI BIENNALE 2006 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibit, May 5 – June 16, 2006 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibit, Univ. of Hawaii’s Art Gallery, March 5 - April 13, 2006 Chicago, IL Artist/Model-maker/Sculptor Continental Building October 2005 Greeley, Colorado 8th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit February 2005 - 2006 Somerby's Landing Sculpture 2004 / 05 Newburyport, MA Purdue University North Central Sculpture Symposium Westville, IN Oct 2003 Convergence Outdoor Sculpture Providence, RI July 2003 - 2004 Soho20 Gallery Art in America Curated “Spring Invitational” New York, NY. March 25-April 19, 2003 Polk Museum “Third Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition” Received Best of Show. Lakeland, FL March 2003 - February 2004 Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Sarasota, FL November-May 2003 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition 2002 Bellevue, WA June 21- October 7, 2002: Invited Artist Chicago’s Navy Pier, Pier Walk, 1996-2001 RECENT PUBLICATIONSBOOKS2008 Bob Emser American Sculptor by Jeff Huebner, Foreword by Glenn Harper 2007 Kennedy Publishing Best Of America Sculpture Vol. 1 ARTICLES & REVIEWSFebruary 12, 2011 The Pantagraph by Dan Craft October 3, 2010 Peoria Journal Star by Clare Howard December 2008 The Chicago Reader by Deanna Issacs May 2006 Art in America by Victor M. Cassidy June 21, 2004 Artnet Prairie Smoke by Victor M. Cassidy April 2004 Sculpture Magazine vol. 23 no. 3 CATALOGSAugust 2009 Framework David Weinberg Gallery, Essay by Aaron Ott October 2008 Inside Out Elmhurst Art Museum, Essay by D. Neil Bremer July 2007 Sculpture Invasion Koehnline Museum of Art EDUCATIONBRADLEY UNIVERSITY - Master of Fine Art, 1978 EUREKA COLLEGE - Bachelor of Arts - Art, 1976 WORK EXPERIENCEFULL-TIME SCULPTOR/Lecturer 1996 – Present NATHAN MANILOW SCUPTURE PARK, University City, IL Member of the Board of Directors, 2005 - Present INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER Member of the Board of Directors, 2005- 2008 CHICAGO SCULPTURE INTERNATIONAL President/Co-Founder, 2004-2011 3-D CHICAGO - Chicago, IL Executive Director, Pier Walk, 1999-2001 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER OF PEORIA - Peoria, IL Founder/ Executive Director, 1995-1999 EUREKA COLLEGE - Eureka, IL Associate Professor of Art, 1989-1996 Chairperson-Fine and Performing Arts Division, 1987-1990 Assistant Professor of Art, 1983-1989 Gallery Director, 1983-1995 LAKEVIEW MUSEUM - Peoria, IL Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, 1980-1983 PEORIA PARK DISTRICT- Peoria, IL Landscape Designer, 1979-1980
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