Photo: Chester Alamo-Costello
hulsebos.spofford@gmail.com
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford is a visual artist and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Indiana University Northwest. He is also the co-director and founder of the collective Floating Museum. His work has been shown at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The UCSD Art Gallery, The Glass Curtain Gallery and The Hyde Park Art Center, among other spaces. He has held fellowships at the Sculpture Space, the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, the Brown Foundation Program at the Dora Maar House, and the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. His work has been supported by grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Harpo Foundation, the Propeller Fund, the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship in Sicily. Recent exhibitions and projects include a public project titled River Assembly on the Chicago River, an exhibition titled How to give life to a mountain at the DuSable Museum and a British Council Arts and Social Practice Fellowship.
Education
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
MFA University of Illinois at Chicago
BA Bard College
Teaching/ Professional Experience
2018-present Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Indiana University Northwest
2016-2018 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Contemporary Practices, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013-2016 Lecturer in Contemporary Practices, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011-2013, 2015, 2017-18 Lecturer of Drawing and Sculpture, DePaul University
2012 Instructor of Sculpture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008-2009 Instructor of Sculpture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Selected Exhibitions/Performances
2017 Floating Museum, Singing Stones, Palais De Tokyo/EXPO Hors le Murs
2017 Floating Museum, How to give life to a mountain, DuSable Museum, Chicago IL
2017 Small Objects, Skowhegan Project Space, NY NY
2015 Schrott Center for the Arts, Butler University with Mike Calway-Fagen
2015 Terrain Biennial
2015 The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Invitational Exhibition
2015 Sate Park, University of California San Diego Art Gallery
2014 Division of Labor, Group Show, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Evanston Art Center, Sculpture on the Lawn
2014 Group show, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
2013 Hall of Kahn, solo show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012 EXPO Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center booth, Chicago, IL
2012 Strategies for preservation, group show, SHOP, Chicago, IL
2012 Terraformer, Group Show, Chicago, IL
2011 Strength in numbers, collaborative project, Scope Art Fair, Miami
2011 Reformation, Skowhegan Group Show, Skowhegan ME
2011 Give me a place to stand and I will move the world, Hyde Park Alliance for Art and Culture, Chicago, IL
2010 Ground Floor, Group Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2010 Ecclesiastes rose, public sculpture and performance sponsored by the Fulbright Commission, Mondello, Italy
2009 Sketch for the taste keepers, performance, American Academy, Rome, Italy
2009 Death floats by in hot pants, performance, Tiber River, Italy
2009 Starkiller in Lake Michigan, performance, Chicago, IL
2009 Thesis Show, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2008 Interring the Albatross, Solo Show, Hungry Man Gallery, Chicago
2008 Formfit, Group Show, The Great Space, UIC, Chicago, I
2008 2 Person Show, Elegant Mr. Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Collection, Collection,Group Show Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
2008 Sin Fronteras, Group Show, University of Florida juried exhibition
2006 Re-membered, Group Show, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, NY
2006 Selections, Group Show, Fisher Gallery, Bard College, NY
Awards/Residencies
2017 School of the Art Institute Faculty Enrichment Grant
2016 British Council Arts and Social Practice Fellowship
2016 Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation Grant
2016 Awesome Foundation Grant
2016 SAIC Shapiro Center Research Graduate Fellow
2016 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Faculty Enrichment Grant
2016 Sculpture Space Residency Fellowship
2015 Propeller Fund Grant
2015 Propeller Fund Residency
2015 Maker Grant
2015 Brown Foundation Fellow at the Dora Maar House, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2015 DCASE/Joyce Foundation Studio Artist in Residence
2015 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Faculty Enrichment Grant
2014 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant
2014 Art Slant Showcase winner
2014 Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship
2014 Fellowship, MacDowell Colony
2014 Illinois Arts Council Professional Development Grant
2014 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2012-2013 Resident Artist at the Hyde Park Art Center
2012 Harpo Foundation Grant
2012 CAAP Grant
2012 Illinois Arts Council Project Grant
2011 Propeller Fund Grant
2011 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2011 Hyde Park Alliance for Art and Culture Artist-in-Residence
2010 Federal Assistance Award
2009-2010 J. William Fulbright Grant, Sculpture, Italy
2009 State Department Grant for the Arts, US Embassy, Rome Italy
2009 Visiting Artist, American Academy, Rome Italy
2008 Provost’s Award, University of Illinois at Chicago
2007-2008 Teaching Assistantship, University of Illinois at Chicago
2007 Tuition Waiver, University of Illinois at Chicago
2006 Studio Arts Award, Bard College
2004-2006 Trustee Scholarship, Bard College
Lectures
2010 Lecture, German Fulbright Conference, Berlin Germany
2010 Lecture, Liceo Artistico, Benevento Italy
Curatorial Projects
2013 Co-founder of Jekyll&Hyde Gallery
2011 Co-founder of the Hyde Park Kunstverein