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b. Chicago, Illinois
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2019 Born In The U.S.A., One After 909, Chicago, IL
2018 Time Well Spent, Cultivator, Morris, IL
2017 Sweet and Sour, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 SYMPTOMS: satirical drawings by Tom Torluemke, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 Blind Man’s Bluff, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2013 Hardball, Mt. Comfort Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Fearsome Fable – Tolerable Truth, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2013 Where’s The Magician When We Need Him?, Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts, Gary, IN
2012 You Know, We’re All In This Together, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2012 Ring Around The Rosie, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2011 Stick A Needle in Your Eye, MDW Fair (October), Chicago, IL, Linda Warren Projects
2011 Punch, MDW Fair (April), Chicago, IL, Linda Warren Projects
2011 Precious and Few, Illinois Institute Of Art, Chicago, IL
2010 The Exhibitionist, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2009 After Glow – Paintings by Tom Torluemke, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2009 Sordid Sheets: 25 years of works on paper by Tom Torluemke, Indiana University NW, Gary, IN
2008 All Chlorophylled Up: 25 years of watercolor landscapes, Uncle Freddy’s Gallery, Highland, IN
2005 Wet & Wild, CSPS, Cedar Rapids, IA
2004 Getting Along, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2004 In the Company of Strangers, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN
2002 One and the Same, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2002 Bounce, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2002 Tomfoolery, Century Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 His & Hers – Third Coast, Chicago, IL
2001 Interrupted, MN Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Falling Flat, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
2001 In Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2000 Carnival of Images, Center for Visual & Performing Arts, Munster, IN
1998 ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 William J. Bachman Gallery, Center for Visual & Performing Arts, Munster, IN
1993 ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Abel Joseph Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Abel Joseph Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2020 (Forthcoming) Down By Line, One After 909, Chicago, IL
2019 To Gather Together, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2019 Nature vs Everything, Lubeznik Center For The Arts, Michigan City, IN
2018 Indy Windy: A Love Story, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
2018 Broken Dreams (curated by Stanislav Grezdo), Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2017 10 Inch Wonders, Thaddeus C. Gallery, LaPorte, IN
2017 Invisble • Visible • Divisible, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2017 Feeding Time, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2016 Sentience, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2015 Roots, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 Intersection, 15th and West Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Steamroller Project, Lubeznik Center, Michigan City, IN
2014 Exposition Chicago, Navy Pier, Linda Warren Projects
2014 Steamroller Print Project, Walnut Ink, Michigan City, IN
2013 The Society of Smallness: The Mansion, Chicago, IL, curated by Annie Morse
2013 Birdhouse Museum’s 11th Annual Cardboard Show, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2013 RISK, IIC Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Little Man Pee Pool Party, The Whiz Paddler’s Lament, curated by Paul Nudd, Antena Gallery, Chicago
2013 The Bus: 29 Hooligans From Chitown, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 I Can Arrange That, curated by Chris Groh and Chris Silva, Walnut Ink Gallery, Michigan City, IN
2012 Mindstreams, curated by Gabriel Villa, Triton College, River Grove, IL
2012 Dock 6 Exhibit curated by Oscar Arriola, Chicago, IL
2012 Art For Water, Fundraiser, Waterkeepers Alliance, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Fast Forward, Efroymsom Fellowship Retrospective, iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
2011 Write Now: Artists & Letterforms, curated by Nathan Mason, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2011 UPLIFT, Believe, Inn, Chicago, IL
2011 E-Glued, Collage Show, Woodstock Courthouse Gallery, Woodstock, IL
2011 NEXT Art Fair, Chicago, IL, Linda Warren Gallery
2010 Trendbeheer Meets Proximity #5, curated by Ed Marzewski, Singer Sweatshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010 Get It Together, Chicago Cultural Center Tourism Center
2009 Super Bad Ass Art, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2009 Kinsey Institute Juried Erotic Show, Bloomington, IN
2007 The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan, curated by James Yood, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2006 Humuers Exposition 2, San Diego, CA, curated by Kevin Freitas
2006 Humuers Exposition, West Los Angeles College, Culver City, CA, curated by Kevin Freitas
2006 Art As Authority, San Diego, CA
2005 Nowhere’s Lost Carnival, Banker’s Boxes: Performance/Installation, Chicago, IL
2005 Fun With Dead Bodies, Rotofugi, Chicago, IL
2005 Indianapolis Environmental Wow, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
2004 Drawn, Leadbased Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2004 Inspired by Nature, International Arts Club, Chicago, IL
2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2003 Student/Teacher, Uncle Freddy’s Gallery, Hammond, IN
2003 Murmur, Geiman Loft, Chicago, IL
2003 In and Around, Uncle Freddy’s Gallery, Hammond, IN
2003 Stray, represented by Uncle Freddy’s Gallery, sponsored by Thomas Blackman, Chicago, IL
2003 Valparaiso University Faculty Art Exhibition, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN
2003 Transitions, Contemporary Gallery, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
2002 Around Indiana, Governor’s Residence, Indianapolis, Indiana
2001 Stray, represented by MN Gallery, sponsored by Thomas Blackman, Chicago, IL
2001 Gallery of the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
2001 A Very Nice Day with Grey, Hammond, IN
2000 Critic’s Choice, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 50TH Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
2000 Art Wyoming 2000, Casper, WY
2000 An American Experience – A View of Ourselves, Winston Salem, NC
2000 58th Annual Exhibit Audubon Artists, New York, NY
1999 Lacare Art League Exhibition, Purdue University, Hammond, IN
1997 – 98 International Traveling Print Exhibit – Taller de Grafica Galligo, Chicago, IL
1997 Present, Curated by Adelheid Mers, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1994 – 97 Faculty Exhibition, American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL
1996 11th Area Artist Association Juried Exhibit, John G. Blank Arts Center, Michigan City, IN
1993 – 94 Carnaval Surreel-Auction, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993 Genesis through Revelation, R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, IL
REPRESENTATION
2010 – Present Linda Warren Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000 – 2008 Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
1985 – 1996 R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, IL
1995 – 1996 Tom Maloney, Artist Representative, Chicago, IL
1995 Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 – 1993 Abel Joseph Gallery, Chicago, IL
PUBLIC / PRIVATE COMMISSIONS (selected)
2019 Long Live LaPorte, painted mural 18 x 108′, LaPorte, IN
2018 A Bright New Morning, painted mural, 9 x 49′, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
2016 Current: the Pulse Of Life, painted mural, 12 3/4 x 72′ , Cedar Rapids, IA
2016 Ideas Forming: Morning til Night, 2016, inlaid paper collage, CBRE/Patti Gilford Fine Art, Chicago, IL
2015 Cool Books: Food For Thought, life sized wood (maple & walnut) refrigerator for the Public Collection art and literacy project, the piece is placed in the Indianapolis Museum of Art
2015 Pillars of Society, painted mural, 14 x 280′ City of Indianapolis,IN
2015 (Installation October, 2015) Wall Installation for CBRE, Chicago, IL,
2015 Forever Woven, Steel Wall Installation, 12 x 70’ corten steel, East Chicago, IN
2012 The Delight Of Accomplishment, West Lafayette, IN Redevelopment Commission, mural 30 x 150′
2012 The Reader, wood mobile, Crown Point, Community Library, Crown Point, IN
2011 Simple Pleasures, 46 for XLVI Super Bowl, City of Indianapolis, IN painted mural 14 x 350’
2011 Togetherness, Outdoor Steel Sculpture Commission, Centennial Park, Munster IN
2010 We Care, Community Hospital Network, wood mobile commission, Indianapolis, IN
2009 – 10 Reaching For The Stars, Purdue University Calumet, commissioned fiberglass sculpture
2008 Book Of Life, Indianapolis/Marion County Central Library, for Special Collections Room, 8 x 128′
2008 Teaching the Young to Fly, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 18 x 54′
2007 – 08 Light the Way Public Art Project, Great Ideas Competition, Arts Council of Indianapolis, winner
2007- 08 Indianapolis International Airport, A Work of Heart, terrazzo floor design; 1,000 sq. ft.
2007- 08 Indianapolis International Airport, Glory Of Sports In Indianapolis, terrazzo floor design; 1,000 sq. ft.
2007 Jesus Speaks to the Children Andrean High School, exterior mosaic mural, 12 x 26’, Merrillville, IN
2005 Carl Becker & Son, LTD, The Luthier, 3 panels 5 x 2’ acrylic on canvas
2003 Mural – indoor (8 x 15’), Historical Mural, Former Woolworth’s store window, Hammond, IN
2003 Window Display (8 x 150’), Former Former JC Penney’s store, Hammond, IN
2001 Mural – outdoor (7×144’), Ivy Technical College, East Chicago, IN
2000 Mural – outdoor (12×83’), West Calumet Complex Community Project, East Chicago, IN
2000 Mural – indoor (various), Catholic Family Charities, East Chicago, IN
1999 Mural – outdoor (35×50’), History of Hobart’s Economic Growth, Hobart, IN
1998 Mural – outdoor (49×29’), The Hugging Wall, Hammond, IN
1998 Children’s book illustration for The Big Book of Songs and Rhymes, New York, NY
1996 Mural – outdoor (17×80’), Historic Pullman District of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995 Mural – outdoor (17×75’), rural Midwest theme, Community Center, Hammond, IN
REVIEWS / MEDIA COVERAGE (selected)
2019 Review: The End Is Nigh, Tom Torluemke at One After 909, NewCity, Alan Pocaro, May 7, 2019
2018 Interview: Tom Torluemke/Blindfolded With Hands Stretched, COMP Art & Design Magazine, By, Chester Alamo-Costello
2017 Review: Watercolors That Gush With Creativity, Tom Torluemke at Linda Warren Projects, NewCity, by Chris
Miller, May 29, 2017
2016 Review: Symptoms: Tom Torluemke at Firecat Projects, NewCity, by B. David Zarley, September 9, 2016
2016 Interview: American Eye Pull-Up Bar; A Conversation With Tom Torluemke, Bad at Sports, by Kevin Blake, April, 2016.
2015 Review: Blind Man’s Bluff: Tom Torluemke at Linda Warren Projects, Bad at Sports, by Kevin Blake, April, 2015.
2015 Podcast Interview, ArtNXTLevel Tom Torluemke with Sergio Gomez, May 21, 2015
2013 The Shortlist: Best Five Things to Do In Chicago in January, Chicago Magazine, January, 2013
2013 Yes, You May Touch the Art—but Touch Wisely, Chicago Magazine by Jason Foumberg, February 13, 2013
2013 Review: Fearsome Fable Tolerable Truth, New City Arts, by Alan Pocaro, Febraury 26, 2013
2013 Review: North & South, Strong Exhibits, Paul Klein, Artletter, January 18, 2013
2013 #1 of the Top Five Exhibits of the Week, Bad at Sports, 1/18/13
2012 Review of Ring Around The Rosie Exhibit at Linda Warren Projects, Art, Ltd Magazine, by James Yood
2012 Cedar Rapids Mural Reveals Post-Flood Optimism, Iowa Public Radio, by John Premble
2012 Marathon Man, Cedar Rapids Gazette, written by Sam Lane, June 4, 2012
2012 Your Face Could Be On A Mural, Des Moines Register, written by Michael Morrain. May, 24, 2012
2012 Spotlight, Chicago, Tom Torluemke, by, Kevin Freitas, Reviewer Magazine online, April 10, 2012
2012 THE FIFTH DOWN; Everything Indy: An Artful Makeover, by Mike Tanier, New York Times, Feb. 12, 2012
2011 Tom Torluemke: Gallery Representation Case Study, Parts 1 & 2, Jeriah Hildewine, Chicago Art Magazine
2010 Awkward Moments, Review, Temple Shipley, Chicago Weekly of the U of Chicago Newspaper, 9/29/10
2010 #1 of the Top Five Exhibits of the Week, Bad at Sports, 9/24/10
2010 The Catharsis of Hillbilly Nudity, Review, Paul Klein, Huffington Post, September 23, 2010
2009 Tom Torluemke and Others at the Chicago Cultural Center, Albert Stabler, Proximity Magazine, 7/27/09
2007 Andrean project hardest of Highland artist’s career, Gary Post Tribune, IN, Mike Hutton – Aug 2,2007
2006 Indy gives generous nod to Airport Art.(Indianapolis Airport Authority) Art Business Newsm 3/1/06
2006 Sights For Soaring Eyes. The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) Publication Date: 18-JAN-06
2005 Terminal’s floor design remains sketchy, The Indianapolis Star, Theodore Kim, Publication Date: 07-NOV-05
2005 NUVO -Great Ideas, Jan 12, 2005
2004 Finalists named for art project -Indianapolis Business Journal (IN) – November 8, 2004
2004 Lake Magazine, “Artfelt: The Saga of Uncle Freddy”, by Lois Berger
2004 Dialogue Magazine, “Public Works Revival”, by Julianna Thibodeaux
2003 Post –Tribune, “Dressed to Kill”, Article by Carolina Procter, Gary, IN
2002 NUVO, Review by Julianna Thibodeaux (One in the Same exhibit), Indianapolis, IN
2002 South Bend Tribune, Review by Julie York Coppens, (Bounce exhibit). South Bend, IN
2001 The Reader, Review by Fred Camper (Interrupted exhibit), Chicago, IL
2000 Hammond Press (“Holy Family Mural”), Hammond, IN
1999 The TIMES, Hammond, IN
1999 Post-Tribune (“Carnival” show), Hobart, IN
1998 The TIMES (Director of Outreach art program), Hammond, IN
1996 Bob Sirot, FOX-TV, Channel 32-WFLD (Pullman Mural TV interview), Chicago, IL
1996 Chicago Tribune (Pullman Mural), Chicago, IL
1996 The TIMES (Seedling Grant, Caldwell Elementary School), Valparaiso, IN
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
SYMPTOMS: Satirical Drawings By Tom Torluemke, Foreword by David Detmer & Essay By Kevin Blake
Edited by Linda Dorman, Published by Public Media Institute, Chicago, IL, 2016
STARS & STRIPES: The American Flag In Contemporary Art
By E. Ashley Rooney & Stephanie Standish, Schiffer Publishing, 2015
PROXIMITY MAGAZINE – Studio Feature, Tom Torluemke – Issue 7 – April, 2010
IND The Art Of IT All, 2009 – Airport Art Feature, Tom Torluemke – Page 84 & 85
ART AS AUTHORITY – Feature essays, Janvier 08, 2007 Exposé – Tom Torluemke
Janvier 23, 2007 Exposé part II – Tom Torluemke – his paintings, by Kevin Freitas
DIALOGUE MAGAZINE – 2004, Feature article, Public Works Revival, by Julianna Thibodeaux – January/February
ARTS INDIANA – 2001, Feature article, February Edition
THE WORKBOOK / 1996 VOL. 18, 1996 – 940 North Highland Avenue – Los Angeles, CA 90038
CHICAGO ART REVIEW, An Illustrated Survey of the City’s Museums, Galleries & Leading Artists
1989, Les Krantz / American References, Inc. 919 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
TOM TORLUEMKE: Images From Ultrasound– 1986, Richard H. Love / Haase-Mumm Publishing Company, Inc.
Amart Book and Catalog Distributing Co., Inc. 100 East Ohio Street, Room B-20, Chicago, IL 60611
AWARDS / HONORS / RESIDENCIES / GRANTS (selected)
2017 HIPPO Education, Essentials of Emergency Medicine, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
2016 VAN – Visual Artists Network, Two – Week Residency, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2014 Keynote Speaker, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, BRAVO for the Arts, awards reception
2012 VAN – Visual Artists Network, One – Week Residency, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2011 Keynote Speaker, South Suburban College, High School Art Festival
2008 GREAT IDEAS Competition Winner, “Light the Way” public art project, Arts Council of Indianapolis, Indiana
2007 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, $20,000
LECTURES
2019 Exhibiting Artsist Lecture, One After 909, Chicago, IL
2017 Artist In Residence Talk, Essentials In Emergency Medicine Conference, Chelsea Theater, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas
2017 Exhibiting Artist Lecture, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 Exhibiting Artist Lecture, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 Exhibiting Artist Lecture, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2013 TEDx Talk, Expose Yourself, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2013 Exhibiting Artist Lecture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
2011 Keynote Speaker, South Suburban College, High School Art Festival
2012 Lecture on Beauty to students at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2010 Career Development for Artists, Arts Council of Indianapolis
2006 Leaving the Information Age for the Conceptual Age, Lecture at Hammond Rotary
2005 Visualize This, a conceptual art project with the Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce, Hammond, IN
2005 Art Experience for Professionals, Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce & Hammond Yacht Club
2004 Brauer Museum of Art, In The Company of Strangers, Valparaiso University
2003 Munster Rotary, Arts Influence, Center for Visual & Performing Arts, Munster, IN
2002 Hammond Rotary, Art and Beyond, Woodmar Country Club, Hammond, IN
2002 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Robert Colescott, The Society of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
2002 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Larry Zox, Colorfield Painting and OP Art vs. Superflat, SoCA,IN
2001 The School at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Past 15 Years, a lecture to Graduate Students
2001 LaCare Art League, Self-Promotion for the Artist, a lecture presented to members and guests
