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Thomas Huston
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b. 1991, Oak Ridge, TN

Lives and works in Chicago


Selected Exhibitions
2023/ (Silence. By this point, everything is different): Five years of Apparatus Projects, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL
2022/ I feel like a bootlegger's wife. Look!, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL
2020/ Micropop USA, curated by Max Guy, Circle Contemporary (Arts of Life), Chicago, IL
2020/ Artist Run Chicago 2.0 with Apparatus Projects, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2020/ Intimacies and Influence, Open House Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2019/ RULERS, organized by Jason Lazarus and Sue Havens, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
2018/ Listing, curated by Marlo Koch, Flaxman Library & Special Collection, Chicago, IL
2018/ Jamais vu with Will Krauland, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL
2018/ Kelly Lloyd's Up like a sun, down like a pancake, Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
2018/ Standard Moving Blankets for Cathy Hsiao's Movement 1, Bloom, Goldfinch Project, Chicago, IL
2017/ Let Me Be an Object that Screams, curated by Matt Morris, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2017/ Standard Moving Blankets for The Stolbun Collection at the Sullivan Galleries with David Horvitz + Brad Troemel, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2016/ On the Shelf, curated by Kelli Connell, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL
2016/ Y, curated by Edra Soto, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016/ TEAM SPORTS with Risa Recio, curated by Veronica Sines, Samuel, Chicago, IL
2016/ Steady State, CARUS Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH
2016/ Western Pole, 902 N Western Avenue, Chicago, IL
2016/ Standard Moving Blankets, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2014/ artDORM, Gallery 107, North Adams, MA
2014/ Traces, Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn, NY
2013/ Autopoiesis with Ryan Caruso, Warner Gymnasium, Oberlin, OH

Publications
2020/ Jamais Vu, with contributions from Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Katja Rivera, and Julian Van Der Moere
2017/ Let Me Be an Object that Screams, with essays by Matt Morris, Alisa Swindell, and Evan Kleekamp
2017/ Standard Moving Blankets pamphlet for Just Business Agency's It's Just Business at Corner Chicago
2016/ TEAM SPORTS, with essay by John Tennison 
2016/ Steady State, with essays by Frances Lee, Tracy May Fuad, and Aileen McGraw
2016/ MFA Exhibition Catalog, Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016/ Standard Moving Blankets, self-published artist book
2016/ work(ing) material lists, self-published artist book
2014/ Traces Exhibition Catalog
2013/ Senior Studio and Thesis Catalog, Oberlin College
2012/ Wilder Voice, v. 7 i.12 Fall Issue Featured Artist

Curatorial + Programming
2016/ Artist conversation with Kelly Lloyd in support of Steady State at Carus Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2016/ Steady State, co-curated with Frances Lee, Carus Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2014/ artDORM, collective exhibition with public programming at Gallery 107, North Adams, MA
2013/ Corin Hewitt artist talk and critique, organized with Exhibition Initiative, Oberlin, OH
2012/ Exhibitionist Initiative, First Church, Oberlin, OH
2012/ Performance at Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
2012/ Cross-Listed Faculty Exhibition organized with Exhibition Initiative, Baron Gallery, Oberlin, OH 
2012/ Title TK (Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen, Alan Licht), organized with Exhibition Initiative, Oberlin, OH 
2011/ Roni Horn artist talk and critique, Oberlin, OH
2010/ Mail Art, organized with Exhibition Initiative in cooperation with the Oberlin College Art Library, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, OH

Education 

Ongoing/ Candidate for Masters in Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016/ Master of Fine Arts, Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013/ Bachelor of the Arts, Studio Art and Art History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Awards and Scholarships
2014-2016/ New Artist Society Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009-2013/ John F. Oberlin Merit Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, Oberlin College