Frank Trankina, M.F.A.

Title:	Professor
Department:	Painting
Office Location:	Jack Arends Building 414G
Email:	ftrankina@niu.edu
Website:	www.franktrankina.com

Educational Background

• M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• M.A., Northern Illinois University
• B.F.A., Northern Illinois University

Courses Taught

• ARTS 321 - Water-Based Painting
• ARTS 322 - Painting Methods and Materials
• ARTS 323 - Painting I
• ARTS 324 - Painting II: The Figure
• ARTS 421 - Advanced Painting
• ARTS 425 - Special Topics in Painting
• ARTS 623 - Graduate Painting I
• ARTS 723 - Graduate Painting II
• ARTS 402 - Advanced 2D Figure Study
• ART 406 - Senior Project
• ARTS 615 - Introduction to Studio Practices
• ARTS 715 - Professional Practices in Studio Art
• ART 780 - Teaching Art at the College Level
• ART 799 - One-Person Exhibition MFA
• ART 100 - Foundations Drawing I
• ART 102 - Foundations Drawing II
• ARTS 200 - Beginning Life Drawing I
• ARTS 300 - Intermediate Drawing

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

• "Every Story Tells a Picture", Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• "RUKUS(!)", Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• "Pictures-What Are They?", Union League Club, Chicago, IL
• "Superheros and Night Stories", Sheldon Galleries, St Louis, MO
• "Wall Tales and Shelf Stories", Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "Frank Trankina: Paintings", Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL
• "Alexander Rutsch Award Exhibition", Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY

International

• "Egi, Glanzmann, Trankina", Alpineum Produzentenengalerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
• "Malin Kong", Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• "Daegu Art 2013", Exco Daegu, South Korea
• "2012 Art Busan", Metropolitan Hall, Busan, South Korea
• Toy Show, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• "Remaking Reality", Kettle's Yard Museum, Cambridge University, England

Group

• "The Figure and the Chicago Imagists", Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
• "My Hero", Daura Gallery, Lynchburg, VA, International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX, and California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
• "SIGHTLINES", American University Museum, Washington, DC
• "Déjà vu", Regina Rex, New York, NY
• "Tails of Exotica", 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
• "Where My Cones At?", Double Break, San Diego, CA
• "Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and his Spheres of Influence", School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
• "Paper Love", Devening Projects+Editions, Chicago, IL

Selected Publications

• Japan Times
• Chicago Tribune
• New City Magazine
• Art in America
• Art News
• New Art Examiner
• Time Out Chicago
• Chicago Reader
• NPR St. Louis
• Louis Magazine
• Cambridge University Press
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago