Marisol Cervantes

Title:	Instructor
Division:	Studio Arts
Office Location:	Jack Arends Building 414E
Email:	mcervantes4@niu.edu

Educational Background

• M.F.A., Northern Illinois University
• B.S., Art, Northern Illinois University

Emphases

• Painting and Drawing

Educational Background

• M.F.A., Northern Illinois University
• B.S., Art, Northern Illinois University

Emphases

• Painting and Drawing

Courses Taught

• ART 102, 2-D Foundations
• ART 100, Drawing Foundations 1
• ART 101, Drawing Foundations 2
• ARTS 321, Water-based Painting
• ARTS 323, Beginning Painting

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

• “Pressing on a Bruise”, crosswalk, Chicago, IL
• “milk teeth”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL
• “Fleeting”, Back Space Gallery, DeKalb, IL
• “Comfortably Uncomfortable”, Annette and Jerry Johns Student Art Gallery, DeKalb, IL

Group Shows

• “Conversations in Abstraction”, Madron Gallery, Chicago, IL
• “27th Evanston Biennial + Vicinity”, Evanston, IL
• “Rainbow in Limbo”, Wege Gallery, Fairfield, IA
• “Microcosm”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL
• “Held Together: Fragility & Endurance in Art”, Visionary Art Collective
• “Faculty Biennial”, Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles, IL
• “Abstract Competition”, Ten Moir Gallery, Online Gallery
• “2025 Spring Exhibition Catalog”, I Like Your Work Podcast
• “Orange Peels”, Fargo, DeKalb, IL
• “High Strangeness”, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
• “Faculty Biennial”, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
• “Window Shopping”, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
• “69 For 69 Love Songs”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL
• “7th Midwest”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
• “Faculty Art Show”, Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles, IL
• “Inner Orbits”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL
• “Voices of the Midwest”, Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles, IL
• 15th “Abstracts”, Light Space & Time Online Gallery
• “Window Shopping”, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
• “6th Annual Juried Women's Artist”, Online Exhibition Fusion Art LLC
• “Terrain Biennial”, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• “Home Not Home”, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, IL
• “Silent Auction”, Back Space Gallery, DeKalb, IL
• “Abstracted Abstractions”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL
• “Women in Art”, Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
• “Year 10”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL
• “Embracing Texture”, Norris Cultural Arts Center, St Charles, IL
• “Diverse Expressions”, Fine Line Arts Center, St Charles, IL
• “Esperanza”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL
• “Annual Juried Blick Art Materials Ars Nova”, Jack Olson Gallery, Dekalb, IL
• “Silent Auction”, Back Space Gallery, DeKalb, IL
• “Epilogue”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
• “Tiny Show”, Gallery 4224, DeKalb, IL
• “The Long Red Line”, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
• “Entanglements”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL
• “Prologue”, 4th Street Gallery, DeKalb, IL
• “32 Intentions”, 4th Street Gallery, DeKalb, IL

Awards

• Best of Show, “Year 10”, Side Street Studios, Elgin, IL
• Best of Show, “The Long Red Line” Juried Art Exhibit, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
• 2nd Place, “7th Midwest Open” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Selected Works