Allison Svoboda
4864 N Hermitage
Chicago, IL 60640

Selected Solo Exhibitions

‘Spirit Hand’, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL. 2025
https://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/
‘In Defense of Beauty’, OS Projects, February 8-April 12, Racine, Wisconsin, 2025
https://www.osprojects.art/artists#/allison-svoboda/
‘Allison Svoboda, Experimental Residency’, Manierre Dawson Gallery, WSCC, Michigan, 2024-25
https://www.westshore.edu/manierre-dawson-gallery/
‘Fractals Found in Nature’, Peggy Notebart Nature Museum, Chicago, 2024-25
https://naturemuseum.org/
‘Marshall J Gardner Center for the Arts, Miller Beach, Indiana, 2023
‘Wave to Wave in Search of Water’, K Imperial Gallery,2021
‘Mandalas’, Fiskar Village, Finland, 2020 https://onoma.fi/fiskars-air/
‘Refractions’, Vivid Gallery, Winnetka, IL, 2019
‘Mandalas Prairie Orizomegami’, Krasle Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, 2018
‘Water Refractions’, Mingara Gallery, Phillip Island, Australia, 2016
‘Mandalas’, Artsmeet Gallery, Milan, Italy 2014
‘Out of Darkness, Come Light’, Project Room, Chicago, 2013

Selected Group Shows
‘Gossemer’, Walker Gallery, Denver, 2024
‘Totem to the Anthropecene’ Terrain Biennial, 2023
https://terrainexhibitions.org/tb23-ludington-mi
‘Radiance’, Walker Gallery, Denver, 2023
‘Winds of Change’, Gallery 1871, Chicago, 2023
‘Radical plein aire paintings by Allison Svoboda’, 3 Arbor Arts, Three Oaks, Michigan, 2022
‘Casting Currents’, Walker Gallery, Denver, 2022
’Universe in a Teardrop’, Hyde Park Art Center, 2021
‘Power and Fragility’ Walker Fine Art, Denver, Colorado, 2020
‘Open Studio Exhibit’ Haystack, Maine, 2020
‘Winter Show’, KW Contemporary, Kennebunk, Maine, 2020
‘Detritus’, Silverwood Park, Minneapolis, 2019
‘Infinite Spaces’, Olson-Larson Gallery, Des Moine, IA, 2019
‘New Work’, Gallery 1871, Chicago, 2018
‘Cyanotypes’, Lyesloth Residency, Basel, Switzerland, 2018
‘The Space Between’, Walker Fine Art, Denver, Colorado, 2018
‘I have vivid memories of lightening’, curated by Kate Pollasch, Donnelly Foundation, Chicago, 2016
‘Ebb and Flow’, Gallery 1871, Chicago, 2016
‘Ruminate’, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, 2016
‘Transcendence’, Emery Arts Center, University of Maine, 2015
‘Mandala’, Des Moines Art Museum, Art Stop public installation, 2012
‘Form and Flora’, Lincoln Park Conservatory, 2012

Residencies:
Haystack Open Studio, 2020
Fiskar, Finland, 2020
Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge, Washington, 2017
Cowwar, Australia, 2016
Hemera Fellowship, Japan, 2015
Vermont Studio Center, 2015
33 Officina, Toffia, Italy, 2014
Brush Creek Endowment for the Arts, Wyoming, 2013
Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL, 2012
Works on Paper Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, 2011

Public Art
Truman College, sculpture commission, finalist, 2019
Bayhealth Hospital lobby installation, $16,000, 2019
University of Michigan Hospital, main lobby installation, Mandalas, 2019-20
Marriot Hotel lobby, Schaumburg, IL, ‘Vortices’ $24,000, 2018
City of Chicago, Year of Public Art, 47th Ward North Center Plaza, $20,000, 2018
353 N Clark Lobby Installation, Helix Labyrinth, 2018
Chicago Tree Project, Garfield Blvd, Hyde Park, 2016
Nashville Airport Terminal C ‘Vortices’ skylight installation, 2016
Sculpture Biennial, Carnegie Art Center, New Albany, IN ‘Helix Labyrinth’ 2015
Kite Mandalas, Prudential Plaza Lobby, Chicago 2011