Chris Radtke
EDUCATION
Michigan State
University, BFA, Magna Cum Laude
University of Iowa, Drawing
University of Louisville, Drawing
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 "The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection,"
Cincinnatti Museum of Art,
Cincinnatti, OH. Curated by William Morrow.
2010 New Works in the Collection, Speed
Art Museum, Louisville. Curated by Suzanne Weaver
2010 Land of Tomorrow Projects,
Louisville, KY Curated by Joey Yates
2010 "Seeing is Becoming," IMoCA,
Indianapolis, IN. Curated by Jay Jordan
2010 "Shapeshifter," Country
Club Projects, Cincinnati, OH
2009 "Creating Identity: Portraits Today" 21C
Museum, Louisville, KY
2008 “New Work,” Zephyr
Gallery, Louisville, KY
2007 DePauw Biennial, DePauw University, IN
2006 “New Work,” Zephyr
Gallery, Louisville, KY
2005 “Celebrating Women”, Norton Women’s Pavilion, Louisville,
curated by Maiza Hixson
2003 “New Works,” Zephyr
Gallery, Louisville
2001 “Filters,” Zephyr
Gallery, Louisville
2000 “Inequitable Conditions,” Gallery for the Arts, Mount
Sterling, KY, curated by Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art, Speed
Art Museum, Louisville
1999 “The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing, and Remaking the
Human Figure in Contemporary Art,” Speed
Art Museum, Louisville
1999 “Messengers,” Zephyr
Gallery, Louisville
1997 “Indivi/duality,” Zephyr
Gallery, Louisville
1995 “Facing Fifty,” Galerie
Hertz, Louisville
1994 “Works on Paper”, Mainz, Germany
1992 “Genes/is”, Zephyr
Gallery, Louisville
1991 “Look,…”, Chicago, IL
1990 “Beyond Tradition,” Kentucky Art Foundation Invitational
1989 “In Sight of Louisville,” Washington, D.C.,
ARTICLES +
REVIEWS
AEQAI: Critical Thinking, Review, & Reflective Prose on Contemporary
Visual Art in Greater Cincinnati, "Shapeshifter at Country Club",
Kathy Stockman, March, 2010
ART
DAILY, "Group Exhibition "Shapeshifter" on View at Country
Club," 2010
CITY BEAT, "Shapeshifter," Jane Durrell, March 31, 2010
ART DAILY, "21c Museum Presents an Examination of Portraiture in
the 21st Century," 2009
COURIER-JOURNAL, Diane Heilenman, November 14, 2008
LEO, "Staff Picks," Jo Anne Triplett, December 17-23, 2008
PITCH, “Body Double: A conversation with Chris Radtke,” Valerie
Sullivan Fuchs, 2006
COURIER-JOURNAL, “Big Questions: Pair of exhibits at Zephyr Gallery
deal with life, death, sex, self,” Diane Heilenman, December 16,
2006
PITCH, “Kaytie Johnson interview
with Chris Radtke,” Kaytie Johnson, 2006
COURIER-JOURNAL, “Radtke and Irwin take a less literal approach
to the figurative,” Diane Heilenman, December 16, 2001
LEO, “Chris Radtke at Zephyr Gallery,” Bruce Nixon, September
22, 1999
COLLECTIONS
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
21-C Foundation Collection, Louisville, KY
Aegon, Louisville, KY
Jewish Hospital, Louisville, KY
Central Bank of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Commonwealth Bank of Kentucky, Louisville, KY
Halbleib/Beggs Advertising, Inc., Louisville, KY
Home of the Innocents, Louisville, KY
Louisville Gas and Electric Company, Louisville , KY
National City Bank, Louisville, KY
R. Jeffrey Points, Architect, Louisville, KY
Tramont Corporation, Milwaukee, WI
Stored Value Systems, Louisville, KY
Ventas, Inc.
Tachau, Maddox, Hovious, & Dickens, LLC
Meidinger Tower Collection
Private Collections
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
New Art Collectors, Speed Art Museum, 1995-2010
Speed Art Museum, Board of Governors, 2000-2007
Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Public Art, 1999-2009 Co-chair, 2008-2010
Metro Louisville Commission on Public Art, Chair, 2010-present
Ghost
(wall) Pink 6, 2010
Nylon mesh, poly-monochromatic filament
24" x 24" x 22" each box, overall dimensions variable