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Dan Devening is an artist, educator, curator, and writer based in Chicago. He is currently a Professor, Adj. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University from 1993 to 2008.

His paintings, works on paper, and installations have been shown extensively, including recent exhibitions in New York at Geary Contemporary, Launch F18, Apex Art, and Printed Matter, Inc.; at 65Grand, LVL3, Heaven Gallery, Autumn Space, ebersmoore gallery, Roy Boyd Gallery, and Julius Caesar in Chicago; and at Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles, among other national venues. His recent international projects include exhibitions in Germany at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Galerie Grölle in Wuppertal, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, the Museum Kurhaus in Kleve, dok25a in Düsseldorf, Renate Schroeder Gallery in Cologne, and galerie oqbo, Schau Fenster, Scotty Enterprises, and Neues Problem in Berlin. He has also shown his work in Vienna, Austria; Brussels, Belgium; Tokyo, Japan; Toronto, Canada; Monterrey, Mexico; Melbourne, Australia; and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has curated exhibitions nationally and internationally, including projects at oqbo in Berlin, dok25A in Düsseldorf, Hagiwara Projects in Tokyo, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Block Museum of Art in Chicago, among many others.

Devening recently completed the installation of a major public artwork commission for the Chicago Transit Authority Irving Park Blue Line subway station.

His essays have been published in several recent publications, including Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose (edited by Zoë Charlton and Tim Doud); Clay Pop, What’s New in Clay (a chapter on the work of Wade Tullier); and Where the Echo Drifts, an essay on the work of Leipzig artist Dagmar Varady, published in Expanded Studio by Snoek Publishing.

He has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Ford Family Foundation in Portland, Oregon; the Brown Foundation in Houston, Texas; the Illinois Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the MacArthur Foundation (International Connections); The Yaddo Corporation; The Nick and Keven Wilder Foundation; among others.

Devening founded and currently directs Devening Projects, a contemporary art gallery featuring exhibitions, installations and events by emerging and established national and international artists. He is the former co-director of Paris, London, Hong Kong in Chicago.