Irene Ryan Maloney
Born Los Angeles, California
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
1990
MFA Painting/Drawing
Marymount College, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1968
BA Studio Art
One/Person Exhibitions:
2015 "Look/ Repeat" Palm Desert Community Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
• 2010 "Iwo Jima", Ruth Ray Memorial Gallery, Illinois Institute of Art
• 2005 "Irene Ryan Maloney", Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
• 2004 "Night Swimmers", Illinois Institute of Art Chicago
• 2002 "Irene Maloney", Illinois Institute of Art Schaumburg
• 2001 "Night Pools", Gruen Galleries, Chicago
• 2000 "Irene Ryan Maloney" Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
• 1998 Show at Unitarian Church, Evanston, IL
• 1997 "Water Signs" Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
• 1996 "After Images" Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
• 1995 "Night Swimming" Saint Xavier University, Chicago
• 1992 "Water Paintings" Millennium Gallery, Libertyville, IL
• 1992 "Night Pools" Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
• 1992 Carl Jung Institute, Evanston, IL
• 1992 "Night Pools" Gruen Gallery, Chicago
• 1991 "Night Pools" Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL
• 1991 "Night Pools" ContemporaryArt Center, Arlington, IL
• 1990 M.F.A. Exhibition, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1990 Lake County Courthouse, Waukegan, IL
• 1986 "Recent Art Works" Studio in the Woods, Wauconda
• 1986 Lake County Courthouse, Waukegan, IL
Awards and Honors:
2019 Juried into ACE 2019 Exhibition, Palm Spring Art Museum
2018 Juried into ACE 2018 Exhibition, Palm Spring Art Museum
2018 Published in ACE 2018 Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Juried into ACE 2017 Exhibition, Palm Spring Art Museum
2017 Published in ACE 2107 Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Published in Exhibition Cataogue "Tell Me a Story" -Women of Coachella
Valley, LaQuinta Art Museum, LaQuinta, CA
2016 1st Place Palm Springs Juried Show
2015 2nd Place Palm Springs Juried Show
2014 - Artists Council Exhibition, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs CA
Michelle Jamison Memorial Award
2014 1st Place Sun City Palm Desert Art Show
2014 2nd Place 16th Annual Palm Springs Juried Show
2004 Award Artistic Merit, "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
2002 Award of Excellence, "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
2001 Second Place "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
2000 "Art Scene Chicago2000", Crow Woods Publishing
1999 Visiting Artist at Studios on Florence, Evanston, IL
1999 Second Place, "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
1998 Honorarium/Show, Unitarian Church, Evanston, IL
1998 First Place, "Personal Investments", Gallery 10, Rockford, IL
1998 Third Place, "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
1997 Judge, Park Newberry Art Festival
1997 "Who's Who in American Women"
1996 Membership, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
1996 Purchase Award, "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
1996 Artistic Merit Award, "Women's Works", Woodstock
1995 Honorarium, St. Xavier University, Chicago
1994 Award of Excellence, "Recent Works" College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
1992 Award of Excellence, "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
1991 Award of Merit "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
1991 Best of Show "All Illinois Graduate Exhibition" Northwestern, Evanston, IL
1991 First Place Award, "Rhythm in Blue", Contemporary ArtCenter, Arlington Hts., IL
1991 First Place Award, "Dancing Colors", Contemporary ArtCenter, Arlington Hts., IL
1990 Award of Excellence, "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
1989 Teaching Assistantship, Figure Drawing, University of Illinois at Chicago
1988 "Citation of Excellence", Faculty UIC
1987 Juror Scholastic Art Awards, Lake County, IL
1964-68 Tuition Scholarship Marymount College
1963 First Place Art Award, Los Angeles County
1962 Gold Key Award, National Scholastics, Los Angeles
Group Shows Juried and Invitational:
2019 -Ace 2019 Exhibition Palm Springs Art Museum
Jurors Phoebe Beasley and Daniela Leija Quintanar
2018 - 2019 Sun City Palm Desert Printmakers
Palm Desert Community Gallery
November 16, 2018 - January 25, 2019
2017 Palm Springs Artists Council
2017 "Second Annual Artistic Expressions of
Coachella Valley" a Collaboration between the Palm Springs Art Museum
Artists Council and the University of California Riverside/Palm Desert
March 2 - April 23, 2017
2017 "Printmaking Show" Create Center for the Arts
Palm Desert, CA April - June 2017
2017 "Tell Me a Story" -Women of Coachella
Valley, LaQuinta Art Museum, LaQuinta, CA
2014 - Artists Council Exhibition, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs CA
2014 "16th Annual Palm Springs Juried Show
2011 "ACE 2011" Palm Springs Art Museum
2007 "INK" A Printmaking Show, Arc Gallery, Chicago
2005 Irene Ryan Maloney, "Works on Paper", Fine Arts Building, Chicago
2005 "INK" A Printmaking Show, Fine Arts Building GalleryChicago
• 2004
• "War and Peace", Ed Paschke Juror, Gallery 415, Chicago
• Illinois Institute of Art Faculty Show
• Women's Works, Nat'l Juried Show, Woodstock, IL
• 2003
• "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "Artists/Artists Invitational" Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
• "From the Ground Up" The Gallery of Lane Allen Architects, Batavia, IL
• 2002
• "21st Century Quilts", Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumburg
• "September 11th Exhibition", Chicago Athenaeum
• 2001
• "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
• "Art Scene Chicago 2000", Chicago Athenaeum Museum
• 2000,
• "Recent Works" College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• 1999
• "Recent Works" College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
• 1998
• "Evanston and Vicinity Show", Evanston, IL
• "Recent Works" College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "Personal Investments" Gallery Ten, Rockford, IL
• "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
• Personal Showing, Unitarian Church, Evanston, IL
• 1997
• "Recent Works" College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "Gallery Artists" Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
• "Women's Works", Woodstock, IL
• 1996
• "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "Member Show", Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
• "Stateline and Vicinity Exhibition", Rockford Museum of Art
• "Figurative Abstraction", Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago
• "Personal Visions IV", An Art Place Gallery, Chicago
• Group Show at Gruen Gallery, Chicago
• "Small Works", Suburban Fine Arts Ctr., Highland Park, IL
• "National Small Works Exhibition", An Art Place Gallery
• "Women's Works", Old Courthouse Gallery, Woodstock, IL
• "Art of Diversity II", An Art Place Gallery, Chicago
• "Self and Society", Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
• 1994
• "Art Expo New York", SMD ARTS INC.
• "Art Expo Atlanta", SMD ARTS INC.
• "Chicago International Art Exhibition", Navy Pier, SMD ARTS
• "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "Personal Visions II", An Art Place Gallery, Chicago
• "Inside Out", Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
• 1993
• "New Works Faculty Exhibition", Univ. of Wisconsin-Parkside
• "Artists in Silk", Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
• "Portraits Inside and Out", ArtCenter, Arlington Heights, IL
• "The Figure", An Art Place Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "Golden Triangle", ArtCenter, Arlington Heights, IL
• "Group Show", Gruen Gallery, Chicago
• 1992
• "Members Exhibition", ArtCenter, Arlington Heights, IL
• "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "New Talent", Gruen Gallery, Chicago
• "New Works", Three Person Show, College of Lake County
• 1991
• "The Sky's the Limit", ArtCenter, Arlington Heights, IL
• "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• "All Illinois Graduate Exhibition", Northwestern, Evanston
• "Death and Transfiguration", ArtCenter, Arlington Heights, IL
• "Rhythm in Blue", ArtCenter, Arlington Heights, IL
• "Distorted Figuration", Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
• "Regional Juried Exhibition", Gallery Ten, Rockford, IL
• 1990
• "Dancing Colors", ArtCenter, Arlington Heights, IL
• "MFA Thesis Exhibition", Gallery 400, Chicago
• "Black and White and Grey All Over", Arlington Heights, IL
• "Recent Works", College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
• 1989
• "Absence of Presence", Gallery 400, Chicago
• "Home is More Than Four Walls", Cultural Ctr. Libertyville, IL
• 1988
• "Open Spectrum", Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL
• 1987
• "Student Show", Gallery 400, Chicago
• 1986
• "Water Color Guild Show" Adler Cult Ctr, Libertyville
• 1975
• "Student Show", North River Community Gallery, Chicago
• 1974
• "Women Present Women", N. River Comm. Gallery, Chicago
• 1968
• "Graduate Show", Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Galleries and Dealers: •
Desert Art Center Palm Springs, CA
Gallery H, Twin Oaks, Michigan 2005 - 2007
Gruen Gallery, Chicago, 1991 - 2007
Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago 1996-2007
Millennium Gallery, Libertyville, IL, 1994-2000
SMD ARTS INC., Medinah, IL, 1993 to 2000
Gallery 21, Carmel, California, 1993
Briesmeister Gallery, Door County, WI, 1987-1994
Bibliography and Reviews:
2018 Published in Palm Springs Art Museum ACE 2018 Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Published in Palm Springs Art Museum ACE 2017 Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Published in Exhibition Cataogue "Tell Me a Story"
-Women of Coachella Valley, LaQuinta Art Museum, LaQuinta, CA
2007 KATE SCHWARTZ AND RALPH BARTON
2001
IVY SUNDELL:
"Art Scene Chicago 2000", Crow Woods Publishing, 2000
AMINA CAIN
Book Review, "Art Scene, Chicago 2000 by Ivy Sundell", Chicago
Artist's News, July/August 2001
1996
SCOTT SNYDER:
Exhibition Catalogue for "Rockford and Vicinity Show", 1996
1994
MARTHA WINANS SLAUGHTER:
"Distorted Figuration", Exhibition Catalogue, Evanston 1994
LAKESIDE GROUP:
Exhibition Catalogue for Chicago International Art Expo 1994
1993
ED McCORMACK:
"Chicago," Not the Musical -- the Visual; Gallery & Studio, New York;
February - March 2003
HUGH HART:
"Silk Canvases and a Lot of Wit", Chicago Tribune, 6/2/93
1992
BRUCE INGRAM:
"News and Reviews of the Arts", Grayslake Review, 10/92
GARRETT HOLG:
"New Works", News-Sun, 6/28/92
1991
CATHY ANDERSON:
"Bending Reality", NorthShore Magazine, April 1991
MICHAEL BONESTEEL:
"Weirdness Wins Out", Pioneer Press, March 1991
"Center Sports Swimmers and Ceramics", Pioneer Press, 5/91
MARGARET HAWKINS:
"Distorted Drawings", Chicago Sun Times, 3/22/91
1989
LES KRANTZ: "The Chicago Art Review", 1989
Selected Work Experience
Geneva Lakes Art Foundation
2018 to Present Printmaking Teacher
Currently since 2011 Sun City Palm Desert Printmaking Teacher
2013 to 2016 Desert Art Center Palm Springs Board Member
2008-2011 Art Institutes of Pittsburgh Online Division
1995-2008 Illinois Institute of Art
Professor
Fine Arts Building Gallery - Partnership
Curation/Public Relations/Artist/Member
1997-2007
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Adjunct Instructor of Painting