Resume

2023
IN PURSUIT OF SPRING, Addington Gallery, Chicago

2022
NEW PAINTINGS, Addington Gallery, Chicago

2022
ALL TERRAIN: LANDSCAPE EXPLORATIONS, Addington Gallery, Chicago

2021
IT'S A SMALL SHOW AFTER ALL, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago

2021
RELENTLESS, Hofheimer Gallery,Chicago

2020
THE SALON SHOW, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago

2020
CHICAGO STREETS AND WAYS, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago

2019
IT'S A SMALL SHOW AFTERALL, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago

2019
INSIDE/OUTSIDE, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago

2018
CHICAGO INSIDE OUT, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago

2017
NEIGHBORHOODS, Appellation Wine Bar & Restaurant, Chicago
PLACE, Aron Packer Projects, Space 900, Evanston, Illinois

2015
IMAGES OF EVANSTON, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston

2014
THE ART OF DESCRIPTION, Illinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago

2013
PAINTING THE TOWN, Beverly Art Center, Chicago
WILMETTE LIBRARY, Solo Show, Wilmette

2012
21st EVANSTON & VICINITY BIENNIEL, Evanston
WOMENS WORKS, Northwest Area Arts Council

2010
OUR KIND OF TOWN, Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe

2009
CHICAGO, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago

2008
VIEWS OF THE CITY, Chicago Public Library, Women’s History Month

2007
FLATLAND; IMAGING THE MIDWEST, South Bend Regional Museum of Art
RECENT PAINTINGS, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
COOL GLOBES, Public Art Installation, Traveling Exhibition

2006
IMAGES OF THREE OAKS, Aron Packer Gallery, Three Oaks, Michigan

2006
ARTIST SHOWCASE, for American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, Chicago Illuminating Company, Chicago
ANATOMICALLY CORRECT, GALLERY 60035 - Merit Award, Highland Park

2005
DISAPPEAR, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago & Three Oaks, Michigan

2002
WATER, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans
SOMBER, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago

2001
CHICAGO ART INVITATIONAL, Judith Racht Gallery on Lake, Chicago

2000
URBAN LANDSCAPES, Lyonswier Packer Gallery, Chicago
PAGES, Columbia College Invitational, Chicago
15TH EVANSTON & VICINITY BIENNIAL EXHIBITION, Evanston
CHICAGO VISIONS: New Work, Dorothea Thiel Gallery, South Holland
MADE IN CHICAGO, Chicago O’hare International Airport, Terminal 5
MIDWAY AIRPORT ART CONTEST, Chicago

1999
SMALL PACKAGES II, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago
VISUAL FEASTING, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Evanston

1997
THE HOUSE SHOW, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago
ARON PACKER COLLECTION, Gary Marks Gallery, Chicago
SOLO SHOW, Caisse D’Epargne, Montpellier, France
SOLO SHOW, Bibliotheque de l’ISTEEM, Universite Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

1996
SOLO SHOW, Galerie Castellane, Montpellier, France

1994
Capital Hill Arts League Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC
18th Annual Montgomery County Juried Art Exhibition, Strathmore Arts Center, Bethesda, Maryland

1993
Capital Hill Arts League Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC
17th Annual Montgomery County Juried Art Exhibition, Strathmore Arts Center, Bethesda, Maryland

1992
FIGURES, Willow Street Gallery, Takoma Park, Maryland
16th Annual Montgomery County Juried Art Exhibition, Strathmore Arts Center, Bethesda, Maryland

1991
SOLO EXHIBITION, The Artell, Chicago

1989
Near Northwest Arts Coalition Group Show, Chicago
Solo Exhibition, C.G.Jung Institute of Chicago,

1988
Sea Horse Theater Gallery, Chicago

1987
Solo Exhibition, Chicago Bar Association

1985
Solo Exhibition, Muse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Solo Exhibition, Natalini Gallery, Chicago

1982
Solo Exhibition, Horses Mouth Gallery, Evanston, IL
The Other Show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, Chicago

COLLECTIONS
DeLoitte & Touche, Chicago
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

Ghost Hunters - Eager to Know podcast hosted by Chicago artist Ricky McEachern - February 2020

Memory and Meaning: William Dolan and Karen Perl in “Chicago Streets and Ways” - Article in New Art Examiner, Spring 2020

Interview WGN Radio, The Sunday Papers, Rick Kogan, November 15, 2009

CS Interiors, Winter, 2009, “ A Group of Artist Cast the Streets of Chicago as Their Muse”

New American Paintings 2005 Midwestern Competition

Chicago Tribune
March 2005, Special Section, Jenn Q. Goddu, “Faced With Chicago Winter, Perl Adapts”

EDUCATION

1985
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1983-1984
Exchange Program,
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

TEACHING:

2011-2013
North Shore Art League, Winnetka

2011-2013
Marwen, Chicago

2008-2011
Greenleaf Art Center, Chicago