Deb Sokolow

Deb Sokolow’s work has been included in the 4th Athens Biennale (Greece), the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial and in exhibitions at Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Siegen, Germany), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), the Drawing Center (New York), Abrons Art Center (New York), Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and a MATRIX exhibition at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford). Her work has been reproduced for Creative Time’s Comics project, the 2017 Best American Comics, in Vitamin D2, a survey on contemporary drawing and in a several-page spread in the fall 2018 issue of BOMB Magazine. Her 2023 solo show at Western Exhibitions was reviewed by Lori Waxman in Hyperallergic, her 2019 solo show at Western Exhibitions was reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail by Elizabeth Buhe and John Yau reviewed her 2016 solo show in Hyperallergic.

 

Sokolow’s work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Thomas J Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and is a recipient of an Artadia award and two Illinois Arts Council visual arts fellowships. Sokolow lives and works in Chicago, is on faculty in the department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University and is represented by Western Exhibitions.