Regan Golden is an artist, writer and critic, her current art/writing project is Interaction with a Picture of a Forest, a collection of graphite drawings, altered photographs, found maps and essays about the New England woods, real and imagined. She started drawing and photographing the woods in 2006 with an M.F.A. grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, portions of this project have since been exhibited nationally, including a solo show at the Rochester Art Center in 2009. Golden recently completed the Critical Studies residency at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and an artist residency at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University. Born in Minneapolis, MN and lives in Chicago, IL.

A w a r d s

2009-2010 Fellowship, The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2009 Grant, The Jerome Foundation & Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Minneapolis, MN

2008 Fellowship, Stone Summer Theory Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2006 M.F.A. Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY

2005-2006 Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

2004-2003 Chancellor's Scholarship, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

2000-1998 Harold Clapp Scholarship, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

S e l e c t e d E x h i b i t i o n s

2011

Two Sites: The MDW Fair, Geolofts, Chicago, IL (with Jeremy Lundquist)

This is Paul Halupka: The Contemporary Arts Council 2011 Exhibition, C33 Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Pushing Paper, Curated by Jessica Cochran, Dominican University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010

We've been to this site, Fisher Museum, The Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA (with Jeremy Lundquist)

Vertical Currency: 5 Years of Emerging Artist Exhibitions, Curated by Kris Douglas, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

The Murmuring Pines, Rudolph Blume Gallery, Houston, TX (with Jeremy Lundquist)

The Sylvan Screen, Johnson Gallery, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (with Rich Barlow)

2009

We walked into and out of the forest, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (solo)

Decorative Directive, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI (with Jennifer Harris)

Case by Case Basis, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008

Walker on the Green, collaboration with landscape architect: Maura Rockcastle at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Harold Arts Residency Exhibition, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

2007

M.F.A. Grant Recipients Exhibition, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY

Pathogeographies, Curated by Feel Tank, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

Group Show, Brooks Barrow Contemporary Art, Milwaukee, WI

2006

What Is Yours Is Mine Is Yours, Institute of Visual Art Gallery and Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (solo)

R e s i d e n c i e s

The Harvard Forest, Harvard University, July 2010.

Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, July 2009.

Harold Arts Residency, July 2008.

Ox-Bow Artist Residency, June 2008.

Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, School of Art and Design, March 2008

E d u c a t i o n

M.F.A. (Painting and Drawing) University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

B.A. (History and Studio Art) Grinnell College