Born: Chicago, 1943

Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Honorary Ph.D., 2016
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A., 1964

Died: Naperville, IL, 2020

2021

In Dreams, The Last Works, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2020

Secession, Vienna (catalogue)

2018

Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2016

Bare Shouldered Beauty, Works from 1965 to 1969, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2013

Focus 4: Four Solo Exhibitions, Chicago Gallery, Illinois State Museum

2007

Suellen Rocca and Art Green: Imagists Classic Hits, Vol. 1, Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)

1997

University Club of Chicago

1983

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

2023

and we learn to keep the soil wet, Center for Art, Research and Alliances, New York

2021

Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art, Newfields, Indianapolis (catalogue)
The Museum as Classroom, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Surrealism in American Art, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille (catalogue)

2019

How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, University of London. Traveled to De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom (catalogue)
With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL
One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2018

Painting: Now and Forever Part III, Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960–1980, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago (catalogue)
Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL
New to MIA: Art from Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Art
3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964–1980, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue)
Hairy Who? 1966–1969, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)

2017

Famous Artists from Chicago: 1965–1975, Fondazione Prada, Milan (catalogue)
Kings & Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL

2015

Interfaces: Outsider Art and the Mainstream, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Return of the Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)

2014

What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art 1960 to the Present, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence. Traveled to Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2013

Art in the Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Stockholm

2012

Of, To, And From Ray Yoshida, Gallery 13, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia
Face Forward: The Art of the Self Portrait, Printworks Gallery, Chicago

2011

Re: Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (catalogue)
Chicago Imagists at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI (catalogue)

2010

Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and His Spheres of Influence, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2008

Art and Politics in Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

2006

Drawn Into the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2005

Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (catalogue)

2004

That 70s Show, The Center for Visual and Performing Art, Munster, IN

2002

Made in Chicago circa 1970, Adam Baumgold Fine Arts, New York

2001

Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago

2000

Chicago Loop: Imagist Art 1949–1979, Whitney Museum of American Art Fairfield County, Stamford, CT

1999

Jumpin’ Backflash: Original Imagist Artwork, 1966–1969, Chicago Cultural Center. Traveled to The Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster

1997

Thirty Hairy, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
Don Baum says: Chicago Has Famous Artists, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

1996

Art in Chicago: 1945–1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)
Women and Chicago Imagism, Rockford Art Museum, IL. Traveled to Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)
1968, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935–1995, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1994

Garden of Earthly Delights, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
Chicago Imagism: A 25 Year Survey, Davenport Museum of Art, IA

1993

Imagery, Incongruous Juxtapositions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

1992

From America’s Studio: Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)

1991

Distorted Figuration, Evanston Art Center, IL

1990

The Mary Jean Thomson Collection, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Portraits of a Kind, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

1989

Birthday Cake: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

1987

Chicago Imagist Print, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Drawings of the Chicago Imagists, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

1983

Nilsson, Nutt, Paschke, Rocca, Wirsum, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva (catalogue)
Contemporary Chicago Imagists, Merwin and Wakely Gallery, School of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington

1982

Chicago on Paper, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
From Chicago, Pace Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Hot Chicago, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1980

Who Chicago? An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists, Camden Arts Centre, London. Traveled to Sunderland Arts Centre, United Kingdom; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; The National Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, United Kingdom; Ulster Museum, Belfast, United Kingdom; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans (catalogue)
Some Recent Art from Chicago, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (catalogue)

1976

Visions: Painting and Sculpture, Distinguished Alumni 1945 to the Present, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1972

Chicago Imagist Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Traveled to New York Cultural Center
What They’re Up to in Chicago, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (catalogue)

1971

Chicago Antigua, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

1970

Marriage Chicago Style, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Surplus Slop from the Windy City, San Francisco Art Institute. Traveled to Sacramento State College Art Gallery

1969

Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Don Baum Sez: “Chicago Needs Famous Artists”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Hairy Who, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DuPont Center, Washington, DC (catalogue)
Part 2. Drawings by the Hairy Who, School of Visual Arts, New York

1968

Hairy Who III, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (catalogue)
Seventy-First Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
Hairy Who, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute

1967

Chicago and Vicinity 70th Annual, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
Hairy Who II, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (catalogue)

1966

Hairy Who, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (catalogue)

1965

Chicago and Vicinity 68th Annual, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)