BIO & C.V.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo and Two-Person
Naturally, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL, 2022
What Used to be Right Now, Governor’s State University, Chicago, IL, 2019
Confluence, Judith Roston Freilich and Casey Sills, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2019
Release, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2018
Absence and Intuition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2016
Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Drawings and Textiles, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2015
Installation and Paintings, Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe, IL, 2005
New Works on Paper, Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe, IL , 1999, 2002
Judith Roston Freilich, The Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, 1997
Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL, 1973
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1974
Online Exhibits
Sculptures Online Exhibit: Flux: Vita Mutata (Life is changed, not taken away)
Curator: Natsuki Takauji, Virtual Exhibition: November 15 - December 30, 2020
Studio Stories 2020, hosted by Kol HaOt, Curator: Liliach Shrag, Individual interviews with artists about their life and their work
76th Rockford Midwestern Biennial Audio Clips, Rockford Art Museum, 2020-2021 Rockford Biennial artists discuss their work
Climate Change: Tipping Into Chaos, produced video in conjunction with SkyDayProject2020 and Space 900 Gallery, Evanston, IL
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild 2024 Spring Online Exhibition, Life Cycles IV Awarded First Place
Selected Group
Dialogue: OUT LOUD, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 2024
Climate Change: Tipping Into Chaos, Prairie State College, Chicago, IL, 2024
Agency, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL, 2024
Conglomeration, Governors State University, Chicago, IL, 2022
The Invisible Costs of War, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2022
Nature vs. Nurture, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL, 2022
Essence of Nature, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2022
Bloom, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2021
2021 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2021
Climate Change:Tipping Into Chaos, Online, Sky Day Project, 2020, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2020
76th Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 2020
Online Spring Gallery Show, Textile Study Group of New York, 2020
Consciousness of Abstraction, Beyond Literal Appearance, Juror Award, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2020
Threads of Truth, Social Impact and Fiber Arts, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2020
In Dialogue, Governors State University, Chicago, IL, 2020
It’s a Small Show After All, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL 2019
22nd International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2019
Passion and Process, Space 900 Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2019
Space 900 Preview Opening, Evanston, IL, 2018
75th Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 2018
Unpresidented: Art in Common Cause, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2017
Unpresidented: Chicago Edition, presented by Art In Common Cause, Hubbard Street Lofts, Chicago, 2017
Light and Dark Exhibition, Space 900 Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2016
Dialogue Chicago: Full Force, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2016
Wall to Wall, ArtSpace 1550, Chicago, IL, 2015
Between Red and Blue, Space 900, Evanston, IL 2015
Taking Chances: No/Yes, Dialogue Chicago, Curator, Sarah Krepp, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL
Then and Now, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2014
The Green Show, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2014
The Grand Opening, Space 900, Evanston, IL, 2013
33rd Bradley International Print and Drawing Show, Peoria, IL 2011
20th Evanston & Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2010
Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe, IL 1999-2011
New Noyes, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, Sarah Krepp, curator, 2010
Prints & Drawings: Works on Paper, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN 2009
Kaller Fine Arts, Washington DC 2009
More Noyes, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, Sarah Krepp, curator, 2007
Chicago Art Open, Chicago Artiists Coalition, Chicago, IL 2007
Three Arts Club Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999
Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998
Chicago and Vicinity Show, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH 1974
New Horizons Show, North Shore Art League, Chicago, IL
The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH
The Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
Barat College, Lake Forest, IL
New Bag, Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1973
MS in Graphics, Chicago, IL, 1973
Permanent Collections
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Panel Discussions
Abstract Art and It’s Relevance in Chicago Today, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, 2018
Juror
New Trier High School Advanced Placement Show, Winnetka, IL
57th Street Art Fair, Hyde Park, IL
North Shore Art League, Winnetka, IL
Publications
Certificate of Merit Award, Judith Roston Freilich, Release, Art Books Category, Great Lakes Graphics Association, 2019
Judith Roston Freilich, Release, Book Publication, 2018
The Chicago Art Scene, edited by Ivy Sundell, Crow Woods Publishing, 1998
Soft Sculpture and Other Soft Art Forms, edited by Dona Z. Meilach, Crow Publishers, NY, 1974
Hey Mort, They’re Forming Groups Again, Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, 1973
Education
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Merit Scholarship Award
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking under Misch Kohn
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Related Work Experience
How does working in Visual Arts connect to Judaism? High School Student Workshop, Glencoe, Illinois
The Creative Process, Women's Retreat Workshop, Lake Geneva, WI
Landfall Press, Curator and Printer's Assistant, Chicago, IL
The Art Center, Drawing Instructor, Highland Park, IL
High School Arts Retreat, Visual Arts Coordinator, Woodstock, IL
Columbus School for Girls, Visual Arts Instructor, Columbus, OH
Crow Island School Arts Workshop, Visual Arts Coordinator, Winnetka, IL
New Trier High School Jazz Festival, Volunteer Coordinator, Winnetka, IL
About
Judith Roston Freilich’s works on paper and textiles were inspired at a young age by a family that encouraged creativity and by the cycle of the seasons and living things. Her family’s home was filled with passion for horticulture, fine fabrics, baking, and cooking. There was always something to learn and explore. These early passions are reflected in her work.
A Chicago native, Roston Freilich has worked and shown in Chicago for over forty five years. She has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown nationally. Her work has been selected for the Rockford Midwestern Biennial at the Rockford Art Museum, the Evanston and Vicinity Biennial at the Evanston Art Center, and the Bradley International Print and Drawing Show. She is in multiple publications and permanent collections including, the Library of Congress and Ukranian Institute of Modern Art. She was invited to exhibit online in The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 2024 Spring Exhibition, receiving the First Place Award. Roston Freilich is currently a member of Dialogue Chicago’s artists’ discussions and Space 900, a cooperative gallery where she shows frequently.
Roston Freilich has always advocated integrating the arts into everyday life, bringing art into classrooms, and blending visual arts and music. She made music with her husband and four children as they grew up. She and her husband toured Europe and China with the New Trier High School Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra, watching young people play the national anthem around the globe. For many years, she organized one hundred volunteers for the New Trier Jazz Festival which hosted high school musicians state wide. Roston Freilich has brought visual arts to Suzuki festivals and arts retreats for high school students, helping them integrate their passion for visual arts into their lives.
Roston Freilich earned a BFA and merit-based scholarship award from Washington University in St. Louis. While working at Landfall Press as a printing assistant and curator, she earned a graduate degree in printmaking with Misch Kohn from the Illinois Institute of Technology.