Marisol Cervantes

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Title: Instructor
Division: Studio Arts
Office Location: AB 414E
Email: mcervantes4@niu.edu

Educational Background

  • M.F.A., Northern Illinois University
  • B.S., Art, Northern Illinois University

Emphases

  • Painting and Drawing

Courses Taught

  • ART 102, 2-D Foundations
  • ART 100, Drawing Foundations 1
  • ART 101, Drawing Foundations 2
  • ARTS 321, Waterbased Painting
  • ARTS 323, Beginning Painting    

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

  • “Pressing on a Bruise”, crosswalk, Chicago, IL   
  • “milk teeth”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL   
  • “Fleeting”, Back Space Gallery, DeKalb, IL   
  • “Comfortably Uncomfortable”, Annette and Jerry Johns Student Art Gallery, DeKalb IL   

Group Shows

  • “Conversations in Abstraction”, Madron Gallery, Chicago, IL   
  • “27th Evanston Biennial + Vicinity”, Evanston, IL   
  • “Rainbow in Limbo”, Wege Gallery, Fairfield, IA   
  • “Microcosm”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL   
  • “Held Together: Fragility & Endurance in Art”, Visionary Art Collective   
  • “Faculty Biennial”, Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles, IL   
  • “Abstract Competition”, Ten Moir Gallery, Online Gallery   
  • “2025 Spring Exhibition Catalog”, I Like Your Work Podcast   
  • “Orange Peels”, Fargo, DeKalb, IL   
  • “High Strangeness”, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL   
  • “Faculty Biennial”, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL   
  • “Window Shopping”, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL   
  • “69 For 69 Love Songs”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL   
  • “7th Midwest”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL   
  • “Faculty Art Show”, Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles, IL   
  • “Inner Orbits”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL   
  • “Voices of the Midwest”, Fine Line Arts Center, St. Charles, IL   
  • 15th “Abstracts”, Light Space & Time Online Gallery   
  • “Window Shopping”, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL   
  • “6th Annual Juried Womens Artist”, Online Exhibition Fusion Art LLC   
  • “Terrain Biennial”, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL   
  • “Home Not Home”, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, IL   
  • “Silent Auction”, Back Space Gallery, DeKalb, IL   
  • “Abstracted Abstractions”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL   
  • “Women in Art”, Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA   
  • “Year 10”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL   
  • “Embracing Texture”, Norris Cultural Arts Center, St Charles, IL   
  • “Diverse Expressions”, Fine Line Arts Center, St Charles, IL   
  • “Esperanza”, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL   
  • “Annual Juried Blick Art Materials Ars Nova”, Jack Olson Gallery, Dekalb, IL   
  • “Silent Auction”, Back Space Gallery, DeKalb, IL   
  • “Epilogue”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL   
  • “Tiny Show”, Gallery 4224, DeKalb, IL   
  • “The Long Red Line”, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL   
  • “Entanglements”, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL   
  • “Prologue”, 4th Street Gallery, DeKalb, IL   
  • “32 Intentions”, 4th Street Gallery, DeKalb, IL   

Awards

  • Best of Show, “Year 10”, Side Street Studios, Elgin, IL   
  • Best of Show, “The Long Red Line” Juried Art Exhibit, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL   
  • 2nd Place, “7th Midwest Open” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL  

Selected Works

 

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