Bio + CV
Scott Fortino developed his approach to photography out of experiences directly related to his position as a Chicago police officer. This work led to the publication of his monograph, Institutional, which depicted seemingly impersonal architectural spaces while revealing the embedded evidence of personal use. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BA from Columbia College Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and numerous public and private collections. He lives and works in Chicago. Education + Experience Columbia College Chicago, BA received 1980 University of Illinois at Chicago, MFA received 2001 Chicago Police Officer, 1980 – 2011 Selected Exhibitions Mies’s McCormick House Revealed: New Views, Elmhurst Art Museum, 2018 Chicago Architecture Biennial ‘a love of the world’ curated by Jesus Vassallo, 2017 Summer Show, Document Gallery, Chicago, 2017 re:collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2017 Gilded Forest: The Holiday Show, Kasher Potamkin, New York City, 2014 City Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2014 A Variety Show, Document Gallery, Chicago, 2013 (solo) Lakeshore, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, 2013 (solo) Unfurl, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, 2012 (solo) Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Il. 2010 Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe, Il 2010 Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, 2010 Elements: Earth Sky Water, City Gallery, Chicago, 2009 (solo) Place and Presence, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Il. 2009 Trendbeheer Presents, Rotterdam Hofplein, Rotterdam, Nl. 2009 Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, 12 X 12, Chicago, 2007 (solo) Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2002 (solo) Commissioned Photography Chicago Architectural Biennial, 2017 Chicago Four Seasons, 2016 McCormick Place West, 2008 City 2000 Project, 2000 Chicago Park Hyatt, 1999 Collections Art Institute of Chicago Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston Ma. Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Midwest Photographers Project Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL Bank of America (LaSalle Bank Collection), Chicago Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wi. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Ma. Chicago Four Seasons Cleveland Clinic University of Illinois at Chicago Comer Archive Private collections nationwide Publications Starting Again, Poems, Finishing Line Press, Brian Satrom, 2020 Putting Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century, Columbia College Chicago Press ed, Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond, 2012 Blueprint for Disaster: The Unravelling of Chicago Public Housing, D. Bradford Hunt, University of Chicago Press, 2009 (selection from “Doors of Cabrini”), 2010 Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region, Center for American Places, 2006 Institutional, Center for American Places and Columbia College Chicago, 2005 (monograph) |
