Ed Hinkley

For over 35 years my work has been included in one person, group, juried or invitational exhibitions, in galleries and museums mostly throughout Chicago and the Midwest. Since 1994, I’ve maintained an ongoing series of drawing and painting classes out of my studio, as well as teaching for several Chicago institutions, in Ireland, and since 2010, an annual workshop at Higham Hall College in England’s Lake District.

I’ve always approached my work as a kind of investigation driven by curiosity or concern, filtered through the haze of memory, historical event and the weight of cultural production.

This has not meant always working along a prescribed path-my interest has never been to produce a “line” of anything-but instead remain open to the possibilities of materials, nuance, and chance, that often result in a very limited but complete body of work.

My technique is an evolving one starting with notes and rough sketches that lead to works executed in a variety of media on either paper or canvas. In most works, there is an overlapping process that allows bits and pieces of previous layers to show through and almost randomly lead to the formation of a finished painting.

My work is in private, public and corporate collections...

City College of Chicago
University of Chicago

2017 Chornobyl: 30 Years later NY,
2016 Chornobyl: 30 Years Later, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
2016 Drawings for Totems, Monuments and Sculpture, Floyd VA
2011 40/40, 40th Retrospective, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
2011 Ed Hinkley, Eric Jensen, Laurie Shaman, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
2009 Trace Memory, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2008 Landscape and Memory, College of Lake County, Grays Lake, IL
2007 Body and Soul, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
2006 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center, Ragdale Foundation, Chicago, IL
2004 Rockford Midwestern Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (Honorable Mention)
2003 Figures in Landscapes, Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago, IL
2002 Figures in Landscapes, Gallery 1756, Chicago, IL
2001 Significant Signifiers, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2001 About Face 2000: A Year of Self-Portraits for the New Millenium, Gallery 1756, Chicago, IL
2001 Beyond Postcards, 1990-2000, Gallery 1756, Chicago, IL
1999 “Ulysses,” Mixed Media illustration of Joyce’s book. University of Chicago, IL Faculty Exhibition, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 62nd Annual Mid-Year Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Ar...