Nancy Lu Rosenheim
Chicago, IL
Visual Art
Nancy Lu Rosenheim is an interdisciplinary artist whose narratives examine the exquisite yet sinister constituents of the natural world. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, NewCity, Comp Magazine, Chicago Portraits and ArtSlant. She divides her time between Chicago, IL and Steuben, WI. Selected solo and group shows include Hyde Park Art Center and Slow Gallery, Chicago, IL, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska, Koehnline Museum, IL, Nancy Hoffman Gallery and PS1 of the Institute of Contemporary Art, N.Y, Galerías Cartel and Verlín, Granada, Spain and the Singer Sweat Shop in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Rosenheim has held residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, IL, the Atelier Neo-Medici in Monflanquin, France, and is an alumna of the Center Program at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Rosenheim was founding director and curator of The Bike Room, a contemporary project space in Chicago, where she showcased over fifty emerging and established artists between 2011-2016. Subsequently, she continued to curate in popup fashion, under the guise of TBR@.
Rosenheim is adjunct faculty at Northeastern Illinois University and College of Lake County, IL. She was associate professor at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago until the school closed its doors in 2018. Rosenheim’s Social Justice projects included extensive workshops in mural painting and public art for the Shanti Foundation for Peace and other nonprofit organizations in Chicago. Rosenheim holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY.