American, born 1965
Lives and works in Chicago
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
“Suspension of Disbelief: New Abstractions by Margaret Welsh,” Engage Projects, Chicago, IL, May 2024 (Artforum Must See)
“CENTERED: Jean Alexander Frater and Margaret Welsh,” Engage Projects, Chicago, IL, January 2023 (Artforum Must See)
“Room 715: A NADA Intervention by James Schenck and Margaret Welsh,” Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, September 2019
“Was I Not That?” CASSTL, Antwerp, May 2019
"Geiger/Welsh," DOCUMENT, Chicago, January 2015
"The Millennium," P.P.O.W., NYC, October 1998
"The Millennium," Chicago Project Room, Chicago, September 1998
"Pure Moods," Chicago Project Room, Chicago, September 1997
Group Exhibitions
“Ikigai: A Journey of Purpose,” Engage Projects, Chicago, IL, November 2024
“That the Goddess Does Not Gaze Upwards, but Downwards to Her Friends,” curated by André Butzer, Secci Gallery, Florence, Italy,
March 2024
“In Dialogue,” Governors State University, University Park, IL, February 2020
“Terra Nova,” Nova Art Center, Antwerp, Belgium, November 2019
“eXpanded: Chicago," Mana Contemporary, Chicago, March 2017
“Dialogue Chicago: 12," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 2016
“Parallel Vienna," Alte Post Dominikanerbastei, Vienna, 2015
“Soft Architecture: Christoph Meier, Nicola Pecoraro, Marcus Geiger, Margaret Welsh, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung," Galerie Charim
Project Space, Vienna, 2015
“The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by Sixty Women Artists," DC Moore Gallery, NYC, 2000
“Synaesthesia: Encounters with the Senses," Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 2000
“Liste 99, The Young Art Fair in Basel," Basel, 1999
“Wall Work," White Columns, NYC, 1998
“Sculpture in Chicago: The Next Generation," Gallery 400, Chicago, 1998
“No-Budget Films," 57 Hope, Brooklyn 1998
"The Harry Carey Show," Diverse Works, Houston, 1998
"Installation View," EXPO Chicago, 1997
"Renee Dryg/Rebecca Morris/Margaret Welsh," Ten In One Gallery, Chicago, 1995
"12th Benefit Art Auction and Exhibition," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1995
"Ben-Zeev, Hall, Norton, Welsh," NAME Gallery, Chicago, 1995
Press
Grace Glueck, "The Likeness of Being," The New York Times, 21 January 2000
Carol Diehl, "The Likeness of Being," Art News, April 2000
Rachel Youens, "The Likeness of Being," NY Arts Magazine, January 2000
Robin Cembalest, "The Woman in the Mirror," Elle Magazine, January 2000
Jane Harris, "Margaret Welsh at P.P.O.W.," Art in America, March 1999, page 116
Walter Robinson, "New Art in Basel," Artnet, 21 July 1999
John Peter Nilsson, "People Get Real," Siksi: The Nordic Art Review, Autumn/Winter 1998, pages 10–11
Roberta Smith, "Wall Work," The New York Times, 12 June 1998, page B33
Karl Erickson, "Margaret Welsh: Chicago Project Room," Flash Art, March–April 1998, page 115
Fred Camper, "Unknown Pleasures: Margaret Welsh at CPR," Chicago Reader, 24 October 1998
Michael Muster, "Ben-Zeev, Hall, Norton, Welsh: NAME Gallery," New Art Examiner, February 1995, page 40
Education
MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1994
BA, English Literature, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1987