Ann Wiens is an artist, writer, and editor who has maintained a strong presence in the Chicago art world for the past 15 years. She served as East Coast editor, then editor-in-chief for the national contemporary art magazine New Art Examiner from 1991 to 1998. She is currently Director of College Communications at Columbia College Chicago, where she established and edits the college magazine, Demo.
Wiens is a regular contributor to Chicago Magazine and The Chicago Collection, was formerly the art critic for New City, and has written for CS, the Chicago Reader, Art and Antiques, dialog, Lake, and other periodicals. She has written numerous catalogue essays, co-edited the book The Artist in Society: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities (with Dr. Carol Becker), and in 2004 wrote a monograph on artist Darrel Morris.
A painter, Wiens is represented in Chicago by Byron Roche Gallery. Her most recent solo exhibition, Exotic Natives, was shown at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA and Byron Roche Gallery in Chicago in 2004-2005. Her public commissions may be seen in the Mount Greenwood branch library in Chicago, the Chicago Center for Green Technology, and the Exelon Visitors Center at Millennium Park.
Wiens holds a B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Ann is generally available to meet students on Thursday from 4-6pm
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