Ellen Harvey
Artist
- Role
- Exhibition the Disappointed Tourist at Chicago Architecture Center
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ellen Harvey
Artist working in Brooklyn. Instagram: Ellen Harvey Studio. Artist website:…
Experience
Exhibition the Disappointed Tourist
Sep 2025 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
The Chicago Archicture Center (CAC) announces a new exhibition,\"The Disappointed Tourist\", comprising 316 paintings of beloved locations that no longer exist, by artist Ellen Harvey. The subjects immortalized in the paintings were supplied by members of the public who sent them to the artist in response to the question, “Is there a place that you would like to visit or revisit which no longer exists?” This Spring, Harvey invited the public to submit Chicago places they miss the most. More than a dozen new Chicago-specific works were commissioned for the exhibition, including: Mecca Flats apartment building and Gerri’s Palm Tavern in Bronzeville; the Bertrand Goldberg-designed Prentice Women’s Hospital in Streeterville; the Kungsholm Miniature Grand Opera in River North; The Arcade in Pullman; Zum Deutschen Eck restaurant and Berlin nightclub in Lakeview; the Chicago Federal Building, the Tacoma Building and Burnham and Root’s Masonic Temple downtown; Chicago Stadium on the Near West Side; the Olson Waterfall in Avondale; and The White City in Hyde Park. Each piece includes the name of the site and the date of the site’s destruction.For a deeper story, visitors can access the personal accounts behind each painting, or step into booths to hear stories that inspired Harvey’s work — both from those who submitted their long-lost favorite places, and from Harvey herself. At the exhibition, guests can also contribute to the tapestry of beloved spaces that have disappeared by recording their own stories, writing or sketching on a postcard of a place they would love to visit that no longer exists.The Disappointed Tourist has traveled to Turner Contemporary (UK, 2021), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Austria, 2021), LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art (Poland, 2023), Butler Gallery (Ireland, 2023), Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum (Glassboro, NJ, 2024), The Dorset Pavilion (Venice, 2024) and The Dorset Pavilion at the Bridport Arts Center U.K,(2025)
Education
The Berlin University of the Arts
None
1990 — 1990
Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts - BA
1985 — 1989
Yale Law School
Doctor of Law - JD
1990 — 1993
Whitney Independent Studio Program
N/A
1999 — 2000
Skills
- Museums
- Visual Arts
- Mixed Media
- Fine Art
- Painting
- Curating
- Oil Painting
- Drawing
- Photography
- Art History
- Art Education
- Art
- Sculpture
- Film
- Public Art
- Contemporary Art
- Galleries
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