EDUCATION

2000-2002 MFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1998-2000 BFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1996-1998 Two years of BFA, Painting/Drawing/Printmaking, School of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade

1991-1995 Visual Communication, Belgrade High School of Design

SOLO EXHIBITION

2020        Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, Berea, KY

2019          Barbara A. Kieft Accelerator ArtSpace, Elmhurst, IL

2018          Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

2012          Elon West Gallery, Elon University, Elon, NC

2012          621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Fl

2011           Porter Butts Gallery, Union Galleries, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 

2011           Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA

2010          Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR 

2009         University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI

2003         Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITION

2020         Evanston Art Center, Evanstan, IL

2020    Membranes of Perceptions, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL

2014           Renaissance, Re-visited, The South Side Community Art Center, Chicago IL

2011            22nd Drawing Show, Residue, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA

2011            Gadis Geeslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

2009         Trace/Memory, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

2008          Wall-to-Wall, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY

2007          7th Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Connie Butler, Chief Curator of Prints & Drawings, MoMA

2005          Drawn to Drawing, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003          SOFA Chicago 2003, Chicago, IL

2002          Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

2002          New Talent 2, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

2002          MFA Show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2002          1+1+1=1, Open End Art, Chicago, IL

2000          Spectrum of Solutions, A.T. Kearney, Chicago, IL

2000          Purveyors of Fine Art, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL

2000          New Talent I, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

TALKS AND WORKSHOPS

2023 Physics Fundamentals, Conversation on Excellence with Jim Gates, Brown University, RI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WMbbEu3G2o

2023 Lecture and Workshop, STEM Education Institute at UMass Amherst, MA

2023/24      Invited Artist Lecturer in Roberto Zenit’s ENGN 1350: Art Fluid Engineering Class, Brown University, RI

2023           Multiple workshop at the 2023 APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics, (CUWiP), Brown University, RI

2022           Chicago Art Collective of Iranian artists and scholars, IL

2020           Evanston Art Center, IL

2020           Membranes of Perceptions, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL

2019           Elmhurst College, IL

2018           Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

2017           SAIC, Contemporary Practices

2012          Elon University, Elon, NC

2010          Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR

2008            Self-portrait Through the Activity of Drawing, Harold Washington College, Chicago

2008            Visiting Artist Talk and Workshop, Harold Washington College, Chicago

2000          Contemporary Art, Student Cultural Center, Belgrade

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

2012            Book of Marks, Jelena Berenc

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Marks-Jelena-Berenc/dp/1367969476/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506524787&sr=8-1&keywords=jelena+berenc+book+of+marks

2007           Art in America, June/July 2007, "Girls, Girls, Girls," by Carey Lovelace, pgs. 87 - 94

2003           Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction, by James Elkins, Publisher: Routledge NY

2002           Quarter After Eight, A Journal of Prose and Commentary, Volume 9, Publisher: Ingram Periodicals, Inc., La Vergne, TN

2003            SOFA Chicago 2003, The Tenth Annual International, Exposition of Sculpture Object & Functional Art Published by Expressions of Culture, Inc., Chicago, IL

AWARDS

2020 3Arts Grant

2015            Outstanding Adjunct Award, Harold Washington College

2002            Gelman Graduate Fellowship, for the best painter        

2002            School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fellowship

2000            School of the Art Institute of Chicago Honorable Mention

1998             Zepter Scholarship

1997             Vera Lubarda Award

1997             Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts Award for the Best Drawing