Claire Burke Dain CV
Experience
2025 Adjunct Professor of Painting, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023-2024 Painting Teacher, After School Matters, Chicago, IL
2022-2023 Set Designer, The Annoyance Theatre, Chicago, IL
2020-2022 Curator, The Laundromat, Queens, New York
2020-2021 Props Painter, The Specialists, Queens, New York
2019-2020 Artist Assistant, Margot Bergman, Highland Park, IL
2017 Section Leader, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
2016 Intern, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2015 Artist Assistant, Steve Whitacre, Kansas City, MO
Solo / Two Person Exhibitions
2025 Drifting Back To Dreamland, Compound Yellow, Oak Park IL
2023 Fondage, Purple Window, Chicago, IL
2019 Masking, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
2018 Equal Parts, Rubberneck Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Do You Love Me Now?, Rubberneck Gallery,
Group Exhibitions
2024 Horizon Line, Jude Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Picture Day, Purple Window, Chicago, IL
2022 Arch, Podlasie Club, Chicago, IL
2021 Single Drunk Female, Compound Yellow, Chicago, IL
2020 Home Away, Purple Window, Chicago, IL
2019 Stiffs and Studs, Archer Ballroom, Chicago, IL
2018 GIFC KANSAS CITY, The Drugstore, Kansas City, MO
2018 Impromptu, Rubberneck Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Innocence and Despair, Archer Ballroom, Chicago, IL
2017 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Dodge Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2016 Disegno Traveling Drawing Exhibition, MICA, RISD, MCAD, KCAI
Awards & Scholarships
2025 Art-Collide Third Place Painting Competition, New York, NY
2025 UIC Image Research Award, Chicago, IL
2017 Thomas Hart Benton Senior Painting Award/Scholarship, Kansas City, MO
2016 Yale Norfolk Summer Program Nominee, New Haven, CT
Education
2026 MFA Candidate, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO