Gail Skudera

Gail Skudera has exhibited her mixed media work in Chicago, the Midwest and Northeast frequently beginning in 1980. She has had over a dozen solo shows in the Chicago area at institutions including Columbia College, Northern Illinois University, ARC Gallery and Sybil Larney Gallery, and in the Northeast at institutions including SUNY Fredonia and Cazenovia College.

Selected group exhibitions include: Confronting Cancer Through Art, University of Pennsylvania, Memory and Mourning: Shared Cultural Experiences, University at Albany, Morir Sonando at 76 Varick in New York, and Body Parts, Albany Institute of History and Art. Additional venues include: State Museum of Pennsylvania, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Everson Museum (NY), Munson-Williams Proctor Institute (NY), Holland Tunnel Project (Brooklyn), Lancaster Museum of Art, and at universities including Auburn, Skidmore, Tennessee, Northern Illinois, Kansas State, Maine at Farmington, and SUNY at Brockport, Oswego and Potsdam.

Skudera has been the recipient of a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant, a Roster artist for the Arts-in-Education Residency Program, Illinois Arts Council, and a Robert M. McNamara Foundation Residency Award, Westport Island (ME). She is a founding member and manager of Out of the Blue Gallery, an artist-run gallery in Lewisburg.

Her work is in collections including Baird & Warner Corporation in Chicago, Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam, NY, Illinois State Museum in Springfield, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Skudera received a BFA and MFA from Northern Illinois University.