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Curriculum Vitae





EDUCATION
  • Master of Fine Arts: University of Illinois at Chicago,

 

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts: Massachusetts College of Art,


TEACHING


  • Adjunct Professor: Intro to Sculpture and Ceramics

  Dominican University, River Forest IL,



  • Visual Arts Instructor: Wearable Sculpture and 3-D

Material Studies.  Chicago High School for the Arts,


  • Adjunct Professor: Intro to Design & Drawing 1

Harper Community College,

Palatine, IL. 



  • Graduate Assistant Professor: Studio Arts, Art and

Design, University of Illinois at Chicago



ART PROGRAM DIRECTOR

  • Rainbo Club:  Chicago, IL. 2006 to 2018


  • Lula Café: Chicago, IL. 2018 to present



EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES


2023
  • Fall in the Leaves (solo exhibition)

Regards, Chicago, IL


2020

  • Singles

- Melina Ausikaitis and Pope L Regards, Chicago, IL

Intimacies and Influence (group exhibition)

Open House Contemporary, Chicago IL


2019

  • EVERYDAY EVERYDAY (solo exhibition)

Devening Projects Chicago, IL



  • Diane Simpson: Architecture in Motion with

Every house has a door  (performer)

Graham Foundation Chicago, IL



  • Melina Ausikaitis for Regards (solo performance)

New Art Dealers Alliance Governor’s Island, NY



  • Rocked & Rolled (group exhibition)

Illinois State Museum Lockport, IL


2018

  • Record Release of Joan of Arc’s 1984 album Songs of

Melina Ausikaitis Joyful Noise Records

Chicago Athletic Association Chicago, IL


Dymaxion Trajectories (group exhibition)

Soccer Club Club Chicago, IL


2017

  • Melina Ausikaitis for Regards

Chicago: Expanded: Mana Contemporary Chicago, IL


  • Long Distance Dedication: The Fall of Asclepius 4581

(solo exhibition)

Regards, Chicago, IL


  • 10X10

Homeroom Chicago, Experimental Sound Studio,

and Spudnik Press

(performer, artist)

Chicago, IL


  • Joan of Arc presents: “Joan of Arc”

Chicago band Joan of Arc perform their original

score to the silent film

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Art Institute of Chicago


2016

  • Reducing the Tempo to Zero: LAMPO

Ben Vida: long-form composition for four vocalists

and electronics (performer)

Graham Foundation Chicago, IL


2015


  • Aitis Music Cassette Release

Empty Bottle Chicago, IL


  • Melina Ausikaitis for Judith Kirchner

(solo performance)

Regards Chicago, IL


  • Melina Ausikaitis  (solo performance)

Comfort Station Chicago, IL


  • MCA Live: William Pope. L, Cage Unrequited

(performer)

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago


  • Monday Me  (group exhibition)

Soccer Club Club Chicago, IL


  • Notes on Empty Chairs (part 2) - Kirsten Leenars

(performer)

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago



  • Yes Remixed (solo performance)

Threewalls Gallery Chicago, IL


  • Direct Object/Direct Action – Acre TV

(solo performance)

Threewalls Gallery Chicago, IL


2014


  • Threesome

Trio Performance

Constellation Chicago, IL



  • ThesearePeople: HubbardStreetPerformance

            (dancer, vocalist)

UIC Pavilion Chicago, IL



  • Words and Body: Body and Music: Music and Words

            (performer)

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL



2013


  • Helter Skelter w ith Joan of Arc (performance)

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL



  • For the Wandered: Hubbard Street Performance 

        (art director)

New Works Festival

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL


2012


  • 24 Hrs/25 Days (performance)

New Capital Projects Chicago, IL


  • Melina Ausikaitis (solo exhibition)

Julius Caesar Gallery Chicago, IL



2009


  • We’re Rollin’, They’re Hatin’  (group exhibition)

Version-Fest Chicago, IL


2006


  • The Very Young (group exhibition)

Art Forum Ute Barth Zurich, Switzerland


2005


  • The Illinois Committee for the National Museum of

Women in the Arts (group exhibition)

Gage Gallery Chicago, IL


2004


  • Utopias (group exhibition)

Heaven Gallery Chicago, IL


  • 3 Coasts Textile Show  (group exhibition)

Hotcakes Gallery Milwaukee, WI


2003



  • When Darkness Falls (group exhibition)

Gallery 400 Chicago, IL Midway Gallery Milwaukee, WI



  • Don't Fail Me Now (group exhibition)

TBA Exhibition Space Chicago, IL



  • Doom, Counter Doom (group exhibition)

Bucket Rider Gallery Chicago, IL.



  • The Stray Show (group exhibition)

Bucket Rider Gallery Chicago, IL


2002

  • The Way Out is the Way  (group exhibition)

Bucket Rider Gallery Chicago, IL



  • Division Street (group exhibition)

Open End Gallery Chicago, IL


2001

  • Whippersnapper III (group exhibition)

Vedanta Gallery Chicago, IL



  • Hoof and Mouth (group exhibition)

Can Gallery Chicago, IL



  • Instant Happiness (group exhibition)

Can Gallery Chicago, IL


ROCK BANDS



Joan of Arc Band  2010 to 2019

 

Aitis Band  2019 to present