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BODY OF WORK: The Excavating History Collective in Residence at the International Museum of Surgical Science, ongoing residency + exhibit, conceived by Rebecca Keller, curated by Lindsey Thieman + Jack Whalen
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Harvest (exhibit tour focused on plants in medicine), Sunday, November 20, 2-4pm
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Reading Circle: Texts from the Exhibit & Excavating History Book Preview: Thursday, December 8, 5-7pm
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Closing Reception + Excavating History Book Release: Saturday, January 14, 2012, 6-9pm

Panelist, Creatives At Work Forum: What Makes a Beautiful (and Marketable) Book?, with James Goggin, Museum of Contemporary Art, + Ellen Gibson, University of Chicago Press, moderated by Danielle Chapman, Director of Publishing Industry Programs, Chicago Office of Tourism + Culture, Thursday, December 1, 2011 6pm

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Annie Heckman, Eden Boy ate the sun, 2011
Annie Heckman, Eden Boy ate the sun, 2011
drawing, collage, and gouache on Yupo
14 x 11 inches
private collection

+ recent press
Exhibit + residency for the creation of Open, an animation based in research on trephination, featured by Lauren Weinberg in Time Out Chicago: "International Museum of Surgical Science hosts the Excavating History Collective Rebecca Keller, Annie Heckman and ten other artists respond to the IMSS in 'Body of Work.'"

You thought that you were alone but I caught your bullet just in time
featured by Jason Foumberg in Newcity Art and Julia Thiel in the Chicago Reader

Installation work featured alongside Elise Goldstein's projects in a series by Stephanie Cristello in Chicago Art Magazine, "On the Reconstitution of Installation Art: Hibernation vs. Exhibition (Part I)" + "Reincarnation and the Issue of Immersion (Part II)"

+ recent exhibits:
Digital Revolution, curated by Darrell Roberts + Arno Mayorga, 2ND FLR Gallery, Chicago, IL (Opens Friday, October 14, 6-10pm)

Physiotasmagorical, curated by Susan Sensemann, Evanston Art Center (Winter 2011)

A short dream about trains and prairies, from before you moved south
, featured in Briefly on View, curated by Zeina Assaf, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY (Fall 2010)