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b. 1984, United States Marilyn Volkman is a Chicago-based artist working with art as a strategy for reconfiguring our use of language, images and objects.  Her work takes on diverse forms including paintings, object arrangements, social interactions and quasi-documentary video projects often developed in collaboration with specific groups, collective communities and organizations.  Volkman’s work inhabits familiar structures both institutional and non-institutional in nature.  Her recent projects have taken place in a Commercial Marketing Firm in downtown Chicago, at Art Chicago’s NEXT talk shop, on the U.S. Army’s Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona and on the NATO Allied Joint Force Command Headquarters in Brunssum, Netherlands and Heidelberg, Germany.   Marilyn received her MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Chicago in 2009 and her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona in 2007.  Recent solo exhibitions include “Untitled (Marketing Installation)” at Reception Gallery Project Space in 2010 and “Holding A Time Like This And Other Voiding Bodies” at DOVA Temporary in 2009.  Screenings include “Band of Outsiders” in New York in 2011, “Cabela’s” at Random House Origins in 2010, “UNIFORM” at the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center in 2009, and previews of the collaborative project ARTE NO ES FACIL at the Hyde Park Art Center, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Art and Its Histories Workshop. Volkman currently teaches in the College of Art and Sciences at Roosevelt University, and works on Arte No Es Facil, a project produced in collaboration with Danielle Paz as a means of creating relationships beyond pictures between Cuba and the US through the manifestation of art.  EMAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION: marilyn.volkman@gmail.com