Biography from AskART:
| Recognized for her highly textural, abstract assemblages such as Linear Descent (1978), Barbara Aubin, is a painter, sculptor, and collagist who was also an art professor during her career.
Aubin was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1928. She attended
Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where she obtained her
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. During the six years that
followed, she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Art
Education from the School of the Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
She then taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in
Illinois for nine years between 1956 and 1967.
From 1980 to 1981, Aubin served as a visiting artist at St. Louis
Community College in Forest Park, Missouri followed by the University
of Wisconsin, Green Bay and Marinette. Until her retirement in
1991, she was a professor of art at Chicago State University for twenty
years.
Aubin received two grants that allowed her travel abroad. First,
the George D. Brown travel fellowship provided a trip to Italy and
France from 1955 to 1956. The second, a Fulbright award in 1958,
funded a trip to Haiti where she remained two years. Later, she
was the recipient of the Huntington Hartford Grant in 1963, and two
Illinois Art Council completion awards in 1978 and 1979. She was
also honored by the Michigan Watercolor Society, the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, and the Walker Art Center in Minnesota.
Barbara Aubin’s artwork has been displayed in solo exhibitions held by
institutions such as the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the
Fairweather Hardin Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. She has been
part of group exhibitions including the 1985 “Herself” exhibit held by
Women’s Caucus for Art in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; “Postcard-Size Art”
in Bologna, Italy; “The Aesthetic Excursion” in 1989 at the Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts of Wisconsin; and “Flora ‘92” for the Chicago
Botanic Garden of Glencoe, Illinois in 1992.
In addition to various private collections, Aubin is represented in the
permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; Ball
State Museum in Muncie, Indiana; Centre d’Art in Haiti; Illinois State
Museum in Springfield; and Shimer College of Waukegan, Illinois.
Submitted by Jenna Wuensche, Researcher
Source: Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
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