1948 Born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin
1971 BA, BS, Stout State University Menomonie, Wisconsin
1974 MFA, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

AT&T, Chicago, Illinois
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chemical Bank of New York, New York, New York
Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., Chicago, Illinois
First National Bank of Evanston, Evanston, Illinois
Household International, Prospect Heights, Illinois
Kemper Group, Long Grove, Illinois
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Marshall Erdmann & Associates, Madison, Wisconsin
Midwest Express Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Rayovac Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2005 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
2002 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1999 Earth Works Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1998 Grace Chosy Gallery; Madison, Wisconsin, "Images and Ideas"
Tory FoIliard Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1997 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1996 Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1995 Aaron Bohrod Fine Arts Gallery; Menasha, Wisconsin,
"Dennis Nechvatal: Images, Ideas, Works in Progress" Tory Folliard Gallery
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994 Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1993 Dean Jensen Gallery; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1992 Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1991 Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
(performance with musician Roscoe Mitchell)
1989 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Zolla Lieberman Gallery; Chicago, Illinois, "Brotherhood" (performance with musician
Roscoe Mitchell)
Stout State University, Menomonie, Wisconsin, "Black & White,”Woodland Pattern,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Printing and Woodblock Prints," (reading and performance with Steve Marker)
1988 Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, "Force Two: Paintings and Objects by Dennis Nechvatal" (with performance by John Cale)
Zolla Lieberman Gallery; Chicago, Illinois, "Images: New Paintings and Drawings"
1984 Zolla Lieberman Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1983 Heron Gallery; Indianapolis, Indiana
1982 Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Zolla Lieberman Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1981 Center for the Visual Arts Galley; Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
1980 Zolla Lieberman Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1979 Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
Water Street Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1977 Water Street Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000 "Self Portraits," Printworks Galley, Chicago, Illinois
“Wisconsin Classics: Fred Stonehouse, Norbert Kox, Dennis Nechvatal," Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1997 "Breadth of Aesthetic," Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1996 “Poetry in Drawing." The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1995 "Dreams and Visions," Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“Group Landscape Exhibition," Tennessee
“Works on Paper," Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
"Phyllis Kind Gallery Revisited," Foster Gallery; University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Wisconsin
1994 “Dealer's Choice," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1993 "Works on Paper," University of Wisconsin-Stout, Memomonie, Wisconsin
"Imagery: Incongruous Juxtapositions," Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1992 “National Drawing Invitational" The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Bennet Gallery; Knoxville, Tennessee
1991 Artist Couples," The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Brotherhood: Hero," Performance by Dennis Nechvatal and John Cale, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
“Wind Songs," Performance by Dennis Nechvatal and Roscoe Mitchell, Barrymore Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin
"Portraits of a Kind," Phyllis Kind Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1990 "Wisconsin Triennial," Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1988 "One Hundred Years of Wisconsin Art," Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Woodland Pattern Bookstore and Gallery; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“Individuals: New Art from Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Poems and Paintings," Woodland Pattern Bookstore and Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin “After the Drought: Bountiful Harvest," Dean Jensen Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1987 “Urgent Messages," The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (organized by Don Baum)
"Wisconsin Collects," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Wisconsin Triennial," Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
"Force,” Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (collaborative investigation of art and music by Dennis Nechvatal and Brian Ritchie)
1987 "Masked Allusions: The Works of Dennis Nechvatal and Jill Sebastian," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1986 "New Works on Paper," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Chicago, Illinois
"Drawing," Gallery Two Nine One traveling to Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia and the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Contemporary Midwest Landscapes," Herron Gallery; Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
"Majic: Artist as Alchemist," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Masks & Masquerade,' Paris-New York-Kent Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
1985 39th Corcoran Biennial of American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (traveling exhibition to museums in the Midwest)
"Chicago & Vicinity Drawing Exhibition," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1984 “Chicago: Emerging Visions," Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
"Masks & Masquerade," Connecticut
"Real Art Ways" Hartford, Connecticut
"Painting & Sculpture Today: 1984" Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
"Lines of Beauty: A Drawing Exhibition," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Twentieth Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1983 “Living with Art, Two: The Collection of Walter and Dawn Netsch," Miami University Art Museum, Oxford Ohio and Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre  Dame, Indiana.
"Contemporary Images: Watercolor 1983,” Alan Priebe Gallery; University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
"Emerging Imagists," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1982 "New Faces, Old Friends," Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
"Painting and Sculpture Today: 1982," Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, Indiana
1981 "Fifty Works of Art That Shouldn't Leave Madison," Madison Art Center, Madison,Wisconsin
"Inside/Out: Self Beyond Likeness," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon; Joselyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1979 "New Talent-New Visions," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Chicago, Illinois
“New Painters," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Chicago, Illinois
1977 "Lee Davis and Dennis Nechvatal,” Johnson-Whitty Gallery; New Orleans, Louisiana
1976 Johnson Witty-Gallery; New Orleans, Louisiana