John Dilg was born in Evanston, Illinois. He earned a BFA degree in painting and filmmaking at Rhode Island School of Design.  Dilg has had one-person exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles; Vienna, AT; Zurich, CH; Seoul, KOR; New Delhi, INDIA; and others. He has been a visiting artist at more than 40 institutions, including The University of Chicago, Yale University, The University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. Public Collections include the Arkansas Arts Center; the Figge Museum of Art; the St. Louis Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Birmingham Museum of Art; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Vilafames, ES; and others. Reviews include Art in America, Artforum International, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and Hyperallergic.  

Awards

National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship
Fulbright Grant to India.
Yaddo Foundation Residency

Exhibitions

Standard (Oslo), Norway, 2023
      “The Sky is Thin,” Curated by Tobias Pils
David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, 2021
      “The American Landscape,” Curated by Eneas Capalbo
FL Gallery, Spazio 22, Milan Italy, 2019
     “perspex: american shift.” Curated by Franklin Evans
The National Exemplar Gallery, NY, NY, 2019
     “ASS.” Curated by Eneas Capalbo, Including Carlo Benvenuto, John Dilg, Ryan  Foerster, Alex Hay, Nate Lowman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcia Schvartz, Sue Williams
Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2018
     “Yevgenia Baras, John Dilg, Matt Phillips”  
Whitespace, Atlanta, GA, 2015
    “Soft Eyes,” curated by Pete Schulte
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Gallery, New York, NY, 2012
   “The Big Picture,” curated by Michael Jenkins
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, 2010
   “Turning Over a New Leaf: Selected Botanical Works”