Toby Zallman

Plastic Bags in Water 5

Inkjet prints on muslin and paper, plastic bags, and pastel

About the artist

Toby Zallman

Toby Zallman is a Chicago artist whose art practice focuses on installation, sculpture and drawing. She has been exhibiting both locally and nationally for more than 40 years. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University with an emphasis on painting and drawing.

For more than 30 years, she had a graphic design business in addition to her art practice. She is currently working full-time as an artist. Along with several group shows in 2021, she will be having a one-person exhibition at Western Illinois University Gallery in September.

Zallman is the recipient of numerous grants, including four Illinois Arts Council grants and an Individual Artist Program Grant, from Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) in 2019 for her project “Our Plastic Trash.” She has had several artist residencies including ones at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale and Artscape Gibralter Point—Toronto Island.

She has catalogs published by the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art for the 4-person show “Sedimented,” and by the Illinois State Museum for the traveling exhibition, “Fragile Relations, Art + Nature + Environment.”