Born in 1967, Illinois
Lives and works in Chicago

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, 1990

Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan,
Summer 1989

University of Illinois, Versailles, France,
Summer 1987

Employ

Facility, Co-Founder
August 2019—

Independent Artist
March 2011—

Faust, Principal, Creative Director
October 1998—

Jack Shainman Gallery, Studio/Special Projects Director, Nick Cave Studio
January 2013—

Quick+Faust, Principal, Designer
October 1994—October 1998

Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Manager of Design and Production Services
May 1993—September 1994

Strandell Design Incorporated, Senior Designer
October 1991—May 1993

Bagby Design Incorporated, Designer
June 1990—August 1991

Advisory

Chicago Cultural Advisory Council
December 2019—

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, CTA State and Lake Advisory Committee,
May—August 2023

Chicago Dancemakers Forum,
Board of Directors
November 2019—

School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Fashion Council
September 2008—

Riverside Arts Center, Board of Directors
January 2010—October 2013

AIGA Chicago, The Professional Association for Design, Development Chairman
September 2006—September 2008

Ox-Bow, Auxiliary Board of Directors
August 2002—October 2004

Lectures / Podcasts / Residencies

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master Artist-in-Residence, October 2024

2024 Stephen Fleishman Lectureship: Nick Cave and Bob Faust, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison Wisconsin, April 2024

Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists (artist talk), Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL, January 2024

Nick Cave and Bob Faust, Cool Hunting: Design Tangents, Episode 2, April 5, 2023

Community Conversations and Racial Justice Through Art – With Nick Cave and Bob Faust, State of Inclusion with Ame Sanders, November 2, 2022

Between Art and Design, NeoCon 2022 Keynote, Nick Cave, Bob Faust, Moderated by Cheryl Durst, June 2022

Arts Alive: Nick Cave and Bob Faust, Ball State University, April 14, 2022

The Peninsula Chicago, Art in Resonance global program, 2021 – 2023.

Nick Cave + Bob Faust, Design Matters Sixteen with Debbie Millman, June 2021

“On Collaboration” with The Seldoms, Chicago Dance History Project Interview Marathon, January 2021

Art for Justice: A Roundtable with Nick Cave, Bob Faust, Gabrielle Lyon, and Quintin Williams In Conversation with Stephanie Cristello, In partnership with Expo Chicago, Chicago, 4 November 2020

Art in the Moment: A Conversation with Bob Faust, Edra Soto, Sadie Woods and Greg Foster-Rice, Chicago Humanities Festival, October 15, 2020

Identity and the Art of Introduction, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL, October 9, 2019

Artist Talk: The Let Go, Nick Cave, Bob Faust, Nona Hendryx, Ahmaya Knoelle Higginson, Malik Gaines, Park Avenue Armory, NY, June 7, 2018

The Seldoms: RockCitizen Residency at the Wisconsin Union Theater, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 27, 2018

New York Public Library, Until; Nick Cave, Helga Davis, Bob Faust, Denise Markonish, An Artist Dialogue Series Event, April 26, 2017

The Nerdalogues, Bob Faust: Fear Is Not Real, Chicago Design Museum, June 8, 2016

Lake FX, A Body Bridges Past to Present: Intersections of Dance and History, DCASE, May 13, 2016

Collaborative Workshop, Williams College, MA, April 11, 2016

PechaKucha Night / Chicago Architectural Biennial, Chicago Cultural Center, October 30, 2015

Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 15, 2016

SEEK Design Conference, Northern Illinois University, November 2014, 2011, 2009

Brand New Conference, Harris Theater, Chicago, September 26, 2014

Visual Voices Lecture Series, Bradley University, Peoria IL, November 21, 2009

Awards

Culture Type, The 18 Best Black Art Books of 2022
Nick Cave: Forothermore

University of Illinois, College of Fine & Applied Arts, 2022 Distinguished Legacy Award

City of Chicago, Mayor’s Medal of Honor, Nick Cave and Bob Faust, 2022

STA 100, Winner Nick Cave, “Truth Be Told”, 2021

AIA 2020 Design Excellence Awards: Interior Architecture Honor Award, CTA Garfield Elevated Station Renovation, 2020

AIA 2020 Design Excellence Awards: Devine Detail Award, CTA Garfield Elevated Station Renovation, 2020

Clocktower Award, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019

Olmsted Spirit Award, Fredrick Law Olmsted Society, 2010

Exhibitions

Archives By Artists (group show), Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada, December, 2023 – June, 2024.

Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists (group show), Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL, November 5, 2023 – January 6, 2024.

Kind Words (group show), You Are Beautiful Headquarters, Chicago, IL, November 4, 2023 – December 31, 2023.

Wallworks (Nick Cave: Forothermore), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 14, 2022 – October 2, 2022. Traveled to: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, November 18, 2022 – April 10, 2023.

The Shape of Things To Come, Riverside Arts Center, September­ 2022

VaxCHInation Artist Series Exhibition, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago Department of Public Health and Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, March 30­, 2022.

For And Nor But Or Yet So, Poetry Foundation, October 18­ – December 17, 2021. Included in: Chicago Architectural Biennial 2021.

WA/ONDER, 167 Green, October 20, 2021 –

with all, and still..., The Peninsula Chicago, Art in Resonance global program, October 5, 2021 – April 1, 2023. Included in: Expo Chicago (special project).

Rapt on the Mile, The Magnificent Mile Association, October 5, 2021—January 31, 2022.

Ways and Means, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and The Chicago Transit Authority, June 1 – July 2, 2021.

Truth Be Told, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY, October, 2020 – January 2021. Traveled to: Brooklyn Art Museum, NY, May 2021 – November 2021; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2021 – June 2022.

I'm Them, Facility, Chicago, April, 2019 – March 2021. Traveled to: Dock 6, Chicago, May 18, 2019.

Fever Dream, Aspect/Ratio/Projects, Chicago, December 2021 – January 2021.

Amends (in collaboration with Nick Cave), Facility, Chicago, June 19, 2020 – November 3, 2020. Traveled to: Madison Art Museum, June 2021 – November 2021.

Vote in Their Names (in collaboration with Nick Cave), Mana Urban Arts Project, United States, October 2020 – November 2020

Bob Faust, Jenn Smith & Shoshanna Weinberger, Terrain Biennial / Landing Projects, October 6, 2019 – August 23, 2020. Included in: Art In Place, May 20 – August 23, 2020.

We Hold These Truths, Expo Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, September 19, 2019 –September 22, 2019.

About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, Wrightwood 659, May 22 – August 10, 2019.

Love Thy Neighbor, Facility, Chicago, October 23, 2018 – April 2019.

These Bags We Carry are Filled with Promise (in collaboration with Nick Cave), New York Live Arts, June 1 – September 2018.

Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container, Chicago Design Museum, April 2018.

Peace Pop, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, May 9, 2016. Traveled to: University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 27, 2018.

Over and Over, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, November 18, 2016 – February 2018.

Ways and Means, Rootwork Gallery, Chicago, April 14, 2017 – April 15, 2018.

Fluid Bound, Co-Prosperity Sphere, November 18, 2016 – November 26, 2016.

Wallworks (Nick Cave: UNTIL), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, Massachusetts, October 16, 2016 – September, 2017. Traveled to: Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, November 23, 2018 – March 3, 2019; Tramway, Glasgow, UK, August 2 – November 24, 2019; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, July 18, 2020 – January 3, 2021.

GU LTY / NNOCENT (Call-and-Response to Nick Cave: UNTIL), MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, October 10, 2016 – January 10, 2017.

Nick Cave: Kaleidoscopic Playground (in collaboration with Nick Cave), Kid Space at MASS MoCA, June 2016 – September 2017.

Unfolded: Made with Paper, Chicago Design Museum, April 5, 2016 – August 27, 2016.

Bob Faust: Betweens, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside IL, November 21, 2015 – January 16, 2016.

CHGO DSGN, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, May 31, 2014 – November 2, 2014.

Nick Cave: Body Work (in collaboration with Nick Cave), ICA Boston, February 5 – May 4, 2014.

Bob Faust: Ipseity, Manifold Gallery, Chicago, September 14, 2013 – November 2, 2013.

Nick Cave: Second Skin (in collaboration with Nick Cave), Denver Art Museum, June 9 – September 22, 2013.

Sit!, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, September, 2009.

Design Alumni Exhibition, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, April 2006.

Project Millennium, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, January, 1999.

The Art of Design, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, June 1993.

Special Projects

The Seldoms: Floe On The Mart, Type animations, Art On The Mart, Chicago, Spring/Summer, 2022.

Vote In Their Names, W Magazine, October 2020.

Vote In Their Names, Mana Urban Arts Project, October 2020.

The Seldoms: Floe, Set design including monumental inflatables and mapped projections, Union Theater, UW-Madison, January 22–24, 2020.

Nick Cave: The Let Go, Producer for performances featuring local dancers and musicians, Park Avenue Armory, New York, June 6-30, 2018.

The Seldoms: The Making, Set design including mapped projections, Pulaski Park Field House, November, 2017.

Nick Cave: Hear Here Chicago, Producer/participant for performances featuring local dancers and musicians, Navy Pier, Chicago, September 13-16, 2017.

The Seldoms: Rock Citizen, Set design including "brascape" and projections, Storefront Theater, Chicago, May 5-15, 2016.

Nick Cave: AS IS, Producer/participant for year-long residency culminating in a on-day performance featuring local dancers, musicians, spoken word artist and community members from the Shreveport area, Shreveport Regional Arts Council, March 20, 2016

Nick Cave: Figure This: Detroit, Producer for performances featuring local dancers and musicians, Cranbrook Art Museum, November 4, 2015.

Ceelo album shoot, Producer for Nick Cave photoshoot for Ceelo Green, Atlantic Records, September 2, 2015.

Nick Cave: Up Right, Producer and participant for film featuring local dancers and musicians, Cranbrook Art Museum, July 27-30, 2015, Flux Projects, April 23-26, 2015.

The Seldoms: Power Goes, Set design including chair installation and mapped projections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 20-29, 2015.

Nick Cave: HEARD, Producer for performance featuring local dancers and musicians, Creative Time, March 25-31, 2013. Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, July 19, 2013; Cranbrook Art Museum, October 27, 2015; Carriageworks, Sydney, AU, November 10–13, 2016: Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, April 27–28, 2019.

Collections

The City of Chicago, Wayfindings

United Airlines, This Way To The Nonfiction Section

Shapack, 167 Green, WA/ONDER

Stella McCartney, A to Z Manifesto, Q is for Question

21C, Chicago, Wallworks (16 elevator bank lobbies)

21C, St. Louis, Until We Meet Again

St. Jane Hotel, Chicago, Wallwork (for Nick Cave Hustle Coat)

Howard Brown Health Center, True Love

Chicago Loop Alliance, Celebrate Chicago's Public Art: Year of Public Art Banners

Chicago Design Museum, Pierre-Yves Rochon: Promotional Gift

The Chicago Design Archive:
Nick Cave: Sojourn, Denver Art Museum
Magalogue, Nick Cave
UnViewbook, Roosevelt University
Design on Press, Graphic Arts Studio
Eat. Out. See. Things., The Buzz Company
Soundsuit Boxfolio, Nick Cave
www.FaustLTD.com 2012, Faust
Annual Report, Chicago Botanic Garden

DePaul Art Museum, Soundsuits, 1998

DePaul Art Museum, Study Collection:
Nick Cave: Greeting From Detroit
Nick Cave: Epitome
Nick Cave: Sojourn
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Nick Cave: Magalogue

Museum of Contemporary Art:
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Soundsuit Boxfolio, Nick Cave