Corey Postiglione was born and raised in Chicago. He received his BFA in Studio Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Masters Degree in Art History and Critical Theory from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently Professor Emeritus from Columbia College Chicago where he taught Art History and Critical Theory as well as studio arts for over 25 years.
Since the 1970s Corey has exhibited professionally with numerous solo exhibitions and group shows at such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL, Printworks, Chicago, IL, The Beverly Arts Center, Beverly, IL, the Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, and Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. He has shown internationally in Glasgow, Scotland, and Karlsruhe and Munich, Germany. He was honored with a retrospective exhibition of his works on paper at the Evanston Art Center in January 2008 and a retrospective of his paintings at the Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL, in February 2010. His work is represented in many corporate and private collections. He has been an active member of the American Abstract Artists in New York since 2000 and has exhibited many times with this group.
In addition to his career as a practicing artist, his critical writing has been published in Artforum, The New Art Examiner, Dialogue, and C-Magazine (Toronto). He has curated numerous exhibitions and contributed essays to many exhibition catalogues. He was a founding member of the Chicago Art Critics Association. He has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Evanston Art Center.