In 2012, New Catalogue will exhibit new work at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
In 2011, New Catalogue is working on a series of artist books, a reading room devoted to Dag Hammarskjold, and continues to expand their inventory of images
New Catalogue gives Stephen Eichhorn the complete body of work titled the Roses of Brixton to create a series of collages in 2010
In 2009-2010 New Catalogue work with Neil Donnelly on their new website. They met Neil in 2008 to look at Robert Heinecken’s magazines
In 2009-2010 New Catalogue collaborates with Judd Greenstein and New Amsterdam Records for their label’s design and photography
During the summer, starting in 2008 New Catalogue creates an internship program where young designers collaborate on new projects
In 2008 Luke and Jonathan start working with a team of artists and designers to create the graphic memorial Sergio Vieira De Mello: Rally Paris Darfur
In 2007 Luke and Jonathan start working with young designers such as Ryan Ruel, Julia Stotz, and Samuel Copeland who attend local Chicago colleges
Robert Heinecken dies in 2006
In 2006 they exhibit A. Hitler and D. Eckart: Obersalzberg to Hoher Goll project at the Prague Biennial
In conjunction with their second exhibition at Body Builder Sportsman Gallery in 2005, New Catalogue presents their hardcover book, Big Ten Co-eds, Preppy Girls, and The Last Cheerleaders, a limited edition of 500 copies published by Nazraeli Press
Luke and Jonathan travel to the Tanglewood Music Center for a residency and work on a film/music collaboration with the composer Judd Greenstein
In 2003-2004 they continue to document the Obersalzberg site in Germany
They exhibit Big Ten Co-eds with Ski Mask and a dozen artist books at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2004
The duo exhibits their first exhibition, New Catalogue at the Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in 2003
Big Ten Co-eds, A. Hitler and D. Eckart: Obersalzberg to Hoher Goll and Various Fires photographic series are completed in 2003
Luke and Jonathan move into their studio and start working on New Catalogue in earnest
While working for the artist Robert Heinecken as a studio assistant, Luke convinces Jonathan to move to Chicago and start working in the Heinecken studio
On these trips they decide to collaborate on a photographic inventory of their trips and New Catalogue is born
Every winter Jonathan and Luke drive across the country to visit their mothers in California from 1997-2000
In 1998 Jonathan attends The Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston in the MFA program
Luke works starts working for artist Robert Heinecken in 1997
In 1997 Luke attends The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and studies in the MFA program
Jonathan takes a job as a Fish Monger in Berkeley and lives in a cabin during the summers in the Sierra Nevada’s for the next 4 years
Luke teaches at a one room schoolhouse and becomes a cowboy for the next three years
Luke and Jonathan graduate school in 1994 and 1993 respectively
Luke and Jonathan collaborate on their first show in the school’s gallery in 1993
Luke decides to double major in art
Jonathan sneaks Luke (a History Major) into the darkroom at school and teaches him how to print black and white photographs
Jonathan and Luke meet during a series of three earthquakes in Arcata, California while they are attending Humboldt State University on April 25, 1992
Luke Batten is born in Santa Maria, California in 1968
Jonathan Sadler is born in Sacramento, California in 1965