Ed Paschke lived and worked in Chicago until his death in 2004. His work is included many museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Major exhibitions include "Ed Paschke: Selected Works 1967 – 1981", Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1982, traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston); "Ed Paschke Retrospective", Centre Pompidou, Paris (1989-1990, traveled to the Dallas Museum, Texas and the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990-1991; "Ed Paschke: Recent Work", Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago (2003); and "Ed Paschke: Chicago Icon, A Retrospective", Chicago History Museum (2006).