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Meet Curatorial Residents
Fabiola Tosi is a Chicago-based curator and cultural diplomat, currently serving as Associate Director of Programs for the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. With over ten years of experience in directing high-profile cultural initiatives, exhibitions, and cultural programs, in 2018 she governed all facets of the project presented by the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. She orchestrates public programs and exhibitions, working with international artists and prestigious institutions, to foster cross-cultural exchanges and advance initiatives that champion equity, diversity, and inclusion to forge international relations with interpersonal, leadership, and creative skills. She worked as Exhibits Project Manager at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago (2019-2021). In 2017, she received her MA in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: Unconventional Times, curated by Fabiola Tosi. Presented by Purple Window Gallery. Work on view: Record, by Joshi Radin.
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After residing and studying in France for several years, Juelle Daley arrived in Chicago with an M. A. in Urban Planning & Design from the Institut Francais d’ Urbanisme and a B.A. in East Asian Studies (China) and Urban Studies from Rutgers University. All of this and more has transformed her into a hybrid cultural creature, a self-described nerd, dreamer, cinephile, Francophile, filmmaker, photographer and art lover.
Juelle is currently Assistant Director at the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University and a MFA candidate in Film at DePaul’s School of Cinematic Arts.
She is also the co-founder of the itinerant pop-up art event Salon Caju that showcases the art of local Chicago creatives. In 2015, she directed the short film, “Six Hour Pass” and is currently in post-production on a documentary called “Tainted Name.” Recently, she curated an exhibit on ‘Ebony and Jet magazine covers of the 1960’s.’
Stephanie Koch is an arts administrator and curator interested in institution building as curatorial practice. She is the Co-Founder of Annas, a Chicago-based residential studio and exhibition space focused on supporting collaborative projects and exhibiting process. Koch holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior roles have included collections intern at Museum of Contemporary Photography, senior lab assistant at LATITUDE, Managing Director at Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge, and curatorial fellow with ACRE.
Meet Artist Residents
Bryan A. LeBeuf is a new media artist working with simulation, sound and game design. His recent work examines community through collective memory, using overlapping memories as a tool to rebuild, and reimagine his neighborhoods in Detroit, MI. The landscapes and design draw inspiration from the defined environments of early role-playing games and dating simulators, while weaving together imagery of post-industrialized neighborhoods. Bryan holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, upon graduation he was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship as well as attending the Mana Contemporary New Media Residency program. Currently, Bryan works as a designer and composer at the University of Chicago.
Image: Bryan A. LeBeuf, Grand Blvd., 2018, Real-time installation, 40’ x 30’
Ellen Holtzblatt creates paintings and drawings to explore connections between the physical and the spiritual—the memories of the body that reside in the soul. Her work becomes an allegory for psyche and emotion, evolution and decay. The artist residencies that Holtzblatt has attended in the U.S. and Iceland have inspired the emotive qualities of her recent landscape paintings. Holtzblatt, a Chicago-based artist, exhibits nationally and internationally, with recent solo shows at Fermilab Art Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, and Josef Glimer Gallery. Her group exhibits include the Jerusalem Biennale, Museum of Biblical Art in New York, and Inselgalerie in Berlin. Holtzblatt earned degrees in visual art and art therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: Ellen Holtzblatt, Like a Lily Among Thorns, 2019, oil on linen, 60" x 30"
Gericault De La Rose is a queer Filipinx, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. Through performance and video work, they use their brown body as an amulet against the plague of forgetting within a postcolonial world that reinforces collective amnesia. After graduating with a BFA with an emphasis in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, they formed an artist collective, Export Quality, together with other Queer Filipinx alumni. As an emerging artist, De La Rose has had the opportunity to showcase their work in group shows in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Johnson City, New York, and Toronto. In collaboration with AFIRE Chicago, Export Quality, was awarded the Crossroads Youth Fund for Cultural Change to support their documentary series Nakikita. De La Rose recently attended the ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin having received the Brenda Green Gender Inclusivity Scholarship.
Image: Gericault De La Rose, Initiation, 2016, 10 mins, Gold cloth, water, skin
Using photography, video, and written language, Jazmine Harris deconstructs and reconstructs narratives about city people and places. Emphasizing both the beauty and failure of metropolises, Harris explores the binal relationship between the divestment of communities and the forming of third spaces.
Jazmine Harris, Some Thingz Never Change: Monologues From A Stoop In Bronzeville, 2019, 1-channel HD video (b/w), 11:31 min. (Photo: Robert Chase Heishman).
José Santiago Pérez (b. Los Angeles) is an artist and educator based in Chicago and Pittsburgh. He is a 2025 Regional Artist-in-Residence at Contemporary Craft, a 2024 Fiber Fellow at Colorado College, an Illinois Arts Council Agency Artist Fellowship Finalist in Craft, a 2022 Lunder Institute for American Art resident fellow, and a 2019-2020 HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition. Their work has been supported by an Illinois Arts Council Agency grant, an Individual Artist Program grant from the City of Chicago, and a Chicago Artists Coalition SPARK grant. José has presented solo and group exhibitions across the country. Features and reviews have appeared in Artforum, Basketry+ Magazine, Sixty Inches from Center, Newcity Art, and the Archives + Futures Podcast. He received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in Studio Art at the University of Pittsburgh. José has held teaching appointments in the Art Department at Colorado College and in the Fiber and Materials Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Headshot: Aiyo Cheboi
Image: José Santiago Pérez, Franklin Commonwealth, 2024, hand-netted nylon, mylar, plastic beads, and silicone, 48" diameter (photo by WM Artist Services)
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Joshi Radin investigates questions concerning nature, cosmology and expanded landscape. Drawing on childhood experiences living within a utopian back to the land community, she traces historical and genealogical roots of utopianism and nature through imagery and processes as spaces of knowledge production. She has published essays and presented work in the US and internationally and received her MFA (2016) and MA (2018) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a merit scholar.
Image: Joshi Radin, Bent (Tangent), 2019, screen print, acrylic, recycled paper, 20h x 26w.
Juan Molina Hernández, born in Guanajuato, México, is a Chicago-based visual artist. Molina Hernández's art practice primarily uses photography and more recently writing, video, and artist books to create narratives that address the complexities of the hybrid immigrant identity. By appropriating symbols from the environment, culture, and personal memory they construct stories in relation to place, family, and a culture that never speaks one language.
Molina Hernández graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2016 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in photography. In the past, they have exhibited at ACRE Projects, Aurora Public Art Commission, Evanston Art Center, Elmhurst Art Museum, Gallery 214, Jack Olson Gallery, North Branch Arts Center, Roman Susan, as well as White Ripple Gallery & Co.
Image: Juan Molina Hernández, autoretrato o piel vieja y lo que sobra de una manda cumplida (self-portrait or old skin and remnants of a prayer answered), archival inkjet print, dimensions vary, 2017
Julia Klein is a Chicago-based artist whose work explores the continuity of objects in time and space through the processing of materials. She has presented work locally and nationally, most recently at Roman Susan, Hyde Park Art Center, and Weinberg Newton. Klein has also participated in a number of fellowships and residencies, including the Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Residency, Chicago Jewish Artists Fellowship, and the Terra Foundation Summer Residency in Giverny. She received a BFA from the University of Michigan and a MFA from Bard College. Since 2009 Klein has run Soberscove Press, a publisher of books about art and culture.
Image: Julia Klein, Thomas Nozkowski, 2019, Stockings, wire, paper, resin, clay, rope, 15 x 18 x 6 in.
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Katie Chung / 정지은 is a Korean American visual artist born and raised in Chicago. She uses sewing and bookbinding to create sculptures and textiles that explore her identity, She also has a practice in murals and illustration with a bold and colorful style. Katie received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014, became resident printmaking artist at Lillstreet Art Center from 2015—2016. In 2017 she became a member of Candor Arts, a Chicago-based resource for the design and production of handmade artist books. In 2018 she participated in the Center Program at Hyde Park Art Center. From 2019-20202 she was a Chicago Artist Coalition HATCH Resident Artist, in 2020 Facebook Inc. artist in residence, and 2023 Google artist in residence. She is a two time recipient of the IAP D-CASE Cultural Grant from the City of Chicago in 2020 and 2024. With the 2024 D-Case Grant she joined the 2025 Korea Textile Tour. In 2025 she was selected to be the H. M. Salzberg Artist in Resident at Jaffe Center for Book Arts with Florida Atlantic University. Chung has exhibited her art around the U.S. and created mural designs for companies like Facebook, Google, Lush Cosmetics, Amplifier Art Organization, Live Nation, Lollapalooza Music Festival, and Adobe.
Image: American Hanbok, 2025
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Naomi Elson was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her MFA from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. Following graduation, Naomi moved to Chicago, where she has shown at several galleries, including GIFC at Western Exhibitions, Nightlight Gallery and Studios, ARC Gallery, Rubberneck Gallery, Bucktown Gallery, and Zhou B Art Center.
Image: Naomi Elson, Curb Alert, 2018, carpet backing, fabric, yarn, and latex paint, 70 x 30 ft. space.
Solomon Salim Moore is an artist and curator from Altadena, CA. He graduated from Reed College with a BA in 2011 and earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. He makes paintings, prints, and drawings that focus on themes of fantasy and the natural world. He is currently the academic curator at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College.
Headshot: Travis Khachatoorian
Image: Swans at Dusk, 2019, watercolor on paper, 5" x 6”
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Unyimeabasi Udoh’s practice centres on legibility, the void, and the construction of meaning. Their art is largely one of appropriation and reproduction, with language as its primary material. Working across media including print, drawing, installation, and sculpture, they explore how systems—of communication, of knowledge, of beauty, of control—are built and maintained. Udoh holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Columbia University. They were the 2022–23 Starr Fellow at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where they live and work.
Headshot: Leah Wendzinski
Image: Unyimeabasi Udoh, Flood, 2024. Aluminium sign blank, metal stand, cold wax medium, pigment, and retroreflective glass beads. 82 x 72 x 48 cm with stand; 60 x 68 x 0.4 cm (sign face only). Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson
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