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Sabrina GreigSabrina Greig is a Haitian-American museum professional, writer, and arts administrator from New York City. She received her MA in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus on representations of the Black diaspora in popular ...
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Reut AvisarReut Avisar’s multidisciplinary practice deals with culturally loaded, symbolic artifacts, objects and folk craft as they appear in tourism culture and its different manifestations. Her installations often integrate found objects, ceramics, fabric and har ...
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Marissa Lee BenedictMarissa Lee Benedict is a sculptor, researcher, writer, explorer and teacher whose artistic practice investigates the complex and ever-evolving relationship between humans and the material world. Rooted in research and experimentation, her work often dr ...
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Jenyu WangJenyu Wang uses contextualization and synchronization to explore the interconnections between sculptural objects and moving image. As an interdisciplinary artist, Jenyu utilizes different embodiments of time contained in static objects, photography and vi ...
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Megan StroechMegan Stroech is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Stroech’s work utilizes fabric cut outs and collaged found materials to explore dichotomies between realness and artificiality, image and object, and common vs. luxury through references from ...
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Edyta StepienEdyta Stepien focuses on large-scale video and sight specific installations. In her installations she is blurring the boundaries between what is natural and synthetic, what is organic and mechanic. She is creating hybrid immersive environments. Since 200 ...
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Jesse SeayJesse Seay makes electro-mechanical sculptures of waveforms moving through objects. Some sculptures invite people to play with them. Some make sound acoustically. She has also worked with recorded and synthesized sounds, in both stereo and multi-channel p ...
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Adam Liam RoseAdam Liam Rose uses sculptural, photographic, textile, and papermaking processes to investigate how contemporary identities are formed by history, collective memory, place and architecture. Rose is an Israeli-American visual artist living and working in C ...
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Nora Renick RinehartNora Renick Rinehart's work explores the scientific and emotional ways in which we relate to the colors of the sky. Rinehart received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She teaches a variety of textile classes at the Lillstreet Art Center. ...
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Hannah BarcoHannah Barco is a performance artist, writer, object maker, and facilitator of relational situations; making work with the stuff of everyday life. Barco works from a Fluxus sense of humor and poetry, a Surrealist obsession with the uncanny, and stands firm ...
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Wolfie E. RawkWolfie E. Rawk is a trans artist whose work currently includes video, sculpture, ceramics, fiber, glass and borrowed/transitory objects. They are interested in feelings of sympathy/empathy, cuteness, spectacle/boredom and horror. Learn more about Wolfie E ...
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Dan PazDan Paz explores the labor of digital video production as a collaborative site where the intersections of the image-idea and lived experience are produced and contested. Paz is specifically interested in what emerges when divergent people come together ar ...
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Regina Mamou
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Cherith LundinCherith Lundin engages our perceptions and experience of space through drawing, painting, and installations. Her work abstracts moments of fluidity within familiar spaces, where boundaries between intimate/anonymous and interior/exterior blur. Learn more ...
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Rami GeorgeRami George is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, text, and installation. They have exhibited and screened internationally, and continue to be motivated by political struggles and fractured narratives.Image: Untitled (Samarita ...
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Sebura&GartelmannSebura&Gartelmann is the Chicago based collaborative of Jonas Sebura and Alex Gartelmann started in 2010. Jonas received his BFA from Alfred University and his MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Alex received his BFA from the Univers ...
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Liz GadelhaLiz Gadelha's photographic practice is influenced by a decade and a half of extensive dance training and performance. She dresses female subjects in custom-made garments to produce photographic series and performances with underlying narratives rooted in ...
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Lori FelkerLori Felker is an artist/filmmaker whose work focuses on the ways in which we process, share, and disseminate information, via screens, dreams, gestures, games and dialog. By employing and pushing these structures, Felker attempts to study the ineloquent, ...
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Hope EsserHope Esser is a multidisciplinary artist that works in the realms of performance, video, sculpture, and costume. She has recently performed and exhibited at the Watermill Center, Long Island, New York; The Arts Club of Chicago; Grace Exhibition Space, Bro ...
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Lily DithrichSculptor and woodworker Lily Dithrich engages in an investigation of personal relationships and introspections using furniture objects as suggestive representations of human archetypes. Acknowledging that iconic furniture forms are imbued with links to th ...
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Benjamin DeMottBorn in Allentown Pennsylvania, Ben enjoys fishing, ceramics, gluten and haiku about all of the above. red-bricked recorderslackjawed and thigh deep knottingflys in the back cast Learn more about Ben DeMott’s HATCH exhibitions Artifice from the Cave an ...
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Delaney DeMott
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Andi CristAndi Crist was raised in Birmingham, Alabama and earned her BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2011. She is the co-founder and executive director of Autotelic Studios, a nonprofit arts organization that serves the creative community on the northwest sid ...
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Lauren E. CarterLauren Carter’s mixed media sculpture, 2d work, and installations explore the ephemeral by examining the physical, spiritual, and cultural realms of healing. Carter is a Louisiana native who recently relocated to Chicago by way of Albuquerque, New Mexico ...
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Nina BarnettNina Barnett uses drawing, moving image and installation to examine particular locations in relation to time and vertical scale. Her work seeks connections between the geographical, the experienced and the physicality of surfaces, and playfully questions ...
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Mara BakerMara Baker is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and educator. Combining traditional fiber processes, animation, light and video, Baker’s work draws inspiration from the phenomena of optical illusion and the changing of our eyes perception of light, ...
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Alexandria EregbuAlexandria Eregbu is an artist, curator, and visionary. On a fundamental level, Alexandria believes that art and expression are essential functions of community. As such, her work has been most dedicated to providing creative experiences that empower blac ...
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Erin ToaleErin Toale is an artist, administrator, writer, and curator. She earned Dual MAs in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013, and a BFA in 2D and 3D Fine Arts from ...
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JGV / WARJGV / WAR is the collaboration between Gibran Villalobos and William Ruggiero. Their practice includes writing, curating, research, and project development with a focus on socially engaged practice, and contemporary Latin American art. Villalobos and Rugg ...
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Rashayla Marie BrownArtist-scholar Rashayla Marie Brown manages an “undisciplinary” studio practice through photography, performance, writing, installation, and video. A lifelong nomad who moved 24 times, she began her practice as a poet in London. An Artadia and Franklin Fu ...
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Kim HartyKim Harty works at the intersection of materials, performance, and technology. Harty’s work examines the alchemical relationship between the artist and raw materials, and exploits the process of transformation inherent in artmaking. Harty creates sculptur ...
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Annette Barbier(1950 - 2017) Having worked for years in video and new media, Annette Barbier re-investigated the ways in which embodiment can facilitate the expression of an idea. Barbier called into question our relationship to the natural world using technology as a m ...
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Adebukola BodunrinAdebukola Bodunrin is a film, video, and installation artist who explores language, culture, and media. In her collage animations, she manipulates film using unorthodox manual and digital techniques in order to produce unexpected cinematic experiences.Her ...
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Jennifer MillsJennifer Mills's multi-disciplinary practice uses comedy, performance and object making to explore the condition of the art world. Mills has exhibited widely in New York; Chicago; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; Was ...
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Kiam Marcelo JunioKiam Marcelo Junio is a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, video, printmaking, installation, burlesque, and performance art. His research and artwork center around queer identities, the Filipino American diaspora, post-colonial Asian Ameri ...
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Noelle AllenBorn in Sacramento and now living and working in Chicago, Noelle Allen has exhibited her artwork across the United States and abroad in Italy and Germany. Allen’s art has been positively reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, Art Ltd. Magazine, and Chicago Soci ...
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Amber GinsburgAmber Ginsburg creates site-generated projects that insert historical scenarios into present day situations, as well as engaging present day histories to imagine alternative futures. Her background in craft orients her projects towards the continuities an ...
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Rebecca Hamlin GreenRebecca Hamlin Green is a ceramic and installation artist who is fascinated by wildlife and the breadth of patterns, cycles and modulations of natural and domestic systems. Her work has received national and international attention through group and solo ...
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Jesse ButcherButcher (b. 1982) is interested in a process of consuming, dissecting and processing a panoply of representations of individualism and safety. These constructs are idealized through various medias as well as personal and congenital histories. Those dispos ...
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Sabba S. ElahiSabba S. Elahi weaves through records of time --- family photographs, oral histories, and the fractures of personal and institutional memory. Elahi's art is largely impacted by the socio-political issues around Islam, the state of Pakistan, and her proxim ...
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Jovencio de la Paz"My practice endeavors to locate the boundless moment in which the diverse material realities of daily life reveal a profound relationship to metaphysical, ineffable and transformative experiences." Jovencio de la Paz is an artist and educator whose insta ...
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Stacia YeapanisStacia Yeapanis is a Chicago-based, interdisciplinary artist, educator and writer. Influenced by existential philosophy and mindfulness meditation, she explores desire and impermanence through the portal of repetition in her cross-stitch embroideries, rem ...
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Jessica BardsleyJessica Bardsley is an artist and PhD Candidate in the Film and Visual Studies program at Harvard University, where she is also a Film Study Center Fellow. Her academic work explores the relationship between fluid conceptions of materiality, process philo ...
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Victoria BradfordVictoria Eleanor Bradford is a Louisiana-born, Chicago-based choreographer and visual artist whose structured improvisations take shape as experimental dinner parties, site-specific dance films, football training manuals used as choreographic instruction, ...
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Theodore DarstTheodore Darst is an artist based in America. His videos, prints, and interactive digital environments have been exhibited at numerous venues including 319 Scholes, New York; bubblebyte.org; Public Works, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; ...
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Chaz EvansChaz Evans makes performances, installations, and software that investigate emerging and historical technology. Often satirical in tone, Evans's work pits technologies against their perceived or intended purpose. Exhibitions include Chicago Artists Coalit ...
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James T. GreenJames T. Green is a conceptual artist, designer, developer, podcaster, educator, and writer based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. His projects investigate information distribution on the internet and unspoken markers of identity. His work has been shown in E ...
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Kasia HoulihanKasia Houlihan is a Chicago-based artist who works in a variety of media in an effort to get at the experience of relating. With photography, drawing, video, sculpture and language all in her arsenal, she chips away at the concepts of closeness, communica ...
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Jordan MartinsJordan Martins is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, and educator. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and North Park U ...
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Ryan Peter MillerRyan Peter Miller's body of work objectifies paint, playing with ideas of representation in objection to conventional hegemony of the image. The ideas that define the discipline of painting are as malleable as the material itself. Painting has always been ...
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Johana MoscosoJohana Moscoso is an artist who explores co-narratives of South American and North American cultures. She incorporates a variety of mediums into installations that express her interest in gender roles, culture, and migration. In her fiber work she utilize ...
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MothergirlMothergirl (Katy Albert and Sophia Hamilton) is a performance duo whose work has taken the form of installation, durational event, and guided audience interaction. Mothergirl’s characters, and the worlds they inhabit, exhibit a strategically refracted or ...
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Nicholas SaganNicholas Sagan ::.::..:::...:..:::..:: interdisciplinary and new media artist ::.::..:::...:::.:.:..:::..:: "A paradox is a strange thing. Since it is generally defined as a 'contradictory set of premises,' it seems that there are different ways of int ...
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Matthew SchlagbaumMatthew Schlagbaum focuses his attention on our cultural obsession with happiness, and the unstable specifics of how it is depicted and obtained. His work takes as its starting point the genuine desire to exist within spaces of positivity and exuberance, ...
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Hoyun SonHoyun Son is an artist working in various media including text, public performance, wearable sculptures, interactive installation, and everyday life to explore how we communicate and relate to others. Son believes that as human beings we grow through trus ...
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Latham ZearfossLatham Zearfoss produces time-based images and objects about selfhood and otherness. Often collaborative, these works ask: how do we come to know ourselves as social human subjects? Across media, the work is anchored in the belief that identity is a cumul ...
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Kristina FelixKristina Felix makes artworks that explore the creative potential of language, labor and found narratives. Felix has lived and worked abroad in Peru and Bolivia as a J. William Fulbright Research Scholar in sculpture, learning Andean back-strap weaving an ...
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Brent FogtThe son of a Lutheran pastor and a psychotherapist, Brent Fogt was born in Ohio and raised in Texas. Fogt’s sculpture, collage and drawings have been featured in solo exhibitions at Austin College, Emory University, Indiana University and the Lawndale Art ...
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Rebecca ParkerRebecca Parker is interested in creating opportunities for artists to engage with communities that support and grow their practice. As Program Director at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, she works with faculty, visiting artists, artists-in-re ...
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Kristin NasonKristin Nason's work functions as a data set in an ongoing investigation of what it means to be a squishy being in a world with hard edges. Through physical engagement with common objects and materials, she explores the capacities and limitations of the b ...
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Neysa Page-Lieberman
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Gregory Harris
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Allison Peters Quinn
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Daniel Schulman
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Laura DavisLaura Davis creates sculpture, drawing and installation in order to disrupt notions of value at the intersections of art, design and craft. Her interest lies in the endgame of material goods and how manipulating context can alter that narrative.Solo exhib ...
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Baccara (Madeleine Bailey and Helen Maurene Cooper)Madeleine Bailey and Helen Maurene Cooper’s collaborative project Baccara is focused on a discourse around communication, negotiation, and power. Together, Baccara’s practice problematizes the notion of presence through photography, performance, mark maki ...
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Joseph G. CruzJoseph G. Cruz is a research-driven artist whose practice involves geo-historical and trans-contextual investigations of history and epistemology. No object, history, or human has priority as an activator in these investigations. Cruz is a time-traveling ...
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Melika BassMelika Bass’s films and immersive installations weave atmospheric, abstracted narratives that slip between hyper-reality and historical fantasy. Bass was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film“ in 2018. Other awards include 3 ...
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Eric WallEric Wall’s paintings explore the materiality of the canvas and challenge our expectations of what a painting is expected to be. His paintings are meticulously hand-cut using a hobby knife. A single painting is often stretched, painted, unstretched, hand- ...
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Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap"We are stargazers. We are in love with the ineffable. We are in love with the cosmos. Somewhere in the vastness of interstellar space is a tiny blue marble spinning, magnetized and orbiting a star. We look up in the fall at the Milky Way, showered in cos ...
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Gwynne JohnsonGwynne Johnson’s photographs reveal the unconscious residue of domestic life. Her work extends the uncertainties and unresolvable tensions inherent in our relationships with people, places, and the past. Raised in Dublin, Ireland, Johnson currently lives ...
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Homa ShojaieHoma Shojaie makes whatever is her “persisting question” at a given moment. This can be the color of a particular feeling, the exploration of her fears, trees in rain, or letting go. She creates to know herself, the world, and to find the light that is in ...
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Jenny KendlerJenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental activist and wild forager whose work asks us to de-center the human, making space for the radical, transformative otherness found on our biodiverse Earth. She received her BFA from MICA (2002) an ...
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Kathryn Trumbull FimreiteKathryn Trumbull Fimreite is a Chicago-based visual and teaching artist whose work explores the relationship between personal identity and legacy. Fimreite's practice is a hybrid of studio time and arts educating. She is always seeking to create experient ...
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Marty J. BurnsDuring her BOLT Residency Marty Burns was a teaching artist at the Smart Museum of Art and the University of Chicago. Currently she is the founder of the charitable organization 8⊙8 and is a teaching artist at the non-profit GallupArts, both in Gallup, Ne ...
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Azadeh GholizadehAzadeh Gholizadeh, is a Chicago-based artist and architect. Born in Tehran, Gholizadeh received her BA in architecture from Shahid Behest University (SBU), MA in architecture from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2009, and her MFA from ...
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Christopher OttingerChristopher Ottinger uses various media technologies to envision new histories and alternative uses for technical objects, employing an “object oriented” approach to media archaeology. His art has most recently been exhibited at Roger Williams Gallery, Lo ...
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Jessica CochranJessica Cochran is a Chicago-based curator and arts administrator currently affiliated with the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She has organized exhibitions for the Contemporary Arts Council, Poetry Foundation, Art Chicago/NEX ...
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Happy Collaborationists (Anna Trier & Meredith Weber)Happy Collaborations was a curatorial collective that existed from 2008-2013 to provided exhibition opportunities for performance, installation and media works, including (but not limited to) solo exhibitions, public programming and private event planning ...
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MK MeadorMK Meador is a writer and curator living in Chicago. After relocating to Chicago in 2007 from her hometown of Nashville, TN, she took up work as a freelance art handler and worked with collections in auction houses, museums and art galleries across the ci ...
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Alexandra Lee (ATYL)ATYL (alexandra lee) is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on installation and digital mixed-media. Her multi-layered, concept-driven work incorporates themes of tradition, femininity, myths, and justice, as well as the delicate interplay between hu ...
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Amanda GreiveIn Amanda Greive's art-making process, the portrayal of relationships symbolically through the interplay of objects in still-lifes or through figural work has been a priority. Greive relies heavily on the use of allegoryas a vehicle for the exploration of ...
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Barb BlacharcyzkBarbara Blacharczyk's drawings and multi-layered compositions on Mylar are based on elemental forms from nature. With her skillful mastery of materials, she creates complex explorations of how these forms and concepts intersect and build on one another, t ...
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Carole HennesseyCarole Hennessy explores the landscape of her life—both real and imagined—through the creative use of watercolor and related media. The changing seasons, colors and patterns provide an endless supply of ideas and subjects. A drive along any highway or bac ...
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Jim ZimpleJim Zimpel’s works constructs factual and imaginary entry points and rituals: they are the means to process, explore, and understand things that are actually, or perceived as, inaccessible. A meaningful fishing experience, a trip to a natural wonder, a pr ...
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Erik L. PetersonErik L. Peterson is a Chicago-based public artist, sculptor, and museum educator. Drawing on the vocabularies of traditional arts media along with architecture and transportation infrastructure, Erik L. Peterson creates site-specific installations, public ...
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Debra KayesDebra Kayes uses repetition of simple organic forms to explore the ways in which creatures large and small group to gain safety in numbers. Layered and repeated elements allow individuals to act as one. By investigating patterning techniques like emergenc ...
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Cydney LewisCydney Lewis is a Chicago artist who creates highly personal and intimate work, centering around ideas related to imagination, desire and the integration of art into daily life. Influenced by her background in ballet, architecture and film production des ...
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Sandra PerlowSandra Perlow's work is based on combinations of woodcut, monoprint, collage, and acrylic worked onto paper or canvas surfaces. The work begins with sketches that come from walks around the city; ideas that are developed come from these progressive sketc ...
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David WittigDavid Wittig was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wittig studied Photography and Political Science and graduated in 2000. His first solo show in 2006 in Northern Italy coincided with the publication of his first book, Alchimia Degli Elementi (P ...
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Oli RodriguezRodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Photography in Art Department at the California State University. He has shown recently at Bert Green Fine Art Gallery (2019), Alphawood Foundation (2017), DePaul Art Museum (2017), Hyde Park Art Center (2017), The A ...
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Jeannette TremblayJeannette Tremblay is an arts educator, administrator, and curator with a background in painting and a budding quiltmaking practice. Her current research focuses on the historical, legal, and cultural constructions of racial whiteness in America and criti ...
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Kevin OroniaNominated by Chicago State University Kevin Oronia's current work, Pinhole Portrait, is a series of photographs which use the camera obscura technique to depict individuals within spaces native to their daily existence. The juxtaposition of the camera obs ...
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Marcus McCoyNominated by Chicago State University Influenced by his upbringing in an impoverished area, subsequently witness to the city’s violent nature, Marcus McCoy’s graphic design focuses on effectively bridging the city’s cultural differences through visual rep ...
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Kristen KulaNominated by Columbia College Chicago Kristen Kula's current work, unPhotograph, is a series of photographs which examines and deconstructs the traditionally taught photographic process. The predetermined procedure of taking a photograph is identified thr ...
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Monica PizanoNominated by Columbia College Chicago Monica Pizano is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice functions as reflection - the physical creation of an analysis. Influenced by her identity as a first generation Mexican American, Pizano sees her position a ...
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Pilar AmadoNominated by Columbia College Chicago. Pilar Amado's practice addresses the history of conflict and its consequences in her home country of Colombia. War is ambiguous territory, and often leaves us with the desire to place blame, find a solution, an answe ...
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Daniel SanchezNominated by Harold Washington College Daniel Sanchez is a visual artist whose practice is influenced by nature, raw material and that which exists organically. Influenced by the intrinsic state of the planet, Sanchez incorporates raw and organic material ...
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Alia WilliamsNominated by Marwen Alia Williams is a multi-media artist who focuses on innovation and the ability to push boundaries. Inspired by the process of creation, Williams utilizes a variety of mediums including printmaking, photography, mixed media and metal w ...
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Katie ChungNominated by Marwen Katie Chung is a visual artist and designer whose work communicates as an optical concern of her own language delivered through imagery. A language which has been dawned by history and continues to grow with the present, Chung creates ...
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Maria MurczekNominated by Marwen Maria Murczek is a visual artist whose work focuses on the geometry of the photograph through line, shape and form. Historical and traditional references combined with an obsessive attention to detail, guide Murczek to depict the archi ...
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Lauren McKeeNominated by Northern Illinois University Lauren McKee is a visual artists whose work is influenced by themes of nostalgia, necessity and cataloging. Through the use of pattern and imagery as a form of communication, McKee compares the past and the presen ...
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Michael ConwayNominated by Harold Washington College Michael Conway is a visual artist who utilizes illustration and printmaking to bring a sense of humor to his work. Having been diagnosed with ADHD and self described as having a terrible time sequencing tasks, Conway ...
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Jaclyn BaeNominated by Northern Illinois University Jaclyn Bae is a visual artist whose work integrates aspects of Asian and Western culture, expressing the unique variety of her life experiences based on heritage, cultural gaps, and memories. By pinpointing histo ...
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Jake RacinaNominated by Northern Illinois University “I want the viewer to have the same feelings while looking at my work as they do when their brother-in-law takes them into the garage to show them the 1996 Ford Mustang that he just bought.” Jake Racina is an inte ...
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Natalie TarnowskiNominated by Northern Illinois University Inspired by the intricacies found within the organization of the universe, Natalie Tarnowski combines print media with experimental techniques and mediums, in an effort to use prints as three-dimensional elements. ...
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Amy LeeNominated by Northwestern University Amy Lee is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is influenced by psychology, time perception and memory. Time is the intellectual structure of a non-spatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible ...
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Ethan McGinnisNominated by Northwestern University According to Ethan McGinnis, painting is first a confrontation between painting and painter, and second, a confrontation between painting and viewer. A confrontation presupposes the confronter and the confronted. Menta ...
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Bryce Wynton JensenNominated by The University of Illinois at Chicago Bryce Jensen is a visual artist whose work explores issues of identity within the social context including acceptance or lack thereof. Inspired by his roots of being half African American and half Caucasi ...
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Eric PerezNominated by The University of Illinois at Chicago “I believe in the cliché that anything and everything is art. l loathe being specific.” Eric Perez is a visual artist whose work is influenced by cliche and perspective. Finding comfort in being broad, co ...
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Kayla AndersonKayla Anderson participates in the art world as an interdisciplinary artist, a critical writer, a sometimes-curator, a precarious administrator, and an aspiring educator. Their visual practice is time-based, spanning video (single channel, and multi-chann ...
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Lida WuNominated by The University of Chicago Lida Wu is a painter, critic and translator, who’s work is influenced by the relationship between the verbal and visual arts. There is no way to create paintings today without addressing the state of painting itself ...
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Yanping WuNominated by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Yanping Wu is a visual artist whose work is influenced by her upbringing in a small village of the urban-rural fringe where the traditional way of living was preserved. Summer nights spent listening ...
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Kekeli SumahNominated by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Kekeli Sumah is a visual artist whose work explores the cultural politics of globalization and the construction of identity, particularly the interrelationship between Europe and Africa. By mingling ...
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Argyris AngeliNominated by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Argyris Angeli is a visual artist whose work reflects on the tensions between stability, disorientation, the definitive and the relative by studying human identities, perceptions and interactions. Fo ...
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Huayi WangNominated by Northwestern University Studies of sub conscious and subatomic conscious try to pry open the inner self, but this opening up, this exposure, readily creates another surface of outside things, which interact with what was once hidden and chang ...
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Christine Harrison FreiNominated by The University of Illinois at Chicago Christine Harrison Frei is a visual artist whose practice focuses on stretching and pushing of photographic mediums as a means with which to explore our relationship with images. Examining the place wher ...
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Martin HernandezNominated by The University of Illinois at Chicago Martin Hernandez Rosas is a video artist whose work explores universal emotions and the relative relationship between any two given counterparts. Focusing on Cinema Verite, he proceeds to capture the emo ...
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Maggie PuckettMaggie Puckett is an activist, educator, and interdisciplinary artist, combining art and science to explore the complicated history and future of anthropogenic effects on the Earth’s systems. Through handmade paper, artist’s books, and environmental works ...
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Bryan SanerBryan Saner is an interdisciplinary art practitioner focusing on the creation of performances, activist art events, neighborhood evolution and appropriately designed objects. He teaches workshops, mentors and lectures locally, nationally and international ...
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Houston CofieldHouston Cofield is a photographer who uses video and objects to create fictional narratives. Originally from Memphis, Cofield has a deep interest and roots in the photographic tradition that draws heavily on ideas of place, myth, folklore and romance. S ...
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Myra GreeneMyra Greene was born in New York City and received her B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and her M.F.A. in photography from the University of New Mexico. She currently resides in Chicago Il, where she is an Associate Professor of Photography ...
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Norman W. LongNorman W. Long is a sound artist/designer/composer born and raised on the south side of Chicago. His current work focuses on sound art production within the larger context of landscape. He has exhibited and/or performed in galleries Chicago, Ithaca, New ...
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Phil PetersPhil Peters generates work at the intersection of culture and technology, exploring emergent connections between the physical and the digital and our expanding relationship to place and site. Through a process of synthesis, reconstruction, and dislocati ...
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Sanaz SohrabiSanaz Sohrabi is an artist and filmmaker who works across moving/still image practices and video installation to analyze the status of moving image as a gateway to a larger investigation around the role of archives as the materials of times and spaces of ...
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Spencer StuckySpencer Stucky utilizes photography, video, sculpture and installation to examine and illustrate relationships between architectural, biological, historical and political fields. He is particularly interested in the ways that architecture allows us to exa ...
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Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-PereraAlejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera is an emerging artist from Havana, Cuba. Working across the mediums of video, photography, painting, installation and text, Diaz-Perera presents metaphors to illustrate how relationships are established among social individ ...
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Allison LacherAllison Lacher is an artist and curator based in Springfield, IL. Her work orbits collaboration, site-responsiveness and installation. She is the Exhibitions Manager at the University of Illinois Visual Arts Gallery and she is a founding member of the art ...
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Sadie WoodsAward winning artist Sadie Woods has had an exciting career, showcasing her talents everywhere from academia to nightclubs, boutiques to museums. As a multidisciplinary artist, curator and deejay, Woods' work focuses primarily on cultural memory and prese ...
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La Keisha LeekLa Keisha Leek is a writer, arts administrator and curator who graduated with a BA in Art History from Columbia College Chicago. Her interests are architecture, race, performance, and site-specific projects that investigate the ways bodies and objects off ...
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Jaxon PallasJaxon Pallas is an artist, archivist, curator, and educator primarily concerned with projects at the intersection of the personal, the popular, and the political. He organizes shows as curator for the City Colleges of Chicago under the name Pedestrian Pr ...
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Amy Mooney
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Karsten Lund
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Hyounsang YooHyounsang Yoo explores relationships between history and ideas of production of reality through photography, video, installation and sculpture. His work has been exhibited in the Bridge Art Fair, NY; EXPO Chicago; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a ...
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Nathan Mason
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Tracye A. Matthews
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Casey SmallwoodCasey Smallwood creates lens-based performances in order to study and articulate an as-yet inarticulate space navigated by the performer. The viewer’s relationship with the performer relies heavily on cinematography, carrying its own wavering perspectiv ...
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Hideous BeastHideous Beast is a collaboration between Josh Ippel and Charlie Roderick. Since 2004 they have worked organizing structured participatory events, publishing how-to manuals and most recently creating interactive sculptures and installations that examine ...
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Alejandro T. AciertoAlejandro T. Acierto is a Chicago based artist and musician mostly working in time-based media. He has exhibited solo shows in Chicago, Madison, Denver, and Berlin and also shown in group shows in New York, LA, and San Francisco. He has presented perfo ...
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Ali AschmanAli Aschman creates hand-made worlds exploring emotional states. Hybridity, transformation, alienation and guilt are recurring themes. She is interested in the brutality people inflict on one another, physically and emotionally, and the impulses they su ...
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Andy RocheAndy Roche is an artist and filmmaker originally from Dubuque, Iowa. He has an MFA from SAIC and a BFA from the University of Iowa. In recent years his projects have been concerned with: braided breads, folk art knot-boards, cursive handwriting and life ...
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Blair BoginBlair Bogin makes video, takes photo, writes and performs. Through various forms of documentary, she explores the urge to differentiate oneself with the paradoxical longing to intimately fuse with others. This oscillation from a sense of singularity to ...
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Danny VolkDanny Volk explores the nature and nuance of social structures and interpersonal relationships through broadscale, time-based projects and events often documented serially in various media. While referencing and drawing influence from sociological theory ...
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Hui-min TsenHui-min Tsen is a photo-based, interdisciplinary artist whose work contemplates the spatial and mental landscapes residing in the gap between Here and There. In projects ranging from walking tours to boat building to works on paper, she uses research and ...
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Jeffrey Michael AustinJeffrey Michael Austin is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Chicago. As a visual artist, Austin works primarily in sculpture and installation, composing situations characterized by instability, impermanence and illusion. His work has been e ...
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Jessica CaponigroIn her interdisciplinary practice, Jessica Caponigro creates physical objects, installations, and multiples, as well as writes and facilitates participatory actions. Her work blends accessible and egalitarian concepts with ritual and performance, explorin ...
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Julie WeberUtilizing, pushing, and undoing conventional processes behind photographic image making, Weber reconsiders the fundamental aspects of the medium, namely paper, light, and chemicals. Weber holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and a BA from Dominica ...
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LeRoy BachLeRoy Bach is a Chicago-based musician, composer, instigator. His practice includes site-specific presentations, live-music installations, public meditations, and the development of a personal musical poetics. Bach was a 2013 artist-in-residence at th ...
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Maya MackrandilalMaya Mackrandilal is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles. Her work infiltrates the cultural vernacular with radical imaginations of the future. She performs as Hindu goddesses incarnated within the dominant cult ...
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Rachel E. FosterRachel E. Foster is an artist, writer, and printmaker living in Chicago. She has an MFA from the California College of the Arts and a BFA from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been shown at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Pittsburgh Ce ...
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Rafael E. VeraRafael E. Vera received his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he was a recipient of the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship Award and the George L. and Roman Siegel Fellowship Award. In 2013, he received the 3Arts Ragdale Reside ...
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Kelly LloydI am interested in the idiosyncrasies that structure normalcy, and how we makeshift our understanding of the world on a daily basis in order to psychologically and physically navigate it. I try to examine this by organizing my materials through my pecul ...
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Ryan ThompsonRyan Thompson lives and works in Chicago, IL where he is an artist and Associate Professor of Art & Design at Trinity Christian College. His ongoing Department of Natural History projects engage a range of complex and peculiar relationships between ...
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Snow Yunxue FuSnow Yunxue Fu is a Chinese-born and US-based artist, curator, and faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago, exploring the aesthetic and philosophical experience of the digital sublime through a wide ...
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Stevie HanleyIf height is power, what is baseness? What happens when the base is elevated or venerated? Architecture’s relation to affect has been a deep concern of my practice. The peripheral, yet structurally necessary space of the corner has served as a key site ...
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Esau McGheeMuch of my research and artist practice concentrates on a critique of image construction through strategies of image making. Beginning with a photographic investigation of urban space in my native Philadelphia I have increasingly honed in on topics of c ...
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Andrew RosinskiAndrew Rosinski (b. 1987, Traverse City, Michigan, USA), is a visual artist, curator, and writer who received his BA from Columbia College in Film & Video with a concentration in post-production and documentary & ethnographic film. In 2009, he f ...
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Abigail WiseNominated by Marwen I am interested in the process of converting our natural environment into sculpture. For each piece, I spend time observing, recording and researching a phenomenon in nature and then attempt to recreate it. I am interested in how the v ...
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Christian TerzichNominated by Columbia College My past experiences, my daily encounters, my future endeavors; They all culminate into something that rarely becomes prevalent in the same way. It’s hard to explain. The answer is never straight-forward, the feeling is always ...
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Anthony RomeroAnthony Romero is a Chicago artist, writer, and curator interested in documenting and supporting artists and communities whose narratives and practices are often excluded from art historical narratives and exhibitions. His projects and performances have b ...
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Abigail SatinskyAbigail Satinsky is the Interim Executive and Artistic Director at Threewalls in Chicago, a twelve year old non-profit supporting Chicago artists and the contemporary art community through exhibitions, publications, professional development and public pro ...
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Diana ChangNominated by Northwestern University My work aims to be widely accessible. The fine arts have long been an exclusive privilege of the elite. My work aims to break these socio-economic prejudices and return art to its purpose (if such exists) to dialog wit ...
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Yasmin PanjwaniNominated by Harold Washington College I create art by using various methods and mediums such as digital processing, printmaking, and ink drawings. I am continuously learning new ways to make art. My work is made through the combination of the modern and ...
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Zuri WashingtonNominated by Northern Illinois University. My art deals with things ‘off limits’ to me--I've been harboring the feelings of a child repressed. I am the culmination of years of hard work, of tears and blood, of fights and deafening silences. My work is abo ...
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Margaret BoylanNominated by Northern Illinois University I draw on geology and geography for their organic and amorphous abstract possibilities. I focus on land forms and loosely on architecture because I’m heavily influenced by the exterior and interior spaces I pass t ...
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Aurora GrajedaNominated by Marwen My work focuses on cultural images as a first generation Mexican American young woman and the connections and disconnections between the lifestyle of my immigrant parents and the one I have built for myself. My cultural roots and tradi ...
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Nicole KaufmanNominated by SAIC A single brick lying abandoned on the side of the road or in a field is capable of very little on its own. It is a single and modular unit, but take that brick and replicate it 1,000 times and now it has unlimited potential to be apart o ...
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Bryan VoltaNominated by UIC I take great interest in human psychology regarding obsessive and compulsory actions. This interest stems in part from my career as a sleep technologist conducting research on nocturnal human behavior. My experiences have given me insight ...
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Gabriela VasquezNominated by Harold Washington College Art is an expression. Some use it to express their opinions on certain matters, and others use it for themselves. In the work I create the focus is on randomness. The combination of everyday objects, people, thoughts ...
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Amiko LiNominated by SAIC From the tropical plants trembling outside the brick wall in Xujiahui Park in Shanghai, to the poinsettia growing under an escalator in Union Station in Chicago, I explore places with doubts. My desire to do so is informed by a constant ...
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Adriana CastroNominated by UIC The Female: Her intimate / public role, her sexuality, and the origins her selfhood are my obsessions – what I think about all the time. As an artist, I often let what obsesses me guide my process of art making. I work within these themes ...
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Dillon CoulahanNominated by Northern Illinois University I create objects because I want them to inform me. My work supervises the fragile relationship between boredom and distress. I deal with insecurities, fears of death, and the threat of lingering vacancies by focus ...
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Jaymes FedorNominated by Northern Illinois University My paintings serve as exorcisms. The theories, conditions, and ideals that sit dogmatically in my head expel themselves through a meticulously rendered visual. Intersectional feminism, evolutionary biology, art hi ...
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Kiernan MillerNominated by Columbia College As an artist of multiple mediums, I am constantly balancing my different loves with one another. The dancer in me manifests itself in my body as well as through the camera lens. I see it at play while directing subjects to an ...
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Titus WonseyNominated by UIC The Path to the Supplement for the Perceived Deficiency I am invested in learning how “to be.” I investigate the subtle, important and/or common details that are hidden in plain sight in the environments that surround us. Employing differ ...
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Deborah CulbrethNominated by Chicago State University It is important to record the mundane occurrences of everyday life for future consideration. Artist and historian Margaret Burroughs said the “purpose of art is to record the time.” That is theme of my work. All being ...
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Lucas BallesterNominated by Columbia College Lucas Ballester’s work triangulates a conversation among the formal, the object, and the body. His experimental process seeks to expose the linear nature of relationships via object surrogate, and to compose them so that the ...
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Taylor EdinNominated by Columbia College I interpret the world through sculpture, installation, video, and photography in any combination that is necessary. With these as tools, I dissect language, culture, media, and the various environments I find myself in. Image ...
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Lee KintnerNominated by Marwen Lee Kintner is a Chicago based artist whose work ranges in a variety of mediums. Her preferred focuses are drawing, painting, darkroom or digital photography, and letterpress printing. She combines traditional drawing with digital desi ...
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Madeline DeligiannisNominated by Northern Illinois University As a child, my inability to speak had me placed into a special preschool in order to stop speaking gibberish. While my ability to speak has improved, I don’t think I ever mastered the process of taking what is in ...
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Jaclyn JacunskiJaclyn Jacunski is a printmaker, sculptor, organizer, writer, and teacher whose art considers the productive engagement of vacant spaces, gentrified neighbors, and contested landscapes. Her works questions what is present in the land and what has been l ...
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Iris BernblumIris Bernblum is a multi-media artist. She explores ideas around tension and release, power and play, fantasy and escape using a range of media, including writing, video, photography, and sculpture. She is interested in the boundaries between the normal ...
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Leonard SuryajayaInfluenced by the cultural milieu of inter-ethnic relations in Indonesia, Leonard Suryajaya’s work explores intricate and complicated layers of selfhood in the context of cultural background, intimacy, sexual preference, and personal displacement. By ut ...
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Aram Han SifuentesAram Han Sifuentes is a fiber, social practice, and performance artist who works to claim spaces for immigrant and disenfranchised communities. Her work often revolves around skill sharing, specifically sewing techniques, to create multiethnic and interge ...
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Suzette BrossSuzette Bross is a lens-based artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Her practice explores notions of time, technology, liminality and community. Consistently addressed in her projects are the spaces in between time that occur in everyday life, c ...
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David AlekhuogieDavid Alekhuogie (b. 1986, Los Angeles, CA) attended the University of California at Berkley where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and minored in ethnomusicology before his transition to art-making. Alekhuogie began making photographs while w ...
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Amina RossAn undisciplined creator. Amina Ross creates boundary-crossing works that embrace embodiment, imaging technologies, intimacy and collectivity in physical and digital spaces. Amina has exhibited work, spoken on panels and taught workshops at venues through ...
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David Bodhi BoylanDavid Bodhi Boylan’s work in wood sculpture aims to freeze moments of material transience and imperfection, and elevate them to significant subjects of artistic intervention. He holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago and a BFA from the Schoo ...
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Cara Megan LewisCara Megan Lewis is an artist, curator and creative consultant based in Chicago. Having cut her teeth at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco in 2002, Lewis has worked in the realm of commercial galleries for over 10 years. Lewis currently holds the position ...
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Danny OrendorffDanny Orendorff is a curator, writer, teacher, and activist currently working as Programming Associate for Threewalls, a non-profit gallery in Chicago, IL. Orendorff was previously Curator-in-Residence & Interim Director of Artistic Programs for The C ...
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Felicia HolmanLifelong Chicagoan/artist and Prince "fam" Felicia Holman is an independent cultural producer/programmer and facilitator, as well as a co-founder of Honey Pot Performance. As both artist and producer, Felicia presents and supports innovative interdiscipli ...
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J. Gibran VillalobosJ. Gibran Villalobos is an administrator, curator, and art historian who is an alum of CAC’s HATCH residency. In 2016 he was elected to attend the Advocacy Leadership Institute where he was invited to the White House Office of Public Engagement, the Natio ...
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James Pepper KellyJames Pepper Kelly is a writer, maker, and arts administrator with a background in English and Studio Art from Wesleyan University. He serves as Executive Director of LATITUDE and Managing Director of Filter Photo. His writing has been featured by ArtSlan ...
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Jessica PierottiJessica Pierotti is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and educator with an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Jessica joined LATITUDE as Deputy Director in May 2016 and transitione ...
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Kate DumbletonKate Dumbleton is an Assistant Professor of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she also leads the Management Studio in its graduate program. She is also the Executive and Artistic Director of the Hyd ...
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Kate BowenKate Bowen is an artist, curator, and teacher living and working in Chicago. She is the Acting Executive Director at ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions) and the Video Programming Coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. S ...
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Kate SchuttaKate Schutta is an artist, educator, and Director of Career and Professional Experience (CAPX) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kate Schutta advises students and alumni/ae on professional and job search strategies and coordinates Career an ...
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Matt MorrisMatt Morris is an artist, writer, and sometimes curator based in Chicago. He has presented artwork in Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Memphis, TN; Reims, France; Greencastle, IN; Lincoln, NE; Cincinnati, OH; and Baton Rouge, LA. Morris is a transplant from ...
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Allyson EspositoAllyson Esposito has served as the Director of the Cultural Grants Program for DCASE since October 2012. Prior to her work with DCASE, Allyson served as the Program Officer for the Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation in Highland Park, IL. She came ...
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Aron GentAron Gent (Born 1985) is an artist, gallerist and professional print maker residing in Chicago, IL. He received a degree from Columbia College Chicago and has been a lecturer and educator at the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee institute of Art and Des ...
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Benjamin ChaffeeBenjamin Chaffee (b. 1977, New York, NY) lives and works in Chicago. He received his MFA in 2011 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the Director at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago.
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Claire DemosClaire Demos is a visual artist and freelance photographer based in Chicago, IL. In additional to her photography, she works as a law clerk and recently became a member of The Chicago Perch as the Director of Finance and Administration. Claire received he ...
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Julie HerwittJulie Herwitt CPA has over 25 years of experience working with small businesses and individuals. Additionally, Julie has a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibits her paintings throughout the US. This dual personality is what allo ...
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Patrice Perkins
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Regin IgloriaRegin Igloria maintains a studio practice which revolves around teaching and serving as an arts administrator. He teaches studio courses at Marwen, and has also taught at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Rhode Island School of Design, and various workshops thr ...
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Sharmyn Cruz RiveraSharmyn Cruz Rivera is a Puerto Rican curator based in Chicago. Her curatorial endeavors and research revolve around sound art, video, contemporary dance, performance art, and human geography. She started as an independent curator and art writer for The F ...
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Brett SwinneyBorn on the northwest side of Chicago, Brett Swinney graduated from Columbia College with a B.A. in Photography 2004, to then work in the commercial photography industry for several years. During that time, he started to investigate ways to develop cultur ...
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Kate PollaschKate Pollasch is an art historian, curator, and writer. Her curatorial practice interrogates preexisting notions of history and normativity through queer tactics, network theory, archival studies, and considerations of affect and digital pedagogy. In 201 ...
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George William PriceGeorge William Price is an arts administrator and curator invested in artistic and political expressions that engender alternative, avuncular, and non-hierarchical histories. He was the founder and director of FLATspace, a curatorial project created to fu ...
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Steven L. Bridges
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Robyn Farrell
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Lorelei Stewart
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Tricia Van EckTricia Van Eck is Artistic Director and Founder of 6108North, which challenges what art is, whom it’s for, and where and how it is created. 6018North creates unique experiences within intimate spaces. In the process, we empower artists to work together an ...
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Alex CalhounAlex Calhoun is an artist living and working in Chicago, IL, where she received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from the University of Chicago. Alex is primarily concerned with material histories and function, continual ...
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Angela Davis FeganAngela Davis Fegan is a native of Chicago’s South Side. A graduate of Chicago’s famed Whitney Young High School, she received her BFA in Fine Arts from New York’s Parsons School of Design and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia ...
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Austen BrownAusten Brown is an artist living in Chicago, IL holding his Master of Fine Arts from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago. Using geography and a site-based practice, he works with sound, video, and installation to draw conceptual lines between sites ...
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B. QuinnB. Quinn’s interdisciplinary practice addresses the constraints of language, the sensibilities of painting, and a combination of research and idiosyncratic making that emphasizes the duality within materials themselves. Quinn was born in Pittsburgh, Pa, a ...
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Bobbi MeierBobbi Meier is a Chicago-based visual artist working in sculpture, drawing, photography and installation. Through her abstract soft sculptures and domestically focused installations Meier explores themes of sensuality, emotional struggle and loss. Ambigui ...
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Bryan C. McVeyBryan McVey's work is dynamic in nature, and spans a multitude of spaces and environments, including travel, human endurance, the body, as well as urban and rural subjects. The essence of my muse stems from experiences traveling and participating in end ...
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Caleb YonoCaleb Yono is an interdisciplinary artist working to mediate discursive signs and affects of identity, class, and sexuality through representations of bodies charged with queer potential and tendencies. Through his practice, Caleb hopes to create relation ...
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Carla Fisher SchwartzCarla Fisher Schwartz is a visual artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Her studio practice examines the conceptual and poetic implications of mapmaking through print media, sculpture, and video installation. Her work has been exhibited at venues incl ...
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Cassandra StadnickiCassandra Stadnicki is a multidisciplinary artist investigating the human perception of reality. She examines the relationship between natural, tactile, and digital matter and how one influences the other. Her work focuses on a variety of subjects includi ...
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Erika RåbergErika Råberg is a visual artist and writer who uses both still and moving images to explore the subtle relationships built into her surrounding environments, whether on the farm in rural Sweden which has been in her family since the 1600s or in and around ...
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Hannah GivlerHannah Givler is a sculptor whose inquiry is based around phenomenology, experiences of space, objects, and systems of value. She holds a MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institiute of Chicago, and continues her informal educat ...
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Hillary WiedemannHillary Wiedemann is interested in the transience of perception and the shifts that occur between the passive and active states of experience, as well as the moments when you are looking and then see, and when you are hearing and then listen. Using contro ...
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Jeremiah JonesJeremiah Jones is an artist, ex-con, post-activist, anarchist, now posing as posh-dandy engaged in precarious sojourns. He creates installations and videos that explore the complex histories, landscapes and relationships that form our world. His process i ...
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Jessica HarveyJessica Harvey is a Chicago-based visual artist who uses photography, installation, and archival materials to explore the myths we create for ourselves and nature while trying to preserve a more desired history. She has attended residencies at ACRE, Ande ...
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John Steck Jr.John Steck Jr. is a visual artist from Chicago who received his BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited across fifteen states as well as in Iceland, Hungary, and Tokyo. Steck ha ...
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Jon ChambersJon Chambers is an artist and educator based in Chicago. He received his MFA in New Media Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012 and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chambers produces art using technological ...
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Leander Mienardus KnustLeander Mienardus Knust creates environments, constructs things, and composes music. His sculptural works invite us to question relationships to the material world while remaining honest to their personal histories. His music, often employed to reflect ...
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Marina Miliou-TheocharakiBorn in Athens, Greece, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and dancer. In her practice, definitions of culture and ethnic identity are silently confronted. The spatial and conceptual drift between fictional and socio-politic ...
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Raul De LaraIt’s all in the tongue. De Lara relies on physical humor, seduction, and the uncanny to create provocative and enigmatic sculptures. He explores the complexities of wood species as he finds them to hold infinite formal possibilities and inherent beauty. H ...
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Soheila AzadiSoheila Azadi is a visual artist focused on performance practice and performative installations. Her practice involves human interactions within the public sphere, while investigating these social interactions through artistic and critical frames. Her per ...
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Woomin KimWoomin Kim works with the edge of things; where they meet with the world. The edge vibrates as each side absorbs or reflects the other. She touches, rubs, sands, and covers things around her to break her habitual perception and reveal the gap between what ...
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YalooHello! I am Yaloo. I am an active culture maker, a poetic gleaner, and a perpetual fresh-off-the-boat. I have recently started a project Yaloofarm (tentative title) about cornhead aliens and their new fancy tractors. The aliens are fascinated by the swagg ...
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Anansi kNOwBodyA recent MFA graduate of Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, Anansi's work offers perspective through a lens of cynicism. By means of conceptualization, appropriation, image, and sound manipulation, visceral/violent performance an ...
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Barbara A DienerBarbara Diener photographs in rural communities in Illinois that are reminiscent of the town in Germany where she grew up. Through the landscape and people she encounters she explores her own relationship to ideas of home, personal history and collective ...
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Amy FlemingNominated by Northern Illinois University Exploring the paranormal, the uncanny, and the fear of the unknown, I experiment with different types of film and darkroom techniques. I have a tendency to trick the audience into thinking they are seeing somethi ...
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Marlo KochNominiated by Columbia College Chicago My mind lives in a hot wet hole in my body” -Barbara DeGenevieve In the tradition of Barbara DeGenevieve’s groundbreaking and courageous exploration of a new sex-positive feminism, my work records my own emergence i ...
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Sydney ShaversSydney Shavers is an artist whose photographs, collages, films, performances and sound pieces question established conventions and spaces of existence. In her adolescence she switched schools frequently going from one that was racially diverse to a school ...
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Pablo AndinoNominated by SAIC My work poses a dialogue with the question of abstraction in art as well as with the notion of increasing abstraction of social relations under late capitalism. It proposes to liberate abstraction from its common definition: a set of ge ...
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Jennifer Tshab HerNominated by UIC My work demonstrates and complicates the politics of displacement through my experience as a first generation Hmong-American. As an ethnic minority from Southeast Asia with no homeland, I have a desire to be heard and to be valued. I fear ...
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Samantha BeldenNominated by Columbia College Chicago Helen, Your flowers bend with age. Your curtains collect dust as your home shifts into another. You sit, simply watching television and telling me you’ve been waiting for this moment of retirement your whole life. Y ...
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Lorenzo ConteNominated by University of Chicago I explore Text— as Object, as Body, as Code. What began as a fascination with how words are arranged upon the page has given way to an exploration of word and phrase as sculptural bodies. Word that is as present in spac ...
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Kanthy PengNominated by SAIC Through creating half-documentary, half-fictional narratives of my intimate relationship and its impact on my family, I reenact my life as an Asian woman in the Western world. This reflects upon the West’s categorization of femininity, ...
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Yesenia BelloYesenia Bello lives and works in Chicago. Her work reflects on lived experiences as a first-generation Mexican-American and especially responds to the loss and regain of her first language over time. Her installations, drawings, and sculptures have been p ...
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Emily SouersNominated by Marwen I combine materials with different structural and aesthetic qualities to produce objects with both hard and soft components, archival and biodegradable. When exposed to elements such as water, temperature change, or erosion, each mate ...
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Timothy EricksonNominated by North Park University I look forward, into the possibilities, the consequences, the experience of the unknown I must go forward it is inevitable, to keep going because there is no turning back A step forward means letting go, the end of, but ...
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Steven MasnjakNominated by Columbia College Chicago I consciously work to investigate the dogmatic contemporary assertion of material as the real. Through my work I create a dialogue between contemporary culture, rooted in the material, and ancient culture, rooted in ...
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Jodi RobertsonNominated by Northern Illinois University My work conveys thoughts and emotions that I fear will be dismissed if stated verbally. I make work based off of experiences and social interactions where my interpretations are impacted by my strict conservativ ...
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Brittany NickelsNominated by Northern Illinois University We all watch each other. Nuances in the interactions we partake in speak as there is always something to relate to in the subtleties of behavior. These relatable moments are the ones I care to capture and have as ...
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Michael GrossNominated by Northwestern Univeristy I make images, animations, and installations aimed at making the viewer nervously laugh. Nervously because it implies there is more going on within them than simple reaction to the cleverness of a joke or its executio ...
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Shistine PetersonNominated by Northern Illinois University Through most of my art school experience, by work has had a great focus on self-reflection, family, nostalgia, and the transitions that go along with the human experience. The four photos I’ve included are from o ...
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Jennifer FaganNominated by Columbia College Working in photography, video, and performance, I explore the weight of patriarchy. I am interested in the performative nature of gender but more specifically, the constructions of fatherhood and masculinity. Patriarch and Me ...
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Ginger KrebsGinger Krebs has been creating, performing and directing multi-disciplinary performance projects since 2005. Her work has been presented recently in Chicago at the Storefront Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hyde Park Art Center, and site-spe ...
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Amanda Joy CalobrisiHer paintings are experiential, psychological and inhabited by new feminist archetypes. These painted forms reveal themselves through heightened color, loose pattern, and uncouth texture. Organic shapes and tangled marks are executed with a loaded brush. ...
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Luis SahagunLuis Sahagun is a multi-disciplinary artist that confronts the palpable inescapability of race and transforms art into an act of cultural reclamation. Like DNA strings of mestizaje, his practice metaphorically represents contradiction — indian/conqueror, ...
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Hương NgôHương Ngô (Huong Ngo, Ngô Ngọc Hương, 吳玉香) is an interdisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice connects the personal and the political, giving material form to histories which have been rendered invisible and interrogating the ideological origins of ...
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Yvette MayorgaYvette Mayorga is an interdisciplinary artist. She uses confection, industrial materials, and the American board game Candy Land as a conceptual framework to juxtapose the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico. The spaces in the “Candy Lands” of her work rel ...
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Juan Camilo GuzmánJuan Camilo Guzmán is interested in shopping. He chooses images from mass culture to talk about politics, art, painting, cultural issues, taste, the material world, pleasure, power, sexuality, gender and the role of the artist’s external life in the large ...
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Annette HurBorn in South Korea, Annette Hur lives and works in New York City. By working with abstraction on large scale oil paintings and Korean silk textiles, Hur investigates the inherited traditional culture that subconsciously manipulates and subverts female se ...
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Kaveri RainaKaveri Raina’s artistic journey began as a response to an unfamiliar environment. She was born in New Delhi, India but moved to the States at the age of eleven for a better future. Metaphorically, her work focuses on her need to explore the often-conflict ...
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Mayumi LakeMayumi Lake (b. Osaka, Japan) is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work delves into childhood and pubescent dreams, phobia and desires. She employs herself and others as her models, as well as dolls, toys, weapons, vintage clothes, and altered landscapes ...
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Asia SaundersNominated by Chicago State University I have always believed my art to be a reflection of how I see things. As far back as I can remember, I was intrigued by color, shape, and figuring out how things worked by taking things apart and putting them back to ...
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Caroline GerberickNominated by SAIC My work relies on structures that exist within both material processes and memory. Through creating woven substrates that are then screen printed and altered a trace or imprint of a structure can be revealed. I relate these ideas of str ...
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Caroline StearnsCaroline Stearns is the Director of THE MISSION, a contemporary art gallery located in West Town that represents artists from the United States and Latin America. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and in Biology from Lake Forest College, St ...
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D. Denenge Duyst-AkpemDenenge is a space sculptor whose award-winning teaching, art, and writing bridge disciplines of ritual, design, ecology, and Afrofuturity. Her fantastical interactive environments and performances, guided by hybrid archetypal beings through liminal space ...
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Damon LocksDamon Locks is a Chicago based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician, and deejay. He attended The Art Institute in Chicago where he received his BFA in Fine Arts. Recently, he has been lending his artistic and/or teaching talents to organizations suc ...
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Dana BassettDana Bassett has been described as a writer, producer, problem solver, logistical coordinator, fundraiser, shapeshifter, talker, listener and a sensitive, yet demanding, soul. Born in Miami Florida the same year Michael Jackson’s Bad was released, Dana cu ...
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Edra SotoEdra Soto (b. Puerto Rico) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and co-director of the outdoor project space THE FRANKLIN. She is invested in creating and providing visual and educational models propelled by empathy and generosi ...
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Jason KalajainenJason Kalajainen is the Executive Director of the Luminarts Cultural Foundation at the Union League Club of Chicago. Jason is responsible for developing andimplementing programs and a funding strategy that fosters the Foundation’s mission of supporting in ...
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Jesse MalmedJesse Malmed is an artist and curator, working in video, performance, text, occasional objects and their gaps and overlaps. He has performed, screened and exhibited at museums, microcinemas, film festivals, galleries, bars and barns, including recent solo ...
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Katharine Schutta
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Lynn BasaThe work of Chicago-based artist Lynn Basa can be found in public and private collections around the U.S. In addition to doing site-specific commissions, she has a studio practice making objects around themes of accidents, awkwardness and secrets. She is ...
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Matt AustinMatt Austin is a book designer and publisher based in Chicago. He started and co-runs Candor Arts, a small art book press that publishes books about life, learning, and healing.
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Sara SlawnikSara Slawnik joined the 3Arts staff as its first Director of Programs in 2014, after working in the nonprofit arts sector since 2002. In her role at 3Arts, Sara oversees all programming, including the annual 3Arts Awards program, 3AP (3Arts Projects), res ...
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Ashley Thompsonas i write this, i want to rewrite it. tomorrow it will change. i'll feel differently. i believe in myself and the universe providing. i respect bold moves, no shame, and desires for making people feel uncomfortable. be it. i'm an intense critic of ...
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Ayesha SaeedI see ?possibilities? now in the photographs I take. The work is heavilyinvested in an epiphany I had at the Art Institute of Chicago with DutchModernist Theo Van Doesburg?s painting Counter Composition VIII. It has an oddtilted framed that seemed to cau ...
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Brittany KrohmerMy work explores the relationship between the human condition andthe eagerness to understand past memories. As we move forward in time,we leave traces of who we are which dictates how we will be perceived byfuture generations. Through the collection of ...
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Courtney MackedanzMy work highlights thesimilarities between big and small--between whathappens on the bus and what happens on the news. With a jovial spirit and bullish ambition, my work takes on questions of meaning in both art and the human endeavor. My performances af ...
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David Lloyd
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Eric CortezFine art is a creative outlet which enables me to express myself and how I perceive the world around me. The search for truth often leads me think about certain aspects of my life in a compulsive manner. Therefore, I draw about my thoughts in order to e ...
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Melaney MitchellI make work that shows the connection between people and the spaces we occupy. Both physically and digitally, we create browsable identities of ourselves. We are naturally attached to the idea of home, we work to make it ours and personify ourselves wi ...
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Samantha SerranoI use photography as a means to examine the relationship one had with domestic space. The focus of domesticity steams from my summer taking care of my 8-month-old sister. The confinement of being at home left me wondering how my summer would have played o ...
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Danny FloydDanny Floyd is a curator, artist, researcher, and educator based out of Chicago. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, an MA in Visual and Critical Studies, and an MFA in Sculpture both from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His ...
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Sheridan Tucker AndersonSheridan Tucker Anderson is a Chicago based curator, art historian and arts advocate. She has curated exhibitions at the School of the Art institute of Chicago, the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Artists Coalition ...
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Ariel GentalenAriel Gentalen is an educator, curator, and arts organizer seeking to diversify narratives and create platforms for engaging critical dialogue, among artists, artwork and audience. Their current research focuses on situating socially engaged art in theori ...
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Meg T. NoeMeg T. Noe is an interdisciplinary artist and curator. Her curatorial practice studies aesthetics and politics. Through her work as the Exhibitions and Programming Director at Weinberg/Newton Gallery (Chicago, IL), Meg curates exhibitions focused on issue ...
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Chelsey SinceŕrayAs a documentary artist and creative director, I create and curate projects by witnessing and documenting lives in today’s urban society through photography, video and radio. I am a 2016 graduate of The Remix Project (Chicago Chapter) and currently a 2016 ...
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Gretchen HasseGretchen Hasse is a storyteller working in comics, collage, public art, and moving images. She holds a BA in Anthropology from Northern Illinois University, and an MFA in Film, Video and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has e ...
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Anne Hayden StevensI make work about women’s experience in the world. My work is figurative, and uses the landscape as a vehicle for provoking emotional responses about our common experience. In my mind, I am on the trajectory of a serious working artist. Conceptually, I am ...
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Becky GrajedaBecky Grajeda is a sound artist based in Chicago. Brought up in southern California in a multiracial and multilingual household, she gained a great appreciation and ear for languages and their nuances and the variances in people's voices. She studied voca ...
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Cassie TompkinsCassie Tompkins is a Chicago-based, interdisciplinary artist and designer. She has worked with many different mediums, including photography, printmaking, and textiles, almost always exploiting light, pattern, color, and the little bits of beauty that are ...
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Christina VillaChristina derives her inspiration from nature and ordinary encounters. Her work explores the subtleties of light, color, movement, time, texture and genuine gestures. Working in a range of mediums: acrylic, watercolor, clay, and pen, allows her to articul ...
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Jasmine Clarkam the daughter of two United States Marines and grew up in a military community in Twentynine Palms, California (MCAGCC). Clark received her BFA in Photography from California State University, Long Beach in 2010 and received her MFA in Photography from ...
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Katie VotaKatie Vota is a Chicago-based artist working to create interactive environments and sculptural objects that engage viewers in ideas of play, touch, pleasure, power exchange, and the roll of the active body in shaping identity. Vota received her BFA from t ...
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Mat RappaportMat Rappaport’s artwork has been exhibited in the United States and internationally in museums, galleries, film festivals and public spaces including the United Kingdom and the former Yugoslavia. His current work utilizes mobile video, performance and pho ...
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Nina YeboahNina Yeboah is a reader, prose writer, and black art enthusiast. She was born to Ghanaian parents in Alexandria, Louisiana and raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Her nonfiction can be found in The Critical Flame, the Philadelphia Printworks Blog, Shadow a ...
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Rachel Jump
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Sabba ElahiSabba Elahi grew up in a traditional Pakistani household in the Midwest and experienced the rupture of being raised in a collectivist and modest culture in a climate of growing xenophobia and islamaphobia. Elahi's artwork references reconstructions of p ...
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Wen LiuWen Liu was born in Shanghai, China and is currently based in Chicago, IL. She is a DCASE Individual Artists Program Grantee for 2018, 2019 and 2020, and received the Illinois Arts Council Agency 2020 Artist Fellowship Award. She has attended residencies ...
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Patrice N. PerkinsPatrice N. Perkins is the founder of Creative Genius Law®, a business and intellectual property law firm and strategic legal partner exclusively for creative entrepreneurs, innovators, and change agents. They are game changers looking to impact the world ...
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Amy LenersAmy Leners is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book, Paper and Print from Columbia College Chicago. Her work is in collaboration with ...
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Anna Showers-CruserAnna Showers-Cruser creates hybrid forms that most often propose non-hegemonic expressions of gender. ASC is interested in the possibility of calling on abstraction through sculpture, fibers, craft, and painting traditions, in order to build a lexicon of ...
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Cameron ClaybornCameron Clayborn is a sculptor, performance artist and community organizer. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Cameron works with people, opposites, weight, and imagery of death as material to complicate the aest ...
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Caroline LiuCaroline Liu (b. 1987) is a painter, illustrator, and muralist currently based in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico in 2011 and moved to Chicago in 2013. Caroline is currently painting murals for companies such as Adidas, ...
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Daniel HojnackiDaniel’s work investigates the act of remembering, and the roles time and memory play into his practice using photography, painting, and installation. Learn more about Daniel Hojnacki’s HATCH exhibitions In your head and Superficial Paradise.
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Frances LightboundFrances Lightbound is an interdisciplinary artist from the UK. Her work is informed by architecture and urban design, working with media including print, sculpture and site-responsive installation to explore embedded ideologies and power systems in the ur ...
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Gulsah MursalogluGulsah Mursaloglu begins her works with the experience of distance: smelling a thing inches away from her nose and then understanding it from afar with her eyes. In her installations, she works intimately with materials and objects and embeds them within ...
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Joseph WilcoxBy adopting the roles of image gatherer, entrepreneur, documentarian, object-maker, and organizer, Joseph Wilcox explores how institutional control and social power structures undermine the autonomy of the individual. He was the co-founder of LDOC, a free ...
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Keeley HaftnerKeeley Haftner (b. 1985) is a Saskatchewanian-Canadian artist based in the Netherlands whose sculpture deals with garbage as a material and as a philosophical construct. Haftner seeks to create a space between her materials and the viewer that acts like a ...
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Melissa PotterMelissa Potter is a multi-media artist specializing in hand papermaking and printmaking exhibiting nationally and internationally at venues including White Columns, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and film festivals including the VideoDumbo Festival and the ...
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Nicole MauserNicole Mauser’s works have been featured in exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; High Concept Labs, Chicago; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond; Fort Gondo, St. Louis; and is in permanent ...
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Cortney LedererCortney Lederer is an independent curator and art consultant with sixteen years of experience managing an array of artistic programming for organizations and businesses. From 2011–14 she served as the Director of Exhibitions and Residencies at the Chicago ...
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Lesley JacksonLesley Jackson makes quasi-functional objects that challenge our relationship with inanimate things through the use of overtly poetic gestures. Lesley Jackson was born in Louisville, KY and earned her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in ...
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Marissa Chris Zain NeumanMarissa Chris Zain Neuman recently graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and holds a BA in Art History and Journalism from Loyola University. Human life has always existed in communities and though our dependence upon one a ...
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Matt ManciniMatt Mancini’s work is a hodge-podge of fragmented language which ruminates somewhere between some good ole magical mystery ‘shit’ and dystopian certainty. Matt Mancini was born in Philadelphia, PA. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. He recently ...
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Pooja PittiePooja Pittie is a visual artist who lives and works in Chicago.Born and raised in India, she trained as an Accountant and moved to the U.S. in 1999. An MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business led her to a career in Finance and Entrepr ...
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Rebecca HimelsteinRebecca Himelstein is an interdisciplinary artist who tracks cultural forms and processes understood as normal or natural through repetitive and rule driven interactions with them. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies at the S ...
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SonnenzimmerSonnenzimmer is the collective output of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi. Their work explores the contemporary and historic impact of the graphic impulse through publishing, exhibitions, graphic design, and performance. While the duo works in an array o ...
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Verónica Casado HernándezVerónica Casado Hernández is a visual artist with a background in fiber and a cultural historian. Her work includes installation and performance in which she investigates constructions of identity in western nineteenth and twentieth century, and their out ...
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Andrew BarcoAndrew Barco is an object, installation and performance maker based in Chicago, Illinois. His work is concerned with the often strange and improbable ways ideas and habits can be transmitted across cultural landscapes and through time. With an MFA in scul ...
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Meg LearyMeg Leary is an artist and the founder and principal of Meg Leary & Associates, a Chicago-based arts consulting practice providing strategic thinking and creative action plans for artists, arts organizations, and philanthropists. Before beginning her ...
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Jeff ProkashJeff Prokash embraces the freedom of reinterpretation to suggest new relationships between the subject and the staging of the built environment. Objects are positioned to present intrinsic systems of organization, interpolating unexpected associations th ...
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Dan DeveningDan Devening is an artist, curator and educator living in Chicago. He’s currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art Theory and Practic ...
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Krista FranklinKrista Franklin’s poems and visual art have been published in Poetry, Black Camera, Copper Nickel, Callaloo, Vinyl, BOMB Magazine, Encyclopedia, Vol. F-K, and the anthology The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Willow Books publi ...
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Mark JefferyMark Jeffery is a Chicago based performance/installation artist, curator and educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1993, Mark Jeffery has developed unconventional collaborations with visual artists, scholars, video artists, sound a ...
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Chad KouriKnown for his vibrant, abstract compositions, Chad Kouri (b. 1985) examines themes commonly associated with visual literacy - specifically how we see, read, and remember the world around us. He is influenced by minimalism, jazz, conceptual and systematic ...
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Maria GasparMaria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago. She has presented her work at The MCA Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, the Alpineum Produzentengalerie, and Artspace New Haven, amongst others. Re ...
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Kristen KazaKristen Kaza is the Creative Director and Founder of No Small Plans Productions, partying with a purpose since 2012 producing & programming events with and for Chicago's creative and philanthropic communities. She has programmed and produced events fo ...
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Emanuel AguilarEmanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice. Previously he was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in ...
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Julia FischbachJulia Fischbach is a director and co-founder of PATRON, contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice, and working in Chicago, IL. Previously she was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Berlin for seventeen ...
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Erika AllenErika Allen is a social change artist, with a focus on dismantling racism and the related healing and understanding of how structural oppression impacts society. Her practice for the last 20 years has focused on community based transformation through the ...
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Benjamin LaroseBenjamin Larose’s goal is to engage people in conversations about identity, normality and material culture. It is to question how we become who we are, what it means to be normal and how commodity culture impacts our sense of self and our perception of ot ...
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Jeffrey GrauelJeffrey is a classically trained hobbyist schooled in contemporary art. His "rugs" and "diamonds" and what have you have been spotted in common and unusual situations, but not yet in a laundromat, which is a recent aspiration. He is the co-director of Slo ...
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Roni PackerRoni Packer is a painter who prioritizes the paint over the image. Her spacious paintings and installations are a material and formal explorations that invariably put color at their core. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Packer moved to the United States in 2 ...
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Oscar ChavezNominated by the University of Illinois - Chicago My work serves as an exploration of my specific understanding of what it means to exist in our current place in time through painting and performance. My view of the world has and continues to be molded by ...
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Cameron HarveyCameron Harvey is a painter who uses color to investigate ideas about optical perception, impermanence and the nature of reality. Through her work she investigates in how we create our own realities through how perceive the world. Born and raised in Vermo ...
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Jean Alexander FraterJean Alexander Frater received her MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and a BS in Philosophy, from the University of Dayton, OH. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Wexner Center for Arts in Columbus, El Museo C ...
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Derrick Woods-MorrowDerrick Woods-Morrow’s work is a meditation on deviation and disruption. Currently based in Chicago his artistic practice deploys a wide variety of media – photographic transfers, digital video collage, ceramics, and narrative performance. Exploring modes ...
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Emilio RojasEmilio Rojas (b.1985, Mexico City) is a multidisciplinary artist, working primarily with the body in performance, using film, video, photography, installation, public interventions and sculpture. Rojas utilizes his body in a political and critical way, as ...
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Melissa LeandroMelissa Leandro (b. 1989, USA) is an artist who works between the media of drawing, painting, and textiles. Leandro's woven and embroidered surfaces explore her composite cultural identity through means of intuitive mark-making. Reflecting on her past and ...
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Adam R. CipcicNominated by University of Illinois - Chicago Personal loss – through death and other tragic means – is paradoxical in that it is both universally shared yet profoundly isolating. Although still young, I have experienced many personal losses over the yea ...
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Cassandra MeekNominated by Columbia College Chicago I consider sites of exchange between the internal self and the external world, through the use of visual metaphor. My own body is cast as performer, and aims to coax non-human objects and substances into their own inn ...
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Charlotte MukahirnNominated by DePaul University My work explores the creativity of the subconscious mind. I draw my inspiration from my dreams, daydreams, nightmares, and doodles, as well as other media such as graphic novels, film, and cartoons. The works of artists Masa ...
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Erin GregoryNominated by Northwestern University The majority of my work from the past couple of years has involved exploring interior spaces and constructed worlds, primarily through video art. The atmospheres of different rooms, spaces, and buildings are fascinati ...
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Faith ZambleNominated by North Park University My photography and sculpture play with the idea of mirrors and reflection, while also attempting to pose questions about identity. We live in a culture that seems intent on devouring images with little care for the ethic ...
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Gabriel CoronaNominated by Northwestern University When I started college, I had an identity crisis. I was presented with the opportunity to choose to be someone I had not been before. I chose to be an artist. The modern world has a skewed perception of what art is. Bu ...
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Gwen SeolNominated by the University of Chicago My work is about painting as a medium in relation to digital technology. I investigate painting’s incessant attempts and constant failure to fit into the coded system on which digital technology is built. I see an in ...
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Henry VoellmeckeNominated by Columbia College Chicago My practice explores formalism through site-specific installation and printmaking using minimal forms of line, shape and pattern. With a limited palette inspired by the process colors cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ...
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Jaimie FeathersNominated by Northern Illinois University Over the past few semesters the work I’ve been focusing on has been very experimental. I have been using different techniques and materials in less common ways to create images. I have been experiencing an unexpec ...
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Jeanette HabashNominated by North Park University History is layered like the paint on the canvas over time. I see a connection between the way history is layered over time and the physical layering process that occurs on the surface of a painting. I use the painting pr ...
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Jireh L. DrakeNominated by DePaul University My mixed media drawings and sculptures starts with a conversation around Blackness and systems of power, with community and myself. I aim to invite the viewer to engage critically with ideas around race, whether that is ques ...
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Kianna DavisNominated by Northern Illinois University What does it mean to be fully connected with another human being? For two souls to intertwine until you can't feel anything else but that person's presence. The connections between my twin sister and I have spark ...
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Liliana AlfaroNominated by Marwen Colación A colación is a flower that grew on the bushes outside of my grandmother’s house in El Salvador. I grew up in a multigenerational home with my mother, aunt and grandmother who made up the matriarchs of our household. In 1980, ...
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Marie DamienNominated by Northern Illinois University Many women, including myself, take advantage of cosmetics as a way to further define their outer beauty. My recent body of work explores the element of pain required to meet ideal beauty standards. In researching ...
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Martha MorimotoNominated by School of the Art Institute of Chicago Drawn to the idea of infrastructure as a system, I explore materialism as a use of language in elevating the object’s frame of context. Incorporating the outside world into my practice, I access the infi ...
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Maya SatoNominated by DePaul University I grew up in a multiracial family with exposure to diverse cultures and ideas. My family travelled often to visit relatives/friends in other countries, and we regularly hosted refugees, international students, and others in ...
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Meimei SongNominated by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago I use sculpture installation, technology, live plants and social media to draw attention to the unresolved entanglement between technology and ecological crisis. I think art as a creative agency can ...
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Melissa AnthonyNominated by Chicago State University Life is full of many pleasures, but it is the simple ones that make it more enjoyable. Creating art has become one of my many pleasures. Art has become a luxury in the sense that it requires valuable time. I use that ...
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Nadine AbdelrahimNominated by the University of Illinois - Chicago Nadine Abdelrahim is a full time artist, dedicated to finding out what that really means. Most of her work deals with the idea of being an individual within a community and the way we – the collective indi ...
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Brock PieperNominated by Northern Illinois University I am exploring fears and afflictions that bind our psyches. I am interested in how each of us feels out of control in our own lives, my work comes from personal struggles. I create my drawings with attention to de ...
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Emily WittkeNominated by Northern Illinois University The images that I have been creating is a body of work that focuses mainly on figurative elements. My current pieces explore abstraction: of figure, of color, of line work, and of the human form through the depict ...
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Ye Seom AhnNominated by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Seomy Ahn is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with Fiber. Using the language of sculpture, her works explore the idea of labor and practicality of architectural space and daily products. ...
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Marco BustamanteNominated by Chicago State University The process of design is a method that must leave satisfaction to the designer and the viewer. As a designer,I always try to convey my ideas in the most visual interesting way to create a connection with the viewer bu ...
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Aay Preston-MyintAay Preston-Myint is an artist, printmaker, and educator based in Chicago, USA. Their practice employs both visual and collaborative strategies to investigate memory and kinship, often within the specific context of queer community and history. In additio ...
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Jefferson GodardJefferson Godard is a founder and director of Aspect/Ratio, a video and performance based commercial gallery located in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago. Aspect/Ratio represents the careers of internationally based artists and the gallery has garnere ...
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Rhonda WheatleyRhonda Wheatley is a Chicago-based artist whose sculptures, paintings, and written works are grounded in the speculative and metaphysical and explore consciousness, healing, and transformation. She’s had solo exhibitions at Hyde Park Art Center and David ...
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Selina TreppSelina Trepp (Swiss/American b.1973) is an artist whose work explores economy and improvisation. Finding a balance between the intuitive and conceptual is a goal, living a life of adventure is a way, embarrassment is often the result. She works across med ...
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Spudnik PressSpudnik Press Cooperative is a community-based art center located in a warehouse-turned-arts hub in West Town, Chicago. Unique in our dedication to printmaking and the cultural traditions surrounding print, our studio houses professional facilities and ra ...
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Brandon AlvendiaBrandon Alvendia is a Chicago-based artist, independent curator, and educator. His interdisciplinary practice engages spatial and social architectures by creating platforms for experimentation, discussion and collaboration. He is the founder of multiple C ...
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Marci Rolnik WalketerMarci Walker joined Lawyers for the Creative Arts in 2004. She has advised clients in all areas of art and entertainment, including intellectual property protection for motion pictures, visual arts, music, dance and literary works. Ms. Walker plans LCA's ...
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Lee AndersonLee Anderson is the founder of Starkweather, designer, creative strategist, and fashion advocate. In addition to her design practice, she has produced small and large-scale events around the world for changemakers in the fashion and creative industries, ...
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Patti GilfordPatti Gilford is the founder of Patti Gilford Fine Arts (*PGFA*). She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has over 35 years of experience as a working artist, gallery director and art advisor to major corporations, public institutions a ...
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Nikki PatinNikki Patin is the Community Arts Engagement Manager for Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago. Featured in The Guardian, Chicago Tribune and on HBO, WBEZ and WGN, Chicago native Nikki Patin has been writing, performing, educating and community ...
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Greg RuffingGreg Ruffing is an artist, writer, organizer, and curator working on topics around the production of space at different scales – from the macro level of sociopolitical structures and architecture in the built environment, down to an emphasis on community, ...
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Courtney CintronCourtney Cintron is a Chicago-based arts and cultural administrator, curator, and performing artist. She is a 2017 MA Graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Arts Administration and Policy and a graduate of the Institute of C ...
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Jamillah HinsonJamillah Hinson is a curator, grassroots archivist, and painter working in Chicago. She currently works with the Chicago-based collective Beauty Breaks, creating experimental participatory workshops centering on the Black femme experience. In the past, sh ...
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Luis MejicoLuis Mejico is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator. Xe has performed and exhibited work at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Queens Museum in New York, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Links Hall, Zhou Brothers ...
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Matthew NicholasUsing performance, video and sculptural installations, my work focuses on the relationships between identities, iconography and the social complexities that have shaped American culture. My creative process includes collaborations with educators and artis ...
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Santina AmatoSantina Amato is an interdisciplinary artist born in Australia to Italian immigrants, and has lived and worked in USA since 2010. Her practice incorporates video, sculpture, installation, painting and photography and is deeply rooted in psychoanalytic thi ...
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Connie NoyesConnie Noyes’ interdisciplinary art practice examines social constructions and assigned values of idealized beauty and value. Through actions both in the studio and on site, the question provoked is: what constitutes beauty and worth and how do our very p ...
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Nora SharpNora uses choreography, words, and melody to delineate and unspool patterns of contemporary existence-- often those that govern gender, popular culture, and relationship dynamics--and point to possibilities for queer reimagining. Nora Sharp was born in Ch ...
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Denise HooverDenise Hoover is an artist discovering that making art is a silent conversation on many levels, an awareness of internal and external nuances that prompt her to create. She welcomes the blind impulse arriving unannounced from unconscious or subconscious t ...
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Susan DwyerI’m interested in making sculpture that elicits tactile curiosity. Is it hard or soft? What happens if I reach out and touch the surface? There is a give and take between the gentle structure I create and the nature of the material. Each piece evolves fro ...
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Beth BradfishBeth Bradfish (composer and sound artist) explores contemporary acoustic and electronic sounds. Her focus is on creating environments where the audience is free to move through the sound and experience it with more than their ears. She has been awarded an ...
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Sukjoon LeeSukjoon Lee is a Chicago-based kinetic sculpture artist. He was born in Seoul, Korea and had studied sculpture in BFA and MFA at Seoul National University. Before he moved to Chicago, He share his artistic skills with students at Seoul Art High school for ...
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Yewen DongYewen Dong was born and grew up in Shenzhen, a coastal city in China. She received her BA in Art Design from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, continuing her education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; she received her MFA in Ce ...
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Udita UpadhyayaUdita Upadhyaya is an interdisciplinary artist who uses her body as a primary material for making. Her work spans live art, devised theatre, performative photographs, sculpture, installation, video, writing, text, and fiber arts. Upadhyaya works with t ...
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Alexandra AntoineAlexandra Antoine is an interdisciplinary artist from South Florida who now resides in Chicago, Illinois. Her work addresses the themes of identity and culture through the use of typography, line and portraiture. She uses the portrait as a tool to re/pres ...
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Monica RezmanA love of textile design and painting has taken artist Monica Rezman around the world. She studied in Chicago and again in San Miguel Allende, traveled to the pueblas in Chiapas and Guatemala to weave with the native women, worked in an atelier in Italy, ...
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Tracie HayesTracie Hayes is an artist from Charlotte, NC who recently moved to Chicago. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in studio art and biology. She is currently working with the Echinacea Project, an ecology lab at t ...
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Lindsey Dorr-NiroThrough her work, Chicago-based artist Lindsey Dorr-Niro aims to make art a practice of critical consciousness, calling viewers deeper into themselves and relation with the world. Her installations disrupt and reorganize our vision and being in a way that ...
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Sandra BridgesBorn and raised in Chicago, Sandra Bridges attended Chicago Public Schools and Illinois universities. She received a B.A in art education from Southern Illinois University in 1974 and from Roosevelt University received a M.A. in Administration/Supervision ...
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Orkideh TorabiOrkideh Torabi make paintings that lampoon patriarchal societies, depicting men as absurd clown-like figures, drawing attention to the personal, political and social issues facing women. By portraying the figures in her paintings with cartoonish whimsy, s ...
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Allen MooreAllen Moore is a Chicago based Educator, Curator, Painter, and Experimental Sound Artist. He was born and raised in Robbins Illinois. Allen holds a Masters in Art from Governors State University and a Masters of Fine Art from Northern Illinois University. ...
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Allison EllingsonAllison (Hales) Ellingson is an artist based in Chicago working primarily with textiles and the social fabric. She received a B.A. from St. Olaf College (2002), a Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary (2007) and an M.F.A. (2015) in Fiber ...
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Charle LuckettCharle Luckett is a writer, stargazer, and community volunteer. She holds a BFA from Southern Illinois University. She has studied and taught Cinema Production at San Francisco State University, and completed the Comedic Writing Program at the Second Ci ...
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Fontaine CapelFontaine Capel is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and facilitator. She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the alternative art space Hume Chicago. In conjunction with her studio and curatorial practice, she has worked as a ...
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Simon PyleSimon Pyle’s work deals with preservation and loss in the digital age. His aesthetic is influenced by imaging technologies: the shape of LCD pixels, the compression of a jpeg file, or a low-resolution image used for computer-vision and facial recognition. ...
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J. SlaterJ. Slater (artist name Onyx) builds light installations as a means of public and communal gathering as well as a set to experiment with their performance works. These performances include scrawled text, scripts, contemporary dance, costumes, character des ...
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Kate SierzputowskiKate Sierzputowski is a freelance writer and arts organizer based in Chicago. Fascinated by artists’ studio processes, she founded the website INSIDE\WITHIN in 2013 to physically explore and archive the creative spaces of Chicago's emerging and establishe ...
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Sarah LombardiSarah Lombardi has been in the accounting and finance field for over 15 years and holds a Master of Science degree in Accounting. She has touched over 100 organization's financials in some capacity over that time frame. As you can imagine, she has been in ...
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Colleen KeihmColleen Keihm uses photography to generate spatially unclear constructions. If fabricated landscapes can become cultural artifacts, then her documents are attempting to shape an understanding of our present reality. Learn more about Colleen Keihm’s HATCH ...
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Jacqueline SurdellJacqueline Surdell, b. 1993, was born in Chicago, Illinois. She received her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. In 2015 she received her BFA from Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.Growing up in a f ...
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India MartinIndia Martin is a visual artist whose photography creates an offering to communities by capturing the often over looked beauty of the urban landscape and the people who traverse it. Narratives about access are seen in her work with a double exposure effec ...
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William CamargoWilliam Camargo is a Chicanx/Latinx visual artist/educator and organizer raised in Anaheim, CA and now residing in Chicago, IL. His work is inspired from his family’s immigration from Mexico and his working class upbringing in a Mexican/American barrio, t ...