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Join us this year for an exciting lineup of exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and special events.
March 25, 2022
Professor Claire Pentecost wrote a feature on bio art and its importance in the world today.
This spring, Parlor Room is proud to invite you to another three visiting artist lectures for our peers, faculty, and SAIC community. Parlor Room is a visiting-artists program by Graduate Students in the School of the Art Institute's Photography Department.
Join us online on Wednesday, February 16th at 6:00 pm for the first event of the 2022 series: a conversation with artist Ka-Man Tse on community, identity, and visibility surrounding relational photographic practices.
January 26, 2022
A selection of exhibitions, publications, and accolades from SAIC faculty and staff.
December 21, 2021
The Department of Photography is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021/2022 Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowships and the James Weinstein Memorial Fellowship. Endsley Memorial Fellowship Undergraduate Recipients Kyle Dong Jordan Keyes Sophie Lopez Yanqi Wang
December 6, 2021
The interview follows Frazier’s appearance in A Choice of Weapons, a documentary detailing the life of legendary photographer Gordon Parks.
This talk addresses the research and works continuing Petros’ inquiries into the triangulated colonial histories of Italy, Eritrea, and Canada. The implications of this geometric configuration expand to encompass aeronautic technologies and representations including itineraries of the famed trans-Atlantic flights led by General Italo Balbo that landed at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago.
Biography
This series of artist talks given by our second-year graduate students offers an opportunity to gain insight into the individual artistic production of each student.
Marzena Abrahamik (b. Poland, grew up in Greece) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She received a MFA in Photography from Yale University and a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Loyola University. Abrahamik is visually inspired by personal histories and attachments to unachievable and necessary for survival fantasies, to further investigate communal formations and transformations.
October 18, 2021
Current student Sophie Lopez (BFA 2021) and alum Jasmine Veronica (BFA 2021) are recipients of the Creator Labs Photos Fund.
For more than 155 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program ranked number two in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world, and adults, teens, and kids in our Continuing Studies classes have the opportunity to explore their creative sides, build portfolios, and advance their skills. Notable alumni and faculty include Georgia O’Keeffe, Nick Cave, David Sedaris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cynthia Rowley, Michelle Grabner, Richard Hunt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Jeff Koons.
