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At the Hermès store in New Delhi, India, Sumakshi Singh (MFA 2003) presents her intricate thread and laceworks for the window display at the Chanakya. Titled Pages from a Dream...

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Terrain Biennial – SAIC

PBS program Chicago Tonight features SAIC community members whose works are part of the Terrain Biennial, which is on view through November 17. Initiated in 2011 by the late Chicago...

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Surrounds: 11 Installations exhibit at MoMA

On October 21, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will reopen after a summer-long closure and an ambitious renovation project of its gallery spaces. Among the 10 fall shows opening,...

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Jeffrey Gibson (BFA 1995) and Walter Hood (MFA 2013). Courtesy of MacArthur Foundation

Jeffrey Gibson (BFA 1995), interdisciplinary artist and craftsperson, and Walter Hood (MFA 2013), landscape and public artist, were awarded 2019 MacArthur "genius" grants by the John...

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Top row: Genesis Belanger (2004), Teresa Burga (MFA 1970, HON 2018). Bottom row: Diane Simpson (BFA 1971, MFA 1978), Jeffery Gibson (BFA 1995)

Four SAIC alums are featured in Artsy’s annual list of the 50 most influential contemporary artists, “Artsy Vanguard 2019: The Artists to Know Right Now." Artsy selected 50 out...

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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is pleased to welcome new full-time faculty members who are joining the School. These faculty members represent a diverse range of practices,...

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Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes via Museum of Arts and Design; Jenna Bascom

Roberta Smith (HON 2017) of the New York Times reviewed Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes, an exhibit of work by Roger Brown (BFA 1968, MFA 1970) at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York....

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The Hubble gave us images like the Pillars of Creation, which depicts vast, star-generating columns interstellar gas some 6,500–7,000 light years from Earth.  Visual: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team

A recent article in Time Magazine discusses the significant connection between astronomy and art. From Galileo who drew on artistic techniques of perspective and chiaroscuro to show the...

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Virtual Still Life 6-Return to Russia

The first solo museum show in New York devoted to the work of Roger Brown (BFA 1968, MFA 1970) debuted at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes, curated by...

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Newcity Breakout Artists 2019

Newcity released its 2019 Breakout Artists list, and six of the eight artists included are SAIC alums. The artists who "represent the unbounded energy of art making in Chicago" are...

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Sonya Clark's "Monumental" (2019) Photo courtesy of Hyperallergic

Sonya Clark (BFA 1993) is an artistic investigator. Her most recent exhibition, Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia was reviewed...

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Detail of a Karolina Gnatowski work featured in "Some Kind of Duty," through March 31 at DePaul Art Museum. (Laura-Caroline Johnson/Handout)

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Fiber and Material Studies department kg Gnatowski's (MFA 2007) solo exhibition, Some Kind of Duty, was recently reviewed in the Chicago Tribune. The...

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