Past Exhibitions & Events Archive

Friday, January 24–Saturday, January 31
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

The Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling (MAATC) Exhibition has become a distinguished tradition within the SAIC community since its inception, rooted in the understanding that contemporary artistic expression and mental health methodology is an inextricably linked praxis.

Within this synergetic tradition, participating students are invited to explore, reflect, and integrate their experiences from their time at SAIC and in the broader community—all of which are informed by coursework, fieldwork, arts-based research methodologies, and their personal artistic practices.

This iteration of the MAATC Exhibition invites you to immerse yourself in themes of resilience, vulnerability, personal struggle, healing, and social justice, in addition to prompting introspection about the relationship between knowledge and knowing. Through artistic expression and journeys of self-discovery, these artists share their unique perspectives, using creative practice as a catalyst for change within themselves and beyond. This exhibition allows us to bear witness to the profound insights and understandings that these emerging professionals have gained as they continue to evolve, transcend boundaries, challenge paradigms, and offer their innovative insights on the complexities of humanity, all while striving for societal change. As witnesses, we observe their journey—an exploration driven by a quest for understanding and an ongoing commitment to transformation. We extend our deepest gratitude to these exceptionally dedicated and talented individuals, whose artistic expressions invite us to look inward, cultivate empathy, and inspire our own evolution.

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Friday, January 24–Saturday, January 31
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Body/building is a group exhibition featuring works by artists in SAIC’s Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies program that explores the intimate choreography between human bodies, architectural spaces, and systems of knowledge. Here, the body is more than flesh and bone—it is a vessel of memory, shaped by structures we inhabit and ideas we carry. What emerges when we dismantle what holds us? Where does the body end and the structure begin? Body/building reveals bodies of flesh and knowledge as always in flux—constructed, deconstructed, and remade.

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Thursday, February 20–Saturday, March 1
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2 
33 East Washington Street

Graduate Exhibition One is the culminating presentation of 43 MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2025, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries. Graduate Exhibition One is the first of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Thursday, February 20–Saturday, March 1
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1 
33 East Washington Street

This presentation featured the work of students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio.

Friday, April 4–Saturday, April 12
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2 
33 East Washington Street

The culminating work of more than 250+ graduating seniors. This exhibition features the ambitious and innovative interdisciplinary work of our students, the next generation of artists, scholars, and citizens. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging assumptions that SAIC encourages in each student.

Saturday, April 5–Sunday, April 6
280 South Columbus Drive, Performance Space (012)

The IMPACT Performance Festival 2025 will take place in-person at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 280 Building, located at 280 South Columbus Drive on Saturday, April 5, and Sunday, April 6. Presenting live performances throughout the building, MFA and BFA students from SAIC will showcase their culminating projects. This year, participating artists include Phoebe Guyuzi Chen, Choi Eunjin, Sisel Gelman, Graciela Gonzalez, Chia Chun Huang, Jude Kharchou, Sarah Lutkenhaus, John McDonald, Nathége, Joe Oakes, and Kyle Gregory Price. Gather for a weekend of art and performance as we celebrate the dedication and hard work of the featured SAIC students finishing their degrees.

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Thursday, May 7–Sunday, May 10
The Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s 2025 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival features works by our graduating BFA and MFA students. Held annually each spring at the Siskel Film Center, this showcase provides us with the chance to encounter the work of more than 40 young artists across a wide range of moving-image and sonic genres, forms, and practices. Like their peers exhibiting in the undergraduate and graduate gallery shows, these students are engaged in a rite of passage that marks their official entry into the arena of public presentation as well as the opportunity to share their visions with an audience of friends, family members, fellow students, faculty and staff, and the general public.

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Friday, May 9–Wednesday, May 21
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2 
33 East Washington Street

Graduate Exhibition Two is the culminating presentation of 91 MFA, MDDO, MArch, MArch-IA, and MSHP candidates in SAIC’s class of 2025, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries. Graduate Exhibition Two is the second of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Friday, June 20–Saturday, July 19
SAIC Galleries, Street Level
33 East Washington Street

New Work 2025 features 10 artists from SAIC, five graduate and five undergraduate, selected by a jury of faculty and curated by graduate curatorial assistants Callie Elms and Soo Kim. On view throughout the Street-Level Gallery at SAIC Galleries, the exhibition showcases artists’ recent work across photography, painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation. The exhibition explores memory and personal history through the body, movement, and nature. 

Friday, July 7–Sunday, July 27
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

The Low-Residency MFA Exhibition is the culminating presentation of 22 MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2025 and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries.

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Monday, February 26–Wednesday, March 6
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

The culminating presentation of new and ambitious work by 54 MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2024. Graduate Exhibition One is the first of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Monday, February 26–Wednesday, March 6
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

This presentation features the work of students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio.

Friday, April 5–Saturday, April 13
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

The culminating work of more than 200 graduating seniors. This exhibition features the ambitious and innovative interdisciplinary work of our students, the next generation of artists, scholars, and citizens. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging assumptions that SAIC encourages in each student.

Saturday, April 6–Sunday, April 7
280 South Columbus Drive, Performance Space (012)

IMPACT is an in-person festival that features live performances by MFA and BFA students completing their degrees. Gather for a weekend of art and performance as we celebrate the dedication and hard work of the featured SAIC students.


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Thursday, April 11–Sunday, April 15
SAIC Booth at EXPO Chicago
Navy Pier

Returning this year, EXPO Chicago took over Navy Pier’s Festival Hall with lots of chances to connect with School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) artists–including the annual EXPO x SAIC booth. The exhibition, Material Alchemy, featured artists who experiment with the transformative capacities of their chosen materials—and the works were both created and curated by SAIC students. From found objects to an ever-changing wet-clay vessel, the pieces on view explored the ways materials evoke emotion, memories, and ideas beyond their physical forms. Material Alchemy presented work by students Rex Delafkaran, Eugene I-Peng Tang, and Sangwoo Yoo. The artists manipulate and transform each object, removing its original context, and offering each a new lifecycle—enabling each artist to become a modern-day alchemist. The exhibition was curated by current students Gemma Kim, Maya Ortiz Saucedo, Anna Vetoshkina, and Charles Clark III, and was chosen from a number of proposals submitted in SAIC’s Advanced Curatorial Practice course taught by Bana Kattan (MA 2011).

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Thursday, May 9–Saturday, May 11
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s 2024 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival featuring works by our graduating BFA and MFA students. Held annually each spring at the Gene Siskel Film Center, this showcase provides us with the chance to encounter the work of more than 40 young artists across a wide range of moving-image and sonic genres, forms, and practices. Like their peers exhibiting in the undergraduate and graduate gallery shows, these students are engaged in a rite of passage that marks their official entry into the arena of public presentation as well as the opportunity to share their visions with an audience of friends, family members, fellow students, faculty and staff, and the general public.

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Friday, May 10–Saturday, May 22
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2 
33 East Washington Street

The culminating presentation of new and ambitious work by more than 82 MFA, MDes, MArch, and MArch-IA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2024. Graduate Exhibition Two is the second of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Friday, May 10–Saturday, May 18
Fine Arts Building, 2nd and 7th Floors
410 South Michigan Avenue

Due to unforeseen circumstances in the SAIC Galleries, the MAATC Exhibition 2024 was rescheduled and held at the Fine Arts Building. This cohort has consistently shown great tenacity and creativity, taking this challenge on with determination and grace. The show we see now, in collaboration with SAIC Galleries and Fine Arts Building, is a testament to their belief in the power of artistic expression, and above all, their belief in each other.

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Friday, June 20–Saturday, July 20
SAIC Galleries, Street Level
33 East Washington Street

New Work 2024 featured recent work by 10 current SAIC graduate and undergraduate students. While each artist was selected individually by the SAIC Exhibitions Faculty Advisory Committee, their works have been curated by graduate curatorial assistants to highlight their varying interests and styles. Reflecting ongoing artistic careers, New Work is an experiment into professional practices for artists and curators alike.

Friday, July 8–Sunday, July 28
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

Low-Residency MFA Exhibition is the culminating presentation of 24 MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2024 and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in SAIC Galleries. 

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Friday, September 13–Saturday, December 7
SAIC Galleries, Street Level and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This major retrospective honored Chicago artist and former SAIC Professor Barbara DeGenevieve (1947–2014) and was curated by her SAIC colleague, Associate Professor Alan Labb, with support from Professor Lisa Wainwright. The exhibition and symposium explored DeGenevieve’s artistic legacy as a provocateur, her unwavering dedication to teaching, and her profound influence on both peers and students. She was best known for her challenging work focused on the body that explored sexuality, gender, pornography, censorship, race, class, and representation. She knowingly worked at the edge of boundaries to systematically interrogate complex concerns and encourage herself, her students, and her audience to question the status quo. In Your Face showcased a diverse array of DeGenevieve’s surviving photography, videos, and installation.

As part of the exhibition, the gallery published a full-color exhibition brochure and hosted a series of public programs that welcomed over 4,000 guests. The public programs included: 

Saturday, September 14
In Your Face: A Symposium on Transgressive Pleasure
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean Ballroom

Tuesday, September 16
Visiting Artists Program Lecture: Samuel R. Delany 
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Zoom

Saturday, October 19
Curators’ Tour with Alan Labb and Lisa Wainwright
SAIC Galleries 

Wednesday, November 6
Curators’ Tour with Alan Labb and Lisa Wainwright
SAIC Galleries 

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Friday, November 8–Saturday, December 7
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This student exhibition of works that respond to artist and former SAIC professor Barbara DeGenevieve’s legendary assignment prompts is an important component of the In Your Face: Barbara DeGenevieve, Artist & Educator project. Highlighting DeGenevieve’s ongoing relevance to the SAIC student body, this exhibition within an exhibition features recent work in a variety of media by 24 currently-enrolled undergraduate and graduate students. A faculty jury (professors Aimée Beaubien, Mark Jeffery, and Frédéric Moffett) selected these artworks from close to 100 submissions.

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Friday, November 8–Saturday, November 22
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

The culminating work of more than 260+ graduating seniors. This exhibition features the ambitious and innovative interdisciplinary work of our students, the next generation of artists, scholars, and citizens. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging assumptions that SAIC encourages in each student.

Friday, January 27–Friday, February 3
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This presentation features the work of graduate students from Art Therapy and Counseling.

Friday, January 27–Friday, February 3
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This presentation features the work of students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio.

Wednesday, March 1–Wednesday, March 8
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Graduate Exhibition One is the culminating presentation of 67 MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2023, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries. Graduate Exhibition One is the first of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Friday, March 3–Sunday, March 5
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

Presented in collaboration with 15 students featuring projects by graduating MFA students working in performance, time-based media, and live art. 

Friday, March 24–Friday, April 7
SAIC Sharp Building
37 South Wabash Avenue

First-year students from the Department of Contemporary Practices exhibit new interdisciplinary art and design works. Students have the opportunity to participate through site-specific proposals, an open call for work, and by faculty selection.

Friday, April 7–Saturday, April 15
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

The 2023 Spring Undergraduate Exhibition is presented by the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies and organized by Assistant Director of Exhibitions Josh Fairbanks. Featuring over 270 students completing their undergraduate degrees at SAIC.

Thursday, May 10–Saturday, May 13
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street

This annual festival features work in film, video, new media, animation, and sound by over 30 students who are completing their degrees at SAIC. 

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Friday, May 12–Sunday, May 21
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Graduate Exhibition Two is the culminating presentation of over 110 MFA, MDes, MArch, and MArch-IA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2023, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in SAIC Galleries. Graduate Exhibition Two is the second of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Tuesday, June 20–Friday, August 4
SAIC Galleries, Street Level
33 East Washington Street

A faculty juried exhibition, featuring five current undergraduate and five graduate students, curated by graduate students in the Dual Master's of Arts Administration and Art History programs. 

Saturday, July 8–Sunday, July 30
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

This exhibition features over 30 students completing the Low-Residency MFA program at SAIC.

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Monday, September 11–Saturday, December 2
SAIC Galleries, Street Level and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

The exhibition mapped a holistic view of the artist’s truly multidisciplinary and visionary practice, bringing together a wide range of works from the past 13 years. Satterwhite is best known for his fantastical, layered, and exuberant world-building realized through video, performance, 3D animation, virtual reality, painting, sculpture, prints, and music. Drawing on his lexicon that is informed by mythology, video gaming, and dance, as well as his own queer, Black perspective, he interweaves art historical motifs with contemporary visual culture to create Afrofuturistic universes that serve as escapist spaces of freedom, desire, power, and inclusivity. Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth is organized by the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and curated by Elizabeth Chodos, Director. 

As part of the exhibition, the gallery published a full-color exhibition brochure and hosted a series of public programs that welcomed over 4,000 guests. The public programs included: 

Monday, September 11, 2023 
Curators’ Tour with Elizabeth Chodos (Dual MA 2008)
SAIC Galleries 

Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Workshop: Motion Capture Workshop with SAIC faculty member Anneli Goeller and artists Elisabete Yoon Ju Seonwoo, aka Kerberus (BFA 2023), and Woo Yeon Kim (BFA 2022)

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 
Visiting Artists Program Lecture: Jacolby Satterwhite in conversation with Jada-Amina 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall

Friday, November 3–Saturday, November 17
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

The 2023 Fall Undergraduate Exhibition showcases the culminating work of over 110 graduating students. This exhibition features the ambitious and innovative interdisciplinary work of our students—the next generation of artists, scholars, and citizens. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging of assumptions that SAIC encourages in each student.

Friday, November 17
LeRoy Neiman Center
37 South Wabash Avenue

Held in the LeRoy Neiman Center, Affen Segun joined the SAIC community for a virtual talk and studio visit. Affen is a part of Golden Our Collective, an arts agency working to bridge the wide art equity gap by elevating Black creatives at scale. Affen's exhibition was a collaboration between Golden Our Collective and Elephant Room Gallery, and this program is presented in collaboration with the SAIC Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies. For We Are Kings: Timeless Transfers of Generational Joy, Happiness, and Swag is sponsored by Elizabeth and Lincoln Ellis, Ogechi Harry, Frame Chicago, and Get Rooted In Printing. Inc.

Friday, October 25
LeRoy Neiman Center
37 South Wabash Avenue

The program was held in the LeRoy Neiman Center and began with a panel discussion on issues of contemporary labor and new forms of creative collaboration led by curators/editors Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg in conversation with participants, Dr. Felicitas Hentschke, artist/scholars Deanna Ledezma and Joshua Rios, and designer Sonia Yoon. The REWORKING LABOR book launch is presented with support from the SAIC Galleries and The Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at SAIC, the Goethe-Institut Chicago, and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

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Tuesday, December 19–Friday, January 5
SAIC Galleries, Street Level
33 East Washington Street

For SAIC Galleries’ inter pop-up project, SAIC Fashion MFA students ZJ Pan and Peican Jiang displayed their garments in the Street Level galleries during the SAIC Winter Break.

Saturday, January 28–Saturday, February 4
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This presentation features the work of graduate students from Art Therapy and Counseling.

Tuesday, March 3–Wednesday, March 9
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Graduate Exhibition One is the culminating presentation of 45 MFA and MA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2022, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries. Graduate Exhibition One is the first of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Saturday, March 5–Sunday, March 6
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

Presented in the SAIC Galleries, featuring projects by graduating MFA students working in performance, time-based media, and live art. 

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Thursday, April 7–Friday, April 15
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Featuring over 260 students completing their undergraduate degrees at SAIC. The Spring Undergraduate Exhibition showcases work by both local and remote SAIC students completing their undergraduate degrees. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging of assumptions that SAIC encourages in each student.
 

Monday, March 28–Saturday, April 9
SAIC Sharp Building
37 South Wabash Avenue

ARTBASH is the annual year-end exhibition and event produced by the students and faculty of the Department of Contemporary Practices in partnership with the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies at SAIC in the SAIC LeRoy Neiman Center. 

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Thursday, May 12–Saturday, May 14
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street

This annual festival features work in film, video, new media, animation, and sound by over 30 students who are completing their degrees at SAIC. 

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Saturday, May 14–Sunday, May 22
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Graduate Exhibition Two is the culminating presentation of 105 MFA, MA, MARCH, and MDES candidates in SAIC’s class of 2022, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries. Graduate Exhibition Two is the second of two graduate exhibitions this spring.

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Monday, June 20–Thursday, August 4
SAIC Galleries, Street Level
33 East Washington Street

A faculty juried exhibition, featuring five current undergraduate and five graduate students, curated by graduate students in the Dual Master's of Arts Administration and Art History programs. 

Saturday, July 9–Sunday, July 31
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

Low-Residency MFA Exhibition is the culminating presentation of 20 Low-Residency MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2022, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries.

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Wednesday, August 31–Saturday, December 3
SAIC Galleries, Street Level and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

SAIC Galleries is pleased to present the SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial exhibition, featuring a wide range of work across multiple disciplines by 38 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) faculty who have completed a sabbatical or other paid leave over the past three academic years. Significant gallery-based presentations, lectures and events, and a dedicated website represent the research and practices of these dedicated SAIC faculty members.

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Wednesday, November 16–Tuesday, December 6
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

The Fall 2022 Undergraduate Exhibition showcases the culminating work of over 140 graduating seniors. This exhibition features the ambitious and innovative interdisciplinary work of our students—the next generation of artists, scholars, and citizens. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging assumptions that SAIC encourages in each student.

Monday, December 13–Sunday, January 8
SAIC Galleries, Street Level
33 East Washington Street

For SAIC Galleries’ inter pop-up project, SAIC professor Katrin Schnabl presented Volution: three of her dynamic and vivid 10-foot scrolls suspended in the Street Level gallery windows.

Monday, February 1–Saturday, February 13
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This exhibition features the work of the graduating students of the MA in Art Therapy & Counseling cohort at SAIC. 

Monday, February 1–Saturday, February 13
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This presentation features the work of students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio at SAIC. 

Monday, March 15–Saturday, March 27
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Featuring over 70 students completing their undergraduate degrees at SAIC. The Spring Undergraduate Exhibition showcases work by both local and remote SAIC students completing their undergraduate degrees. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging of assumptions that SAIC encourages in each of its students.

Saturday, April 17–Sunday, April 18
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

Presented in the SAIC Galleries for the first time, featuring projects by graduating MFA students working in performance, time-based media, and live art. 

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Monday, April 26–Saturday, May 7
SAIC Sharp Building
37 South Wabash Avenue

ARTBASH is the Department of Contemporary Practices' major end-of-year exhibition of student work developed from the department’s interdisciplinary studio courses. 

Monday, May 10–Sunday, May 16
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street

This annual festival features work in film, video, new media, animation, and sound by over 30 students who are completing their degrees at SAIC. 

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Monday, May 3–Wednesday, May 19
SAIC Galleries, Street Level, Lower Level 1, and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

The culminating presentation of 105 MFA, MA, MARCH, and MDES candidates.

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Sunday, June 20–Wednesday, August 4
SAIC Galleries, Street Level
33 East Washington Street

A faculty juried exhibition, featuring five current undergraduate and five graduate students, curated by graduate students in the Dual Master's of Arts Administration and Art History programs. 

Friday July 9–Saturay, July 31
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

The exhibition showcased the culminating achievement of graduating students working in a variety of fields. The Low-Residency MFA Exhibition is the culminating presentation of 25 Low-Residency MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2021, and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries.

Tuesday, November 16–Monday, December 6
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

The Fall 2021 Undergraduate Exhibition showcases the culminating work of over 140 graduating seniors. This exhibition features the ambitious and innovative interdisciplinary work of our students—the next generation of artists, scholars, and citizens. It is a living example of the crossing of disciplines and challenging assumptions that SAIC encourages in each student.

Thursday, July 15–Friday, October 1
SAIC Galleries, Street Level and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

This project, Lowe’s first social sculpture in Chicago, fosters awareness of the barriers to building wealth in Black communities and offers a platform that demonstrates the resilient, entrepreneurial, creative, and inventive spirit historically and currently present within African American communities. Launching soon after the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Black Wall Street Journey brings together a group of local artists, civic leaders, and entrepreneurs to honor this history and lay a new foundation for Black prosperity in Chicago. Black Wall Street Journey headquarters is located at 314 East 51st Street in Bronzeville, where it is being incubated by Urban Juncture.

Tuesday, August 31–Friday, December 3
SAIC Galleries, Street Level and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Drawn from diverse practices across art, design, and the natural sciences, Earthly Observatory invites us to question the ways that we, as one among many earthlings, create our understanding of a manifold world. Co-curated by Giovanni Aloni and Andrew S. Yang.

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Monday, December 20–Tuesday, January 12
SAIC Galleries, Street Level 
33 East Washington Street

This presentation is born out of the collaboration of individual practices. In a series of call and response interactions, where edges are present yet hard to determine, the artists in this exhibition have pushed and pulled, upending and uplifting each other's practices. Meeting every three weeks over Zoom since 2020, the artists developed the show virtually and by trading material and works in the mail, along with toiling in their studios.

Saturday, February 1–Saturday, February 15
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Spaces With(in) is an exhibition showcasing artwork by graduate Art Therapy students and the individuals they work with at their internship sites. Artwork in the show reflects the various voices, practices, and intersections of art therapy. The exhibition represents a culmination of the Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program at SAIC. Participating SAIC students: Gia Berrios, Candice Block, Jacqueline Chaidez, Amri De Guzman, Anna Hunt, Gina (You Jin) Jeong, Libby Johnson, Peta Minerof-Bartos, Monica Rose Morris, Ellen Oanes, RJ Paskanthi, Katelynn Reeves, Alyse Ruriani, Yunyuan Shi, Byeol Shim, Danyah Subei, Larisa Wade, Sarah Weber, Teresa Yu. This exhibition included a screening and panel discussion with local professionals working in therapeutic settings.

Saturday, February 1–Saturday, February 15
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This presentation features the work of students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Studio Certificate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Artists include: Corinne E. Cox, Eleanor Frick, James Gu, Jenny Halpern, James Hartunian, doug hatano, Alice Yutong Hua, Kyunghye Kim (Kate Kim), Meredith S. Kopelman, Adam MacArthur, Olivia Minshall, Karvarus Moore, Zoe Wang, Wilson Yerxa, William Zeng. 

Friday, March 14–Friday, March 27
Virtual

Over 300 graduating seniors exhibited their work in the SAIC Sullivan Galleries for the Spring Undergraduate Exhibition. Opportunities to view this exhibition in person were abbreviated when our campus was required to close in mid-March. This online exhibition aims to showcase the ambition and interdisciplinary innovation of our students—as the next generation of artists, scholars, and citizens—to an expanded audience. The work featured here was produced before the unprecedented global pandemic that has shuttered exhibitions and events worldwide. As these students now find themselves scattered around the globe, they are adjusting to a radically altered professional landscape. While there will be challenges ahead, we are confident in what they can accomplish because they have already demonstrated the power and resilience of art to address the most pressing questions of our time. Take note: this graduating cohort comes into view at the threshold of a unique cultural moment. We anticipate that they will respond with creative ingenuity to confront and reimagine what it means to be artists and designers, forging new ways to connect and bring audiences together.

Monday, February 10–Saturday, February 15
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Utilizing artists’ videos from Video Data Bank’s significant collection—dating from the late 1960s to the present day—We Don’t Want Your MTV considers the influence of television on a generation of artists who came of age during the legendary music program’s reign, starting in 1981. An exhibition and screening program will feature artists’ videos that can be seen as both a response to, and a provocation of, mainstream television and commercial music videos, and all that they represent. The works utilize various forms of address to touch on political, social, cultural, and domestic issues attendant to the cultural life of the times. Artists include Max Almy, Sadie Benning, Ximena Cuevas, Jenny Holzer, Miranda July, Tracy and the Plastics, Sterling Ruby, and Martine Syms. 

Friday, April 3–Friday, April 17
Virtual

ARTBASH is the Department of Contemporary Practices' major end-of-year exhibition of student work developed from the department’s interdisciplinary studio courses. 

Wednesday, May 6–Saturday, May 9
Virtual

This annual festival features work in film, video, new media, animation, and sound by over 30 students who are completing their degrees at SAIC. 

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Friday, April 25–Wednesday, May 13
Virtual

Featuring thesis work by over 120 MFA students as organized by 12 graduate curatorial fellows with guest curatorial advisors Robyn Farrell (Chicago), Jamillah James (Los Angeles), and Daniel Tucker (Philadelphia). 

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Saturday, May 9–Tuesday, May 26
Block 37
108 North State Street

Held at Block 37 (108 North State Street, 2nd floor), this annual exhibition features work by over 50 students completing their graduate degrees in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Designed Objects, and Fashion.  

Thursday, April 9 and Saturday, April 11
Zhou B. Art Center
1029 West 35th Street

Presented in collaboration with Defibrillator Gallery at the Zhou B. Art Center, featuring projects by graduating MFA students working in performance, time-based media, and live art. 

Friday, July 10–Saturday, July 26
Virtual

This exhibition features over 25 students completing the Low-Residency MFA program at SAIC.

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August 5, 2020
Virtual

The Future of Our Plans, an online showcase of work from our graduate class of 2020. This website features current projects, thesis work, and creative reflections on our current moment from more than 150 artists, designers, and scholars who could not participate in person during the spring or fall of 2020. 

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Saturday, October 19–Tuesday, November 24
SAIC Galleries, Street Level and Lower Level 2
33 East Washington Street

Launch was the inaugural exhibition in the new SAIC Galleries. This unique exhibition presented work by MFA, MDes, and MArch alumni from the SAIC class of 2020. By sharing their current work, these alumni demonstrated the resilience of their practices during this trying year. 

Friday, November 6–Thursday, November 19
SAIC Galleries, Lower Level 1
33 East Washington Street

Over 50 SAIC students completing BFA degrees in the fall exhibited their innovative work.  

Wednesday, July 15, 2020–Sunday, January 19, 2021
SAIC Galleries, Street Level 
33 East Washington Street

As part of Toward Common Cause, one of Alfredo Jaar’s better-known works, This Is Not America (A Logo for America) (1987/2014/2016), is presented at the SAIC Galleries. Visible from the street, the project features a sequence of projections which were originally displayed on a light board in Times Square, New York. While this project was first realized in 1987, in recent years it has been recreated in New York (2014) and London (2016). On loan from the SMART Museum in Chicago.

Saturday, January 26–Saturday, February 9
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Showcasing projects by Art Therapy graduate students and individuals they work with at their internships. Participating Art Therapy graduate students include: Farah Alhaidar, Leah Amaral, Mikey Anderson, Bri Beck, Kyle Bernier, Neha Bhat, Kat Brunhaver, Annie Chang, Margaret Davis, Crystle Diño, Trissa Dodson, Alison Dowd, Antoinette (Toni) Eldemire, Jennifer Graves, Ruthe Guerry, Essence Jackson-Jones, Alynn McCormick, Suzie Newman, Lara Oppenheimer,  Casey Pax, Jessica Sandacz, Yuri Shin Kim, Crystal Swenson. 

Saturday, January 26–Thursday, February 14
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Presented in collaboration with the MCA Chicago, DCASE, and the IN>TIME performance festival, this project featured the work of choreographer Ingri Fiksdal (Norway), costume and scenic designer Fredrik Floen (Norway), and fashion designer and visual artist Henrik Vibskov (Denmark). Curated by Yolanda Cesta Cursach, programs included a suite of lectures, workshops, and visual installations in addition to live performances at the MCA and in Millennium Park. 

Summary of related programs and exhibitions: 

January 26–February 8, 2019 
Frederik Floen gallery installation 
SAIC Sullivan Galleries, free and open to the public
 
February 1–7, 2019 
Student workshops with Henrik Vibskov 
SAIC Sullivan Galleries 

Wednesday, February 6, 6:00 p.m.
Henrik Vibskov Lecture 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive, free and open to the public  

Thursday, February 7, 4:15 p.m. 
Frederik Floen artist’s talk 
SAIC Sullivan Galleries, free and open to the public 

Thursday, February 7, 5:00–7:00 p.m. 
Gallery reception and artists’ remarks by Henrik Vibskov and Frederik Floen, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State Street, 7th floor, free and open to the public 

February 7–10 
“State” live performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago 

February 7–14 
“Henrik Vibskov : 0000: State on State” gallery installation 
SAIC Sullivan Galleries 

February 11–13, 4:30 p.m.–5:10 p.m., daily 
“Diorama” performance 
At Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, free and open to the public.  

Wednesday, February 13, 12:00 p.m. 
Ingri Fiksdal artist’s talk 
SAIC Sullivan Galleries, free and open to the public

Henrik Vibskov and Frederic Floen’s residencies and public programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are organized by the SAIC Departments of Exhibitions, Fashion, and Performance and the School’s Fashion Resource Center, and are made possible through the generous support of the Consulate General of Denmark in New York, the Danish Arts in Chicago campaign, and the SAIC Fashion Council. 

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Friday, March 9–Friday, March 29
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This annual exhibition features 271 students completing their undergraduate degrees at SAIC. 

Monday April 22–Friday, May 3
Zhou B. Art Center
1029 West 35th Street

Presented in collaboration with Defibrillator Gallery at the Zhou B. Art Center, featuring projects by graduating MFA students working in performance, time-based media, and live art. 

Friday, April 5–Friday, April 19
SAIC Sharp Building
37 South Wabash Avenue

ARTBASH is the Department of Contemporary Practices' major end-of-year exhibition of student work developed from the department’s interdisciplinary studio courses. 

Saturday, April 27–Wednesday, May 15
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Featuring thesis work by over 120 MFA students as organized by guest curators Pedro Alonzo (Cambridge, MA), Renaud Proch (New York), and Tricia Van Eck (Chicago).  

Saturday, May 11–Monday, May 13
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Presenting the studio work of over 20 students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. 

Saturday, May 11–Tuesday, May 28
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 50 students will feature their innovative work in material, technology, fashion, and form. 

Friday, July 12–Saturday, July 28
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured 23 students completing the Low-Residency MFA program at SAIC. 

Thursday, June 6
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Jessica Bell Brown is a writer, curator, and art historian based in Harlem. She is currently the  2018-2019 Consulting Curator for Gracie Mansion Conservancy, where she curated She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York. At Princeton, Brown is a Ph.D candidate in Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Art and Archaeology. Her research explores the relationship between form, Black radicalism, and abstraction in 20th-century African-American art. Before pursuit of graduate study, she worked in programming capacities at Creative Time and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From 2016 to 2017, Brown was the Museum Research Consortium Fellow in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she worked under the curatorial leadership of Leah Dickerman for Robert  Rauschenberg: Among Friends (2017). As a writer and critic, she has penned critical essays on contemporary artists Lubaina Himid, Senga Nengudi, Eric Mack, Sam Gilliam, Jennifer Packer, Kerry James Marshall, Charles Ray, and Wilmer Wilson IV, among many others. Her writing and art criticism have appeared in catalogues and publications for The Studio Museum in Harlem, Lévy Gorvy, The Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail.  

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Tuesday, August 6–Saturday, October 12
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

What do we mean when we ask for and envision justice? Envisioning Justice shares the work of Chicago artists and communities as they visualize, actualize, and reimagine strategies, policies, and approaches in the service of a society that is just for all. Featuring artwork, ephemera, and documentation from seven Chicago communities impacted by incarceration and works by artists whose practices respond to such themes, this exhibition interrogates the failures of our criminal justice system while presenting plans toward self-empowerment and communal liberation. Commissioned artists include: Adela Goldbard, Dorothy Burge, Jim Duignan, Kirsten Leenaars, Nicole Marroquin, Project Fielding, and Sonja Henderson. 

This exhibition is presented in partnership with Illinois Humanities as part of their ongoing initiative by the same name. 

As part of the exhibition, the gallery published a full-color exhibition brochure and hosted a series of public programs that welcomed over 4,000 guests. The public programs included: 

Wednesday, August 21
Odyssey Project Envisioning Workshop: Reimagining Place 
Sullivan Galleries

Saturday, August 24
Odyssey Project Envisioning Workshop: Reimagining Safety 
Sullivan Galleries

Wednesday, August 28
Odyssey Project Envisioning Workshop: Reimagining Freedom 
Sullivan Galleries

Saturday, September 7
Envisioning Justice Exhibition Activation Day 
Sullivan Galleries 

Saturday, September 14
Odyssey Project Envisioning Workshop: Reimagining Social Responsibility 
Sullivan Galleries

Saturday, September 28
Odyssey Project Envisioning Workshop: Reimagining Human Rights 
Sullivan Galleries

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Tuesday, August 27–Saturday, October 19
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured work created by SAIC faculty during their sabbatical period. Featuring work by Christopher Baker, Susanna Coffey, Shawn Decker, Richard Deutsch, Andy Hall, Michiko Itatani, Ginger Krebs, Shaurya Kumar, Kirsten Leenaars, Joan Livingstone, Adelheid Mers, Mary Patten, Kerry Richardson, and Shawn Michelle Smith. Organized by graduate curatorial assistants Tess Haratonik (Dual MA 2020) and Nura Husseini (MFA Viscom 2020). 

Friday, September 21–Wednesday, November 27
SAIC Galleries, Street Level 
33 East Washington Street

Curated by SAIC faculty members Ellen Rothenberg and Daniel Eisenberg, the Re:Working Labor exhibition was developed through a two-year research process in collaboration with re:work, the IGK International Research Centre “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University in Berlin. The project included an international symposium in fall 2018 at SAIC and culminated with this fall 2019 exhibition.  

Re:Working Labor offered critical and creative responses to the complexities of contemporary labor, from global perspectives of waged labor to the pressing issue of anthropogenic climate change in a world driven by accumulation, expansion, and acceleration. Featuring work by local, national, and international artists, the exhibition offered a host of perspectives and reflections on the possible futures of labor and the nature of work. The exhibition included four anchor projects: a performative action by Mierle Laderman Ukeles and a new work by Ukeles made in collaboration with SAIC alumnus Julian Flaven in addition to earlier documentation of her historic work, Touch Sanitation; an installation of Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s global project, Labour In a Single Shot, coupled with a 17-day free workshop for 22 Chicago participants conducted by Ehmann and Eva Stotz that will add to the work’s ongoing archive; a newly commissioned work by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama; and a screening series comprised of five contemporary media programs curated by Aily Nash and Andrew Norman Wilson entitled Image Employment that included video work by national and international artists Yuri Ancarani, Stephanie Comilang, Kevin Jerome Everson, Cao Fei, Harun Farocki, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, Riar Rizaldi, Pilvi Takala, Ryan Trecartin, Leilah Weinraub, Li Ziqi. 

These anchor works were supplemented by a series of smaller-scale projects in counterpoint. Many of these projects came out of the research undertaken during the symposium and included contributions by artist teams Josh Rios, Anthony Romero, and Deanna Ledezma; Julia Pello and David Hall; John Preus working with local high school apprentice/collaborators, and the Chicago based Sweetwater Foundation; Caroline Woolard and Jessica Cook-Qurayshi; and individual artists Nneka Kai, Carole Frances Lung, Stephanie Rothenberg, and Gregory Sholette. These additional projects provided a complex web of associations and interweaving concerns.

As part of the exhibition, the gallery published a full-color exhibition brochure and hosted a series of public programs that welcomed over 700 guests. The public programs included: 

Sunday, September 22–Tuesday, October 8
Labour in a Single Shot with artists Antje Ehmann and Eva Stotz 

Tuesday, September 24
Visiting Artists Program Lecture: Mierle Laderman Ukeles 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium 

Wednesday, September 25
Mierle Laderman Ukeles Performance: Serving IV: “As Long As We Are Here…”
Sullivan Galleries

Wednesday, October 2
Curators’ Tour with Ellen Rothenberg and Daniel Eisenberg 
Sullivan Galleries

Tuesday, October 8
Screening: Labour in a Single Shot  
Featuring videos created during a 17-day workshop with Antje Ehmann and Eva Stotz 
MacLean Center, 112 South Michigan Avenue, Room 1307

Friday, October 11
WORKSHOP: NEGOTIATING A CONTRACT 
Caroline Woolard & Jessica Cook-Qurayshi 
Sullivan Galleries 
Attendees were invited to join Jessica Cook-Qurayshi, director of the DePaul Labor Education Center, and artist Caroline Woolard to learn how to negotiate a union contract using sculptural tools and bargaining skills. Individuals were placed on teams in the middle of negotiations for a new union contract and explored how to make proposals, deliberate, and work with sculpture tools while being supported by union members and artists.  

Monday, October 21
It is my pleasure to contact you through this medium 
Performance by David Hall & Julia Pello  
Sullivan Galleries 
It is my pleasure to contact you through this medium was a heavily mediated performative lecture that constellates the forms and materials of market speculation, content provision, self-help listicles, DIY tutorials, and the promise of self-realized, individual liberation. Framed and presented as an employee orientation, It is my pleasure to provide limiting tools for engaging, resisting, and submitting to technological control while refocusing the subjugation of capital away from subjecthood and toward project-hood: the endless refashioning and reinventing of class struggle as a self-realized struggle with oneself.

Thursday, November 21
Image Employment screening with project curator Aily Nash 
Conversations At The Edge, 
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street 
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Re:Working Labor, Image Employment featured a selection of recent moving image works on view in the gallery screening room that investigate various modes of contemporary labor and production. Curated by Aily Nash and Andrew Norman Wilson, the program explored the growing confluence of human and machinic technologies, corporate lifestyle, globalized capitalism, and its extraction and exploitation of workers and the environment, and the psychic effects of these forms of labor. Nash introduced a selection of works from the program and joined Re:Working Labor’s co-curators Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg in an open discussion afterward. 

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Tuesday, August 27–Saturday, October 19
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Curated selection of work by current students as selected by the Faculty Senate Exhibitions Committee. Artists included: Alina Orlov (MFA 2020), Bun Stout (MFA 2020), E. Saffronia Downing (MFA 2020), Jennifer Traina-Dorge (MFA 2020), Matan Golan (MFA  2020), Olivia Alonso Gough (MFA 2020), and Yunhee Min (BFA 2019). Organized by graduate curatorial assistants: Constanza Mendoza-Guerra (MA 2020) and Shannon  Hebert Waldman (Dual MA 2020). 

Thursday, September 19–Sunday, September 22
SAIC Booth at EXPO Chicago
Navy Pier

The 2019 SAIC Booth at the EXPO Chicago art fair featured work by five MFA alumni from the class of 2019, as selected by the Dean of Graduate Studies. Artists included: Julie Boldt, Rosemary Hall, Ed Oh, Parvin Peivandi, and Marie Ségolène. Organized by SAIC alumna Sarah Skaggs (MA 2016) and graduate curatorial assistant Sophie Jenkins (MA 2020). Through personal and idiosyncratic investigations of material, sociocultural systems, the body, and time, these works present complicated and intentionally incomplete narratives about the world, reminding us that it is a place of perpetual becoming. 

Saturday, November 23
Links Hall
3111 North Western Avenue

Held at Links Hall, this 13th annual festival featured the work of 15 SAIC students in performance, live art, and time-based media. Artists included: Kenya Fulton, Jessica Tucker, Lingyu Zeng, Xizi "Cecilia" Hua, Jason Zhao, Chloe Patricia, Chia Huang, Jordan Knecht, Lily Schulder, Ajmal “MAS MAN” Millar, Joshua Plekkenpol, Mai Parinda, Sylvia Bowersox, Seamus Carey, and Jack Kyle Franklin. New Blood XIII was organized by Assistant Director of  Exhibitions Lauren Steinberg with Gabriel Chalfin-Piney (MAAAP 2020), Reva Kashikar (MFA 2020), and Dove Rutter (BFA 2020). 

Wednesday, November 16–Saturday, December 6
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 160 SAIC students completing BFA degrees in the fall exhibited their innovative work.  

Monday, January 15–Wednesday, February 28
Hostelling International-Chicago 
24 East Ida B. Wells Drive

Featuring murals exploring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by six student artists. This project is co-sponsored by and held at Hostelling International-Chicago. 

Friday, March 10–Thursday, March 30
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Featuring over 280 students completing their undergraduate degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Monday, April 9–Friday, April 20
SAIC Sharp Building Neiman Center
37 South Wabash Avenue

ARTBASH is the Department of Contemporary Practices' major end-of-year exhibition of student work developed from the department’s interdisciplinary studio courses in the SAIC Neiman Center.

Saturday, April 28–Wednesday, May 16
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 120 MFA students present their thesis projects as organized by guest curators Anthony Elms (Philadelphia), Jenny Gheith (San Francisco), Kate Nesin (New York). 

Saturday, May 12–Monday, May 14
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Presenting the studio work of 20 students completing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. 

Saturday, May 12–Tuesday, May 29
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 50 students will feature their innovative work in material, technology, fashion, and form. 

Friday, July 13–Sunday, July 29
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured approximately 30 students completing the Low-Residency MFA program at SAIC and included accompanying performances, screenings, and artists talks.

Monday, August 27–Saturday, December 8
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition brought together scholarship and collaborative community-based art making from across the American hemispheres and featured practices operating within the intersections of art, activism, and the social sciences. Talking to Action included a vibrant program of lectures, workshops, and panel discussions throughout the fall 2018 semester, along with a volume of critical essays and artists’ writings published in partnership with Otis College of Art and Design and the University of Chicago Press. Artists included: Liliana Angulo (Bogotá), BijaRi (São Paulo), Bulbo and Galatea (Tijuana), Cog. nate Collective (Tijuana / Los Angeles), Grupo Contrafilé (São Paulo), Sandra de la Loza and Eduardo Molinari (Los Angeles / Buenos Aires), Dignicraft (Tijuana), Etcétera (Buenos Aires), Frente 3 de Fevereiro (São Paulo), Colectivo FUGA (Ecuador), Maria Gaspar (Chicago), Clara Ianni and Débora Maria da Silva (São Paulo), Iconoclasistas (Buenos Aires), Kolectivo de Restauración  Territorial (Chile), Suzanne Lacy (Wasco, California), Alfadir Luna (Mexico City), Taniel Morales (Mexico City), Andrés Padilla Domene and Ivan Puig Domene (Mexico City), POLEN (Tijuana), Pedro Reyes (Mexico City), and Ultra-red and School of Echoes Los Angeles (California). Talking to Action was curated by Bill Kelley, Jr. and originally organized by the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The presentation at SAIC was facilitated by the Department of Exhibitions curators Hannah Barco and Trevor Martin, and graduate curatorial assistants Almudena Burbano and  Carlos Lermont. 

Talking to Action attendant programming: 

Monday, September 10
Red Line Service: Lecture by faculty organizers Billy McGuiness and Rhoda Rosen
Sullivan Galleries 

Wednesday, September 19
Red Line Service: Lecture by SAIC faculty member Seth Kim-Cohen 
Sullivan Galleries

Monday, October 1
Curator Tour with Bill Kelley, Jr. 
Sullivan Galleries

Thursday, October 18
Learning Art and Resistance from the South: Panel Discussion and Reflection  Cycle—Brian Holmes and Iconoclasistas 
Organized by faculty Eva Marxen with Graduate Curatorial Assistant Almudena Burbano 
Sullivan Galleries

Monday, October 29
Red Line Service: Lecture by Hannah Higgins 
Sullivan Galleries

Tuesday, November 6
RESONANT Frequencies: lecture by Maria Gaspar 
Sullivan Galleries

Wednesday, November 7
Learning Art and Resistance from the South: Panel Discussion and Reflection  Cycle—Ionit Behar and Dignicraft 
Organized by faculty Eva Marxen with graduate curatorial assistant Almudena Burbano 
Sullivan Galleries

Tuesday, November 20
Workshop with Cognate Collective 
Sullivan Galleries

Thursday, November 29
Learning Art and Resistance from the South: Panel Discussion and Reflection  Cycle—Josh Rios with Sandra de la Loza and Eduardo Molinari 
Organized by faculty Eva Marxen with graduate curatorial assistant Almudena Burbano 
Sullivan Galleries

Saturday, December 1
Dedicated to the One I Love: Cognate Collective Performance 
Sullivan Galleries

Monday, August 27–Saturday, December 8
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured a newly commissioned body of work by Puerto Rico-based artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (SAIC MFA 1997) that considered the complex sensorial unconscious of the Puerto Rican anti-colonial movement, which was based, in part, in Chicago. Safehouse was accompanied by a series of lectures and panel discussions that included, among other guests, Elizam Escobar (Puerto Rico), Patricia Gherovici (Philadelphia), and Jan Susler  (Chicago). 

Safehouse attendant programming: 

Monday, October 1
Jan Susler: A Brief History of Political Prisoners in the US 
Sullivan Galleries

Tuesday, October 2
On Art, Liberation, and the Political Subject: 
Elizam Escobar in Conversation with Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 
Sullivan Galleries

Wednesday, October 17
Colonialism and the Unconscious: 
Patricia Gherovici in conversation with Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 
Sullivan Galleries

Friday, September 14–Saturday, October 13
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured work created by SAIC faculty during their sabbatical period. Artists featured: Jesse Ball, Tirtza Even, BJ Krivanek, Alan Labb, Eric Leonardson, Nicholas Lowe, Frédéric Moffet, Peggy MacNamara, Peter Power, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Sarah Ross, Brian Sikes, Christoper Sullivan, and Frances Whitehead. Organized by graduate curatorial assistants Giannella Tavano (MA 2019) and Shannon Herbert Waldman (Dual MA 2020).

Friday, September 14–Saturday, October 13
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition navigated contested spaces between memory and history through recent work by SAIC students. Artists included: Sera Chen, Wanbli Gamache, María Karaman, Nihat Karatasli, Xindi Li, Parvin Peivandi, Martha Poggioli, Daniel Salamanca, and Aden Solway. Curated by graduate curatorial assistants Duncan Bass and Tess Haratonik. 

Friday, October 12
SAIC Ballroom
112 South Michigan Avenue

School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice in collaboration with re:work, the International Research Centre “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University in Berlin, engaged a multi-year research project on the subject of labor. This effort, led and curated by Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg, the inaugural Faculty Research Fellows of SAIC’s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, sought to rethink and reimagine the representations of the changing nature of work, and reflect on the dislocating effects of globalization and technology that have created deeply unstable economic conditions and polarized our political moment. 

As the inaugural public event of this project, the Re:Working Labor public symposium considered how artists, researchers, historians, and activists can come together to address such vital questions. Participants included: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Andreas Eckert, Jennifer Epps-Addison, Ramiro Gomez, Cindi Katz, Prabhu Mohapatra, Geraldine Pratt, Gregory Sholette, Friederike Sigler, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. This symposium included a closed workshop session on Saturday, October 13, for symposium participants and invited guests. 

Thursday, September 27–Sunday, September 30
SAIC Booth at EXPO Chicago
Navy Pier

SAIC Booth at the EXPO Chicago art fair features work by five MFA alumni artists from the class of 2018, as selected by the Graduate Fellowship Committee: Kevin Demery, Irmak Karasu, Joo Young Lee, Justin Rosier, and Tsailing Tseng. Organized by graduate curatorial assistants Lindsey Bell (Dual MA 2019) and Neil O’Malley (MFA 2019). 

Saturday, November 17
Links Hall
3111 North Western Avenue

Held at Links Hall, this 12th annual festival featured works by over 30 SAIC student artists, including: Victoria Marie Barquin, Maryam Faridani, Julian Flavin, Wanbli Gamache, Ana García, Anneli Goeller, Sair Goetz, Armin Hayrapetian, Jake Himovitz, Li-Ming Hu, Christopher Huizar, Sami Ismat, Lariel Joy, Nneka Kai, Helen Lee, Sungjae Lee, Lily Linz, Joshua Moises Greenberg McCormick, Adam McVicker, Sujin Moon, Phil Mulliken, Ashlyn Napoletano, Katie O'Neill, Alina Orlov, Jina Park, Amy Peltz, Polina Protsenko, Raghav Rao, Ashara Renfroe, Dove Rutter, Divyamaan Sahoo, Sienna, Zachary Sun, John Thomure, B'Rael Ali Thunder, Martel  Tinsley, and Cherrie Yu. Produced by Maire Witt O’Neill with curatorial assistants.  

Saturday, November 17–Friday, December 7
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 100 SAIC students completing BFA degrees in the fall exhibited their innovative work. 

Friday, January 27–Saturday, February 11
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Showcasing work by graduating Art Therapy students and the individuals they work with at their internships. 

Saturday, March 11–Friday, March 31
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Featuring more than 280 students completing their undergraduate degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Friday, April 7–Friday, April 21
SAIC Sharp Building Neiman Center
37 South Wabash Avenue

ARTBASH is the Department of Contemporary Practices' major end-of-year exhibition of student work developed from the department’s interdisciplinary studio courses in the SAIC Neiman Center.

Saturday, April 29–Wednesday, May 17
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 120 MFA students present their thesis projects as organized by guest curators Valerie Cassel (Houston), Daniel Fuller (Atlanta), and Julie Rodrigues Widholm (Chicago). 

Saturday, May 13–Monday, May 15
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Presenting the studio work of 16 students pursuing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. 

Saturday, May 13–Tuesday, May 30
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 50 students will feature their innovative work in material, technology, fashion, and form. 

Friday, June 30–Friday, July 28
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Three rotating exhibitions featuring the work of over 500 high school students enrolled in SAIC’s Early College Program Summer Institute. 

Friday, July 14–Sunday, July 30
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured approximately 35 students completing the Low-Residency MFA program at SAIC and included accompanying performances, screenings, and artists talks.

Tuesday, August 29–Saturday, October 14
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Shifting the Center showcased projects by current students as selected through portfolio review. Artists included: Ivana Brenner, Ashley Freeby, Ryan Goh, Hope Wang, Catherine Hu, Ayesha Singh, Falak Vasa, and William Wiebe. Curated by graduate assistants Lindsay Hutchens (MFA 2017, MA 2018) and Adia Sykes (MA 2018). 

Tuesday, August 29–Saturday, October 14
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured work created by SAIC faculty during their sabbatical period. Artists featured: Judith Brotman, jonCates, Peter Gena, Renata Gokl, Andres L. Hernandez, Nicole Marroquin, Hennie Reynders, Alison Ruttan, Tristan d'Estrée Sterk, Jim Termeer, Christine Tarkowski, and Roxie Tremonto. Organized by graduate curatorial assistants Duncan Bass (Dual MA 2019) and Kate Sherman (MAAE 2018). 

Friday, September 16–Friday, December 8
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's (MFA 1997, HON 2011) work reveals stories often excluded in history in and out of Thailand: voices of the poor and the ill,  marginalized beings, and those silenced and censored for personal and political reasons. Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong (MA 1996) and produced by Independent Curators International, this exhibition presented a survey of rarely-seen experimental short films and video installations by Weerasethakul, alongside his photography, drawings, sketches, and archival material that explore threads of sociopolitical commentary. Organized with graduate curatorial assistants Katie Cato (MAAH 2018), Luna Goldberg (MAAH 2018), and Désirée Coral Guerra (MFA 2018). As a related program, 10 local artists created works in response to the exhibition, which were presented in an evening of site-specific installations and performances on the show’s final day. Additionally, a month-long series of Apichatpong's award-winning, feature-length films was presented at the Gene Siskel Film Center. 

Tuesday, October 3–Tuesday, October 24
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured works that creatively interpreted the physical structure of the cosmos alongside scientific artifacts on loan from the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin and the Adler Planetarium. Artists included: Carrie Gundersdorf (New York), Emily Hermant (Vancouver, Canada), Alea Hughes (Wildwood, MO), May Jernigan (Munster, IN), Johanne Laache (Norway), Yejin Stephany Lee (Pittsburgh, PA), Seldon Yuan (New York), along with Chicago artists: Jeremy Bolen, Sophia Catania, Christa Donner, Sophia Hayne, Dasol Hong, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Sun Kawazoe, Paola Lopez, Hannah McHugh, Zoe Nyman, Tony Phillips, Judith Raphael, Iryne Roh, Kendal Schauder, Andrew Yang, and Zhixin Zhang. Attendant programs included guest lectures and conversations with University of Chicago astrophysicists Richard Kron and Daniel Holz. Curated by SAIC faculty Paola Cabal and Kathryn Schaffer, this project was organized with graduate curatorial assistant Duncan Bass (Dual MA 2019). 

Saturday, November 18
Links Hall
3111 North Western Avenue

Held at Links Hall, this 11th annual festival featured live, time-based works by SAIC students: Cat Rose Bluemke, Sera Chen, Eunice Choi, Mairead Delaney, Daniel Disciglio, Julian Flavin, Christopher Gambino, Tamer Hassan, Melissa Hespelt, Li-Ming Hu, Sophie Leddick, Kyra Lehman, Jacob Melgreen, Samir Nahas, Galen Odell-Smedley, Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen, Ayesha Singh, Jesus Hilario-Reyes, Angeliki Tsoli, Vicente Ugartechea, Falak Vasa, and Will Wiebe. 

Saturday, November 18–Friday, December 8
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 120 SAIC students completing BFA degrees in the fall exhibited their innovative work.

Friday, January 15–Sunday, February 28
Hostelling International-Chicago
24 East Ida B. Wells Drive

Featuring window murals exploring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by 10 Chicago student artists. This project is co-sponsored by and held at Hostelling International-Chicago. 

Saturday, January 30–Sunday, February 14
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Showcasing work by graduating Art Therapy students and the individuals they work with at their internships. 

Saturday, March 12–Friday, April 1
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Featuring more than 280 students completing their undergraduate degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Friday, April 8–Friday, April 22
SAIC Sharp Building Neiman Center
37 South Wabash Avenue

ARTBASH is the Department of Contemporary Practices' major end-of-year exhibition of student work developed from the department’s interdisciplinary studio courses in the SAIC Neiman Center.

Saturday, January 30–Saturday, February 14
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured recent work by Sally J. Morgan (New Zealand), who engages installation, sculpture, video, and performance to explore traumatic states of memory as moments of metaphor and affect. Morgan’s exhibition was part of Chicago’s IN>TIME  performance festival and was accompanied by a residency at Defibrillator Gallery.

Saturday, April 30–Wednesday, May 18
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 120 MFA students present their thesis projects as organized by guest curators Irene Hofmann (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Michal Raz-Russo (Chicago); and Kelly Shindler (St. Louis). 

Saturday, May 14–Monday, May 18
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Presenting the studio work of 24 students pursuing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. 

Saturday, May 14–Tuesday, May 31
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 25 students will feature their innovative work in material, technology, fashion, and form. 

Friday, June 24–Friday, July 22
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Three rotating exhibitions featuring the work of over 500 high school students enrolled in SAIC’s Early College Program Summer Institute. 

Friday, July 15–Sunday, July 31
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured approximately 30 students completing the Low-Residency MFA program at SAIC and included accompanying performances, screenings, and artists talks.

Tuesday, August 30–Saturday, October 1
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Featuring the work of students from SAIC and Tokyo University of the Arts participating in an exchange between these two schools. Tokyo artists/faculty: M. Echigo, T. Hoshina, M. Kanada, M. Kobayashi, M. Kobayashi, S. Motomura, Y. Nishimura, K. Sato, Hiroshi Sugito, R. Takemura, M. Wang, Yi-wen Wang, Y. Watanabe, H. Yoshino. Chicago artists/faculty: Alice Ashiwa, Thomas Daniell, Yu Gong, Mejay Gula, Jiangshen Huang, Simin Lin, Jessica Marshall, Jonathan Solomon, Robert Martin Teetsov, Sherry Wang, Sharlene Yulita, Yizhi Zou. 

Monday, September 19–Saturday, October 15
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

New projects by current students selected through portfolio reviews. Artists included: Da'Niro Elle Brown, Oscar Gonzalez-Diaz, Rosabel Kurth, Melissa Leandro, Luis Enrique Mejico, Lucia Novoa, and Zhiyuan Yang. Curated by graduate curatorial assistants Alice Ashiwa (MAAH 2017) and Asha Veal Brisebois (MAAAP 2017). 

Monday, September 19–Saturday, October 15
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured work created by SAIC faculty during their sabbatical period. Artists featured: Werner Herterich, Doug Huston, Claire Pentecost, Dan Price, Tyson Reeder, Richard Rezac, Michael x. Ryan, Jim Trainor, and Amy Vogel. Organized by graduate assistants Zoe Carlson (MAAH 2017) and Máire Witt O'Neill (MFA 2017).  

Tuesday, August 30–Saturday, December 3
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Following a first iteration of the exhibition at The Tetley, Leeds, in 2015, Painting in Time: Part Two explored the relationship between time and contemporary painting. The artists in this cross-generational, international exhibition destabilized the idea of painting as a static object. Paintings were produced by machines, performed, choreographed, instructionalized, staged as films, encouraged spectator participation, evolved throughout the exhibition, and occurred as events. Artists included: Polly Apfelbaum (New York), Debo Eilers (New York), Kate Hawkins (Great Britain), Jeff Huckleberry (Boston), Natasha Kidd (Great Britain), Rob Leech, Lisa Milroy, Yoko Ono (New York), Vincent Tiley (New York). Chicago artists included: Paola Cabal, Susie Choi, Kayla Cook, Chloe Cucinotta, Micah Dillman, Dylan Fish, Juan Camilo Guzmán, Robert Chase Heishman, Aichi Hsu, and Megan Schvaneveldt, Billy McGuinness, Jaclyn Mednicov, Sanjana Mehra, Sophia Padgett Perez, Jeremy Sublewski, Maryam Taghavi, Zhiyuan Yang, and Cindy Zhang. Guest curated by artist Sarah Kate Wilson (Great Britain) and organized by SAIC faculty member and artist Claire Ashley. This project included a suite of performances, lectures, and special programs. 

Tuesday, August 30–Saturday, February 11
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

This series of rotating experiments and provocations explores the work of Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) and his legacy as an educator, artist, activist, and social provocateur. Transformed into working laboratories, the Hélio Labs engage guest artists and class projects in social propositions and spatial negotiations. Visiting faculty Jessica Gogan revisits a 1972 curriculum by Oiticica entitled “Experimentaction” for the 92nd Street Y in New York, exploring critical histories and emerging discourses around anarchy, anthropophagy, and alternative pedagogy. Artist Amy Yoes presents a portable animation studio working with color, form, and the gallery’s changing light to create participatory performances. Collaborators Kevin Kaempf and Lora Lode examine the multi-year correspondence between Oiticica and Lygia Clark, responding to their creative dialogue and interrogating the ways in which world events and lived experiences inform an artist’s practice over time. Drea Howenstein’s class Art as a Social Force considers exercises of freedom with a series of gallery interventions. In November, the Hélio Labs hosts Puerto Rican artist Bea Santiago Muñoz (MFA 1997) as she begins a multi-year project examining the history of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community. 

This series of rotating projects explored the work of Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) and his legacy as an educator, artist, and provocateur. Exhibiting artists: Kevin Kaempf and Lora Lode (Chicago), Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (Puerto Rico), and Amy Yoes (New York and Chicago), as well as students enrolled in classes taught by Drea Howenstein (Chicago) and Jessica Gogan (Brazil). Attendant programs included performances, screenings, and lectures. 

Friday, November 18–Friday, December 9
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 100 SAIC students completing BFA degrees in the fall exhibited their innovative work.

Saturday, November 19
Links Hall
3111 North Western Avenue

Held at Links Hall, this 10th annual festival featured performance and time-based works by Chicago artists: Santina Amato, Chase Calloway, Eve Clark, Caroline Joy Dahlberg, Violet Eckles-Jordan, Lorena Barrera Enciso, Fenella Gabrysch, Christopher Gambino, Sophie Leddick, Jonathan Leib, John Lincoln-Vogel, Imani Love, Maria Luìsa, Mev Luna, Kristín Morthens, Tannaz Motevalli, Michelle Murphy, Danny Pagnanimous, Caleb Smith, Rainier Smith, Misael Soto, Adrian Stein, Eda Sutunc, Marcela Torres, Falak Vasa, Ji Yang, and Xiaoqing Zhu. 

Wednesday, January 21–Saturday, February 28
Hostelling International-Chicago 
24 East Ida B. Wells Drive

Featuring window murals exploring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by 10 Chicago student artists. This project is co-sponsored by and held at Hostelling International-Chicago. 

Friday, January 30–Saturday, February 14
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Showcasing work by graduating Art Therapy students and the individuals they work with at their internships. 

Saturday, March 14–Wednesday, April 1
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Featuring more than 280 students completing their undergraduate degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Saturday, April 11–Friday, April 24
SAIC Sharp Building Neiman Center
37 South Wabash Avenue

ARTBASH is the Department of Contemporary Practices' major end-of-year exhibition of student work developed from the department’s interdisciplinary studio courses in the SAIC Neiman Center.

Saturday, April 25–Wednesday, May 13
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 120 MFA students present their thesis projects as organized by guest curatorial advisors Lucía Sanromán (San Diego, CA), Alison Peters Quinn (Chicago), and Hamza Walker (Chicago). 

Saturday, May 9–Monday, May 11
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Presenting the studio work of 18 students pursuing the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. 

Saturday, May 9–Monday, May 11
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 25 students will feature their innovative work in material, technology, fashion, and form. 

Tuesday, September 1–Thursday, October 10
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor South Gallery
33 South State Street

New Work showcased projects by current MFA and BFA students as selected through portfolio reviews. Artists included Bobby Gonzales, Allyson Packer, Linda Tegg, Derrick Woods-Morrow, and Guanyu Xu. Organized by graduate curatorial assistants Raquel Iglesias (MA 2016) and Jacelyn Kee (MA 2016). 

Tuesday, September 1–Saturday, October 10
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor South Gallery
33 South State Street

This exhibition featured work created by SAIC faculty during or as a result of their sabbatical period. Artists featured: Mark Booth, Mary Cross, Daniel Eisenberg, Stephen Farrell, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Carol Jackson, Carl Ray Miller, Mary Patten, and Anne Wilson. Organized by graduate curatorial assistants Raquel Iglesias (MA 2016) and Jacelyn Kee (MA 2016). 

Tuesday, September 1–Saturday, October 10
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Marking SAIC’s 150th anniversary and curated by SAIC faculty Scott and Tyson Reeder, this exhibition featured over 40 alumni from the last three decades who helped change the conversation within their discipline, developing their maverick approach to their medium. Each artist had received considerable recognition; yet, while critically lauded beyond Chicago, the importance of this city and region has been rarely recognized. For those unfamiliar with this rich institutional and local lineage, this show shed new light on a diverse group of artists and their shared history, celebrating not only SAIC but also Chicago as a place of learning and making. Artists included: Katherine Bernhardt (New York), Sanford Biggers (New York), Tania Bruguera (New  York), Brian Calvin (LA), Paul Chan (New York), Caitlin Cherry (New York), Martha Friedman (New York), Orly Genger (New York), Luis Gispert (New York), Gordon Hall (New York), David Hartt (Philadelphia), Jessica Hutchins (Portland, OR), Rashid Johnson (New York), Marco Kane Braunschweiler (LA), Jeff Koons (New York), Aspen Mays (San Francisco), Jason Meadows (Los Angeles), Rebecca Morris (Los Angeles), Kori Newkirk (LA), Drew Olivo (New York), Angel Otero (Chicago and New York), Trevor Paglan (New York), Zak Prekop (New  York), Amanda Ross-Ho (LA), Sterling Ruby (LA), Adrienne Salinger (Albuquerque), Carrie Schneider (New York), Jeni Spota (LA), Martine Syms (LA), Rirkrit Tiravinija (New York), Wu Tsang (LA), Siebren Versteeg (New York), and Chris Ware (Oak Park, IL). Chicago artists included: Christopher Bradley, Paula Crown, Anya Davidson, Jeanne Dunning, Tony Lewis,  Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Forrest Nash, B. Ingrid Olson, and Tony Tasset. 

Friday, September 11–Saturday, December 19
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Curated by Jonathan Solomon, SAIC's Director of the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, this show brought together five firms whose research-based work develops new knowledge at the edges of design practice. The practices—Analog Media Lab (Urbana-Champaign, IL), Ants of the Prairie (Buffalo, NY), The Living and the Ali Brivanlou Lab (New York City), Species of Space (Chicago), and Sweet Water Foundation (Chicago)—pursue projects that move outside of their core of expertise and into the center of other fields. Responding to these dialogic practices, the exhibition was organized as a series of laboratories installed across the galleries, engaged throughout the fall by students, faculty, and visiting artists and designers. This mode of collaborative experimentation and exchange continuously transformed the gallery space, resulting in new projects and installations and pushing the boundaries of disciplinarity. An ambitious schedule of programs further activated the space and connected it to local arts and design institutions. 

Saturday, November 21–Friday, December 11
Sullivan Galleries, 7th Floor
33 South State Street

Over 130 SAIC students completing BFA degrees in the fall exhibited their innovative work.