An interview with Jeff Koons (SAIC 1975–76, HON 2008) is included in a recently released anthology called Robert Storr, Interviews on Art. First published in French in a 1990 issue of Art Press, Storr’s interview with Koons is making its English-language debut. Koons opens up about how his time at SAIC informed his practice, the boundaries of kitsch, and what it means to bring the bourgeois into his art. To learn more, read this interview excerpt on the Independent.
April 12, 2021
Five SAIC Community Members Named Guggenheim Fellows
Professor Michelle Grabner, Professor Diana Guerrero-Maciá, and alums william cordova (BFA 1996), Emil Ferris (BFA 2008, MFA 2010), and Dread Scott (BFA 1989) were announced as 2021 Guggenheim Fellows.
June 3, 2020
Claire Ashley Debuts Next Installment of Inflatable Art in Her Backyard
WTTW Chicago Tonight recently interviewed SAIC Associate Professor, Adj.
May 7, 2020
New York Times Talks Painting in a Pandemic with Associate Professor Mike Cloud
“Painting right now feels like the most important thing I can do aside from taking care of myself and keeping my family healthy,” explains Mike Cloud, associate professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), in a recent interview with the New York Times.
