School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Visiting Artists Program

12/12/2022

Richard Mosse maps the body heat of refugees

Richard Mosse was a visiting artist in fall 2015.

12/07/2022

Trenton Doyle Hancock at Shulamit Nazarian

Spring 2022 visiting artist Trenton Doyle Hancock's recent exhibition "Good Grief, Bad Grief" is reviewed in Artforum's Critics' Picks linked below. A recording of the artist's VAP lecture is available on YouTube with closed captions: https://youtu.be/NBBVk4ohzrE

What do you get when a consummate graphic talent and profound thinker spends two years in Covid seclusion? “Good Grief, Bad Grief,” Trenton Doyle Hancock’s second exhibition in Los Angeles. A group of roiling, byzantine mixed-media paintings detail the urban development of the Vegans, central ...

12/02/2022

Tsai Ming-liang's "Slow Cinema" Contrasts the Bustle of Modern Life

Check out this recent interview with fall 2022 visiting filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang on the occasion of his retrospective at MoMA, Tsai Ming-Liang: In Dialogue with Time, Memory and Self (October 20 – November 13, 2022). The exhibition has now travelled to the Centre Pompidou (November 25, 2022 – January 2, 2023).

Tsai’s style is the opposite of boring; in demanding the viewer’s attention, he allows for incredible moments of human connection and discovery.

11/29/2022

Nicole R. Fleetwood and Maria Gaspar, 11/7/22 - SAIC's Visiting Artists Program

In case you missed it, a recording of scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood and artist Maria Gaspar's November 7th program is now available on YouTube with closed captions.

Scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood and artist Maria Gaspar discuss artmaking and incarceration followed by an audience Q&A. Nicole R. Fleetwood is a writer, curator...

11/18/2022

THIS BURNING WORLD - ICA SF

Currently on view! Fall 2019 Distinguished Alumni Lecturer Jeffrey Gibson's (BFA 1995) exhibition THIS BURNING WORLD is on view at Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco through March 26, 2023. The exhibition takes over the museum's exterior and interior and expand's the artist's practice with Gibson’s first-ever video work.
Learn more about the exhibition at the link below and revisit Gibson's 2019 lecture recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QIc3-JGMHo4

*THIS BURNING WORLD* speaks to the urgency and importance of our collective relationship to the planet. It places the earth under the ICA SF building in dialogue with video of the natural world beyond these walls.

11/15/2022

Redefining redlining with Amanda Williams

Fall 2018 visiting artist Amanda William's project "Redefining Redlining" calls attention to the impact of the discriminatory lending practice that created long-lasting devastation on the South and West sides of Chicago. With help from volunteers and the Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative, Williams planted 100,000 tulip bulbs last month at the intersection of 53rd and Prairie Avenue to visualize the magnitude of redlining and how its impact is manageable.

"It's huge and it seems surreal, but it’s also like you can stand here and see it," mused artist Amanda Williams on a brisk Oct. 15 morning as she watched

11/10/2022

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11/02/2022

This Monday, November 7, join us for a conversation with scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood and artist Maria Gaspar followed by an audience Q&A. Presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Nicole R. Fleetwood and Maria Gaspar: Artmaking and Incarceration
November 7, 6:00–7:30pm (doors open 5:45pm)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.

This event is free and open to the public. Visit this link for registration: https://chicagohumanities.org/events/attend/nicole-r-fleetwood-maria-gaspar/

The Chicago Humanities Festival kindly asks that all attendees wear a face mask. Free masks will be available at the door.

Image: Left: Nicole R. Fleetwood. Right: Maria Gaspar

10/28/2022

Visiting scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood will be in conversation with artist Maria Gaspar for a free public program on November 7th at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Fleetwood is a writer, curator, and art critic whose interests are contemporary Black diasporic art and visual culture, photography studies, art and public practice, performance studies, gender and feminist studies, Black cultural history, creative nonfiction, prison abolition and carceral studies, and poverty studies. Fleetwood's award-winning publications are pictured below.
More info: https://www.saic.edu/events/nicole-r-fleetwood-conversation-maria-gaspar

10/26/2022

Maria Gaspar Creates Art Alongside the Incarcerated

Associate Professor Maria Gaspar will be in conversation with visiting scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood for a free public program on November 7 (details below).

Nicole R. Fleetwood and Maria Gaspar: Artmaking and Incarceration
Monday, November 7, 6:00–7:30pm (doors open at 5:45pm)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.

Maria Gaspar Creates Art Alongside the Incarcerated Gaspar at the Rauschenberg Foundation. Photo: Mark Poucher Gaspar at the Rauschenberg Foundation. Photo: Mark Poucher "Art made by, with, or about imprisoned populations demands subversion," writes Adam Bradley for the New York Times Style Magazine...

10/24/2022

Walter Hood: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor - September 20, 2022

In case you missed the Walter Hood lecture, check out the full recording with closed captions on YouTube.

Walter Hood (MFA 2013) is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, a cultural practice that works across art, fabricat...

10/18/2022

TONIGHT: Holland Cotter Lecture
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
October 18, 6:00–7:30pm (doors open 5:45pm)

Holland Cotter is co-chief art critic and a senior writer at the New York Times. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art from the College Art Association, and the inaugural award for Excellence in Criticism from the International Association of Art Critics.

10/14/2022

Amanda Williams: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor - September 10, 2018

Congratulations to fall 2018 visiting artist Amanda Williams on being named a 2022 MacArthur “genius grant” Fellow!

Amanda Williams’ practice blurs the distinction between art and architecture through works that employ color as a way to draw attention to the political comp...

10/13/2022

Alum Paul Chan Named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow

Congratulations to 2022 MacArthur “genius grant” Fellow Paul Chan (BFA 1996), who was our inaugural Distinguished Alumni Lecturer in 2006!

Alum Paul Chan Named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow Paul Chan. Image courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation Paul Chan. Image courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation Interdisciplinary artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Paul Chan (BFA 1996) was awarded a 2022 MacArthur "genius" grant by...

10/12/2022

Holland Cotter - The New York Times

Fall 2022 visiting critic Holland Cotter is co-chief art critic and senior writer of The New York Times, where he has been on staff since 1998. Check out his latest articles at the link below.
On October 18, join us for a free public lecture by Cotter (6pm) followed by an audience Q&A. Doors open at 5:45pm. Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave. More info: https://www.saic.edu/events/holland-cotter

Holland Cotter is co-chief art critic of The New York Times, where he has been on staff since 1998. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2009. He writes on a wide range of art, old and new, and he has made extended trips to Africa and China for The Times. A fellow of the American Acade...

10/05/2022

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Tsai Ming-liang in discussion with students. .chen0711 photos: .fernix

09/30/2022

Join us in person for a lecture by film director Tsai Ming-Liang, one of the most prominent film directors of the new cinema movement in Taiwan.

This event is free for all audiences. Tickets can be obtained at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago box office beginning one hour prior to lecture start.

The Film Center is fully ADA accessible. Theaters are hearing loop equipped. CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write [email protected].

Presented in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Visiting Artists Programand the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Presented in partnership with the Ministry of Culture-Taiwan Cultural Center in New York, the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago, Doc Films, and Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Programmed with support from J. Michael Eugenio.



Image: Tsai Ming-Liang (2022). Photo by Claude Wang

09/29/2022

Congratulations to Meg Onli (BFA 2008) on being selected to co-curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial! We were delighted to host Onli as our Spring 2021 Distinguished Alumni Lecturer.

Exciting news! We have just announced that the 2024 will be co-curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli.

Iles is the Whitney's Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and is responsible for helping build the Museum's collection of moving image art. This is her third time co-curating a Whitney Biennial after organizing the 2004 and 2006 editions.

Onli is a celebrated writer and curator based in Los Angeles whose work attends to the intricacies of race and the production of space. She was formerly director and curator of the Underground Museum and is currently a Fellow at The Getty Research Institute.

Read more via The New York Times: https://nyti.ms/3ftP7ad
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Meg Onli and Chrissie Iles. Photo: Bryan Derballa

09/27/2022

TONIGHT!
Wu Tsang Lecture: September 27, 6:00pm (doors open 5:45pm)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation services.
Image: Wu Tsang, Anthem, 2021. Exhibition view: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (July 23 – September 6, 2021).

09/23/2022

Fall 2022 visiting artist Wu Tsang is interviewed in the most recent issue of SAIC Magazine! Check out the conversation and join us September 27 for a free, public lecture by the artist.

Wu Tsang Lecture
Tuesday, September 27, 6:00–7:30pm
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.

In the latest issue of SAIC Magazine, we talk with visiting artist and alum Wu Tsang about college parties, filmmaking, classic literature, and the lines between facts and fiction. Read more: https://www.saic.edu/magazine/fall22/q-and-a-with-wu-tsang

Tsang is this year’s Distinguished Alumni Lecturer as part of SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program. Don’t miss the program on Tuesday, September 27.

09/22/2022

Biennale Arte 2022 | Wu Tsang

Visiting artist Wu Tsang's installation Of Whales (2022) is currently on view at La Biennale di Venezia. Of Whales is based on Tsang's feature-length film adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and psychedelic ocean environments generated from XR (“extended reality”) technologies.
We are excited to host Tsang for an in-person public lecture this Tuesday, September 27th!
Lecture info: https://www.saic.edu/events/wu-tsang-0

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09/20/2022

TONIGHT!
Walter Hood Lecture: September 20, 6:00pm Central Time
Zoom link to join: https://saic-edu.zoom.us/j/84351595387
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation services.
Image: Hood Design Studio, Santa Monica + The Crying Rock, Santa Monica, CA. Photo: LA Metro

09/16/2022

Our first in-person lecture of the fall 2022 series will be by distinguished alum Wu Tsang (BFA 2004), an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist! Join us September 27th, 6:00pm at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
More info: https://www.saic.edu/events/wu-tsang-0
Image: Wu Tsang. Photo: Flavio Karrer

09/13/2022

Walter Hood, Landscape and Public Artist | 2019 MacArthur Fellow

Get to know fall 2022 visiting artist Walter Hood! He discusses one of his recent landscape architecture projects, the International African American Museum, in the video below.
On September 20th at 6pm Central Time, Hood will present a live virtual lecture about his practice.
More info: https://www.saic.edu/events/walter-hood

Walter Hood is a landscape and public artist. He is creating ecologically sustainable urban spaces that resonate with and enrich the lives of current residen...

09/09/2022

We look forward to kicking off our fall 2022 programming with an online lecture by renowned landscape architect and artist Walter Hood (MFA 2013) on September 20th at 6pm CT. As the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, Hood creates urban spaces that resonate with and enrich the lives of current residents while also honoring communal histories.
More info: https://www.saic.edu/events/walter-hood

09/06/2022

Announcing our fall 2022 lecture series! Programs will return to mostly in person and will be live captioned. We are thrilled to host landscape architect and artist Walter Hood, artist Wu Tsang, filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, art critic Holland Cotter and scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with artist Maria Gaspar. Please visit our website for lecture locations and more info: saic.edu/vap

09/01/2022

Ebony G. Patterson Becomes the First Artist to Organize Prospect New Orleans Triennial

Exciting news! Fall 2020 visiting artist Ebony G. Patterson will co-curate the 2024 edition of the Prospect New Orleans Triennial.
Revisit Patterson's lecture recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/d7Eot5h0JTk

Miranda Lash will co-organize the 2024 triennial with her.

08/30/2022

Nayland Blake, the Art-Problem Solver, Will See You Now

Read about fall 2019 visiting artist Nayland Blake's projects for the 2022 Whitney Biennial, “Gender Discard Party" and “Got an Art Problem?” in the New Yorker article below!
Revisit Blake's lecture recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-MYmQXtKc4U

At the Whitney Biennial, the multidisciplinary artist threw a “Gender Discard Party” and contributed a piece based on the erstwhile Mineshaft, and they also helped artist types with issues of creative block.

08/29/2022

✨ Our fall programs will be announced soon! Stay tuned for an exciting lineup of in-person and virtual events with leading artists, designers, and scholars. ✨

08/22/2022

Arlene Shechet, 3/9/15 - SAIC's Visiting Artists Program Lecture

Spring 2015 visiting artist Arlene Shechet has received broad recognition for her corporeal and suggestive ceramic work. Her experimental approach challenges traditional ceramic techniques and pushes the boundaries of shape, surface, color, and texture. Check out the artist's lecture recording on YouTube!

New York–based artist Arlene Shechet has received broad recognition for her corporeal and suggestive ceramic work. Her experimental approach challenges tradi...

08/18/2022

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Attention SAIC students! We are hiring student workers for the position of Program Assistant. All currently enrolled SAIC students may apply and up to 3 positions will be filled.
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08/15/2022

Anab Jain, 11/11/14 - SAIC's Visiting Artists Program Lecture

Anab Jain is Co-founder and Director of design studio Superflux. Revisit the designer's fall 2014 lecture recording below!

Anab Jain is founder of the London-and-India-based design studio Superflux, which she runs in partnership with Jon Ardern. The studio produces inventive and ...