Exhibitions

2023 BFA Thesis Exhibitions, Group 1

Makayla Faye Brooks
Kristopher Kritikos
Alejandra Mosqueda
Jacob Meiss

School of the Arts Gallery
April 17 – May 11, 2023
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2023 BFA Thesis Exhibitions, Group 2:

Tiana Brown
Yuni Choi
Tyler Kaufman
Emma Purser

Gallery for Contemporary Art
April 21 – May 11, 2023
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Manifesting the Unseen: Edwin Shelton

School of the Arts Gallery
January 30 – March 10, 2023
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Communivacation: Michele Stutts

Gallery for Contemporary Art
January 13 – March 10, 2023
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Raul Sisniega
Works on loan from the Pilsen Arts + Community House

School of the Arts Gallery
October 25, 2022 – January 12, 2023
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EMPTY VESSELS: Samantha Haring
REVISIT to CHICAGO FACADES: Inara Cedrins
Works on loan from the Pilsen Arts + Community House

Gallery for Contemporary Art
October 31, 2022 – December 15, 2002
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INDIAN AMERICAN MODERNISM 
Gautam Rao

Gallery for Contemporary Art
August 22 – October 14, 2022
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PANTOMIME
Jeremy Boyer

School of the Arts Gallery
August 17 – October 7, 2022
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In the Ceramic Studio with Professor Derek Walter

Anderson Library Foyer
June 22 – August 13, 2022
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Bronislaw M. Bak: 100 Views of Chicago
On Loan from the Lubeznik Center for the Arts

Gallery for Contemporary Art, Savannah Center
June 16 – August 10, 2022
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STICKS + TAPE
An interactive installation
on loan from the FLOATING MUSEUM

School of the Arts Gallery, Arts & Sciences Building
June 15 – July 15, 2022

TRANSFORMATION: Mask Imagery in Contemporary Art & Culture

Curated by Oscar Arriola
Artists > Logan Kruidenier, Bill Rebholz, Sentrock, CHema Skandal!, Natalia Virafuentes
On Loan Ephemera by > Stefan Coisson and Oscar Arriola
Anderson Library Foyer
February 23 – June 18, 2022
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Annual High School Student Exhibition
at the School of the Arts

School of the Arts Gallery
May 9 – 20, 2022
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Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Group 2

Wade Flournoy
Nitsa Shomo
Jewlya Sturtevant

Gallery for Contemporary Art
April 18 - April 29, 2022
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Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Group 1

Neil Gainer
Rebecca Koon
Julz Lopez
Lexxi Rodriguez

School of the Arts Gallery
April 11 - April 22, 2022
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THE BLACK ABCs: Exhibiting Ephemera and Representation
Original posters on loan from a private collection with new work by Sammy Jean Wilson

Gallery for Contemporary Art, Savannah Center
February 7, 2022 – April 1, 2022

MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES 
Hope Wang, Cassie Tompkins, Envision Unlimited, Monika Neuland Thomas

Gallery for Contemporary Art
November 1, 2021 – January 21, 2022
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REVERB
Doug Fogelson

School of the Arts Gallery
October 25, 2021 - February 24, 2022
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SAME BUT DIFFERENT. Works by Printmaking + Screenprinting Artists

Victoria Barquin, Eric Von Haynes, Kelly Knaga, Joseph Josué Mora, Monika Plioplyte, CHema Skandal!

Gallery for Contemporary Art
September 1 – October 14, 2021
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CLOSER
Mary Fedorowski

School of the Arts Gallery
August 30 - October 8, 2021
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2021 Annual High School Art Exhibition
with the Teen Arts Board Traveling Mural Project

Gallery for Contemporary Art
June 21 – July 16, 2021

Biennial Art Educator Exhibition

School of the Arts Gallery
July 6 – 30, 2021

Regin Igloria: Slow Going Slowly: A One-Year Account of Drawing

School of the Arts Gallery
February 22 – March 26, 2021
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Rodrigo Lara-Zendejas: Campo Santo

Gallery for Contemporary Art
February 22 – April 2, 2021
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A School of the Arts Pop-Up Exhibition, and site-specific installation in cooperation with the Chesterton Art Center

Curated by Lauren M. Pacheco
February 2021

Paper Signs of the Times

Curated by Heart & Bone Signs
School of the Arts Gallery
September 28 – November 20, 2020

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Words of Encouragement + Paper Signs of the Times

@ Lubeznik Center for the Arts NIPSCO Art Education Studio

Curated by Lauren M. Pacheco + Kelly Knaga + Heart & Bone Signs
September 9 – October 31, 2020
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Better Must Come

Digital prints designed by Carlos Rolon and hand-painted protest artwork by Heart & Bone Signs.
Gallery for Contemporary Art
August 3 – September 25, 2020

Mask Print Project

Exhibited in various campus locations.
August – December 2020
The School of the Arts presented a creative approach to forever memorializing the 2020 BFA Student Thesis Exhibition that did not happen. Thirty-nine one-of-a-kind masks were created using artworks presented by thirteen BFA Student Artists.
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Moises Salazar:
Discarded Bodies / Cuerpos Desechables

School of the Arts Gallery
August 3 – September 25, 2020
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Regarding. Sculpture.
A Group Exhibition

Juan Angel Chávez , Grace Wells, Bishal (Bhaikaji) Manandhar, Josue Pellot, Moises Salazar
Curated by Lauren M. Pacheco
Gallery for Contemporary Art
January 13 – March 27, 2020
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Taehoon Kim
Yourself and Yours

School of the Arts Gallery
January 8 – March 6, 2020
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El Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Altar Exhibition

Gallery for Contemporary Art
October 31 – November 22, 2019
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Noël Morical
Three Point Contact

School of the Arts Gallery
October 16, 2019 – December 20, 2019
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Willie Baronet
The We Are All Homeless Project, 1993-2018

Gallery for Contemporary Art
August 26 – October 18, 2019
WeAreAllHomeless.org
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The Hunting Accident: First Chapter
original artwork from the graphic novel

David L. Carlson, author;  Landis Blair, illustrator
Curated by Aron Packer and Bert Green
School of the Arts Gallery
July 29 – October 4, 2019
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TheHuntingAccident.net

Cole Pierce and James Jankowiak
These 2 Painters

Gallery for Contemporary Art
May 20, 2019 – August 8, 2019
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Black Creativity: Artists, Aesthetics, and Movements

Artists: 
Norman Teague, Andrea Ledbetter, Ray Noland, Max Sansin, James Nelson, ZEB, Jamiah Calvin, Ricky Willis, Wesley Willis, Hebru Brantley, David Anthony Geary, Tyrell Anderson, Parris Gill, Jr, Armani Howard, Nick Fury, A'keem Muhammad, Marianeta Hicks Porterfield, Ken Ellis, DredSke, Arrington Porter, Don Cherry, Fo Wilson
Curated by Lauren M. Pacheco
Gallery for Contemporary Art
February 11 – March 28, 2019
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Contemporary Printmaking
from the permanent collection of the Brauer Museum of Art

Artists:
Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Leonard Baskin, Romare Bearden, Roger Brown, Jim Dine, Leon Golub, Luis Jimenez, Richard Hunt, Ellen Lanyon, Martin Puryear, Robert Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Hollis Sigler, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, Gregory Amenoff

Curated by Gregg Hertzlieb, Gloria Ruff, & Corey Hagelberg
School of the Arts Gallery
November 28, 2018 – February 28, 2019
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Mary Porterfield
IN:Dependence Layered Drawings on Paper

Gallery for Contemporary Art
November 12 – December 15, 2018
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Allison Wade
This That and the Other

Gallery for Contemporary Art
October 2 – November 2, 2018
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Klamen, Knaga, Hulsebos-Spofford
An IUN Faculty Exhibition

David Klamen, Kelly Knaga, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford

School of the Arts Gallery
September 21 – November 2, 2018

Olivia Petrides
The Astral Plane

Gallery for Contemporary Art
September 2018
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