Visual Arts

Scott Wolniak

Lecturer in Visual Arts, had two solo exhibitions: Landscape Records in the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee WI, and To Break Is to Build at Devening Projects, Chicago, IL. He was also part of the Making Strategies group exhibition in Geary Contemporary, New York, NY, the Around Flat group exhibition at the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, and Live to Tape – Artist Television Festival at Constellation, Chicago.

Amber Ginsburg

Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a grant from the Propeller Fund for Fielding (with Sara Black and Billy Dee)

Catherine Sullivan

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, had a solo exhibit at Galeri Catherine Bastide in Brussels, Belgium. Her collaborative project Afterword (An Opera) was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She exhibited Afterword Dramaturgies at the Galerie Catherine Bastide in Brussels, Belgium. She also screened Afterword Via Fantasia at Art Basel in Miami, Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Metro Pictures Gallery in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, AZ, and Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.

Jessica Stockholder

Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Visual Arts, had solo exhibits at the Kavi Gupta Gallery, the Smart Museum of Art, Cleaopatra Gallery in New York City, Mitchell Innes and Nash Gallery, and Nacht St. Stephan Gallery. She exhibited work at Color Jam Houston, Hauser Wirth and Schimmel Gallery, MK Restaurant, and Expo Chicago. She also received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Open Fields: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Very Idea of a Natural History.”

David Schutter

Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, had two solo exhibitions at the Instituto Centrale per la Grafica and Magazzino in Rome, Italy. He was awarded the Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund award from the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis College. He had three pieces acquired by Istituto Central per la Grafica, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and Fondazione Memmo. He received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from the American Academy in Rome.

Jason Salavon

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, exhibited The Master Index at Expo Chicago, All the Ways at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, and Soliloquy: Jason Salavon at the Public Trust in Dallas, Texas. Two of his pieces were acquired by the Baltimore Art Museum, and the UC–Berkeley Art Museum.

William Pope.L

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, delivered the keynote address “Far-Sited: Creating and Conserving Art in Public Places” at the Getty Conservation Institute. He held the solo exhibitions Forest at Susan Vielmetter Projects in New York City, Desert at the Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, and exhibitions at the Independent Art Fair in New York City and Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in Basel, Munich, New York City, New Haven, Minneapolis, Detroit, Brooklyn, London, Boston, and Chicago.

Geof Oppenheimer

Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts, exhibited Big Boss and the Ecstasy of Pressures at the Block Museum in Evanston, IL, for which he received a publication grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and participated in the group exhibition A Painting is a Painting Isn’t a Painting at the Kadist Foundation in Paris. He also served as Artist in Residence at ACRE in Stuben, WI.

Laura Letinsky

Professor in Visual Arts, curated Unsuspending Disbelief in Chicago, Looking Askance in Delhi (co-curated with Jessica Moss), and STAIN (in collaboration with John Paul Morabito). She performed Cage Unrequited at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She received the Canada Council International Residency,at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and her 2015 book was listed by PDN Photo as a Best Photography Book of 2015, American Photography Magazine as one of the 10 Best Photography Books of 2015, and was named to the Scotia Bank Photography Prize Short List.

Theaster Gates

Professor in Visual Arts, was awarded the Artes Mundi Prize, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the inaugural Kennedy Center Award for the Human Spirit, the Brandeis University Richman Distinguished Fellowship in Public Life, the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Social Progress, and the KLEO Barret Award. He exhibited “How to Build a Museum” at the Art Gallery of Ontario, “Saltwater” at the 14th Istanbul Biennial, and performed “All the World’s Futures” at the 56th Venice Biennale.

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