Graduate Exhibition
Entrance to the new SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington St.
The Graduate Exhibition is a culminating presentation of MFA, MDes, and MArch candidates and an opportunity for new and ambitious work to be presented to the public in the new SAIC Galleries. The gallery is free and open to the public, and the exhibition will be on view from Monday, May 3 through Wednesday, May 19.
Make an appointment to visit the galleries, or check back in May when the Graduate Exhibition page on this site will be updated with a video tour, and other ways to engage the exhibition online.
More Information on the Graduate Exhibition
IMPACT
Performance Festival
The IMPACT Performance Festival showcased performance work by MFA and BFA students, who were completing their degrees in the SAIC class of 2021. This year, the festival took place virtually over the weekend of Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18.
You can access the IMPACT Performance Festival Archive HERE.
Unconventional circumstances make for unconventional art
For this collaboration, TNL will screen a limited-run replay of IMPACT along with short interviews with each of the artists.
Event link HERE
April 17, 5:00 PM
PROGRAM I and II
PROGRAM I – 5:00pm – 6:00pm CST
Jordan Knecht and Sal Moreno
PROGRAM II – 6:15pm – 8:45pm CST
Zoë Vulgamott and Corey Smith
April 18, 1:00 PM
PROGRAM III and IV
PROGRAM III – 1:00pm – 2:45pm CST
Ben Kim Paplham and Anna Schwartz
PROGRAM IV – 3:00pm – 5:00pm CST
llio sophia and DJ Malinowski
More Information on the IMPACT Performance Festival
FVNMAS Festival
Still from The _________ World, Peixuan Ouyang
The Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival will take place online from Monday, May 10 through Sunday, May 16.
Encounter the next generation of film, video, sound, and new media artists as SAIC MFA and BFA students present their thesis projects in this festival of innovative live-action shorts, animation, feature-length narrative and nonfiction works, and experimental pieces.
The festival will be hosted in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center. A new program will premiere each evening of the festival and be available to view for a week on the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Eventive platform. The virtual festival is free and open to the public.
More Information on the FVNMAS Festival
- Evan Amundson
- Arda Asena
- Sungho Bae
- Christina Ballantyne
- JiaJia Bao
- Dylan Boutwell
- Ellington Bramwell
- bambi breakstone
- Jessie Burnes
- Eric Capper
- Seamus Aloysius Carey
- Mary Cerney
- Anko Chang
- Lisha Chen
- Rio Chen
- YUXUAN CHEN
- Conrad Cheung
- Jaye TC Cho
- Shannon Choi
- Yiwen Chu
- Bona Chun
- Laura Collins
- Alice Cook
- Isaac Couch
- Jovana Crnomarkovic
- XIAOCHEN CUI
- Rose Dickson
- Ning Ding
- Riesling Dong
- Jessica DuPreez
- Colin Fleck
- Addison Foran
- Amanda Fuson
- Christine Gao
- Weiyang Gao
- Xuanxi Ge
- Mayte Gomez-Molina
- Mary Griffin
- KATE GROSS
- Shruti Gunupuru
- Kazuki Guzmán
- @LauraNicoleHaldane (They / Them / We)
- Lily Homer
- Patrick Dean Hubbell
- Sidra Wazir Khawaja
- Jordan Knecht
- Heewon Koo
- Jin Lee
- Dian Li
- Jiaqi Li
- Yichen Li
- Hsiaoshan Lin
- Chun Liu
- Florence Liu 刘澜瑄
- Hailing Liu
- Jiayun Lu
- Xiaoshan LUO
- DJ Malinowski
- Caitlin McCann
- Caitlin McCullough
- Laura Meyer
- Deanna Miera
- Ajmal MAS MAN Millar
- Yesha A. Mody
- Claire Moore
- Sal Moreno
- Olayinka Samuel Ogunleye
- Ingrid Olson
- Jess Atieno Ounga
- Peixuan Ouyang
- Ben Kim Paplham
- JUNGHO PARK
- Alayna N Pernell
- Praepubthong Pingmuang
- Maria Plotnikova
- Taylor Proctor
- Laki Rajan
- Alejandro Ramón Rojas
- Anna Christine Sands
- Ashita Saraswat
- Seth Sexton
- Rahma Shahid
- Bassim Al Shaker
- Margaux Siegel
- Corey Smith
- Siena Smith
- llio sophia
- Matthew Sprung
- Kye Benjamin Stone
- Alex Sun
- Cecilia Tyrrell
- Maxwell Volkman
- Juelin Wang
- Yu Wei
- Yue Xu
- 姚可心 KEXIN YAO
- Carina Yepez
- Eager Zhang
- Xinyan Zhang
- Ziyu Zhang
- Enru Zhou
- Viki Chow
- 朱祺皓 ZHU Kio