Exhibit at SITE
Fall 2025 Exhibition Open Call
SITE Galleries is now accepting exhibition proposals for the Fall 2025 semester. Applications can be found on Slideroom.
The deadline to apply is Sunday, April 13 at 11:59 PM CST.
Application materials required to apply include:
- Documentation
- Summary of Exhibition Narrative
- Exhibition Statement
- Budget
- Exhibition Floorplan
- Programming Proposal
- Artist Statement
- CV/Resume

Please refer to a pdf of the presentation to gain access to any hyperlinked documents.
Work at SITE
We are currently hiring an administration director, installation director, and archive assistant for the 2025-2026 school year. You must be an active student to apply. Each application requires a resume, cover letter, and references. Please apply on Handshake by March 23rd.
The Administration Director facilitates fruitful relationships between SITE and exhibiting artists, as well as beneficial experiences for our team members. As the main point of contact for the galleries this Director maintains an awareness of each roles’ needs and deadlines to ensure positive collaborations and internal efficiency.
Installation Directors work alongside artists to organize and implement the installation and deinstallation of each show. These roles maintain the artwork’s needs and artist’s intentions at the center of exhibition plans and communicate developments in a timely manner to the SITE team. For this, Install Directors design display systems, anticipate logistical concerns, and maintain gallery spaces.
The SITE Archive Assistant is a student support staff position at SITE Galleries. Their primary responsibilities are to work closely with past ephemeral material collected by and in relation to SITE to organize, categorize and make more easily accessible to the whole of the SITE team, as well as the larger SAIC community. The Archive Assistant works closely with the lead Archivist to collect documentation and ephemera from recent exhibitions for the continuation of the archive and for SITE’s website. The Archive Assistant’s secondary responsibilities are to provide a primary point of contact in the SITE Galleries, welcoming visitors, sharing information regarding the exhibitions, and encouraging visitors to return for other exhibitions and events. Gallery attendants are additionally responsible for recording daily visitor attendance in the gallery, maintaining a clean and organized gallery space, maintaining exhibition files and archives, updating the email mailing list, and mopping or sweeping when needed. SITE Gallery Assistants have the paid opportunity to participate in the SITE Proposal Review Process each semester. The Archive Assistant may have 1-2 Gallery Open Hours shifts, the rest of their hours will be dedicated to the archive.
The Programming Assistant assists the Programming Director in setting the tone of the conversations that SITE has with the SAIC community and external stakeholders through events and other public activities. In collaboration with SITE exhibiting curators and artists, the Programming Assistant supports the Programming Director to develop programmatic opportunities, address logistic needs and create production schedules for all SITE events. The Programming Assistant’s secondary responsibilities are to provide a primary point of contact in the SITE Galleries, welcoming visitors, sharing information regarding the exhibitions, and encouraging visitors to return for other exhibitions and events. Gallery attendants are additionally responsible for recording daily visitor attendance in the gallery, maintaining a clean and organized gallery space, maintaining exhibition files and archives, updating the email mailing list, and mopping or sweeping when needed. SITE Gallery Assistants have the paid opportunity to participate in the SITE Proposal Review Process each semester. The Programming Assistant may have 1-2 Gallery Open Hours shifts, the rest of their hours will be dedicated to the Programming tasks with the SITE Galleries’ Programming Director or independently.
Contact
Email SITE Directors: sitegalleries@saic.edu
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Address
SITE Sharp Gallery
37 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL, 60603
SITE 280 Gallery
280 S. Columbus Drive
Chicago, IL, 60603
Hours
Gallery Hours (during exhibitions)
Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Saturday and Sundays: Closed