The New York Times spotlighted alum Rashid Johnson (SAIC 2003-04, HON 2018) following new exhibitions at the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Alum Bani Abidi is presenting work in an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The show, entitled Bani Abidi: The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared, features video, photography, and sound works exploring the artist’s practice over the past two decades.
A retrospective of work by Gregg Bordowitz, professor and director of SAIC’s Low-Residency MFA Program, is being exhibited at MoMA PS1. The exhibition, titled Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well, spans 30 years of Bordowitz’s practice as an artist and activist during the AIDS crisis.
CHICAGO—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a global leader in art and design education, has received a gift of $1 million from Sam and Ann Mencoff to establish the endowed Mencoff Family Internships in Historic and Cultural Preservation Fund.