An art installation featuring two vibrant screens, one showing hands in colorful attire, the other depicting people sitting. The walls and floor are vividly lit in pink with neon lights overhead.

Photo Credit: Odette Peralta/Courtesy The Artist And Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City
 

Alum Ana Segovia Mocks Machismo at Venice Biennale

By Sophia Carman Salganicoff, MFA Candidate

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Ana Segovia (BFA 2015) is featured in ArtNews for his colorful and confronting exhibition on machismo at the Venice Biennale. Known for challenging traditional Mexican identities, Segovia's work spans painting, video, and performance. During Mexico City’s art week in February 2020, his intervention at La Faena, a bullfighting-themed cantina, set the stage for his deconstruction of hyper-masculine tropes. At the Venice Biennale, Segovia adapted his 2021 show with the video Aunque Me Espine la Mano, depicting ambiguous charro figures in a neon pink, campy space. 

Grad Student Nitya Mehrotra Uses Animation to Support Abuse Survivors

SAIC grad student Nitya Mehrotra creates a platform for abuse survivors.

Grad Student Nitya Mehrotra Uses Animation to Support Abuse Survivors

Photo Credit: Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune

Nitya Mehrotra, left, an artist programming assistant at Urban Gateways, helps works with student Dejah Ajavi on an audio recording during a media arts class on June 25, 2024, in Chicago. Mehrotra is graduate student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago who founded an online support community called Stories by Strangers that lets survivors of mental and sexual abuse share their narratives in their own way.