April 2025: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Lecturer Jess Atieno is featured in FEMMES, a group exhibition curated by Pharrell Williams at Perrotin Gallery in Paris. The show focuses on Black womanhood and amplifies underrepresented voices in the art world. 

Professor and Graduate Director of Visual and Critical Studies Christina Gómez served as a juror for In the City, an exhibition at the Maryland Federation of Art. The exhibition explores urban life through skylines, alleyways, bright lights, taxis, and crowds.

Assistant Director of Sullivan Fabrication Studio Kazuki Guzmán received the 2025 Craft Research Fund Grant for his project on the influence of Japanese Kokeshi dolls on American modern design. His research enhances understanding of cross-cultural exchanges in craft and design. 

Assistant Professor, Adj. Marie Jiang received an honorable mention for one of her oil paintings at the National Arts Program Exhibition at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Professor Eduardo Kac’s space artwork Adsum officially landed on the moon on March 2, 2025. Adsum itself, plus three drawings and a video from the series, were on view at the art fair ARCO in Madrid in March.

Professor Shaurya Kumar was awarded the Flourish Accelerator fellowship for 2025. The winners will be celebrated as part of EXPO CHICAGO at an event on April 25.

Professor Anke Loh’s solo exhibition RenaisSENSES is on view at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.

Associate Professor, Adj. Lorraine Peltz is featured in Light in the Darkness at The Gallery at A + C Architects, showcasing her vibrant, light-focused paintings. She is also part of Art Works Chicago: 20th Anniversary Exhibition at Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust, celebrating 20 years of collaboration between Chicago artists and Corporate Art Advisory. 

Low-res MFA Director Aliza Shvarts is listed as number 32 in Artnews/Art in America's “The 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century.” 

Professor, Adj. Sonja Thomsen’s exhibition and then down became up is on view through June 1 at Lynden Sculpture Garden, exploring connections between Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy and Black Mountain College artist Hazel Larsen Archer. The show invites viewers to reconsider their relationship to gravity, history, and the present.