Image via the artist X
SAIC Professor Anna Martine Whitehead & Alum X Named 2025 USA Artists Fellows
Photo of Whitehead by Landen Motyka, Photo of X Courtesy of the Artist
Two School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) community members, professor Anna Martine Whitehead and alum X (MFA 2018), have been named 2025 United States Artists Fellows. Whitehead, a performance artist, explores marginalized bodies, violence, and perception through performance and image-making, drawing on Indigenous land-based knowledge, with work presented at MoMA, MCA Chicago, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. X, a multidisciplinary artist and technologist, uses architectural and new media installations to examine the “liminal space between the ancestral plane and our accelerating post-human world.” X’s work has been shown at the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Ars Electronica.
In 2025, United States Artists granted $50,000 in unrestricted funds to 45 artists working across the country.
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