Image via the artist X
SAIC Community Members Anna Martine Whitehead & X Named 2025 USA 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, Assistant 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.
Alum Allison Glenn (Dual MA 2012) will curate the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art.
Allison Glenn. Photo: Grace Roselli.
Alum Allison Glenn (Dual MA 2012) will curate the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art.