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Congratulations to our 2026 MFA cohort on their upcoming graduation and two incredible thesis shows. 🎓
05/15/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 MFA cohort on their upcoming graduation and two incredible thesis shows. 🎓

TODAY at 5 PM join us for a virtual artist talk and Q&A with Sara Cwynar! Link to Zoom in Bio!Sara Cwynar (Vancouver, BC...
05/07/2026

TODAY at 5 PM join us for a virtual artist talk and Q&A with Sara Cwynar! Link to Zoom in Bio!

Sara Cwynar (Vancouver, BC, 1985) lives and works in New York. Her work in photography, video, and installation involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. For over 10 years, she has been evolving her own personal visual language in installation, photography, and film, revealing the powerful role that images play in our daily lives. Tapping into personal and collective desires, she explores how visual culture both reflects and shapes notions of beauty, value, and truth. Her work reflects an obsessive curiosity about images: how and why they are created, how they act, how they multiply, endure, and disappear. Using dated and contemporary commercial images, she exposes the failure, with time, of the visual trickery and the waning of the seductive powers of popular images, and the way the images that once seduced are replaced with new ones in increasingly rapid cycles. She tries to think about who all this material is really for, what latent power dynamics are contained by our images, and how contemporary concepts of freedom, agency, and power are tied up and reproduced in images.

Please join us in welcoming Kelli Connell to the Photography Department & the SAIC community! We are thrilled to announc...
05/01/2026

Please join us in welcoming Kelli Connell to the Photography Department & the SAIC community!

We are thrilled to announce that Kelli will be teaching the PHOTO Senior Studio Seminar and the Graduate Photography Seminar this fall.

Kelli Connell is an artist whose work investigates sexuality, gender, identity, and photographer-sitter relationships. Her work is held in the collections of major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others.

Her publications include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Photo Art: The New World of Photography, and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life. Connell has received fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and the Center for Creative Photography.

We are so excited to welcome Kelli and look forward to all that she will bring to our community this fall.

portrait by Natalie Krick

Join us next week on May 1st for our first year photography MFA students’ artist talks. Room 216 in the 280 building. Go...
04/23/2026

Join us next week on May 1st for our first year photography MFA students’ artist talks. Room 216 in the 280 building. Good luck grads!

We are beyond thrilled to celebrate two extraordinary members of our Photo community!✨ Huge congratulations to Aspen May...
04/17/2026

We are beyond thrilled to celebrate two extraordinary members of our Photo community!

✨ Huge congratulations to Aspen Mays (SAIC Photo MFA 2009) and Guanyu Xu (SAIC Photo BFA 2016 & MFA 2019) on receiving 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships!

This remarkable honor recognizes individuals with exceptional creative ability in the arts and is awarded to those who have demonstrated distinguished accomplishment and extraordinary potential for future achievement.

Awarded annually since 1935 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the fellowship remains one of the most prestigious recognitions for artists, scholars, and thinkers.

We are so excited to see Aspen and Guanyu’s visionary practices celebrated on this national stage. Their work continues to inspire our students, alumni, and the broader field of contemporary photography.

Please join us in congratulating them!

ALTERATIONS Opening this Friday, April 10 5-8PM Hard Return Gallery (HARD RETURN ART)Fine Arts Building, 410 S Michigan ...
04/08/2026

ALTERATIONS Opening this Friday, April 10 5-8PM 
Hard Return Gallery (HARD RETURN ART)
Fine Arts Building, 410 S Michigan Ave, Room 306, Chicago
A collaborative group exhibition with students from Advanced Black and White class, exploring the medium as site-specific practice: each artist bringing a different way of experiencing the same space.
On view through April 20
Participating artists: 
Ollie Balbier (ollie :p) 
Matthew K. Beeny 
Jacob Andres Fuller (jazcorn) 
Jin Lee (Jin Leejazcornia Lethin (SJin Lee
Zing Li (Ziying LSaskiahori Ortega Ziying Li
Tanya Shah (tanyasahori 
Ananya Vinayatanya shahAnanya) 
Autumn Thomas (AuAnanyahomas) 
Ravi VietrAutumn Thomaso) 
James Wu () 
Galit Aloni (Galit Aloni)
Come celebratGalit Aloni

We’re excited to announce that Sara Cwynar will be joining us for Parlor Room on March 30th! Mark your calendars! You wo...
03/25/2026

We’re excited to announce that Sara Cwynar will be joining us for Parlor Room on March 30th! Mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss this conversation.

Happy Monday & Welcome back from Spring Break!Join us in the Creative Nook from 11:30-12:30 and 3-4pm to chat about Summ...
03/23/2026

Happy Monday & Welcome back from Spring Break!

Join us in the Creative Nook from 11:30-12:30 and 3-4pm to chat about Summer and Fall Photography classes today, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Looking forward to seeing you!

You are invited to the closing reception and programming event for .hannus curation project from porch to patio on Satur...
03/17/2026

You are invited to the closing reception and programming event for .hannus curation project from porch to patio on Saturday March 21st from 4-8pm. There will be a panel discussion at 430pm and performances at 6pm. Hope to see you there!

Reviewed in Musée Magazine and on view through Sunday, March 1Perspective Gallery’s 2026 Invitational Exhibition — HOLD ...
02/24/2026

Reviewed in Musée Magazine and on view through Sunday, March 1

Perspective Gallery’s 2026 Invitational Exhibition — HOLD features work by six emerging artists currently pursuing their BFA and working within the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago:

Abigail Brooke Ackles, Ethan Kunoff, Isabel Lim, Collin Lust, Sarah Price, Dev Kili Stolkiner

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