Terrain Exhibitions

Terrain Exhibitions Terrain Exhibitions makes private space public through sculpture, installation, performance and interventions.

We re-purpose private spaces to foster dialogue and provide opportunities to experience new perspectives.

open call for participantsCalling all artists, curators, neighbors, and public art lovers!We’re rounding up participants...
06/09/2023

open call for participants

Calling all artists, curators, neighbors, and public art lovers!

We’re rounding up participants for the latest installment of the Terrain Biennial. The Terrain Biennial is a grassroots public art festival that brings artists and neighbors together to put public art on the front lawns (and porches, windows, and rooftops, too!) of neighborhoods across the world.

🍄 Mycelium Connection 🍄

In celebration of the Terrain Biennial's 10th anniversary, we chose the theme Mycelium Connection to honor and expand our mission of making unexpected, yet vital human and environmental connections. We ask ourselves who and what have we overlooked and why?

Mycelium is a thriving underground network of fungal threads, vital to many natural ecosystems. Despite myceliumʻs enormous geographical span, it remains invisible to most. Terrain Biennial launched in Oak Park, Illinois, and spread across redlining from Chicago to India. This year, we are here to continue the work to foster, joyfully uplift, and cultivate solidarity across differences. Like mycelium, springing up from the most unexpected cracks and shadows, art is already all around. Creation flows from the hands and deserves to be shared with many.

Y’all, the Terrain Biennial is for everyone!

How to participate

Artists and curators work together with a host to produce public art installations (think sculptures, textiles, projections, performances — you name it!) outside their homes. We ask that artists and curators not host yourself at your own homes, but instead connect with fellow community members to host your work. You can pair up yourself, or we can help!

Everyone must complete a proposal application. Applicants can propose up to two projects and must submit an individual form for each artwork and/or host space.

https://forms.gle/5FzffTox3hFg376A6

Dates to know

Open call: April 18 – July 18
Participant notifications: August 11
Public announcement: September 8
Installation: September 26 – October 1
Opening reception + Block Party: October 1
Terrain Biennial: October 1 – November 15
Closing (Sabina Ott Day): November 15
Deinstallation: November 16 – 25

Celebrating the life of Jon Veal —https://mailchi.mp/f0352452fb4e/celebrating-the-life-of-jon-veal Yesterday we celebrat...
02/20/2023

Celebrating the life of Jon Veal —https://mailchi.mp/f0352452fb4e/celebrating-the-life-of-jon-veal Yesterday we celebrated the life and work of artist Jon Veal who passed away suddenly at the end of 2022. The celebration was hosted by his family and friends at the Chicago Cultural Center in the G.A.R. Hall. After the service, an exhibit of Jon’s work was installed in the Sidney R. Yates gallery.

Double X by Kioto Aoki This item is a framed 5x7 of film and is available by auction through Terrain Exhibitions. Visit ...
10/28/2022

Double X by Kioto Aoki

This item is a framed 5x7 of film and is available by auction through Terrain Exhibitions.

Visit the link in our bio to bid!

Kioto Aoki is an artist and educator using the analogue image and image-making process in photography and cinema to consider the intimacies of sight and relativity. Responding to and formed by observations and experiences of the everyday, she forms a rhetoric of nuanced quietude that explores various mechanisms of spatial and visual acuity. Her photographic work often oscillates between the still and the moving image, attentive to the apparatus of the human eye and the camera. Her work is held in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Library.

Only a few more days left to bid in Terrain Exhibitions Fundraiser...Visit the link in our bio for a chance to bid on th...
10/28/2022

Only a few more days left to bid in Terrain Exhibitions Fundraiser...

Visit the link in our bio for a chance to bid on this piece!

Striation Vessel Form IV 2/3 by Cody Norman

Hand-dyed recycled PETG #1 plastic, 2022

Cody Norman (b. 1992) is a Chicago-based artist, designer, and educator. He currently serves as part-time faculty in the Sculpture and Designed Objects departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He graduated with a BFA from SAIC in 2016 and earned an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2020. Norman works with both digital and analog fabrication processes to transform recycled and bio plastics into functional art objects. Creating enigmatic forms that feel at once familiar and foreign, Norman’s process physically blurs the line between digital and hand craft.

Norman’s forms are inspired by biomimicry and sustainability. He designs, builds, and creatively misuses his own tools, such as the handheld plastic extrusion gun, which melts recycled plastic into improvisational organic forms. Norman uses a KUKA industrial robot, formerly a tool of mass production, to create one of a kind objects in unique ways. His objects resemble nature but have a chaotic and unpredictable materiality, as well as an element of function alluding to the “usefulness” of plastic objects.

In addition to his solo studio practice, Norman is co-director of the creative studio Happy Returns with his studiomate Tom Burtonwood. Happy Returns weaves together research interests in robotics, materials, and digital imaging to produce a range of outcomes for commercial clients and art projects alike.

Resting in the Grass by artist Benedict Scheuer. Hand-dyed 8mm habotai silk with rolled hem, 30 x 30 in, 2021.Link in Bi...
10/28/2022

Resting in the Grass by artist Benedict Scheuer.

Hand-dyed 8mm habotai silk with rolled hem, 30 x 30 in, 2021.

Link in Bio for auction.

Benedict Scheuer is an interdisciplinary artist. His practice is informed by drawing, gardening, nature, belonging, and meditation. Core beliefs as an artist include a spirituality that champions sensation, the miracle of drawing a line, and the philosophy of interbeing—the interconnection of all things. He has a B.A. in environmental studies from Yale University (2014) and an MFA in Visual Art from the Ohio State University (2020).

Benedict currently resides in Columbus, OH where he makes many walks between his studio and garden.

Special thanks to Artist Louise Bean who donated art for our Terrain Fundraiser!Louise Bean is a woodworker, quilter, an...
10/15/2022

Special thanks to Artist Louise Bean who donated art for our Terrain Fundraiser!

Louise Bean is a woodworker, quilter, and outdoorsman, combining an education in design and environmental science at Columbia College Chicago. Raised at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Bean's identity is intertwined with a sense of place, both ecological and humanistic and their work seeks to blur the lines between a sense of self, a sense of human lineage, and land. They are currently working to bring to life "Blaze: Ecology of Fire" as a stand alone interactive science exhibit in Spring of 2023. You can follow Bean's work at

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Terrain Exhibitions makes private space public through sculpture, installation, performance and interventions. Terrain Exhibitions re-purposes private spaces such as front yards, porches, or windows and turns them into public spaces to foster dialogue between neighbors and provide opportunities for artists and viewers alike to experience new perspectives.

Terrain Exhibitions is a 501c3 Not for Profit organization established in the State of Illinois. Founded in Oak Park Illinois by artist Sabina Ott and author John Paulett, the "Terrain Biennial" has produced three editions in 2013, 2015 and 2017. With each edition the biennial has grown in size and reach. The 2017 biennial featured installations and events in 23 locations around the United States of America, Sweden and France with over 130 participating artists and curators.

Terrain Exhibitions produces the Terrain Biennial a bi-annual public art event staged at locations worldwide. Terrain Exhibitions hosts the Terrain Residency in Springfield, Illinois working with our partners the Springfield Art Association and the Enos Park Residency Program.

https://terrainexhibitions.org/mission