69th Annual Student Independent Exhibition

The Institute’s annual Student Independent Exhibition (SIE) will be on view from February 13 through March 14. Now in its 69th year, SIE is an honored tradition that’s never conventional. Organized entirely by students, who choose the jurors and mount the exhibition, SIE offers fresh, and sometimes surprising approaches to contemporary art.

This year’s distinguished jurors are:

Mike Andrews is a Chicago-based artist currently serving as the Academic Director of Ox-Bow, a residency program affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he also teaches as Associate Professor for the Department of Fiber and Material Studies. He graduated from SAIC in 1999 with a BFA in Fiber and Material Studies, and an MFA in 2004 from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, from the Chicago Cultural Center to recent solo exhibitions at Daily Projects in Seoul, South Korea and the Golden Gallery in Chicago. Andrews is a recipient of the CAAP grant in 2002 and 2005 from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. He creates weavings, tapestries, drawings and animations amongst other works in his multimedia practice. Andrews explores material and space in reference to the relationship of body, object and image.

Alexis Gideon is a multimedia artist and composer living and working in the United States. Gideon graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in musical composition and performance in 2003. He is best known for his Video Music series, a body of work made of animated films. The films explore traditional folklore accompanied by a multitude of musical compositions scored by the artist himself. He has performed his Video Music series at over 350 venues in 11 countries including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2013, Gideon performed Video Musics III: Floating Oceans alongside artist William Kentridge to a sold-out audience at the New Museum for a joint exhibition.

Bohyun Yoon received two MFAs from Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 and Tama Art University in Japan in 2004. Currently an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, he exhibits nationally and internationally, and has participated in multiple fellowship programs, received numerous awards for excellence in the Arts, and has work in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, West Collection, and Song Eun Art Space. Yoon is interested in the invisible properties of glass and uses this to explore hidden aspects of societal conventions and stereotypes dealing with race, class, and gender.

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