Low-Residency MFA Exhibition
July 7 – July 27, 2025
SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington St.
Reception: Saturday, July 12, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Activations: Wednesday, July 16, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
July 7 – July 27, 2025
SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington St.
Reception: Saturday, July 12, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Activations: Wednesday, July 16, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
The Low-Residency MFA Exhibition is the culminating presentation of 22 MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2025 and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in the SAIC Galleries.
Across their wide-ranging practices, the twenty plus artists featured in this exhibition are anchored by keen observations of the forces that make up their personal, historical, and social relationships to the world. Their artworks record these relationships’ effects, expressing rigorous approaches to translating an experience into objects whose material explorations carry ambitious and diverse meanings. From challenging how ecological disasters can be represented, playing with perception through scale and color, challenging the forms masculinity, femininity, and transness take shape within representation, to processing the crises of our times through speculative thinking, Chatter in the forest serves as a tableau dealing with feeling, making, and knowing within our contemporary lives.
–Denny Mwaura, Guest Curator, (MAAH, 2021)
SAIC Galleries welcomes the SAIC community and members of the public to visit the galleries in person. Admission is free.
*All visitors to SAIC Galleries must show a state-issued picture ID.
SAIC Galleries
33 E. Washington St.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 27, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 12, 5:30–6:30 p.m., Maclean Ballroom
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks: Fragments on the Broken Window (Ryan Fazio)
This performance lecture examines the symbolic, aesthetic, and political dimensions of the window to shed new light on what exactly is at stake in its deliberate breakage. Through a series of theoretical and historical fragments, Fazio interrogates how the window functions as both a literal architectural element and a metaphorical device in discourses of visibility, surveillance, policing, and economic ideology. She will be joined after the performance for a conversation with anthropologist and interdisciplinary artist Ali Feser.
Saturday, July 19, 3:00–4:30 p.m., SAIC Galleries LL1 Conference Room
Resounding Ink and Voice (David Carroll Orr, Rebecca Rose Grant, and Ryan Fazio)
More to be announced!
Trevor Martin — Executive Director of Exhibitions
Denny Mwaura – Independent Curator
Kelly F. Kaczynski — Assistant Director, Low-Residency MFA Program
Mikayla Hernandez Guevara — Graduate Curatorial Assistant
D. Coates — Graduate Curatorial Assistant