School of the Art Institute of Chicago Commencement 2021 Program

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May 15, 2021 Celebrating Our 155th Year

W E LCO M I NG REMA RKS

Senga Nengudi, Artist

Elissa Tenny, President

Introduced by Romi Crawford, Professor, Visual and Critical Studies and Liberal Arts

STU D E N T LEA DERSHIP AWA RDS Felice Dublon, Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs

FAC U LTY O F THE Y EA R AWA RDS Presented by Student Government Members: Shreya Agarwal (BFA 2022) Jada Jeni Bennett (BFA 2021) Anavi Bhushan Nugyal (BFA 2021) Sarwarish Singh (BFA 2021)

H O N O R A RY DO C TO RATES Commencement Speaker: Howardena Pindell, Artist Introduced by Candida Alvarez, Professor, Painting and Drawing

Trevor Paglen (MFA 2002), Artist Introduced by Claire Pentecost, Professor, Photography

PRESENTATION OF G RAD UATE AND POST- B ACCALAUREATE CAND IDATE S FOR D EG REES AND CERTIFICATES

PRESENTATION OF UND ERG RAD UATE CAND IDATES FOR D EG REES

CONFERRING OF G RAD UATE AND UND ERG RAD UATE D EG REES AND POST- B ACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATES Elissa Tenny, President

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H O N O R A RY DEGREE C A N DIDATE Howardena Pindell, Commencement Speaker Howardena Pindell, an alum of Boston University and Yale University, is a multidisciplinary artist and former associate curator and acting director in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art and a current professor at Stony Brook University, where she began teaching in 1979.

Most recently, Pindell’s work appeared in We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Her 2018 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen, traveled to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2018) and the Rose Art Museum (2019). Pindell’s work is in the permanent collections of major museums internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the National Gallery of Art; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, among many others.

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H O N O R A RY DEGREE C A N DIDATE Senga Nengudi Senga Nengudi is an acclaimed, Chicago-born interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes sculpture, installations, and performance. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and former lecturer at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Nengudi has received many awards including the CAA Distinguished Feminist Award-Visual Art, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Leadership Award, the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, and more. With artwork featured in exhibits around the globe, Nengudi’s ephemeral practice, influenced by her African and African American heritage, insists on responding to the moment.

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H O N O R A RY DEGREE C A N DIDATE Trevor Paglen (MFA 2002) Trevor Paglen is an artist who borrows from a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, image-making, celestial mechanics, open-source intelligence, photography, human geography, semiotics, computer vision, and much more. The goal of his work is simple: to learn to see the historical moment and to imagine alternative futures.

Paglen has had residencies at Artpace San Antonio and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his honors include the MacArthur Fellowship, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Aperture West Prize, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award, an Art Matters grant, and an Artadia grant.

His work has appeared in major exhibitions at Creative Time, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Taipei Biennial, among many others.

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Laura Nicole Haldane Armin Hayrapetian Amira Hegazy Lily Delilah Homer Ashley Houghton Patrick Dean Hubbell Bopha Hul

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Sinhyung Kim

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Laura Elizabeth Collins

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Alice Cook

Jin Lee

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Jiaqi Li

Rose Elizabeth Dickson

Chenyu Lin

Emmanouil Dimitrakis

Hailing Liu

Yingxin Dong

Lanxuan Florence Liu

Nicole Grace Doran

Jiayun Lu

Cara Dunkerley

Jinlu Luo

Jessica Catherine DuPreez

David John Malinowski

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Wangari Mathenge

Colin Fleck

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Eleanor Goeglein Frick

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Caitlin Ann McCullough

Xuanxi Ge

Luba Mendelevich

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Gwen Wu

Claire Elaine Moore

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Maria Margarita Moreno Castro

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Charlie Heald Norman

Xinyan Zhang

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Li Zhu

Peixuan Ouyang

Qihao Zhu

Jungho Park

Siyu Zhu

Alayna Nicholle Pernell

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Mariia Plotnikova Deeya Laki Rajan Alejandro Ramón Rojas

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Anna Christine Sands Caleb Schroder

Matthew Brown

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Mary Kathleen Cerney

Jade Sheng

Kaitlyn Michelle Chisholm

Luan Joy Sherman

Phillip James Cozzi

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Jordan Vincent Elliott

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M ASTE R OF A RTS IN A RTS A D M IN I STRATIO N A N D PO LICY Karla Aguiniga Alex Botts Lydia Rowley Cardenas

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M ASTER OF ARTS IN ART THERAPY AND COUNSELING

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Qianyu Zhou

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Jacqueline Acevedo Colon

Laura Bennett Young

Sydney Golden Anderson Jasmine Estelle Beal Rex Cassidy Wing Yan Chan

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M ASTE R OF A RTS IN MO DERN A ND CO N TE M PO RA RY A RT HISTO RY

M ASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING Sarah Marie Bailey

Samantha Marie Adams

Kris Cain

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Gabrielle Christiansen

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Kelly M. Dolan

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Frank Adam Quintero

Chenghan Gao

Colin Andrew Seikel

Jake Alexander Matthews Denny Mutungi Mwaura

M ASTER OF ARTS IN VISUAL AND CRITICAL STUD IES

Gunnar Anderson Olseth Antonia Piedmonte-Lang Lynette Shen Christine Amy Stringer

Jake William Colavolpe

Quinn Hadley Veasman

Ailene deVries

Martha Louise Wilde

Katie M Giritlian Kari Laine McCluskey

D UA L D E G REE: MASTER O F A RTS IN M O D E R N AN D CO N TEMPO RA RY ART H I STO RY A N D MASTER O F A RTS IN A R TS A D M IN ISTRATIO N A N D POLICY

Mia Lauren Morettini Sofía Guadalupe Sánchez Borboa Cole Howard Thompson Kimberly H Upstill Jury Urso A. Weiseth

Hayley McPeters Blackstone Adina Jade Cosden Nicolay Duque-Robayo Rebecca Haley Lasondra Kern Emily Martin Francisca Rudolph

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M ASTE R OF A RTS IN N E W A R TS JO U RN A LISM

Hyun Jeong Lee Chun Liu Olayinka Samuel Ogunleye

Zainab Ahmed Olivia Rose Canny Amélie Wildine Pascutto

Sara Selmic Rahma Shahid Oliver Zhu

Shomara Omaira Roosblad

M ASTER OF ARCHITECTURE M ASTE R OF SC IEN C E IN H I STO R IC PRESERVATIO N

Dylan Boutwell Jovana Crnomarkovic*

London Hayley Hainsworth Maria Angélica Ospina Sierra Kesha Patel Izzy Pieniadz

Ning Ding Amanda Fuson* Melanie Joyce Gregorio Xiaoshan Luo

John Patrick Smagner Marian Elizabeth Thompson

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M ASTER OF ARCHITECTURE WITH AN EM PHASIS IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE Afnan Alamoudi*

Evan Amundson Lisha Chen Rio Jiunyu Chen Bona Chun Diana B. Feygelson Shruti Gunupuru Sidra Wazir Khawaja

Shatha Khalid Altoyan Ashley Elizabeth Boduch* Yiwen Chu Xiaochen Cui Maple Feng* Addison Pauline Foran Christine Gao Heewon Koo

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POST- B ACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE IN STUD IO

Hsiao-Shan Lin Derrick Kelley McCormick Yesha Asit Mody

Elise Blair Bagnoli

Praepubthong Pingmuang

Corinne Elizabeth Cox

Taylor Nicole Proctor

Sophia Marie Day

Ashita Saraswat

Zhi Ding

Leontine Van Cleef

Delaina Joann Doshi

Juelin Wang

Olivia Durham

Enru Zhou

Yuan Feng

* With a Certificate in Historic Preservation

Weiyang Gao Kenneth Gonzalez Ponce Jenny Halpern

M ASTE R OF DESIGN IN FASHIO N, B O DY A N D GA RMEN T

Chien Yi Lee Yue Li Alexandria Caitlin McLendon Emily Nicole Murray

Jiajia Bao

Deo Rai

Ellington Owen Bramwell

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Pingtian Nico Sun

Yuxuan Chen

Lara Rae Williams

Isaac Matthew Couch

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POST- B ACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE IN FASHION, B ODY AND G ARM ENT Vanessa Duran Yitong Zhao

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B AC H E LO R O F FIN E A RTS IN STU D IO

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Sean Michael Bedrosian Frida Paola Benitez Jada Jeni Bennett Noelle Berexa Morgan Taylor Berg Anavi Bhushan Nugyal Chuan Bin Efthymia Anastasia Bissias Rachael Elizabeth Bos Cam Boswell Spenser Reed Bower Megan Elizabeth Boyle Zalman Brimm Halley Jordan Brooks Blaire Janese Brown Mikayla Brown Caley Rae Buck** Natalie Marie Bur Maca Burbano Nicole Marie Burns Amanda Catherine Butland Zoe Ruth Butler Antoine Marquis Byndum Matthew Byrne Camilla Lavelle Caldwell Zeyu Cao Max Faskianos Capus Aidan Sluis Casper

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Hannah Cofer

Maximiliano Cervantes

Cosmo Coffey

Victoria Meiwai Chan

Olivia Rose Comai

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Ayana Nah-jeh Cooper

Katharine Chen

Nuridtzy Gissel Coronel

Lang Chen

Bella Maria Cosentino

Mengqi Chen

Royce Elizabeth Cottingham

Renying Chen

Hannah Elizabeth Crase

Xinxu Chen

Yi Cui

Yao Chen

Keannerose Trinidad Cunanan

Yixin Chen

Margaret Kathleen Curran

Yuxin Chen

Ra Dahan

Jinling Cheng

Autumn Nicole Damiani

Rainbow Cheng

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Yuxin Cheng

Emma M Davenport

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Tavia David

Caroline Grace Chidester

Syd Layne Davis

Elizabeth Yoo-Lae Cho

Lina Pearl De La Cruz

Eunji Cho

Luisa De Silva Milmo

Kyoung Hyun Cho

Troy Joseph Derks

Doria Seibert Yee-Ming Choi

Caterina Anne DeRousse

Cheok Chun Chong

Gauri M Desai

Lu-Yin Chu

Li An Marissa Dezmelyk

Jennifer Rose Chun

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Claire Chung

Joshua Christopher Dixon

Yeon Ji Chung

Hyunhee Doh

Lillian Annette Church

Kristina Ariel Danielle Drake

Lexie Ryann Cicale

Alisa Tiffanie Drakes

Maurice Cicmanec

Kirstin Dunlap

Elijah Stephen Clancy

Megan Rae Dwyer

Luca Samuel Cocchiano

Megan Ashley Earl

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Gawain Gao

Darren Christopher Edwards

Yumeng Gao

Jay Kathryn Edwards

Frances Alicia Garcia

Alexa Carroll Eisenberg

Gianna Dorothy Gaspar

Kim Lee Elkins

Logan Alexandra Gatherum

Elisa Emilia Escandón

Natalie Jean Gerber

Kaychel Ann Espaldon

Amanda Elizabeth Germolec

Fei Ewald

Anna Carine Gershoni

Jake Michael Fagundo

Jessica Geweke

Leyan Fang

Hanna Frances Gibson

Siyuan Fang

DiQuan Gilbert

Rosalyn Jewel Farney

Ilai Gilbert

Eve Feldman

Elizabeth Rose Goldman

Kewei Feng

Francisco Manuel Gonzalez

Moss Feng

Av Marie Grannan

Yunjuan Feng

Elise Ann Grinkemeyer

Caroline Feyling

Catherine Marie Gross

Hanna Sophie Field

Wesley Solomon Gryziak

Alexander Frank Fingrutd

Helen Hua-zhang Gu

Brooke Savannah Fischer

Weijie Gu

Clara Elizabeth Fischer

Adriana Guillén Santalla

Calla Ann Flanagan

Adreain Jovan Guillory

Jack Samuel Flora

Peter William Gundling

Jadzia Anjani Floyd

Yetong Guo

Erika Renae Foray

Justine Megan Nalus Guzman

Colin Roesch Forsyth

Jay Nico Haller

Aidan Nadia Anne Frierson

Ori Hamburg

Tara Kathryn Froehlich

Daniel William Hammerson

Kenya Fulton

Molly Katherine Hammond

Alyssa Marie Furtado

Chaebin Han

Vanishree Gandhi

Janet Han

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Yonjoo Han

Jennifer Huang

Benjamin James Hanlon

Jiayu Huang

Melissa Donna Harris

Yuxin (Alisa) Huang

Cera Savon Hawkins

Yuxuan Huang

Julian Ali Haywood

Shelby Hubbard

Liangliang He

Hanna Elise Hunter

Xuanying He

Coe Woodruff Hutchinson

Yihong He

Jun Woo Jeon

Shreya Hedaoo

Ravi Shawn Jha

Amanda Jean Heldenbrand

Vesper Wanting Jia

Raykeidrik K'Marr Henderson

Hana Jiang

Mia Fontaine Henry

Yinxi Jiang

José Manuel Hernández Sobrado

Ruixuan Jin

Madelynne Trianne Hewett

Bennett Sumner Johnson

Erin Margaret Hicks

Gordon Hill Johnson

Sofia Raquel Higgins

Zoe Kaitlin Johnson

Vim Grace Hile

Wyatt Emerson Johnston

William Xavier Hipp

Bokyung Jung

Sam Hoffman

Jane Jung

Nicole Brigid Holmberg

Jiyoun Jung

Karli Honroth

Eunji Kang

Trevor Miller Hormel

Jeemin Kang

Shuwen Hou

Ji-Won Kang

Alyson Houdyschell

Grant Jacob Karpin

Lauren Elizabeth Hough

Oleg Kasianchuk

Micah Jonathan Hough

Sama Kasliwal**

Hadley Hrdlicka

Ān Louise Kassel

Winnie Hsu

Chanina Shanle Katz

Yachien Hsu

Sahaj Kaur

Jiayi Hu

Bora Kim

Jiayu Hu

Chaerin Lucy Kim

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Juyeon Kim

Yoo-Jin Lee

Kung Lim Barbie Kim

Qiwen Lei

Qu Lim Kim

Yingjia Lei

Renaise Kim

Addison Tyler Leon

Hannah Marguerite Klepper

Ruth Levy

Haruhi Lynn Kobayashi

Hayong Lew

Rachel Kobb

Evan Kathleen Lewandowski

Ryan Edward Kocol

Ben Li

Amira Jasmine Kosek

Elishia H Li

Nandini Kothari

Guotian Li

Denis Kozaric

Joyce Li

Spencer Malone Krywy

Meng Meng Li

Chloe Adele Kucirka

Xintan Li

Sanghwa Kwon

Yixin Li

Charlie Lacke

Weiyi Liang

Fatema Lakdawala

Xuru Liang

John Turner Lane

Xiaowen Liao

Sean Lang

Chia-Yu Lin

Dana Elizabeth Langston

Jon Ryan Lindsey

Siru Kathy Lao

Jake Byron Jack Linn

Ruby Carolyn LaPorta

Jordan Lister

Lauren Therese Lauer

Cosette Liu

Hannah Louise Lawson**

Kexin Liu

Alice Lee

Nina Liu

Andrew Lim Lee

Shumiao Liu

Ching Lee

Veronica Liu

Hee Ju Lee

Xuan Liu

Kelly Lee

Yingzi Liu

Leah Lee

Yuen Tung Liu

Samantha Lee

Leo Gabriel Lopez

Sorim Lee

Sol Pablo Lopez

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Rou Shin Lu

Kristen Emilie Miciotta

Wenqin Lu

Peach Miller

Maxxim John Ludeke

Zachary Tyler Miller

Tianyi Luo

Rebecca Suzanne Milnes

Katherine Luther

Michael Mitchell

Vita Lutsenko

Raven Mo

Jing Ma

Paula Moreno Mogollon

Lucas Ma

Carmen Mu

Ziqin Ma

Arin Mueller

Ziqing Ma

Siddra Mufti

Lidia Madrid

Emma Mun

Deeksha Rohit Malhotra

Jacqueline Adams Murphy

Tao Mao

Owen George Ruthven Murray

Olivia Marin

Tomoyasu Joseph Nakano

Zoe Soo Mee Marks-Strauss

Madison Blair Neel

Robert Grant Marshall

Charles Juan Andrew Neisner

Korey Daniel Martin

Darcy Nicholson

Olivia L. Martinez

Sarie Nohara

Tristan D. Martinez

Karenna Northland

Caroline Massey

Dawson O'Keefe

Hannah Joy Masters

Emaan Omer

Lilly Marie Mather

Dara Oramas

Daniel Maya

Samantha Rose Oriola

Lucie Grace McCoy

Michael Taylor Orr

Roxy McHaffey

Fernanda Pacheco Olguin

Lyndsey Marie McIntyre

Liah Hyon Pak

Richard Medina

Tong Pan

Jasmin Mejia

Eunha Park

Ruby Hayley Kyrin Merriman

Sol Park

Nico Alexander Michael

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Carolina Pereira

Lulu Xue Rodgers

Thanaporn Phetleung

Emma Anne Roffey

Maya Evelyn Philip

Lorea Román Matosas

Clayton Laurance Phillips

Diana Valeria Rosario

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Sophia Elena Pierre

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Faith Juliana Saibert

Nattawan Prasingchob

Eva Fannia Salazar

Joe Prine

Móni R Salazar

Riley Marie Pruitt

Victoria Salgado

Widya Purnawan

Adrian Santiago-Alvarez

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Janhavi Sawhney

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Kendall Paige Schamel

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Anthony Olusina Schleicher

Tristan Quiniou

Isabel Amy Schroeder

Maddi Mae Racine

Anna Elizabeth Schwartz

Meenal Rahatkar

David Servoss

Emma Rae Ratner

Anirudh Singh Shaktawat**

Meha Ray

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Max Russell Reber

Jiawei Shao

Margaret Jean Rendell

Bynn Shen

Ashara Simone-Nicole Renfroe

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Holly Richwine

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Jorge Rios Morales

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Kiara Maribel Rivera

Rebecca Willow Shukis

Sheen Ro

Tess Sichitiu

Emilie Erin Robinson

Francisco Silva

Mariana Rocafort

Jan Victor Simonds

Ella Laine Roche

Aidan Forbes Simonian

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Sarwarish Singh

Rachel Ka Ching Tang

Arb Aaron Sklansky

Sydney Taylor

Elena Smentkowski

Bel Tee-Graziose

Alfie Smith

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Lauren Marie Thesing

Amanda Raquel Solis

Ally Thomas

Mariel Makana Somers

Andrew Bryan Thompson

Katie Sommons

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Jieun Song

Crasianne Nairoby Tirado

Carly Paige Soraghan

Claudia (Ashe) Elaine Tisdale-Dollah

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Liam Edward Spencer

Christopher Michel Torres

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Patrick Lanford Stephenson

Amina Marley Trotter-Lockett

Haley Shea Stieber

Alexander Relu Tsanov

Bret Benjamin Stozek

Chia-Chi Tseng

Sarah Virginia Sugg

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Hope Corrine Vaughan

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Sai Pranavi Veeramachaneni

Dashurie Tahiri

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Nathan Velazquez

Meng Tan

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Shun Yan (Gabby) Woo

Jennifer Teresa Villanueva

Raven Delaney Woodlief

Zoë Isabelle Vulgamott

Chenkang Wu

Eliza Thompson Wagner

Marco Wu

Moe Wakai

Qinrou (Ana) Wu

Finnegan Rory Walker

Qiuchen Wu**

Lillie Blevins Walstrom

Yifei Wu

Jiacheng Wang

ZiJing Wu

Jiarui Wang

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Xiaoxi Wang

Haotian Xu

Xiaoyu Wang

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Ruoshui Yan

Yiyan Wang

Hanyu Yang

Yuanle Wang

Rui Yang

Yuetong Wang

Sunny Yang

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Yidie Yang

Heidi Lynn Wanzek

Zihan Yang

Viviana Cloe Warnholtz Deck

Qiuyu Yao

Zachary Weber

Wantong Yao

Jeanette Margaret Wells**

Yifei Yao

Shizhi Weng

Yuanqing Ye

Loren West

Judith Madeline Yenebere

Simone Renate Whiteley-Allen

Zuoyu Yi

Jasmine Veronica Whitmore

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Fox Graham Wilkins

Nakako Yoshida

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Bella Teresa Willis

Yiwei Yuan

Sarah Jeanne Wilson

Zheming Yuan

Ann Woo

Jaesun Penasales Yun

Sabrina Yazmin Woo

Larsen Yvonne Zambrano

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B ACHELOR OF ARTS IN VISUAL AND CRITICAL STUD IES

Lingzhi Zeng Nicholas Zepeda Alyssa Wu Zhan

Mara Iskander

Daniel Zhang

Rain Shanks

Fengwei Zhang Keyi Zhang Lisa Zhang

CONSECUTIVE B ACHELOR OF FINE ARTS AND B ACHELOR OF ARTS IN VISUAL AND CRITICAL STUD IES

Shuying Zhang Siyi Zhang Xiran Zhang Xiyuan Zhang Zhixuan Zhang

Meredith Lynn Fanning

Zihan (Chloe) Zhang

Stephanie Marie Gomez

Zitong Zhang

Srinidi Gopal

Chaoying Zhao

Jin Charlie Kang

Haotian Zhao

Katherine Elise Pitré

Kaye Zhao

Amanda Marie Skierkiewicz

Xiaotong Zhao Yutong Zhao

B ACHELOR OF FINE ARTS WITH AN EM PHASIS IN ART ED UCATION

Jiatai Zheng Binghui Zhou Yancheng Zhou Zoe Zhou

Leslye Nicole Correa

Jiahui Zhu

Daniel Jacob Hellwarth

Jiayi Zhu

Kendall Lyn Hendrich

Xingyu Zhu

Michaela Kincaid

Yazhen Zhu

Theodora Pavlou

Yi Zong

Eun Hag Rhee

Jacobo Zuazua

Emma Blair Rosengarten

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Lily Ann Vincent Sofia Wehrle

B AC H E LO R O F FIN E A RTS W ITH A N E M P H ASIS IN W RITIN G Maximus Adarve Stevie Ceruolo Marisa Liseth Ferreira Madeline Rose Giberson Clarence F. Herdrich Lorre-Kaye Claraen Leslie Jacqueline Lohr Miriam Leah Moss Michael Nguyen Sophia Speranza Ry Book Suraski Kaitlin R Weed

B AC H E LO R O F A RTS IN A R T H I STO RY Thet Thet (Diana) Nway Htwe Jessica Morgan Rogovin** Emilija Worthington ** With Distinction–SAIC Scholar

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PAST CO M MEN C EMEN T SPEA KERS

1986

John David Mooney

2 0 0 4 Marina Abramović

1987

Student Presentation

2005

1988

Student Presentation

2 0 0 6 Bruce Mau

1989

Ronne Hartfield

2007

Alfredo Jaar

1990

Vito Acconci

2008

Jerry Saltz (SAIC 1970–75)

1991

Tim Rollins and the Kids of Survival

2 0 0 9 Renzo Piano

1992

Robert Storr (MFA 1978)

2010

Käthe Kollwitz of the Guerilla Girls

1993

Miriam Schapiro

2011

Patti Smith

1994

Marcia Tucker

2012

Eric Fischl

1995

David Sedaris (BFA 1987)

2013

Anna Deavere Smith

1996

Tony Kushner

2014

Theaster Gates

1997

Bill Viola

2015

Albert Oehlen

1998

Bill T. Jones

2016

Tania Bruguera (MFA 2001)

1999

James Turrell

2017

Kerry James Marshall

2 0 0 0 Philip Glass

2018

Judy Chicago

2001

Paul Miller (DJ Spooky)

2019

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

2002

Michael Brenson

2020

Mel Chin

2003

Lucy Lippard

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Ann Hamilton

PAST FAC U LTY O F THE Y EA R

2003

George Roeder

2 0 0 4 Trevor Martin (MFA 1998) 2005

Matt Groves Lisa Hochtritt

2 0 0 6 Stanley Murashige

Beau O’Reilly

2007

David Getsy Adelheid Mers

2008

Paul Elitzik

2 0 0 9 Surabhi Ghosh

David Raskin

2010

Mark Jeffery Maud Lavin

2011

2012

Irena Knezevic Nora Taylor Judith Brotman (BFA 1989, MFA 1994) Tirtza Even

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Lisa Norton Lori Waxman (MA 2001) Jesse Avina Chris Baker Beth Hetland (BFA 2009) Shaurya Kumar Mike Andrews (BFA 1999) Claire Ashley (MFA 1995) Peter O’Leary Anne Wilson Kamau Patton Aram Han Sifuentes (MFA 2013) Christina Gómez Joseph Belknap Kristi Ann McGuire Shiben Banerji Richard Deutsch

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B OA R D O F GOVERN O RS Anita K. Sinha, Chair

Betsy Karp

Melissa V. Behm

Jay Frederick Krehbiel

Daniel S. Berger

Carol Levy

Robert H. Bergman (BFA 1975)

Margaret MacLean

Sanford L. Biggers (MFA 1999)

Cary D. McMillan

Michelle Boone

Charles L. Michod Jr.

Laurence O. Booth

Melissa A. Moore (BFA 1989)

Charles M. Brennan III

Cherilyn Murer

Todd C. Brown

William R. Padnos (MFA 1987)

Daniel R. Bryant

Marian Phelps Pawlick

Linda Smith Buonanno (P 2001)

Charles T. Price

D.H. Chang (MFA 1991)

Quintin E. Primo III

Lester N. Coney

Beth K. Rosen

A. Steven Crown

Neal Sales-Griffin

Robert G. Donnelley

Ellen Sandor (MFA 1975, HON 2014)

Karen W. Frank (SAIC 1972–74)

Richard L. Sandor

Denise B. Gardner

Stephanie A. Sick

Sarah Garvey

Shawn Smith

Gordon Gill

Charlotte Tieken

Gail Hodges

Joseph R. Trpik Jr.

Genevieve Hovde

David J. Vitale

Holly Hunt

Kenneth W. Warren

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B OA R D O F GOVERN O RS EMERITI

John S. Chapman

Patrick J. Leemputte

Michael Conrad

Barry L. MacLean

Richard H. Cooper

Susan R. Manilow

Marshall Field V

Young-Ju Park

H. Richard Fumo

Linda Johnson Rice

David C. Hilliard

Adrian D. Smith

Richard Hunt (BA 1957, HON 1979)

Todd Warnock

Philip Kotler

Arthur M. Wood Jr.

Frederick Krehbiel II

Curtis Zeiser

Duane R. Kullberg

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P R E S I D E N T’S C A BIN ET

Elissa Tenny, President

Allison Green (MA 2009), Chief of Staff

Gene Adams, Vice President and

Scott J. Hendrickson, Vice President of

Chief Information Officer

Marketing and Communications

Martin Berger, Provost and Senior

Alexandra Holt, Executive Vice President

Vice President of Academic Affairs

for Finance and Administration

Tom Buechele (BFA 1989, MFA 2017),

Rose Milkowski, Vice President of

Vice President for Campus Operations

Enrollment Management

Paul Coffey (BFA 1990), Vice Provost and

Michael Nicolai, Chief Human Resources Officer

Dean of Community Engagement Stephanie Oberhausen, Vice President Delinda Collier, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies

for Advancement

Leslie Darling, Executive Vice President

Jefferson Pinder, Director of Diversity,

and General Counsel

Equity, and Inclusion for Academic Affairs

Felice Dublon, Vice President

Devarajulu Ravichandran,

and Dean of Student Affairs

Vice President of Educational Technologies and Chief Information Officer

Brian Esker, Vice President of Finance Shawn Michelle Smith, Interim Dean of Faculty Dawn Gavin, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

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ABOU T T HE SC HOOL OF T HE ART I N ST IT U T E OF C HIC AGO For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers​, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program ranked number two in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.

Learn more at saic.edu.

Artwork by Haowen Mandy Chen (BFA 2016), Whalefall 3.0 & Whalefall 4.0, 2015, acrylic on canvas