Each semester, the NEIU Art + Design Visiting Artist Program offers two residency opportunities for emerging to mid-career Chicago-based artists:
- NEIU Art + Design Studio Residency
- NEIU Art + Design RISO Residency
Visiting Artists are awarded an honorarium and have two months of full access to NEIU Art + Design facilities specific to their project. Over the course of their residency, the Visiting Artist showcases their work in a public academic forum, leads a hands-on workshop, and participates in a Portfolio Review Day for NEIU鈥檚 Art + Design students.
The Visiting Artist Program strives to create visible connections between our diverse population of art and design students with working artists who embody these identities. This interaction provides invaluable insights and inspiration to our students, fostering a dynamic exchange of ideas and techniques. Visiting Artists should demonstrate a commitment to their artistic practice and an interest in engaging with NEIU鈥檚 students and creative community.
CURRENT VISITING ARTIST
NEIU Art + Design Studio Residency, Spring 2025
is a transdisciplinary visual artist, book maker, researcher, and adjunct professor based in Chicago, IL. yolk earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and an MFA in Visual Communication Design with a concentration in Book Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a full merit scholar. yolk has received grant endowment and recognition from the Atlanta Contemporary, Codex International Biennial Artists' Book Fair and Symposium, the College Book Art Association, VCUarts Adjunct Faculty Research, and the Judith Alexander Foundation. yolk has been invited as an artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artist Coalition as a BOLT resident, Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI, ACRE in Steuben, WI, Real Time and Space in Oakland, CA, and Avi谩rio Studio in Ferreira do Z锚zere, Portugal. They are currently a BOLT artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artist Coalition.
NEIU Art + Design Riso Residency, Spring 2025
Raeann Van Zee is a Chicago-based designer, printmaker, self-publisher, and educator. Her research includes printing methods, bookmaking and publishing, the intersection of design and craft, design labor, the history of typography and printing, and how care work relates to design. She is concerned with value, exchange, performing labor, and navigating self as content. Raeann runs a small press that produces zines and books primarily on the Riso, in addition to using screenprint and letterpress. Her work has been included in the Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair, the Detroit Art Book Fair, Zine not Dead Fest, and the Chicago Printer's Guild Publishers Fair.
Past Visiting Artists
NEIU Art + Design Studio Residency, Fall 2024
is a visual artist from Mexico City, based in Chicago. Her practice encompasses painting, murals, graphic narrative, sculpture, and moving images, to develop a ludic personal mythology to address questions of institutionalization and culture-making. Her multidisciplinary artwork has been showcased in solo exhibitions in Mexico City, Houston, and Chicago, and in group shows internationally. Cecilia has painted murals in various cities such as Hiketa, Paris, Houston, Chicago, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Pachuca, Tepoztlan, and Tijuana, where she painted a segment of the border wall between Mexico and the U.S. She is a 2024 Chicago Artists Coalition Resident. She has received awards including the Radicle Studio Residency at Hyde Park Art Center, the Leroy Neiman Foundation Fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art, and a Fulbright grant. In 2022 she was named one of the 鈥溾 by Forbes Mexico, and in 2023 NewCity magazine included her in the "" list. She holds an MFA from SAIC and a BFA from ENPEG La Esmeralda.
NEIU Art + Design Riso Residency, Fall 2024
obtained his BFA in Graphic Design from NEIU in December 2022 and is currently an Associate Designer at , a global experiential marketing agency. His clients are Guinness, Under Armor, and Mars Wrigley on a wide variety of projects including social media marketing, out-of-home ad campaigns, brand pop-ups, signage, and much more. His personal work often explores various facts of his identity, such as his Mesoamerican background, as well as politics, music, and lots of trains.
NEIU Art + Design Studio Residency, Fall 2018
(b. 1991) is a BLK queer lens-based artist, digital curator, and teaching artist currently based in Detroit and Chicago. A recent M.F.A. graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied Photography. Darryl's work is centered around the philosophy of F.U.B.U. (for us, by us). He thinks about how his work can aid to a larger conversation about blackness, and its many intersectionalities. His work explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories, all while keeping in mind the accessibility of art. Darryl is currently a 2018 Luminarts Fellow in Visual Arts, a 2017/18 Hatch Project Artist in Resident at Chicago Artist Coalition, 2017 Artist in Resident at ACRE, a semifinalist for the 2017 Edes Fellowship. Darryl has also shown at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Arizona, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
