School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
M ASTE R OF FIN E A RTS IN STU DI O
Kate Anne Gross Kazuki Sebastián Guzmán Anno
Bassim Al Shaker Arda Asena Sung Ho Bae Christina Attie Ballantyne Bambi Deidre Breakstone Shea Burke Jessica Johanna Burnes
Laura Nicole Haldane Armin Hayrapetian Amira Hegazy Lily Delilah Homer Ashley Houghton Patrick Dean Hubbell Bopha Hul
Eric Albert Capper
Sami Hussain Ismat
Seamus Aloysius Carey
Yifan Jin
Anko Chang
Mariah Joyce
Conrad Cheung
Brian Jucas
Jaye Ting-Chun Cho
Sinhyung Kim
Shannon Gee Choi
Jordan Knecht
Laura Elizabeth Collins
Jakyung Lee
Alice Cook
Jin Lee
Decheng Cui
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
Shruti Dutta
Wangari Mathenge
Colin Fleck
Caitlin Jane Mattia
Eleanor Goeglein Frick
Caitlin Faith McCann
Weiyang Gao
Caitlin Ann McCullough
Xuanxi Ge
Luba Mendelevich
Maria Teresa Gomez Molina
Deanna Miera
Mary Celeste Griffin
Ajmal Mas Man Millar
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Ines Moldavsky
Gwen Wu
Claire Elaine Moore
Xingrui Xu
Maria Margarita Moreno Castro
yue xu
Sal Moreno Jr.
Kexin Yao
Sage Elise Mtahtah
Zhuyan Ye
Donny Nie
Carina Yepez
Charlie Heald Norman
Xinyan Zhang
Ingrid Olson
Yige Zhang
Jessica Atieno Ounga
Li Zhu
Peixuan Ouyang
Qihao Zhu
Jungho Park
Siyu Zhu
Alayna Nicholle Pernell
Muxi Zhuo
Mariia Plotnikova Deeya Laki Rajan Alejandro Ramón Rojas
M ASTER OF FINE ARTS IN WRITING
Anna Christine Sands Caleb Schroder
Matthew Brown
Seth Perucca Sexton
Mary Kathleen Cerney
Jade Sheng
Kaitlyn Michelle Chisholm
Luan Joy Sherman
Phillip James Cozzi
Margaux Marie Siegel
Jordan Vincent Elliott
Corey Douglas Smith
Fallon Leyba
Siena Gabrielle Smith
AC Manning
Cameron Guy Spratley
Laura Katherine Meyer
Matthew Ian Sprung
Ben Kim Paplham
Kye Stone
Letitia Marie Pratt
Julianne Sophia Stopper
Julie Marie Schwartz
Cecilia Marie Eugenie Tyrrell
Ellis Jake Solie
Maxwell Volkman
Jason Strongin
Yu Wei
Ishani Synghal
Katie Williams
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
Jacqueline M Guataquira Nicolette Nijensohn
M ASTER OF ARTS IN ART THERAPY AND COUNSELING
Maura Elizabeth Connors Sofia Gabriel Del Callejo
Chloe Beltran
Margaret Helen Halquist
Courtney Anne Bennett
Bowei Ma
Kathrine Hannah Brunhaver
Meghan McCray
Annalise Marie Castro
Tessa Betty Miller
Isissia Drake
Stephanie Ann Murano
Christina Marie Heyworth
Megan Jean Nash
Emily Marie Holmes
Nicha Nalin Poolpol
Sanya Jaffer
William Vicente Robinson
Tabitha Anne Kunkes
Madeline Shearer
Sarah Katherine Vincent Lamb
Taylor Victoria Shuck
Zixi Liu
Mengxuan Zhao
Zemaye U Okediji
Jinghe Zhong
Sofía A Rosales Juárez
Qianyu Zhou
Amanda A. Sanabria Amethyst AveMaria Strivelli Danielle Swan
M ASTE R OF A RTS IN A R T E D U CATIO N
Johanna Tesfaye Jessica Ann Walters Susannah Pamela Ward
Jacqueline Acevedo Colon
Laura Bennett Young
Sydney Golden Anderson Jasmine Estelle Beal Rex Cassidy Wing Yan Chan
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
Melanie Rose Ball
Emilee Davidson
Gabrielle Christiansen
Cordelia Rose Larsen
Kelly M. Dolan
Antonio Pazaran Camargo
Adam Fahy-Majeed
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
M ASTE R OF DESIGN IN D E S I G N E D O BJEC TS
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Dian Li
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
Jasmine Marie Smith
Brennan Prentice Brower
Pingtian Nico Sun
Yuxuan Chen
Lara Rae Williams
Isaac Matthew Couch
Jeffrey Allen Yard
Yichen Li
Yiyuan Zeng
Xiaolin Sun Yan Yang
POST- B ACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE IN FASHION, B ODY AND G ARM ENT Vanessa Duran Yitong Zhao
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
B AC H E LO R O F FIN E A RTS IN STU D IO
Eliana Nicole Batsakis Emily Yong Beck Carol Amanda Bedoy De La Riva
Cheryl Combs Acuña Claire Shivar Adams Deidre Kaye Adams Reevah Agarwaal Zeinab Aderanti Ajasa Kemal Sarp Akdag Talal Khalid Al Najjar Latifa Hamed Alajlan Paige Thomson Alexander María Jesús Amo Soria Seongbae An Subin An Faviola Margarita Anaya Esquivel Cortney Renee Anderson Mora Evangeline Anderson Lucia Andrade Emily Anshen Garfield Antoine Kayla Kristen Antonevich Laura Lee Arieli Erin Taylor Armstrong Shashwat Vineet Arya Soomin Baik Julie Baker Carolina Baños Cervantes Rong Bao Caterina Noelle Barrera Todd Miguel Barrera-Disler
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Maya Bae Catlin
Hannah Cofer
Maximiliano Cervantes
Cosmo Coffey
Victoria Meiwai Chan
Olivia Rose Comai
Gaeun Cheh
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
Nhi Thao Dang
Yuxin Cheng
Emma M Davenport
Cayly Pui Yuen Chia
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
Ling Ding
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Avery Jayne Edwards
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Zhe Lou
Ari Michak
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
Haomin Peng
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Carolina Pereira
Lulu Xue Rodgers
Thanaporn Phetleung
Emma Anne Roffey
Maya Evelyn Philip
Lorea Román Matosas
Clayton Laurance Phillips
Diana Valeria Rosario
Zheyu Pi
Ariana Lillit Rubin
Sophia Elena Pierre
Breanna Lee Ruiz
Rohan A. Pope
Swar Sahgal
Deborah Milcahela Pozo-Tovar
Faith Juliana Saibert
Nattawan Prasingchob
Eva Fannia Salazar
Joe Prine
Móni R Salazar
Riley Marie Pruitt
Victoria Salgado
Widya Purnawan
Adrian Santiago-Alvarez
Ruyi Qian
Janhavi Sawhney
Zhiyun Qin
Kendall Paige Schamel
Linli Qiu
Charlotte Monroe Schinner
Abdullah Quick**
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
Nafisa Shams
Max Russell Reber
Jiawei Shao
Margaret Jean Rendell
Bynn Shen
Ashara Simone-Nicole Renfroe
Eirene Shen
Holly Richwine
Dakota Joyce Chung Sherman
Jorge Rios Morales
Minghui Shi
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Klea Sinani
Qiuxiao Tang
Sarwarish Singh
Rachel Ka Ching Tang
Arb Aaron Sklansky
Sydney Taylor
Elena Smentkowski
Bel Tee-Graziose
Alfie Smith
Natalie Erica Teibel
Isabelle Smith
Isaac Tellez
Kayla Deneen Smith
Seline Ilana Teo
Jakub Bogdan Sniezek
Daniella Thach
Aaron Bernard Sobetski
Pitchaya Thaveesakvilai
Ashley Hat Nhim Sohn**
Lauren Marie Thesing
Amanda Raquel Solis
Ally Thomas
Mariel Makana Somers
Andrew Bryan Thompson
Katie Sommons
Ming Tian
Je Won Song
Anna Julia Tilley
Jieun Song
Crasianne Nairoby Tirado
Carly Paige Soraghan
Claudia (Ashe) Elaine Tisdale-Dollah
Leah Elizabeth Imani Spears
Derrick Ackah Toffey
Liam Edward Spencer
Christopher Michel Torres
Ty Springer
Matt Traaseth
Patrick Lanford Stephenson
Amina Marley Trotter-Lockett
Haley Shea Stieber
Alexander Relu Tsanov
Bret Benjamin Stozek
Chia-Chi Tseng
Sarah Virginia Sugg
Laura Eileen Alexa Tungga
You Kyoung Federica Sul
Amy Lynn Tyler
Yi Sun
Cameron Alexandra Tyler
Dong Yoon Sung
Sendra Uebele
Sadie Marie Swenson
Hope Corrine Vaughan
Reka Anna Szabo
Sai Pranavi Veeramachaneni
Dashurie Tahiri
Adrian Velazquez
Thu Cuc Takahara
Nathan Velazquez
Meng Tan
Paula Isabela Viazzi
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Ximena Villalobos Mares
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
Looloo Xiao
Qi’An Ashley Wang
Celina Xu
Xiaoxi Wang
Haotian Xu
Xiaoyu Wang
Zihan (Emma) Xu
Yanqi Wang
Ruoshui Yan
Yiyan Wang
Hanyu Yang
Yuanle Wang
Rui Yang
Yuetong Wang
Sunny Yang
Zixuan Wang
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
Yonatan Yair Yin Figueroa
Fox Graham Wilkins
Nakako Yoshida
Reginald Treshawn Williamson
Rain Yuan
Bella Teresa Willis
Yiwei Yuan
Sarah Jeanne Wilson
Zheming Yuan
Ann Woo
Jaesun Penasales Yun
Sabrina Yazmin Woo
Larsen Yvonne Zambrano
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
Can Zeng
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
|
Commencement 2021
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