Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Art History, Theory & Criticism
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL.

Twins and Twinning: Roni Horn’s ‘Things That Happen Again’

Education

Associate Director, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL

Currently

Curatorial Projects and Exhibitions

*GRUNTS RARE BOOKS ….. est. October 2024* - link to bookstore/gallery here

2025

Lonelyhearts (screening series), Dara Birbaum, Slater Bradley, Petra Cortright, Valie Export, Isa Genzken, Andy Hope 1930, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Mark Leckey, Paul McCarthy, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Steve Reinke, Bunny Rogers, JPW3, and Heimo Zobernig, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

2024

NARC, Justin Beachler and Sam Dybeck, Grunts Rare Books, Chicago, IL.

Hans Bellmer, Grunts Rare Books, Chicago, IL.

Boothill Express, Peppi Bottrop, H.R. Giger, Sayre Gomez, Servane Mary, Olivier Mosset, and Marika Thunder, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

Paludarium, Nick Jorgensen, Reece Francis Perkins and Thomas Rainy, Grunts Rare Books, Chicago, IL.

Ours is the Hand that Sews Time, Peter Fagundo and Jake Fagundo, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

Something Bit Me Bad!, Jake Fagundo, Hans-Jörg Mayer and Michael Williams, Temple Projects, Los Angeles, CA.

A Third Act, Justice Apple and Mac Pierce, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Barely Fair 2024, with Mark Fingerhut, Color Club, Chicago, IL.

Someone Who Isn’t Me, Maeve Coughlin, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Remote Desire, Daniel Champion & Tatiana Sky, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Channeled 8, Rachael Bos, Alex Both, Maeve Coughlin, Parker Davis, Allegra Harvard, Gabriel McGee, Darius Shaoul, & Harrison Wyrick, presented by Allegra Harvard, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

2023

Nice Work Forever, Alex Both, Ellen Berkenblit, Maeve Coughlin, Peter Fagundo, Allegra Harvard, Aaron Elvis Jupin, Nour Malas, Tess Manhattan, Jacob Mattingly, Eric McHenry, Betsy Odom, Misael Oquendo, Alex Prestrud, Nico Ramirez, Anthony Rundblade, Cameron Spratley, Mia Stearn, Nick Schutzenhofer, & Noah Towne, co-curated with Jake Fagundo, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

The Creepy Crawlin’ Showdown in Chinatown, Andy Thussy Warhol Fight Night #23, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Face Show, Alex Both, Gabriel McGee & Darius Shaoul, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Pressure Dome, Justin D’Acci presented by Yew Nork, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Eyes in the Heat, Rachael Bos & Keeton Foreman, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Halcyon.exe: The Ride, Mark Fingerhut, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Amy Pearl Lang's Object Permanence, Amy Pearl Lang, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

On the Nature of Things, Christina Ballantyne, Max Capus, Charlie Goering, Ziad Al Najjar, & Ben Quinn with Madeline Seto & Nicolette Lim, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Hedera Helix, Naomi Hawksley, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

2022

Nice Work 2, Tania Alvarez, Emma Beatrez, Peter Carney, Daniel Champion, Wallace Dibble, Max Earnest, Ben Foch, Mary Griffin, Justin Guthrie, Stevie Cisneros Hanley, Anne Harris, Leonardo Kaplan, Exene Karros, Nicholas Kinsella, Mikey Mosher, Lee Schulder, Kevin Stuart, & Omar Velazquez, co-curated with Jake Fagundo, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

The Care and Keeping of You, Liza Jo Eilers, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

After World Play, Alberto Aguilar, Alex Bradley Cohen & Jesse Malmed, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

July Show, Jessica Butler, Richard Hull, Tom Koehler, Madeline Leplae, & Noah Towne, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Seasons Creep, Christina Ballantyne & Ish Lipman, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Long Way Down, Nick Clark, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

2021

Nice Work, Isabelle Adams, Rachael Bos, Max Capus, Alex Bradley Cohen, Liza Jo Eilers, Ella Rose Flood, Charlie Goering, Naomi Hawksley, A.J. Katz, True Markham, Ian Thomas Miller, Lola Dement Meyers,
Rachel Niffenegger, Justin Ortiz, Tyson Reeder, C.J. Shaw, Jan Simonds, Corrine Slade, Eric Stefanski,
Matthew Uebing, & Leroy Winter, co-curated with Jake Fagundo, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Innocence, Jake Fagundo, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL. (inaugural exhibition)

Selected Writing

2024

NARC, exhibition text for Justin Beachler and Sam Dybeck, Grunts Rare Books, Chicago, IL.

Hans Bellmer, exhibition text for Grunts Rare Books, Chicago, IL.

Boothill Express, exhibition text for Peppi Bottrop, H.R. Giger, Sayre Gomez, Servane Mary, Olivier Mosset, and Marika Thunder, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

Ours is the Hand that Sews Time, exhibition text for Peter Fagundo and Jake Fagundo, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

Something Bit Me Bad, exhibition text for Jake Fagundo, Hans-Jörg Mayer, and Michael Williams, Temple Projects, Los Angeles, CA.

Syntax-Semantics Interface, exhibition text for Manal Kara, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

PROOF OF WERQ, exhibition text for Ben Foch, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

The Challenge of FESTAC ‘77, contribution to the 2024 Lagos Biennial, Lagos, Nigeria.

Word of Honor, exhibition text for Paula Kamps, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

2023

New Works, exhibition text for Christine Wang, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL.

Eyes in the Heat, exhibition text for Rachael Bos & Keeton Foreman, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Halcyon.exe: The Ride, curator’s note for Mark Fingerhut, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

2022

On Image | The Care and Keeping of You, exhibition text for Liza Jo Eilers, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL.

Your Heart Sounds Like a Train, Marfa Open, Marfa, TX.

Episode 16: Taylor Payton
Airing Out The Archive, Podcast hosted by Jake Leech

Episode 884: Pete and Jake Fagundo
Bad at Sports, Podcast

How to Make a Scene #7
w/ Ben Foch and Iain Muirhead (2024).
A conversation series about artist-run cultural ecosystems of the 1980s and 1990s in Chicago. The series is a collaborative effort between the Public Media Institute and MdW, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of the city-wide initiative, Art + Design Chicago. All panels are archived on Mixcloud, Vimeo, and in the 2024 MdW Atlas, which will be published as a book in 2026.

Starting Small: A Look at Beginning Programs
Minor Matters Symposium @ Barely Fair, Color Club, Chicago, IL (2024).

Art History Symposium @ The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2023).
Twins and Twinning: A Case Study of Roni Horn’s Pair Object Series ‘Things That Happen Again’.

Undergraduate Art History, Theory + Criticism Thesis Symposium @ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2023).
Twins and Twinning: A Case Study of Roni Horn’s Pair Object Series ‘Things That Happen Again’.

Lectures, Panels and Podcasts

Mythologies of AI Consent: A Review of “A Third Act” at Sulk Chicago, Frank Geiser
Review of Justice Apple and Mac Pierce at SULK CHICAGO, NewCity Art.

On Mark Fingerhut’s Halcyon.exe: The Ride, Jason Isolini
Review of Mark Fingerhut at SULK CHICAGO and PWA, The Outland Review, Vol. 2.

Soft Reset: A Review of ‘Halcyon.exe: The Ride,’ Frank Geiser
Review of Mark Fingerhut at SULK CHICAGO, NewCity Art.

Mark Fingerhut’s Halcyon.exe: The Ride, Gareth Kaye
Review of Mark Fingerhut at SULK CHICAGO, Chicago Spleen.

Inside the Currents of Life, Annette LePique
Review of Mark Fingerhut at SULK CHICAGO, Chicago Reader.

On the Nature of Things, Eden Jolie
Feature of April 2023 group exhibition at SULK CHICAGO, Mousee Magazine.

In Naomi Hawksley’s Drawings, Looks Can Be Deceiving, Alexandra Drexelius
Review of Naomi Hawksley at SULK CHICAGO, ArtReview, March 2023 Issue.

The Agenda of Artifice | On Liza Jo Eilers’ The Care and Keeping of You, Ruby Tresch
Review of Liza Jo Eilers at SULK CHICAGO, Sixty Inches from Center.

The Innocence of Jake Fagundo, Riley Yaxley
Review of Jake Fagundo at SULK CHICAGO, Aoyama Design Forum.

Jake Fagundo’s Innocence, Dominique Foertig
Feature of Jake Fagundo at SULK CHICAGO, Munchies Art Club Magazine.

Press

Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye (1928), 2024, novel illustrated by Hans Bellmer. Published: Grunts Rare Books, Chicago.

Arnold J. Kemp, In Arms, 2022, play. Published: M. LeBlanc, Chicago.

Cameron Spratley, Necropolis, 2021, monograph. Published: M. LeBlanc, Chicago.

Editor/Design

ROADS Scholarship 2023: Anarchist Starbucks Sci-Fi Library and Extraterrestrial Enchantment in the American Southwest, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Historic Preservation.

‘Roads Scholarship’ awards are offered to students who have successfully completed the ‘Better Homes & Gardens: Vernacular Art Environments’ art history course (offered select spring semester, SAIC) to encourage scholarly research and documentation of the genre of art environments and to advance the recognition and understanding of art environments as a significant genre of 20th and 21st century art. The ‘Roads Scholarship’ awards are intended to provide students the opportunity to travel to experience a site or sites, and conduct original research that they would be unable to do without support.

Awards

Bruno Bettelheim, Joey: A ‘Mechanical Boy,’ March 1959.

Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach, The Universal Survey Museum, 1980.

Dropping Common Terms: Stop Words, Stanford, 2008.

Dubravka Ugresic, Assault on the Minibar, The Paris Review, 2011.

Gary Indiana, Ryan Ponder McNamara and Sarah Nicole Prickett, THE ART WE LOVE, Artforum: September 2022.

Hal Foster, Return of the Real, 1996.

Ina Blom, On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture, 2007.

Ina Blom, ‘Houses to Die In,’ essay in Houses to Die In, 2022.

Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, 1997

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, 1992.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, 2011.

Rosalind Krauss, Allusion and Illusion in Donald Judd, Artforum: May 1966.

Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, 1999.

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, March 1924.

Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s, New York Magazine June 1970.

Walter de Maria, Art Yard, 1960.

Zach Blas, ‘Queerness, Openness,’ essay in Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, 2012.

Library (Read and Reading)

Wish List

Watch List

Links up to date as of January 2025.