Established in 1940 as a not-for-profit organization that supports the Art Institute of Chicago, the SCA promotes a deeper understanding and appreciation of the art of the current moment. SCA programs and events offer this insight to participants through accessing artists, leading critics, historians, curators, dealers, distinguished private collections, and major art destinations within the United States and abroad. The SCA also has made a substantial contribution to the museum’s collection and presentations of contemporary art through its acquisitions, special initiatives, and exhibition support. In 2017, the SCA Engagement Fund was established to lend financial support to select Art Institute of Chicago initiatives related to contemporary art. Providing further opportunities for SCA members to participate directly in the museum’s work, this includes but is not limited to support for: exhibitions and performances, the production of publications, education initiatives, and programming.
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Beverly Fishman (American, b. 1955) adopts the language of abstraction to explore the body, issues of identity, and contemporary culture. For more than three decades, she has used imagery drawn from science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry to promote inquiry into the effects of these institutions on both individuals and societies. She writes, “I mine the histories of geometric and hard-edge abstraction and pop art; and I reconfigure them through strategies of appropriation and references to both living bodies and seductive objects. Thereby, I hope to provoke reflection on both art and society in an increasingly anxious, addicted, and divided time.”
Fishman’s work has been the subject of over thirty-five solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Detroit, and her work has also been the subject of exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, among others. She is the recipient of many awards, including the National Academy of Design Academician Award, Anonymous was a Woman Award, the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters; a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; an Artist Space Exhibition Grant; and an NEA Fellowship Grant, among others. Fishman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977 from the Philadelphia College of Art, and her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980 from Yale University. Between 1992 and 2019, she was Artist-in-Residence and Head of Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. She lives and works in Detroit.
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Who Do You Love?
2024 SCA Collectors Sale
Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 6:00pm Freeman's | Hindman at 1550 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Who Do You Love? 2024 SCA Collectors Sale, the biennial fundraiser for the Society for Contemporary Art, will bring together a diverse group of contemporary art supporters for a memorable summer soirée. This year's theme, inspired by the music of Chicago Chess Records, asks the question: Who Do You Love? We're embracing Chicago's vibrant arts and culture scene by honoring the community that has steadfastly supported the SCA. Get ready for a nostalgic touch as we bring back pencils and clipboards for a one-night-only silent auction featuring works by celebrated, emerging, and cutting-edge artists. The evening features live music, raffle activities, and lush dining with mixed spirits. Your support furthers the SCA's mission to provide free public programming featuring contemporary artist talks, acquire contemporary art for the Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection and support exhibitions and special initiatives at the Museum.
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Since the mid-1980s, Tishan Hsu’s prescient artistic practice has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body. Much of the artist’s work has attempted to convey the changing cognitive and physical effects of an embodied technology. Hsu’s interest in technology has not been in the use of a particular apparatus but the perception of a technological affect. His work has included drawings, paintings, interactive digital media projections, and sculpture.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Hsu received his B.S.A.D in 1973 and M.Arch in 1975 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he also studied film and photography at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University. Since 1985, Hsu has shown extensively in the US, Europe, Mexico and Asia, with works in many public and private collections. Hsu’s survey exhibition, Liquid Circuit, opened at SculptureCenter in 2020, following its first iteration at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. In 2021, his work was included in the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning; TECHNO at Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Zeros + Ones at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. In 2022, his work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams, and in the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh: Is it morning for you yet? His recent work was on view at the Secession, Vienna during winter 2023/2024; and his first European survey exhibition was held at MAMCO, Geneva.
DINNER
Join us for dinner with the artist following the program at Sushi San in the heart of Lincoln Park. This new location serves up a fantastic menu from Master Sushi Chef Kaze Chan, prioritizing the freshest ingredients.
This dinner is made possible with the support of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants.
If interested in attending this event, please visit the SCA web page to register and stay up to date on future events.
Image credit: 2024 Tishan Hsu Artists Rights Society/New York
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Judith Geichman’s process is driven by a relentless exploration of painting’s possibilities through abstraction. Her ever-shifting and rigorous approach is at times contemplative and cautious, and at others, aggressive and reckless. She embraces risk and uncertainty, paying equal attention to the constructive and destructive, as her paintings are generated through a sequence of formal and material instigations and responses.
Judith Geichman (b.1944), lives and works in Chicago. She attended Ohio State University and received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Geichman’s work has been exhibited at the Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; 65 Grand, Chicago; MCA Chicago; University Club of Chicago; Regards, Chicago; Julius Caesar, Chicago; The Spertus Museum, Chicago; State of Illinois Museum, Springfield, IL; Rockford Art Museum; and the Chicago Cultural Center among others. Geichman is the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award, 2023; two Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts; The Margaret Klimek Phillips Grant; and the Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Residencies include AIRArtist In Residence Lower Austria, Krems, Austria; the Dora Maar House, Dora Maar Cultural Center, Menerbes, France; The American Academy in Rome, visiting artist; and the Gilfelag Residency, Akureyri, Iceland. Recent acquisitions include the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the University Club of Chicago.
Dinner to be announced.
If interested in attending this event, please visit the SCA web page to register and stay up to date on future events.
Image Credit: Courtesy of Nathan Keay and the artist
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Throughout her career, artist Ingrid Pollard has explored themes of Black feminism, race, and gender, with a focus on representation and history within the British landscape. In the 1980s, she was involved in feminist organizations in London and contributed photographs to the 1990 book Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity, which showcased the work of contemporary Black and queer makers of color. The book emphasized self-sufficiency and freedoms defiantly explored at the margins of the British mainstream.
In this conversation, Pollard and scholar Hazel Carby reflect on Pollard’s work on display in After the End of the World: Pictures from Panafrica and Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, drawing connections to the concept of Quilombismo, one of the key Pan-Africanist movements featured in the exhibition.
This talk is supported by the Crossed Purposes Foundation Fund.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Ingrid Pollard was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1953. She completed a BA in film and video at the London College of Printing, an MA in photographic studies at Derby University, and a PhD at the University of Westminster.
Pollard is a photographer, media artist, and researcher with a social practice centered on issues of representation and history within the British landscape, particularly focusing on race, gender, and the concept of other. Her work is often based on lengthy research into archives and environments, and her photo-based practice interrogates the hidden and explicit ideologies that underpin our popular visual cultures, aesthetic regimes, and art histories.
Pollard lives and works in Northumberland.
Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus at Yale University. She is a pioneer in the fields of black feminism and a leading scholar in black diasporic literature and culture. Her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (2019) won the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and was named a “Book of the Year” by the Times Literary Supplement. She is also the author of influential works such as Reconstructing Womanhood (1987) and Race Men (1998).
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Web page: https://scaaic.org/programs-and-events/veronica-ryan
Join the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute for a conversation with Veronica Ryan. Born in Plymouth, Montserrat and raised in England, Veronica Ryan OBE, RA creates meticulously handcrafted work using a wide range of materials, including bronze, plaster, marble, textile, and found objects. Her sculptures and installations examine environmental concerns, personal narratives and memories, as well as the wider psychological implications of history, trauma and recovery.
Veronica Ryan (b.1956) has studied at St. Albans College of Art and Design, Bath Academy of Art in Corsham Court, The Slade School of Art at University College, London, and The School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. Over her forty-year career, she has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and residencies within the U.K., the U.S., and abroad. Her first one-person exhibition was at Arnolfini, Bristol in 1987. Other important one-person shows have been presented at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (1988), Camden Arts Centre (1995), Aldrich Museum (1996), Salena Gallery, Brooklyn (2005), Tate St Ives (2000, 2005 and 2017), The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2011), and The Art House, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (2017). In 2022, Ryan was included in the Whitney Biennial and awarded the Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes for visual arts in the United Kingdom. Ryan will have a one-person exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (March 2024) which will travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts (August 2025). Her work is in many private and public collections such as the Tate Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Arts Council Collection, Contemporary Art Society, Sainsbury’s Collection, the Hepworth Wakefield, and the Weltkunst Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
If interested in attending this lecture, please visit scaaic.org to register and stay up to date on future events.
Image credit: Veronica Ryan (Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: © Anne Purkiss/ Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Artist Talk
Wednesday, Oct 08, 2025 06:00pm – 07:00pm
Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603 (Map)
SOLD OUT. The lecture has reached capacity. Please contact info@scaaic.org to be added to the waitlist.
After the lecture, SCA members are invited to join Joan for dinner at Acanto.
Wednesday, Oct 08, 2025 07:30pm – 10:00pm
18 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
$125.00 for members
© Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone. Photography by Maximilian Geuter.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture. Jonas' experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Jonas has exhibited and performed extensively around the world. Her notable exhibition history includes Documenta 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 13; the 28th Sao Paolo Biennial; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale; and the 13th Shanghai Biennale. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at the United States Pavilion for the 56th Edition of the Venice Biennial; Tate Modern, London; Museu Serralves, Porto; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Dia Beacon; Haus der Kunst, Munich; The Drawing Center, New York, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Naples, Italy. The Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted a retrospective of Jonas's work in 2024. Jonas is the recipient of many awards including The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon (2016); the Maya Deren Award given by the American Film Institute (1989); and the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2009). In 2018, Jonas was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize, given to those individuals who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind, and in 2024 she was presented with the Nam June Paik Prize, awarded to artists who have contributed to the development of contemporary art, mutual understanding, and world peace.
2025 SCA Public Programming is made possible with generous support from PRADA.
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Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603 (Map)
Free for anyone
After the lecture, SCA Members are invited to join Jill for a dinner and reception at Three Dots and a Dash in River North.
$125.00 for members
Monday, Nov 17, 2025 07:30pm – 10:00pm
435 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60654 (Map)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jill Mulleady (b. 1980, Montevideo, Uruguay) lives and works between Los Angeles and Paris. She works primarily in painting and she often intervenes in the spaces where she exhibits, staging the paintings with readymades, sculptures, and architectural installations, exploring themes of memory, transformation, and the power of history. In her work, references to historical painting are put into communication with images taken from both popular culture and personal life, creating an anachronic feeling of merged and frictional temporalities. Her practice shifts between close observations of everyday reality and highly elaborated imaginary worlds. These paintings can be seen as allegories for the contemporary experience of the image as an interface: not just a picture but a means of mobilizing attention, bodies and affects within an increasingly virtualized social space.
She has had solo exhibitions at Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome (2024); LUMA Arles, France (2024); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2022); Le Consortium, Dijon (2021); Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2020); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Galerie Neu, Berlin (2018); Schloss, Oslo (2018); Kunsthalle Bern (2017); and Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2015). In 2024, Jill Mulleady and Henry Taylor had a two-person show You Me at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. She has also been involved in two biennales; Made in L.A. 2020: a version at the Hammer Museum in 2021 and May You Live in Interesting Times at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
2025 SCA Public Programming is made possible with generous support from PRADA.
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Josh Kline (b. 1979, Philadelphia, USA) works in installation, video, sculpture, and photography. His work questions how emergent technologies are being used to change human life in the 21st Century. He often utilizes the technologies, practices, and forms he scrutinizes—digitization, data collection, image manipulation, 3D-printing, commercial and political advertising, productivity-enhancing substances—aiming them back at themselves. Some of his most well-known videos use early deep fake software to speculate on the meaning of truth in a time of post-truth propaganda. At its core, Kline’s practice is focused on work and class, exploring how today’s most urgent social and political issues—climate change, automation, disease, and the weakening of democracy—impact the people who make up the labor force.
Artist Lecture
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 06:00pm – 07:00pm
Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603 (Map)
Free for anyone
After the lecture, SCA Members and their guests are invited to join the artist for dinner at The Dalcy.
We kindly ask that cancellations be made at least 48 hours in advance to receive a refund.
Dinner: The Dalcy
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 07:30pm – 09:00pm
Third Floor, 302 N Green St, Chicago, IL 60607 (Map)
$125.00 for members