SANDRA I. ANTONGIORGI

Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico

Lives/works in Chicago, IL USA

EDUCATION

School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Credits toward Bachelor of Fine Arts

EXHIBITIONS

MACLA, 2018 “7th Xicanx Biennial: Muxeres Rising” - San Jose, CA

Freedom Gallery, 2018 “(DIS)COMFORT” - Chicago

Center on Halsted Gallery, 2018 LatinX- Chicago

Advocate & Gochis Galleries, 2018 “Turning a Blind Eye” – Los Angeles

Humboldt Park Boathouse Gallery, 2018 “Warrior Rising” - Chicago

Paseo Boricua Gallery, 2017  "Gestalt Series: The Inner Workings of Secrets" - Chicago

Cermak Center, 2015 Group Exhibit, Flatlands Studio - Chicago

Throop Studios, 2015 “Personal Project” – Chicago

ARC Gallery, 2014  “Fractured Yet Rising” – Chicago

Awakenings Gallery, 2014  “Freak Show: Trauma on Display" - Chicago

Defibrillator Gallery, 2014  “Personal Project” – Chicago

Zhou B Arts Center, 2013  “Centerline” - Chicago

Defibrillator Gallery, 2013  “Personal Project” – Chicago

Defibrillator Gallery, 2012  “Personal Project” – Chicago

Elastic Arts, 2010  “Sin Verguenza” – Chicago

Joie De Vine, 2010  “One Woman Show” – Chicago

University Gallery, Chicago State University, 2009  “Woman on Fire” – Chicago

Hyde Park Art Center, 2009 “The Exchange” – Chicago

The Silver Room, 2009  “One Woman Show” – Chicago

Elastic Arts Center, 2009  “Layers: A Series” – Chicago

Victory Gardens Theatre, 2009, Urban Art Show – Chicago

Noble Street Gallery, 1998 – Chicago

North Western Settlement House- 1995, “46 Mujeres De Pelo En Pecho: 46 Women of Courage” – Chicago

Elmhurst College- 1995, “Nopalitor, Tostones, y Café” – Chicago

North Western Settlement- 1995,  “Two Generations: A Visual Dialogue” – Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago- 1994, FYP Exhibition – Chicago

Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center- 1993, Coyote Festival – Chicago

DePaul University- 1991, Self Portraits, masks/drawings – Chicago

ARC Gallery- 1991, Self Portraits, masks/drawings – Chicago

Fiesta Del Sol- 1991, Taller Mexicano de Grabado Exhibit – Chicago

Mexican Fine Arts Museum- 1991- Chicago

“5th Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition” – Chicago

Museum of Science and Industry- 1990 Hispanic Festival of the Arts – Chicago

South Shore Cultural Center- 1989 – Chicago

SELECTED MURALS

2021 Vessels: Sun, Chicago, BCBS Blue Doors Neighborhood Center, South Lawndale

2021 Transcedence, Chicago, BCBS Blue Doors Neighborhood Center, South Lawndale Collaboration with Miguel Del Real (Artist Lead) and Gabriel Villa

2021 Cycles de Amor, Chicago, BCBS Blue Doors Neighborhood Center, South Lawndale Collaboration with Miguel Del Real and Gabriel Villa

2021 Arbol de la Vida, Chicago, BCBS Blue Doors Neighborhood Center, South Lawndale Collaboration with Miguel Del Real and Gabriel Villa (Artist Lead)

2021 Harmonious, Chicago, BCBS Blue Doors Neighborhood Center, South Lawndale Collaboration with Miguel Del Real and Gabriel Villa

2020 – Present Memorial Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence, Chicago, Collaboration with Andy Bellomo

2020 Rebirth, 220 sqft, Hyde Park, Chicago, Collaboration with Andy Bellomo

2019 Kusama inspired mural, 700 sqft, Bellafontaine, Ohio, Collaboration with Andy Bellomo

2019 El Espíritu de Ella, 800 sqft, Bellafontaine, Salem, MA, Collaboration with Andy Bellomo

2018 The Love I Vibrate, 40’ X 14’, DCASE award recipient, Chicago, Collaboration with Andy Bellomo & Sam Kirk

2017 I Am Logan Square, 18’ X 58’, DCASE award recipient, Chicago, Collaboration with Sam Kirk

2016 Weaving Cultures, 30’x12’, CPAG/Alderman Solis, Chicago, Collaboration with Sam Kirk (This mural was the winner of The Chicago Readers’ Best Mural in Chicago 2017)

2014 Youth Alive, 12’x25’, Village YMCA Metro Chicago

2010 Restoration/ New Design- Hyde Park Mural, 225’x12’, Bernard Williams, CPAG, Chicago

2010 Restoration: Es Tiempo De Recordar, 200’x12’, Archi-treasures, Chicago

2009 Take a Stand, 20’ x 60’, Chicago

2009 6 Murals on Arts and Academics, Six 8’ x 4’ panels, Johnson Elementary School, Chicago

2008 Take Flight, 3’x50’, Schurz High School, Chicago- ASM

2006 Las Vegas Cultural Center, 10’x20’, Public Participation, Las Vegas, NV- 2006

2004 RCCC in UIC- 2004

1994 The Erie Community, 8’x10’, Chicago for Erie Community Health Center

1992 Es Tiempo De Recordar, 2 walls approximately 12’x100’, Wabansia/PulaskiChicago, for YSPwith Marcus Akinlana & Rolf Mueller, 15 students ages 14-16

1992 Honor Boricua, 30'x20', Evergreen and Rockwell Streets, Chicago, for LUCHA, with Hector Duarte.

1992 Santa Fe, Santa Fe Restaurant, Approximately 20’x40’, Sandwich, IL – 1992, collaborated with Hector Duarte

1992 La Ronda Del Saber, 12'x40', Luis Muñoz Marin Primary Center, Chicago with Hector Duarte

1991 Mosaics, Jose Clemente Orozco School-Chicago, Mosaic Design, with Francisco Mendoza

1990 Chic-Chac, 8'x14', mosaic, Rudy Lozano Library, Chicago; with Cynthia Weis and Hector Duarte

1990 Dreams and Realities of the Americas, 9'x14', Inter-American Magnet School, Chicago, with Hector Duarte

1989 Roots of Liberation De Las Americas, 35’x14, Benito Juarez High School, Chicago, with Gamaliel Ramirez, Hector Duarte, Aurelio Diaz, & Roberto Valadez

1989 Garden of the Louve, Jose Clemente Orozco

VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCIES

University of Illinois at Chicago (Social Pollinators), Chicago, IL, 2016

Passive House, Loveland, CO, 2016

MACLA, San Jose, CA 2016

Chicago State University, Chicago, 2009

Roosevelt University, Chicago, 2009

California State University, Long Beach, 1995

University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, 1992

School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 1991

Northwestern University, Chicago, 1991

Sacred Heart, Chicago, 1989

Jose Clemente Orozco, 1989

TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN VISUAL ARTS

2019 Mural Painting, Bellafontaine, OH

2015 Stage Design, Goethe Elementary, Chicago

2011-12 Mural Painting & Introduction to Painting, Boone Elementary, Chicago

2011-12 Introduction to Painting, Boone Elementary, Chicago

2009-10 Beginning Painting and Drawing, Marwen, Chicago

2009 Mural Painting, Schurz High School, Chicago

2008 Mural Painting, Schurz High School, Chicago

2007 Painting and Drawing, Schurz High School, Chicago

1996 Advanced and Beginning Drawing, Erie Neighborhood House, Chicago, through SAIC-Community Program 

1995 Drawing and Painting, Erie Neighborhood House-Chicago, through SAIC-Community Program

1992 Mural Painting, Youth Service Project, CPAG Chicago 

STUDENT WORKSHOPS

2004 IHOBF-Tilton Community Arts Partnership

2003 CPS Office of Language & Cultural Education Workshop

2002 Each One Teach One I with Professional Artist, Anna Millea

2002 Using Found Objects, New Orleans

2001 Kodak Capturing the Blues in Black and White, (stories through photographs) 2001 Each One Teach One II with Professional Artist, Anna Millea

1999 Inner-City Games, Las Vegas, Intergenerational art project

1999 House of Blues-Orlando Folk Art Festival 

PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS & DOCUMENTARIES

Article, Windy City Times – Chicago 2020

Article, CBS – Chicago 2020

Interview, ABC News – Chicago 2020

Article, Block Club Chicago – Chicago 2020 

Article, Saatchi Arts - The Other Art Fair, Chicago 2019

Article, Chicago Tribune – Chicago 2019

Article, Chicago Reader – Chicago 2018

Interview, NBC - Chicago 2018

Interview, Featured guest, Vocalo WBEZ – Chicago 2018

Interview, Featured guest, FoxNews32 - Chicago 2018

Interview, Featured guest with Phil Ponce, WTTW - Chicago 2018

Interview, Featured guest, Radio One - Chicago 2017

Interview, Featured guest, Spanish Public Radio - Chicago 2017

Interview, Chicago Tribune – Chicago 2017

Interview, Featured guest, "The Ponderers", Lumpen Radio - Chicago, 2016

Interview, Featured guest, "Vida Mujer", Univision Chicago - Chicago, 2016

Interview, Featured guest, "Despierta Con Zoe", Univision Chicago - Chicago, 2016

Featured Artist, Lunch Ticket, Antioch University-Los Angeles, 2012

Article on Tres Colony, Gozamos - Chicago, 2010

Interview, Chicago Artist Coalition - Chicago, 2009

Interview, Featured in Nuestra Imagen Magazine - Chicago, 2005

TV Coqui, Workshop on “What Parents Can Do at Home with Children” and slide show of artwork, May 1997

Interview, Exito! - Chicago Tribune, October 1993

Article on murals, Chicago Tribune, Oct 1992

Article on ARC workshop, Chicago Tribune, May 1991

Documentary, Channel Seven with Bill Campbell, 1990

“New Generations of Latino Artist”, Film by Susan Dobinski, 1989

Pintura Magica”, Video Documentary by Javier Vargas, 1989

WOJO, Radio Interview, 1989

“Dia De Los Muertos”, Mexican Fine Arts Museum video, 1988 Documentary on Young Muralist, 1988

REFERENCES: Upon Request