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/Pulaski- Chicago, for YSP, with 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