Graham Livingston is an artist, educator and writer based in Chicago where he currently teaches new media art at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His projects explore the ways that sensual and conceptual qualities of objects, environments and people, are influenced by their relationship to their own digital representations.
The objects, installations, and performances he makes are often transmedial in nature; and offer unique views of their subject matter across disparate spatial, physical and digital platforms. Recent projects have explored themes like computational periscopy, urban screen ecologies, and the geography of the internet.
His work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues like Viridian Gallery’s 30 under 30 in NYC - juried by Chrissie Iles of the Whitney - and the Museum of Ideas in Lviv, Ukraine. In addition his writing has been published in Hyperallergic and he has been a guest critic for the architecture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
contact: studio(@)grahamlivingston.com
CV
Education
2021:
MFA University of Illinois at Chicago
2017:
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Teaching
Current:
Adjunct Professor for Creative Coding, University of Illinois Chicago
2020:
Guest Critic for Architecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019:
Digital/Physical Studio Teacher, Northwestern AWE program
Arts Educator, The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Chicago, IL
2017:
TA: Architecture Construction and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Publications
2019:
“Postcommodity Centers Optimism and Indigenous Philosophies in a New Site-Specific Installation” - Hyperallergic
“A Biennial Navigates Indigenous Cultures Around the Globe” - Hyperallergic
Group Exhibitions
2021:
Sidelong Glances Gallery 400, Chicago IL
2020:
Open Shed used for What? The Franklin, Chicago IL
Http: HyperTransferProtocal - Database as Symbolic Form Online, https://newart.city/show/http
Cyborgs: Imagining & Performing The Chicago Art Department, Chicago IL
2019:
Three Hands Clapping Elastic Arts, Chicago IL
Audio Visual Night I Elastic Arts, Chicago IL
Terrain Biennial Terrain Biennial, Chicago IL
Drawing Rally Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL
2018:
Transfiguration Museum of Ideas, Lviv Ukraine
Object and Image The Chicago Art Department, Chicago IL
30 under 30 Viridian Artist Gallery, New York City NY
Residencies / Awards
2019:
Art Department Scholarship University of Illinois at Chicago
2018:
CatenArt Residency MC6, Lviv & Kiev, Ukraine
Artist in Residence The Chicago Art Department, Chicago IL
Artist in Residence The Chicago Art Department, Chicago IL
Post-graduate Fellowship John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago IL
1st prize ArtSlant Prize Showcase, ArtSlant Magazine
2015:
Presidential Merit Scholarship School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Curatorial
2020:
Intercontinental Biennale of the Indigenous Arts Organizing Committee Member
2019:
Togetherism: @ Co-Prosperity Sphere assistant curator