Visiting Artists
The Department of Visual Arts invites visiting artists through the department's Hyde Park Gallery, DOVA Temporary, and our visiting artist program, The Open Practice Committee. For a complete schedule of upcoming visits from artists and critics with planned events and exhibitions (and for archives from past events), please visit the websites for DOVA Temporary and The Open Practice Committee.
Open Practice Committee
The Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago explores the atmospheres and attitudes that make art contemporary. The Open Practice Committee’s programming fosters a genuinely experimental, yet conceptually rigorous environmental space in which strategies of production and description are challenged and renewed. From the conventional departmental presentation to the unconventional institutional event, the Open Practice Committee aims to advance our collective understanding of theory and practice within the visual arts.
Committee Members
Tania Bruguera, Chair
Susanne Ghez
Matthew Jesse Jackson
Stephanie Smith
For information about the OPC, please contact:
Zach Cahill, Coordinator
DOVA Temporary
DOVA Temporary is a storefront gallery administered by the University of Chicago's Department of Visual Arts. Its primary goal is to provide a professional quality facility for the exhibition of graduate, undergraduate, and work from the Department of Visual Art on a regular basis. In addition, the gallery hosts exhibits and events organized by a wide variety of arts groups and individuals, both within and outside of the University, that fall outside the program of other, more traditional venues on campus. By virtue of its location in Hyde Park's historically significant Harper court, it serves as a point of interaction and engagement between the Hyde Park community and the Arts on campus. DOVA Temporary is a highly adaptable space that fosters experimentation and diverse approaches to the arts.
Committee Members
Tania Bruguera
Zach Cahill
Theaster Gates
Geof Oppenheimer
David Schutter
David Wolf
Rebecca Zorach
For information about DOVA Temporary, please contact:
David Wolf, Gallery Coordinator
