2025 Annual Meeting and Acqusition Vote

VIEW. VOTE. CELEBRATE!

SCA members and their guests are invited to the 2025 Annual Meeting and Acquisition Vote.

Celebrate 85 Years of Supporting the Art Institute of Chicago!

Generously supported by

VIEW
Artworks Considered for Acquisition
5:30 PM – Reception
Nichols Board of Trustees Suite

VOTE
Curatorial Presentations and Acquisition Vote
6:30 PM – Dinner
The Member Bar at Terzo Piano

CELEBRATE!
Inspired by Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes No. 1
8:30 PM – SCA 85th Birthday Cakes
The Member Bar at Terzo Piano

2025 Acquisition Considerations

Regina José Galindo (Guatemala, b. 1974)

Regina José Galindo lives and works in Guatemala. Her artistic practice centers on the use of her own body, often placing herself in situations of political and personal risk to confront systems of violence. Galindo gained international recognition when Harald Szeemann invited her to participate in the 49th Venice Biennale, where she presented El dolor en un pañuelo and performed Piel. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist Under 35 at the 51st Venice Biennale for her work Himenoplastía.

Her work has been featured in major international exhibitions, including documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and the biennials of Istanbul, Prague, and Tirana. She has exhibited at institutions such as PAC Milan, Tate Modern in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and MoMA PS1 in New York. Galindo’s work is held in the collections of Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), MoMA (New York), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), MALBA (Buenos Aires), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), and the Tate (UK), among others.

La Sombra (The Shadow), 2017
Single channel HD video
08:40 min
Ed. 4/5 + 2 A.P.
RJG_007
Commissioned by documenta 14

Rios de gente (Rivers of People), 2021
Single Channel HD Video
06:41 min
Ed. 3/5 + 2 A.P.
RJG_040

SIREN, 2023
Single Channel HD Video, police car parts
13:34 min
Ed. 3/5 + 2 A.P. +
RJG_051

Nora Turato (Croatia, b. 1991)

Nora Turato was born in 1991 in Zagreb (Croatia) and lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Turato’s practice explores the volatility of language, transforming the information she absorbs daily—from articles, conversations, subtitles, and advertising slogans—into linguistic-visual scripts for videos, installations, artist books, murals, and spoken word performances. All that surrounds her finds its way back into her work. In this manner, her approach is democratic: political statements coexist with Kardashians quotes, revealing subtle synchronisms in social relations, marketing strategies, consumer behavior, and personal subjectivity. Bold typography is a hallmark of Turato’s style, but her own handwriting often appears in sprawling script across her work, alluding to a sentimental attachment to the artist’s notebook or the private moments of rehearsal. Moreover, it immortalizes a means of communication that threatens to dissipate with the ubiquity of digital correspondence. Turato channels the textual hysteria emitted from our smartphones to accentuate the volatility of language when stripped of context. Her work speaks to an era where language loses its informative role, and words are abstracted from meaning.

Recent solo-exhibitions include ICA, London (upcoming); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2024-25); Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (2024); Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2023); 52 Walker, New York (2022); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2022); LambdaLambdaLambda (2021, 2020, 2018, 2017); Secession, Vienna (2021); MGLC, Ljubljana (2020); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2020); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2019); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein (2019) and Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2019).

people are SCARY!, 2024
vitreous enamel on steel
4 elements: 240 × 192 cm (94 1/2 × 75 5/8 in.)
each element : 120 × 96 cm (47 1/4 × 37 51/64 in.)

I hear you, I hear you., 2024
5K video and 2-channel audio installation
15:03 min

wAHchyORhEd, 2023
Emulsion paint
Dimensions variable