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Education
2024 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Scholars Distinction
Awards
2020-2024 Presidential Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 New Outstanding Artist Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020 Krylon Clear Choice Scholarship, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, OH
2020 Regional Arts Council Youth Arts Award, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
2020 Robert A. & Dorothy W. Rocke Scholarship, Unity Foundation of La Porte County, La Porte, IN
Selected Two Person Exhibitions
2023 I used to be a mother., SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2024 Designed to Dwell, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
2024 Girlfriends, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Down There, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 25th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Creating Our Own Home ii, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2024 Emergent!, DragonFLY Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Black & White Art Show, Parlour and Ramp, Chicago, IL
2023 Fall Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago IL
2023 New Work, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
2023 Ghastly Elegance, Probe, Chicago, IL
2022 Mark My Words, Chesterton Art Center, Chesterton, IN
2022 *eyelash flutter*, Hawthorne Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Artbash, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
2020 Humor Us, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
2020 Well Behaved Women: Celebrating 100 Years of Womens’ Suffrage, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2020 Quaranteen: An Exhibit of Works from LCA’s Teen Arts Council, Lubeznik Center For the Arts, Michigan City, IN
Performances
2021 Artbash, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Screenings
2024 CrushesXCrushWest, aliveOne, Chicago, IL
2023 XXXFest, ExTV School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 ExFest, ExTV School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 ArtBash, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Curatorial Work
2023 I used to be a mother., SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
2023 Ghastly Elegance, Probe, Chicago, IL
Bibliography
2023 Da Zhuang, Fall Undergraduate Exhibition 2023: 110 Artists, 110 Stories, F News Magazine, December 2023, Chicago, IL (16-17)
2023 Claire Lobenfeld, Nine Artists on Work That Rejects, Reframes, Queers, & Questions Pregnancy and Childbirth, Chicago, IL (28-32)
Lectures & Colloquia
2023 Olivia Jobbe: I used to be a mother, Intro to Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Invited by Stephanie Brooks, Chicago, IL
2023 I used to be a mother. An exhibition by Lillian Heredia and Olivia Jobbe: The Artists in Conversation. Moderated by Claire Lobenfeld, SITE Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Jurying Experience
2023 SITE Galleries, Jury Member, Chicago, IL
Professional Affiliations
2018 Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Education Committee Youth Chair, Michigan City, IN
Community Engaged Art Practice
2019 Swale Mural Project, public painting of 8 x 4 foot mural on site at Swale Music Fest 2019, funded my Michigan City Mainstreet Association, Michigan City, IN
2019 La Porte High School 150th Anniversary Mural, 34 x 8 foot mural in La Porte High School Schultze Hall, funded by La Porte High School Art Department, La Porte, IN
Professional Experience
2023 - 2024 Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute Department of Contemporary Practices, Chicago, IL
2022 - 2023 Material Source Sales Associate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Department of Instructional Resources and Facilities Management, Chicago, IL
2022 - present Studio Assistant, Lora Fosberg, Chicago, IL
2018 - 2023 Art Handler, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN