Audrey Yang
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Audrey Yang is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. She is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
EDUCATION
2027 BFA in Art Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023 Buffalo Grove High School, Buffalo Grove, IL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026 Participant in McMullan Family Foundation Summer Intensive, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2026 Teaching Artist, Art Institute of Chicago Ryan Learning Center, Chicago, IL (Teen Studio Workshop: Ink in Action)
2025-26 Peer Mentor, SAIC Chicago Fellows Program, Chicago, IL
2026 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Contemporary Practices Department, Chicago, IL (Core Studio Practices II – Susan Giles & AJ McClenon, Spring 2026)
2026 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Adult Continuing Education, Chicago, IL (Explorations in Acrylic Painting, Intensive – Helen Oh, Winter 2026)
2023-25 Program Assistant, SAIC Visiting Artists Program, Chicago, IL
2025 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Contemporary Practices Department, Chicago, IL (Core Studio: Transfers – Laura Davis, Fall 2025)
2025 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program, Chicago, IL (From Drawing To Painting – Ömürhan Alptekin, Summer 2025)
2025 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program, Chicago, IL (Drawing Studio – Herman Aguirre, Summer 2025)
2025 Studio Facilitator Intern, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL (Summer 2025)
2025 Mural Arts Intern, Green Star Movement, Chicago, IL (Spring 2025)
2025 Classroom Assistant, SAIC Middle School Program, Chicago, IL (Drawing Studio – Ömürhan Alptekin, Spring 2025)
2024 Classroom Assistant, SAIC Middle School Program, Chicago, IL (Painting Studio – Melanie Brown, Fall 2024)
2024 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program, Chicago, IL (From Drawing to Painting – Amanda Calobrisi, Summer 2024)
2024 Teaching Assistant, SAIC Early College Program Summer Institute, Chicago, IL (Experimental Drawing – Stevie Hanley, Summer 2024)
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2026 Group Exhibition, Presence and Absence: The Space Between, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL (curated by Indira Freitas Johnson)
2026 Solo Exhibition, Sanctuary As Method, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2026 Group Exhibition, In the Absence of Space, Grove Gallery, Evanston, IL (curated by Melissa Raman Molitor & Abby Mendoza)
2026 Group Exhibition, Where Our Voices Unite, Chicago Center for Arts and Technology, Chicago, IL (curated by Yidi Wang)
2026 Group Exhibition, Sarcasm, Oh Art Foundation, Chicago, IL (curated by SAIC Korean Student Association)
2026 Group Exhibition, Inherited Surface, James B Marco Gallery, Chicago, IL (curated by James Yearnd, Brittney Weiland, Marco Rivellini)
2025 Group Exhibition, Divine Sublime, Art City, Chicago, IL (curated by Patrick Gallagher Landes)
2024 Linda and Vincent Buonanno Contemporary Practices Scholarship Nominee
2024 Artbash Site/Sight & Book Arts, Sharp Building, Chicago, IL
2024 Group Exhibition, We are our own healers. We are our own medicine., SAIC Wellness Center, Chicago, IL (curated by Christina McField & Moakshaa Vohra)
2023 SAIC Presidential Scholarship Recipient
2023 IHSAE Senior Scholarship Exhibition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Solo Exhibition, Remembrance, One Grove Gallery, Buffalo Grove, IL
2022 IHSAE Northern Exhibition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Hallway Gallery, Belin-Blank Center, Iowa City, IA
2021-23 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2x American Visions Nominee, 3 Gold Keys, 2 Silver Keys