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EDUCATION
2013: M.F.A. Studio Art/Fiber & Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2011: Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2008: B.A. Practice of Art and Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley Regents and Chancellor’s Scholar
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022-present: Professor, Adjunct, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2019–2022: Associate Professor, Adjunct, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2020–2021: Artist-in-Residence, Loyola University, Chicago
2018–2019: Assistant Professor, Adjunct, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2013–2018: Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
AWARDS
2023: Together We Heal Creative Place Program Grantee, City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2022: Joyce Award, Joyce Foundation, Chicago
2022: Individual Artist Support, Illinois Arts Council Agency
2022: Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021: Next Level/Spare Room Award, 3Arts, Chicago
2021: Lois Moran Award for Craft Writing, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2020: Grantee, Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Foundation Grant, AHL Foundation, New York City
2020: Grantee, Map Fund, New York City
2020: Artist Fellowship Finalist, Illinois Arts Council Agency
2020: Individual Artist Grant, City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2019: Visual Artist Grant, Bloom Fund
2019: Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019: Propeller Grant, Gallery 400 and Threewalls, Chicago
2019: MAKER Grant, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
2019: Emerging Voices Award Finalist, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2018: Part-Time Faculty of the Year, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017: Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee, Sustainable Arts Foundation, San Francisco, California
2017: Beazley Design of the Year Finalist, Design Museum, London
2017: Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016: 3Arts Awardee, 3Arts, Chicago
2016: Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015: Creative Project Grant, City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2015: Grant, Puffin Foundation LTD, Teaneck, New Jersey
2015: Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015: Craft Research Fund Travel Grant, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, North Carolina
FELLOWSHIPS
2022: Artist Fellowship - Crafts, Illinois Arts Council Agency
2022: Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship, Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina
2019: Individual Fellowship Program, Collaborator of Roberto Sifuentes, Asian Cultural Council, New York City
2016: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2013: Curatorial Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
RESIDENCIES
2021-2022: Getting to Know You, Inaugural Artist in Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2022: Artist in Residence, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, Florida
2021: Publisher in Residence, PrintRoom, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019: Artist in Residence, A. Farm, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2018: Artist in Residence, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
2018: Gyopo-in-Residence, The Back Room at Kim’s Corner, Chicago
2018: Artist in Residence, Hyde Park Art Center exchange with Frise Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2018: HCL Sponsored Artist Program, High Concept Labs, Chicago
2017: Facebook Artist in Residence, Facebook, Chicago
2017: Take Action, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago
2017: DCASE Public Studio, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2015–16: Bolt Residency Mentor, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
2015: Artist in Residence, Trenza Negra, Chiapas, Mexico
2014–15: Bolt Resident, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
2014: Residency and Grant, Est-Nord-Est résidence d’artistes, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022: Aram Han Sifuentes: Let Us Vote!, curated by Brandon Bauer, Baer Gallery, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin
2022: Talking Back to Power: Projects by Aram Han Sifuentes, curated by Laura Mart, Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, Los Angeles
2022: Who was this Built to Protect?, curated by Lauren Leving, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2020: Official Unofficial Voting Station, Sharp Building Window Display, Site Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2020: Protest Banner Lending Library, curated by Amanda Shore, Art in the Open, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2019: Protest Banner Lending Library, curated by Tim Abel, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
2019: We Are Never Never Other, curated by Kendra Paitz, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois (catalog)
2019: Protest Banner Lending Library, curated by Mara Baldwin, Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
2018: To Ward Off Authorities and To Protect My Neighbors, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2018: Protest Banner Lending Library, Cardinal, Baltimore, Maryland
2018: We Are Never Never Other, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
2018: We Are Not the Other. We Are the Center., Frise Künstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany
2018: Take Receipts and Put it on Blast, The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri
2018: Those Who Talk Back: US Citizenship Test Samplers and Protest Banner Lending Library, curated by Carol Zou, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2017: Protest Banner Lending Library, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2017: Wave Your Freak Flag by the Protest Banner Lending Library, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago
2016: The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago
2016: Younghye Han: My Mother’s First Exhibition, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
2015: A Mend, curated by Danielle Krcmar, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
2015: Kim Jong Un Americans, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023: Protest Processie Parade, curated by Ivo van Werkhoven, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, Netherlands
2023: Creative Dissent, curated by Shauna McCabe and Pearl Van Geest, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
2022-2023: This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, 50th Anniversary of Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
2021-2022: Through Every Fiber, Pick Museum of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
2020–2021: Citizenship, curated by Zoe Larkins, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado (catalog)
2020: State of Mind, curated by Ylinka Barotto, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas
2020: Official Unofficial Voting Station and Never Again is Now, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
2020: Coexistence: Discourse on Traditional and Contemporary Art, Sookmyung Women’s University Museum, Seoul, South Korea (catalog)
2020: To the Polls, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2020: Here to Stay: Braving Barriers Through Performance, curated by Danielle Paswaters, Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2020: City of Chicago’s Artist Billboards Project, led by artist Amanda Williams, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago
2020: City of Chicago’s Make Yourself Count Census Campaign, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago
2020: The Future We Roll, The More We Gain, curated by Janeil Engelstad, Make Art with Purpose, Dallas, Texas (catalog)
2019: How the Light Gets In, curated by Andrea Inselmann, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2019: Tense Present, curated by Sarah Darro, BOK, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (catalog)
2019: Take Refuge, curated by Alejandro Acierto, Coop, Nashville, Tennessee
2019: Ready, curated by Related Tactics, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
2019: Parallels and Peripheries: Migration and Mobility, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, VisArts, Rockville, Maryland
2019: Race and Revolution: Still Separate—Still Unequal, curated by Katie Fuller and Larry Ossei-Mensah, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2019: Asian American Storytelling Through Art, HANA CENTER, Chicago
2019: Everyday, Everyday, Everyday, Everyday Freedoms, organized by Curatorial Practice M.F.A. at MICA Class of 2020, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2019: Race and Revolution: Still Separate—Still Unequal, co-curated by Katie Fuller and Larry Ossei-Mensah, Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania
2018: Culinary Roots/Migratory Routes, curated by Nancy Comorau and Anna Davies, Richard M. Moss Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
2018: This Country, curated by Kahlil Irving, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
2018: Life as We Know It, curated by Penny Duff and Michael Slaboch, Eckert Art Gallery at Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania
2018: Forward Union Fair, Red Bull Arts, New York City
2018: Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom, curated by Modou Dieng projects + gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (catalog)
2018: Through Her Eye, organized by Ysabel Pinyol and Mashonda Tifrere, Mana Contemporary, Chicago (catalog)
2018: Elegant Disruption, curated by Joseph Ravens, Zhou B Art Center and Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
2018: Living Architecture, curated by Tricia van Eck, 6018 North, Chicago
2018: Banner 100 Years of Protest, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
2018: What We Make, curated by Erin Fletcher and Ashley Biser, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
2018: Making Change: The Art and Craft of Activism, curated by Betsy Greer, Museum of Design Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
2018: Slouching Toward Sunshine, curated by Kimberly McKinnis, Rutter Family Art Foundation, Norfolk, Virginia
2017: 2017 Beazley Design of the Year, Design Museum, London, United Kingdom (catalog)
2017: The Art Next Door: Chicago’s Exemplars, curated by Tami Miller, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
2017: Over and Over, curated by Debra Kayes, Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago
2017: Human Human, curated by Jessica Cochran, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Chicago
2017: VIP: Very Important Platforms, EXPO Chicago, 6018North and 3Arts, Chicago
2017: A Matter of Conscience, curated by Mia Lopez, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
2017: Race and Revolution: Still Separate – Still Unequal, curated by Kathryn Fuller & Larry Ossei-Mensah, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
2017: Art Work: An Exploration of Labor, curated by Jennie Lamensdorf, Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, New York
2017: Making Plans, organized by Kyle Bellucci Johanson and Matthew Lax, Human Resources, Los Angeles (catalog)
2017: Fierce Tiding, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
2016: Splendor of Threads, Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum at Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea (catalog)
2016: Everything has been material for scissors to shape, curated by Namita Gupta Wiggers, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian American Experience, Seattle, Washington
2015: Make Do, curated by Mara Baldwin, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
2015: Elmhurst Art Museum Biennial: Chicago Statements, curated by Staci Boris, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois
2015: RaceCraft, co-curated by Marie Lo and Sarita Echavez See, Center for Art and Thought, Los Angeles
2014: Material Possessions, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana
2013: Tracing Affinities, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2021: Messages to Our Neighbors, a billboard project in Philadelphia, Mural Arts, Philadelphia
2020: City of Chicago’s Artist Billboards Project, led by artist Amanda Williams, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago
2020: City of Chicago’s Make Yourself Count Census Campaign, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago
PERFORMANCES
2022: Protest Garment Lab x Woori Sori (Our Voice), Cleveland Humanities Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
2018: #exsanguination excerpt, in collaboration with Roberto Sifuentes and Jon Cates, OKLAHOMO, Chicago
2018: #exsanguination, in collaboration with Roberto Sifuentes and Jon Cates, Art of the Networked Practice Symposium, Chicago
2017: #exsanguination, in collaboration with Roberto Sifuentes and Jon Cates, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, Chicago
2016: Official Unofficial Voting Station: Election Night Party for the Disenfranchised with Roberto Sifuentes and Sadie Woods, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2015: Kim Jong Un Haircuts, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago
2015: Kim Jong Un Haircuts, Terrain Biennial, Chicago
MONOGRAPH
Han Sifuentes, Aram. We Are Never Never Other. Normal: University Galleries at Illinois State University, 2021.
COLLECTIONS
The Renwick Gallery of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Denver Art Museum’s Thread Studio, Denver
Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Design Museum, London
Facebook, Chicago
University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Textile Resource Center, Fiber and Material Studies Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle
Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA
Art and Social Practice Archives, PSU School of Art and Design, Portland
WORKSHOPS
CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL: STORYTELLING THROUGH NONNGI MAKING
2023: HANA Center, Chicago
PROTEST BANNER LENDING LIBRARY
2023: Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, Netherlands
Vrolijkheid, Middelburg, Netherlands
2022: Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Frequencies: Sharing Feminisms Festival, Goethe-Institut, Berlin
Framingham State University, Framingham, Ohio (virutal)
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell High School, Lowell, Massachusetts
UTEC, Lowell, Massachusetts
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2021: moCa Cleveland, Cleveland (virtual)
Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia
PrintRoom, Rotterdam, Netherlands
HOLD Fast, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (virtual)
2020: Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (virtual)
Art in the Open, Prince Edward Island, Canada (virtual)
2019: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Vis Arts, Rockville, Maryland
Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago
Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
Re-Joyce at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2018: Frise Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Werkhaus Münzviertel, Hamburg, Germany
Forward Union Fair, Red Bull Arts New York, New York City
Cardinal, Baltimore, Maryland
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Latina Mothers at LifeWise STL, St. Louis, Missouri
Covenant House, St. Louis, Missouri
Metro Academic & Classical High School, St. Louis, Missouri
Grand Center Arts Academy, St. Louis, Missouri
Lewis Place Camp, St. Louis, Missouri
Sewcial Impact Project, St. Louis, Missouri
Latinos en Axion STL, St. Louis, Missouri
Senior Living at Renaissance Place, St. Louis, Missouri
Design Museum, London
Sojourner Scholars, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
2017: Alphawood Gallery, Chicago
Protest Banner Making Workshop with Cauleen Smith, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Albany Park Theater Project, Chicago
Pick Museum of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Truth. Climate. Now. Symposium, Chicago
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in partnership with Gallery 400, Chicago
Comfort Station, Chicago
Teaching Artist Summit for Chicago Artists Coalition at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2016: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago
Comfort Station, Chicago
TAKING RECEIPTS AND PUT IT ON BLAST!
(Aram Han Sifuentes and Ishita Dharap)
2019: Vends + Vibes, Arts + Public Life, Chicago
2019: Creating Justice Symposium, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois
2018: The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri
U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST SAMPLERS
2021: Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia
2018: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2017: The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, Washington
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago
2016: Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago
Pulaski International School of Chicago, Chicago
Rodolfo Lozano Bilingual and International Center Elementary School, Chicago
Benito Juarez Community Academy, Chicago
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
2015: Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art & Portraiture, Washington, D.C.
Rodolfo Lozano Bilingual and International Center Elementary School, Chicago
Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, North Carolina
ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS
2015: Embroidery in Translation: Traditional Korean Embroidery, Centro de Textiles del Mundo Maya, Chiapas, Mexico
2020: The Future is Me (Protest Cape Making with Youth), Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (virtual)
2022: The Fabric of Our Communities: Teachers Workshop, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (virtual)
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2022: Backwards and Forwards: Reflections in Porcupine Quills by Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, ON, Canada
2021: Let Us Vote!, with virtual programs in collaboration with COVIDtv, Ralph Arnold Gallery at Loyola University, Chicago
2015: Work Werq, co-curated with Jacqueline Chao, for the Association for Asian American Studies, FLATStudios, Chicago
2014: On Craft, curation of oral histories on American craft, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2013: MFA Show 2013, Curatorial Fellows at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
INVITED PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Backwards and Forwards: Reflections in Porcupine Quills by Vanessa Dion Fletcher.” Exhibition essay, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, Ontario, Canada, 2022.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Put it on Blast.” A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back, edited by gloria j. Wilson, Joni B. Acuff and Amelia M. Kraehe, Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 2022, pp.76-79.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “How Internalized White Supremacy Manifest for My BIPOC Students in Art School.” Art Journal, Summer Issue, 2021.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Protest Making: How Crafting Collectively Can Empower Disenfranchised People.” Crafts Council, October 20, 2020.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t.” Art Journal Open, October 1, 2020.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “My Immigrant Parents Won’t Close Their Shop (And They Really Should).” Quarantine Times, April 18, 2020.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Be Bold. There is No Other Option.” The Funambulist Magazine, Kids of the World: Unite!: 26. November 2019.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “For Those Who Talk Back.” Dilettante Army. Spring/Summer 2019 Issue.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “A Mother’s Work: A Mother/Daughter/Seamstress/Fiber Artist’s Merging Practice and Politics,” in Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, ed. Elena Marcevska and Velerie Walkerdine (Abingdon-on-Thames, England: Routledge, 2019).
Han Sifuentes, Aram, Lisa Vinebaum, and Namita Gupta Wiggers. “Unsettling Coloniality: A critical and Radical Fiber/Textile Bibliography.” Critical Craft Forum, 2018.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Steps Towards Decolonizing Craft.” Textile Society of America, April 23, 2017.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Leonard Suryajaya: Don’t Hold on to Your Bones.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Volume 3, Issue 1-2. March 14, 2017.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Questioning Americanness: Artists Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Aram Han Sifuentes.” Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art Blog, July 24, 2015.
Han Sifuentes, Aram. “Emerging Voices: Aram Han.” Surface Design Journal: Korea East & West, July 31, 2014.
KEYNOTE LECTURES
2022: “Resistance Through the Arts,” in conversation with Urvashi Butalia and Nabila Horakhsh, Moderated by Catherine Newmark, Frequencies: Sharing Feminisms, Goethe-Institut, Pfefferberg Theater, Berlin
2020: “Creating A Seed for Action,” Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Loyola University, Chicago
2020: “Role of Activism in Mobilizing Society for Social Justice in the Era of Trump.” ICGD 9 Annual Symposium, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
2018: “We Are Never Never Other. We Are the Center.,” For Freedoms at University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2017: “Towards Decolonizing Craft,” Surface Design Association Conference, Portland, Oregon
2017: “Protest Banner Lending Library: Making as Resistance,” Chicago Objects Study Initiative, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
LECTURES
2023: “VOICES: Aram Han Sifuentes,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
2023: “Artist Talk: Aram Han Sifuentes,” Social Justice Poster Project, California State University, Fresno, California (virtual)
2022: “Living and Working as an Independent Artist: Aram Han Sifuentes and Mikael Owunna,” Public Art Training Camp, Office of Public Art, Pittsburgh (virtual)
2022: “We the People – Engagement: ACLU Illinois and Aram Han Sifuentes,” Series on Democracy, ACLU Illinois and Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago (virtual)
2022: "Talking Back to Power Through Art and Activism," Framingham State University (virtual)
2022: 'Artist-Activists Reimagining Justice: Aram Han Sifuentes and Lisa Woolfork," Women's Leadership and Resource Center, University of Illinois Chicago (virtual)
2022: "Craft Writing Now" in conversation with Velina Robinson Glass, Kelly Pendergrast, Glenn Adamson, Indira Allegra, M. Rachael Arauz, American Craft Council, Minneapolish, Minnesota
2021: "Talking Back to Power Through Art and Activism," Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2021: “Visiting Artist and Scholar Series: Aram Han Sifuentes,” Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (virtual)
2021: “Collectivity, Solidarity and Trajectory,” Conversation with Sa’dia Rehman, Chris E. Vargas, The Brooklyn Hi-Art Machine, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio (virtual)
2021: “Does Chicago Have a Place for the Statue of Peace?” Conversation with Elizabeth Son, Rossana Rodriguez, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka, Denise Huang and Inhe Choi, Chicago Monuments Project and HANA Center, Chicago (virtual)
2021: “Talking Back to Power Through Art and Activism,” Friday Morning Seminar, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University, Chicago (virtual)
2021: “Artist Talk: Aram Han Sifuentes,” Textiles Department, California College of the Arts, Oakland (virtual)
2021: “Artist Talk: Aram Han Sifuentes,” Fibres and Material Practices, Concordia University, Montreal (virtual)
2021: “Soft Power: How textiles can talk back,” Conversation with Anya Paintsil, Ibrahim Mahama, and Dominique Heyse-Morre, Crafts Council, London (virtual)
2021: “Let Us Vote!” Conversation with Carol Zou, Sarah Ross, Carl Williams, Sam Rodriguez, Aminah Muhammad, moCa Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (virtual)
2021: “Pedagogy as Art,” Community Arts Caucus Virtual Tour with Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Sarah-Ji Rhee and moderated by Paulina Camacho Valencia, National Art Education Association (virtual)
2020: “Artist Talk by Aram Han Sifuentes,” Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (virtual)
2020: “Let Us Vote! Election Day Break,” Artist talk by Aram Han Sifuentes, Listening party by DJ Sadie Woods, Live performances by Frewuhn, Damon Locks, and Isa Starr, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (virtual)
2020: “Here to Stay: Election Day Livestream,” United We Dream, Houston, Texas (virtual)
2020: “Side by Side: Beili Lui and Aram Han Sifuentes,” Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas (virtual)
2020: “Let Us Vote: An Artist Intervention,” Conversation with Lisa Iglesias, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (virtual)
2020: “Generation of Change,” Panel with Cecil B. Moore and Mia Velez, moderated by Nina “Lyrispect” Ball, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (virtual)
2020: “Artist Talk: Aram Han Sifuentes & DJ Sadie Woods,” Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, Washington (virtual)
2020: “Performance, Protest and Censorship: A Conversation with Aruna D’Souza,” Panel with Aruna D’Souza, Sami Ismat, Jeanette Arellano, and Danielle Paswaters, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (virtual)
2020: “LGBTQ + Immigration Activism,” Panel with Liam Garcia and Sheridan Aguirre, Q + EDU (A project of the Central Texas GSA Coalition, Out Youth, and the Texas GSA Network), Texas (virtual)
2020: “Contemporary Voices: Aram Han Sifuentes,” George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., (virtual)
2020: “Our Futures are Tied,” Panel with Weston Teruya and Carol Zou, moderated by Megha Ralapati, Asian Cultural Council and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (virtual)
2020: “Creating a Seed for Action,” Art and Design Lecture Series, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas (virtual)
2020: “Propositions #1: Activism, Art and Performance,” Panel with Maria Gaspar and Nicole Marroquin, Performance Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (virtual)
2020: “Art in Action,” Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri (virtual)
2020: “Being an Immigrant Artist in the Age of Trump,” Panel with Amir Fallah, Aliza Nisenbaum, Guadalupe Maravilla, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2019: “We Are Never Never Other,” University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
2019: “Artist Talk: Roberto Sifuentes and Aram Han Sifuentes,” Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2019: “We Are Never Never Other. We Are the Center,” Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
2019: “Arts and Immigration,” Arts Alliance Illinois, Chicago
2019: “Conversation between Aram Han Sifuentes and Indu Vashist”, Re-Joyce at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
2018: “The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t,” as part of The Library of Performing Rights Open, Live Art Development Agency, London
2018: “Protest Banner Lending Library,” The Risk Society Symposium, Design Museum, London
2016: “Intersection of Politics and Craft,” Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
2016: “In Translation,” Sungshin University, Seoul, South Korea
2016: “RaceCraft: Decolonizing Craft,” Racecraft Symposium, University of California, Riverside
2015: “Immigrant, American/UnAmerican, At least a quarter North Korean,” Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
2015: “Questioning Americanness: Artists Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Aram Han Sifuentes,” Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington, D.C.
2015: “A Mend: Immigrant Sewing Projects,” Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
2021: Panelist in “Solidarity Toward Ending the Korean War,” American Studies Association (virtual)
2021: Panelist in “Community Arts Caucus Virtual Tour,” National Art Education Association National Convention (virtual)
2021: Panelist in “Pause. Remake. Restart: Womxn Artists and Curators Re-Imagine the Art World,” College Art Association (virtual)
2019: “We Are Never Never Other. We Are the Center.,” Creating Justice Symposium at Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois
2018: Panelist in “Radical Arts Therapies Pedagogy and Praxis: A Cross Disciplinary Dialogue” at Critical Pedagogy in the Arts Therapies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2018: Panel Chair, “Decolonizing Craft: Critical Craft Forum,” College Art Association, Los Angeles
2017: “The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t,” Open Engagement—JUSTICE, Chicago
2014: Panelist, “A Community of Non-Citizens: Proving Worth of Citizenship Through Stitching Samplers,” Panel: “Crafting Community: Textiles, Collaboration, and Social Space,” College Art Association, Chicago
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2022-2023: Steering Committee Member, Beyond Granite, Trust of the National Mall, Washington, D.C.
2021: Board Member, National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
2018-2021: 3Arts Artist Council, 3Arts, Chicago, IL.
2016-2019: Education Advisory Board Member, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL.
2017-2018: Board Member, Good News Only, Chicago, IL.
2017: Juror, Propeller Fund, Chicago, IL.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Davis, Niesha, “Banner Together: Political Crafter Aram Han Sifuentes Motivates Activists with her Protest Banner Lending Library.” Bust Magazine, Winter 2023.
Wegerhoff, Cornelia, “Aram Han Sifuentes: Die textile Kunst des Protests.” WDR 3 Kultur am Mittag, August 22, 2022.
Yang, Cat, “The Labor or US Citizenship, One Stitch at a Time.” Hyperallergic, July 18, 2022.
Reizman, Renée, “Planning to Protest? Borrow a Banner at the Skirball.” KCET, June 28, 2022.
Recinos, Eva, “The radical power of sewing: the artist turning textiles into activism.” The Guardian, April 29, 2022.
Rushton, Elizabeth, “Feminismen global: anders als die langweilige Mannerwelt.” Berliner Zeitung, May 20, 2022.
“Episode 102: Talking Back to Power Through Art.” Democracy Matters podcast, James Madison University, April 12, 2022.
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