Visiting Artist Program
Each semester, the NEIU Art + Design Visiting Artist Program offers two residency opportunities for emerging to mid-career Chicago-based artists:
- NEIU Art + Design Studio Residency
- NEIU Art + Design RISO Residency
Visiting Artists are awarded an honorarium and have two months of full access to NEIU Art + Design facilities specific to their project. Over the course of their residency, the Visiting Artist showcases their work in a public academic forum, leads a hands-on workshop, and participates in a Portfolio Review Day for NEIU’s Art + Design students.
The Visiting Artist Program strives to create visible connections between our diverse population of art and design students with working artists who embody these identities. This interaction provides invaluable insights and inspiration to our students, fostering a dynamic exchange of ideas and techniques. Visiting Artists should demonstrate a commitment to their artistic practice and an interest in engaging with NEIU’s students and creative community.
Current Residents
Studio Resident, Fall 2025
is a Harlem-born, self-taught contemporary artist based in Chicago, known for her pioneering work in metalpoint drawings. After mastering this Renaissance-era technique during a 2017 residency in Barcelona, she has pushed the boundaries of the medium, creating increasingly large-scale works. Her work has been exhibited in Venice Biennale, EXPO Chicago, Scope Art during Art Basel Miami, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the International Museum of Surgical Science.
RISO Resident, Fall 2025
is a queer writer and zinemaker from Chicago. As a multidisciplinary artist inspired by the Cantonese diasporic archive, she plays with photography, collage, and printmaking to explore intimacy, process, and nostalgia. Liana’s work has been exhibited at Chicago Zine Fest, Midwest Queer & Trans Zine fest, Zine Not Dead, Detroit Zine Fest, and Milwaukee Zine Fest; and included in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Margins, Hyphen Magazine, Glass Poetry. Previous residencies include Monson Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Previous Visiting Artists
(Studio, Spring 2025)
(RISO, Spring 2025)
(Studio, Fall 2024)
(RISO, Fall 2024)
(Studio Art, Fall 2018)