BIO

CV

Education History

MFA — Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL.

BFA — Studio Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL.

Exhibition and Project History

2025
Upcoming: “Gritty Excavation,” curator of Christine Forni solo exhibition, Parlour and Ramp, Chicago, IL.
Upcoming: “Old Town Art Fair,” member of curation jury, Chicago, IL.
Currently on view: “a Phantom Figure Lacrimating in the night,” site-specific installation, Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL.
“(Im)perceptible: The Queer and Now,” group exhibition, Light Writers Neon, Chicago, IL. In-Progress: “Green Garnet Press, ” residency, Christine Forni Studio, Chicago, IL.

2024

“Leather and Fur: Uncommitted Crimes” duo show, Parlor and Ramp, Chicago, IL.
“Existing is Political,” Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL.
“Ten by Ten,” group exhibition, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL.
“Material Messengers: Ephemeral Environments,” curator of group exhibition, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL.

“Armor Revealed: Leather and Light” solo exhibition, Epiphany Center For The Arts, Chicago, IL. “Luminarts Fellowship Finalists,” group exhibition, John David Mooney Foundation,
Chicago, IL.
“Mana Residents Showcase” group exhibition, Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL.

“See Saw Seen” group exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL.
“Dawn is a Headspace, Night is a Feeling” group exhibition, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2023
“The Skin Feeling Like Physical Manifestations of Screams” site-specific installation, Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL.
“Diaries of Disintegrations and Petrifications” site-specific installation, Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL.
“Archival Locations of the Women and Gender Studies Program” site-specific installation, Hull House at University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
“The Glitz and Glam Felt So Alive (Halloween 1989)” site-specific installation, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL.
“Form Within” group exhibition, Chicago Sculpture International Project Space, Chicago, IL.
“10 x 10” group exhibition, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL.
“5 Year Anniversary” group exhibition, The Martin, Chicago, IL.
“Freedom” group exhibition, Highland Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.

2022
“We Will Always Be Hungry. We Will Always Just Taste the Meshy Epiphany” site-specific installation, the Martin, Chicago, IL.
“Quiver of a Snare” grant-funded site-specific installation, Wicker Park Fest, Chicago, IL.
“A Date With the Stellar Deluge” site-specific installation, Chicago Art Department for Crystal Ball Fundraiser, Chicago, IL.
“Creatures Between Shadow and Space” Site-specific installation, The Robin at the Martin, Chicago, IL.

CV Samuel Schwindt “Scale” group exhibition, 3D4D x CSI, Chicago, IL.

“Mediating Patriotism” 3-person exhibition, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL.

2021
“It Takes What You Give (Rose-Tinted Lenses)” site-specific installation, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL.
“Tremulous Luxury: Leather and Pearls” Duo exhibition with Galina Schevchenko, Chicago Art Department, Chicago,IL.“Keeping a House of Ill Fame,” “A Disorderly House,” and “Summer Fever” site-specific installation with Victoria Fuller, 3D4D x CSI, Chicago, IL.
“Permutations of Working Together” duo exhibition, 3D4D x CSI, Chicago, IL.
“12x12” group exhibition 3D4D x CSI, Chicago, IL.
“The Return” group exhibition, The Martin, Chicago, IL.
“Off The Wall” group exhibition Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL.
“Chaotic Erotics” site-specific installation, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago,IL.

2020
“The Death Disco,” site-specific installation, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL. “Long Time, No See,” group exhibition, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL. “Grand Opening,” group exhibition DragonFly Gallery, Chicago, IL.
“Cuffing,” group exhibition Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2019
“Window Works: Fresnel Radiance” grant-funded public installation, Bucktown, Chicago, IL. “Decorientations” group exhibition, Siblings Gallery, Chicago, IL.
“Reused and Recycled” group exhibition, Site: Brooklyn, New York, NY.
“Truth As A Contested Concept” group exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
“Open Call” group exhibition, Boccara Art, New York, NY.
“LOCUS: II” group exhibition, The Martin, Chicago, IL.
“Priority Mail” group exhibition, Ground Floor Gallery, New York, NY.
“Open 4.0” group exhibition, Slate Arts and Performance, Chicago, IL.
“Open: Hands” group exhibition, Open Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL.
“Werq: We’ve Been Doing This Our Whole Lives” group exhibition, Cluster Gallery, New York, NY. “Spring Undergraduate Exhibition” group exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL.

2018
“Through The Cracks, The Light Gets In” group exhibition, Oak Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. “Kimball Celebrates Art At the Mart” group exhibition, Kimball Showroom, Chicago, IL. “Interiors” group exhibition, Happy Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Press

2024
:Top V,” Bad at Sports for the Visualist, Chicago, IL.
“Class Notes,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago Distinguished Alumni Feature, Chicago, IL. “Liberate the Flesh,” Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL.
“New exhibition brings leather and its place in sexual expression out of the closet,” Windy City Times, Chicago, IL.

2019

“Vacant Storefronts Are Getting Art Installations To Ease Eyesore and Help Local Artists,” Block Club Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Selected Publication History

Samuel Schwindt

2025:
In progress: “Queer Ecologies,” Chicago Artist Writers, Chicago, IL.
“Lost Whimsy,” Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL.
In progress: “Queer Futurities and The Illustrated Man: Bradbury’s Speculative Space Revisited,” the Bradbury Review, printed academic journal.
In Progress: “Christine Forni: An Introduction,” exhibition catalogue statement, print.

2024

“Fabric Becomes the Body,” Exhibition review for Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL.
“Petrichor,” Exhibition Statement for Parlour and Ramp, Chicago, IL.
“Static Electricity: ‘Just Below the Surface’ at the Chicago Art Department,” Sixty Inches from Center, Chicago, IL.
“Transmuting Earthly Materials: The Works of Bryan Northup and Ginny Krueger at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)” Exhibition catalogue statement and Medium post, Chicago, IL.
"See Saw Seen” exhibition statement, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL.

2021

“‘What ended up on the page was this sort of origin myth-making’ A conversation with Michael Zapata” interview for Another Chicago Magazine, Chicago, IL.
“Seeds In My Pocket” exhibition statement Chicago Art Department, Chicago,
“ISIS, My Brother, and the Cruelty of Sculpture,” essay for Another Chicago Magazine,

Chicago, IL.

2019
“Moon Walks,” Showbear Family Circus, online.

2017

“6 Contemporary Native Arts you should definitely have heard of,” article for F Newsmagazine,” Chicago, IL.
“News Briefs (Weekly Column),” articles F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL.

2016

“Gun Control Legislature Isn’t Passing — Here’s Why,” F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL.
“Making the Invisible Visible: Protesters Occupy Homan Square,” F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL.

“Big Tobacco Is Using You,” F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL.

2015

“DePaul art professor’s world explores feminist intersectionality,” article The DePaulia, Chicago, IL.
“‘Too little, too late,’ the harm caused by conversion therapy,” article The DePaulia, Chicago, IL.