Sabrina RaafProfile page
Area Coordinator, New Media Arts
School of Art and Art History
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- Area Coordinator, New Media ArtsSchool of Art and Art History
- Associate ProfessorSchool of Art and Art History
BIO
Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at TEKS (Trondheim, Norway), Mejan Labs (Stockholm), Stefan Stux Gallery (NYC), Ars Electronica (Linz), Opel Villas Foundation Art Center (RÃsselsheim), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Espace Landowski (Paris), San Jose Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Graz (Austria), ISEA (Helsinki), Klein Art Works (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco) and Painted Bride Center (Philadelphia). She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields (2002) and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (2005 & 2001). Reviews of her work have appeared in WIRED magazine, Make Magazine, Art in America, Contemporary, Modern Painter, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Gizmodo, Leonardo, www.lab71.org,The Washington Post, and New Art Examiner.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO APPOINTMENTS
- Chair of the Department of ArtUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Art History, Chicago, United States15 Aug 2020 - 21 Aug 2024
- Area Coordinator, New Media ArtsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Art History, Chicago, United States15 Aug 2009
- Associate ProfessorUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Art History, Chicago, United States15 Aug 2005
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Affiliated FacultyElectronic Visualization Lab, UIC, Computer Science, Chicago, United States24 Aug 2005
DEGREES
- MFA, Art and TechnologySchool of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States1997 - 1999
- BSFS, Foreign Service StudiesGeorgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, United States
LANGUAGES
- FrenchCan read and understand