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Sabrina Raaf

Area Coordinator, New Media Arts

School of Art and Art History

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  • Area Coordinator, New Media Arts
    School of Art and Art History
  • Associate Professor
    School 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 Art
    University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Art History, Chicago, United States15 Aug 2020 - 21 Aug 2024
  • Area Coordinator, New Media Arts
    University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Art History, Chicago, United States15 Aug 2009
  • Associate Professor
    University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Art History, Chicago, United States15 Aug 2005

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Affiliated Faculty
    Electronic Visualization Lab, UIC, Computer Science, Chicago, United States24 Aug 2005

DEGREES

  • MFA, Art and Technology
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States1997 - 1999
  • BSFS, Foreign Service Studies
    Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, United States

LANGUAGES

  • French
    Can read and understand