SHAMA KIPFER-TESSLER

EDUCATION

2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emphasis in Fiber, Material Studies and Sculpture

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2023 Penland School of Craft Fellowship, Bakersville, NC

2022 Graduating Student Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2018-2022 Presidential Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021 Excellence in Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2020 Merit Scholarship, Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck MI

2019 SAIC Scholars Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

RESIDENCIES

2023 Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024

Beautiful and Strange Fragmentation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

2023

Plate Party, 1530 W Superior St, Chicago, IL

Quilt Show, Craftnight Collective, Chicago IL

2022

Queer Ecology, Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods, Riverwoods, IL

How to Build a Hill, 37 S Wabash, LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL

Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Uncommon Prints x Common Matrices, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Fishbowl, SAIC Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021

Come|Back, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

COLLECTIONS

2018 Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection and Archives, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022/2023 Staff, Milkwood Residency, South Kortright, NY

2020-2022 Installation Director, SITE Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021-2022 Student Gallery Assistant, SAIC Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2018-2021 Curatorial Assistant, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL 

2019 - 2020 Shop Assistant, Great Lakes Yard, Chicago, IL