ABOUT

Gigi Salij lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City

BA, Swarthmore College

MArch, Harvard University

Associate Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

In the permanent collection of the California African American Museum, Los Angeles

In the permanent collection of the Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center, Detroit

In the permanent collection of the Eugene V. Debs Museum, Terre Haute

Featured in The Space Between, by Karen Gutfreund (2023)

Featured in Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump, by Karen Gutfreund (2019, 2020)

Featured in Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America, by Karen Gutfreund (2021)

Featured in Pattern Magazine, Vol 18, Fall/Winter 2020

Click here to read an interview on the Studio C Gallery blog.

Click here to read a review of "Protest in Place" from the Los Angeles Times.

Click here to read a review of "We Wait" from the Harrison Center blog.

Click here to read a review of "Deadlocked and Loaded" from the Syracuse University blog.

Selected Exhibitions

2023

Dorado 806 / Over Drinks / Santa Monica

Arc Gallery / The Space Between / San Francisco

311 Gallery / Homage / Raleigh, North Carolina

Art Fluent Gallery / Urban / Boston

The Art Center Highland Park / We've Come a Long Way...? / Highland Park, Illinois

District Arts Gallery / Nostalgia / Frederick, Maryland

Brea Gallery / Made in California / Brea, California

Webster Arts Gallery / Wanderlust / St Louis

Hera Gallery / Objects of Agency / Wakefield, Rhode Island

2022

Harrison Gallery, Harrison Center / Ginger & Spice / Indianapolis

311 Gallery / OMG, WOW! / Raleigh, North Carolina

O'Hanlon Center for the Arts / RED / Mill Valley, California

Cultural Center of Cape Cod / Food Glorious Food / Yarmouth, Massachusetts

Art Fluent Gallery / Within / Boston

SOLO / City Gallery, Harrison Center / I am in no place. / Indianapolis

Center for the Arts Eagle Rock - Los Angeles Printmaking Society / Wild Life / Los Angeles

Studio C Gallery / Red Hot Wicked / Albuquerque

Art Fluent Gallery / Figures / Boston

Red Bluff Gallery / Cats and Dogs / Red Bluff, California

2021

Harrison Gallery, Harrison Center / Hi Ho Silver / Indianapolis

Gallery 924 / Tiny X / Indianapolis

Hera Gallery / Dough / Wakefield, Rhode Island

Hilliard Gallery / 14th Annual Contemporary Figurative Show / Kansas City

Circle Gallery, Maryland Federation for Art / Food for Thought / Annapolis

SOLO / Harrison Gallery Annex, Harrison Center / The Sideshow / Indianapolis

Speck Gallery, Harrison Center / Felines and Canines / Indianapolis

Underground Gallery, Harrison Center / Our Shot / Indianapolis

Art Rage Gallery and Syracuse University Gallery / Deadlocked and Loaded / Syracuse, New York

The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art / Car Culture / Santa Ana, California

2020

Woman Made Gallery / What Are You Voting For? / Chicago

Reece Museum / FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially and Politically Engaged Art / Johnson City, Tennessee

Hera Gallery / Right To Vote / Wakefield, Rhode Island

TAG Gallery / 2020 California Open / Los Angeles

Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center / Breathing While Black / Amherst, Massachusetts

ZINC Contemporary Gallery / Not Too Small, Not Too Big / Seattle

Speck Gallery, Harrison Center / Rise Up / Indianapolis

SoLA Contemporary Gallery / Protest in Place / Los Angeles

Healdsburg Center for the Arts / Figure It Out / Healdsburg, California

SOLO / Harrison Gallery, Harrison Center / We Wait / Indianapolis

2019

The Art Center / Pop Art 2.0 / Highland Park, Illinois

Underground Gallery / Ballyhoo / Indianapolis

SOLO / Harrison Gallery Annex, Harrison Center / American Feast / Indianapolis

Western Colorado Center for the Arts / Contemporary 2019: Contemporary Figure / Grand Junction

Speck Gallery, Harrison Center / Porch Party / Indianapolis

Garfield Park Arts Center / Women in Art:Resistance / Indianapolis

Arc Gallery / Fahrenheit 213 / San Francisco

Avenue 50 Gallery / Unfettered / Los Angeles

A.I.R. Gallery / Bridging the Gap / Brooklyn

Whitdel Arts Gallery / Members Show / Detroit

2018

Gallery 924 / Tiny VII / Indianapolis

Whitdel Arts Gallery / Boys Will Be Boys / Detroit

Harrison Gallery, Harrison Center / Art Grows Here / Indianapolis

The Art Center / Food Glorious Food / Highland Park

Indianapolis Art Center / Art from the Heartland Biennial / Indianapolis

Swords Into Plowshares Gallery / Guns in the Hands of Artists / Detroit

M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery / Pressure Points, curated by Seattle Print Arts / Seattle

Studio C Gallery / Red Hot Wicked / Los Angeles

Brookline Arts Center / Red, White + Blue / Brookline

Hudson Guild Gallery / Vacation Ideas / New York City

Whitdel Arts Gallery / The Bitters 2: We're Fucked / Detroit

Arts Illiana Gallery / The Crow Show / Terre Haute

Las Lagunas Gallery / Two of Hearts / Laguna Beach

2017

Gallery 924 / The Year of Vonnegut / Indianapolis