about
Elena (Gigi) Salij
lives and works in Los Angeles, New York City, and Indianapolis
BA, Swarthmore College (1984)
MArch, Harvard University (1996)
Associate Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Selected Exhibitions
2021
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
In the permanent collection of the Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center, Detroit
In the permanent collection of the California African American Museum, Los Angeles
Featured in Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump, by Karen Gutfreund (2019, 2020)
Featured in Pattern Magazine, Vol 18, Fall/Winter 2020
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.