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

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BA, Swarthmore College 

MArch, Harvard University

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

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

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

​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

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Click here to read a profile 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.

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Selected Exhibitions

 

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

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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

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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

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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

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2017

Gallery 924 / The Year of Vonnegut / Indianapolis

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