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LCG is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist. Their work is a byproduct of reflecting on the human experience through direct engagement. Fact and abstract thinking combine to express the elusive nature of meaning in a world of incomplete information. Shaped by queerness and growing up with severe behavioral disorders, they intentionally weave drawing, writing, and performance in order to communicate the multiplicity of interpretation. Due to the shifting nature of the work, LCG has shown at a variety of locales, including music venues, nightclubs, DIY spaces, and galleries. They have curated multiple group shows, including Draw Showing in 2022 at {\}() {\}∆‡!(){\} art lab which featured work from over sixty artists, including video programming via Colombia by artists from around the world. In 2024, their first solo show, Reflections in a Dark Room, opened at SITE/LESS in Chicago. They are a published writer, with an essaying coming out in Resistance and Support edited by Ann Cooper Albright later this year.
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Born 1993 - Seattle, Washington USA
Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois USA
EDUCATION
2016 BA/BAVCS, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Merit scholarship (2011-2016), award acknowledging excellence of thesis
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Reflections in a Dark Room, SITE/less, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2024 MAGMA (visual artist and performer), Lavamoa Tumbá, Bogotá, Colombia
Tappers and Tapestries, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, Illinois
2023 Art/e Acción, {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, Chicago, Illinois
Mima 1 performance, {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, Chicago, Illinois
2022 Draw Showing (artist & co-curator), {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, Chicago, Illinois
Scratch Night, part of Physical Festival at the Den Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Radiant Arboreal Doors of RePerception, {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, Chicago, Illinois
2019 Tonic Room, Chicago, Illinois
Lilly’s, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Schubas, Chicago, Illinois
RESIDENCIES
2023 Self-directed Residency with Anna Matuszewski, Seattle, Washington (Spring and Fall)
2022 Contact Improvisation 50 Winter Term Residency, Oberlin, Ohio
Poor Farm - Living within the Play, Little Wolf, Wisconsin
ARTWORK IN THE COLLECTION OF:
Ms. Bri Williams, Mr. Justin Chance, Mr. Adam Rose, Ms. Mariana Rockwell, Ms. Kisira Hill, {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, among others
PUBLISHED WORKS
2022 dis/embodied, Stillpoint Magazine, SUPPORTERS ISSUE 4
2018 LCG Plays Thyself, Bandcamp
UPCOMING PUBLISHED WORKS
2024 Something we touch or that touches us, Resistance and Support, Ann Cooper Albright