Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
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May 17, 2012

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

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Current Exhibition

Ceci n'est pas une rêverie (This is not a dream) is both a retrospective and a reexamination of the work of Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman.

UPCOMING exhibition

This exhibition brings together a range of works by the London based Swiss-American graphic designer Zak Kyes and a host of collaborators that includes architects, artists, writers, curators, editors, and graphic designers, presenting contemporary graphic design as a practice that mediates, and is mediated by, its allied disciplines.

upcoming event

The Graham will be open late this Thursday evening, May 17 until 8PM. Please join us to see our current exhibition Ceci n’est pas une rêverie (This is not a dream) in it's final week, then enjoy a glass of wine and 10% off all sales in the bookshop.

Grantee News

The SMIBE 2011 Short Film Competition winner is 'Pieces from Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces' by James C. Cameron Silva from the United Kingdom. The runner up is 'Exotic Matter' by Isaac Zambra, Carolina Saenz, David Sosa from Mexico.

Featured Grantee Project

The Threshold series is a new annual exhibition and commissioning program designed to energize the Smart Museum's elegant modernist lobby. For the second exhibition in this series, the Smart Museum has commissioned the art-architectural collaborative team of Chris Vorhees and SIMPARCH to create their first long-term project for a U.S. museum.

GRANTEE NEWS

'The Outdoor Office,' an exhibition by Graham grantee Jonathan Olivares is now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Top, from left: Stanley Tigerman, Career Collage, 1978.; Installation view, Utopia, "Ceci n'est pas une reverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman," 2012, Graham Foundation, Chicago. Photo James Prinz.; read more