- Marsvision
- X visions
- Earth, mud, and rocks
- Atmosphere (coming soon)
- Moon Skins!
- Studio Drawings
- Performance
- Findings
- Archive (coming soon)
Working as a team since 2008, their art has been exhibited in Chicago, San Franscisco, LA, Brooklyn, Detroit, Columbus, Minneapolis, Kansas City and St. Louis. In addition, they have presented performances, public programs and workshops at institutions throughout Chicago, including the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Links Hall, and the MCA. Their work has been shown in many group exhibitions and solo shows including: SFAI Galleries,the Columbus Museum of Art , The Arts Club of Chicago, the Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Western Exhibitions, Comfort Station, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Their work has been published in many journals including ‘After Image’ and the Chicago Tribune and books; most recently, ‘Weather as Medium’ by Janine Randerson, in the Leonardo Series through MIT Press.
Sarah Belknap, Chicago, IL
Joseph Belknap, Bolivar, OH
live and work in Chicago, IL
info@sarahandjoseph.com
EDUCATION (SARAH BELKNAP)
MFA - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA - Tyler School of Art, Temple University
EDUCATION (JOSEPH BELKNAP)
MFA - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BA - Mount Vernon Nazarene University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
2024
Strange Magic, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Years of Thinking About Mars, Ox-Bow House, Saugatuck, MI
2018
Western Pole, Chicago, IL
Planets, in collaboration with Lakeview Orchestra, Chicago, IL
We are Beasts, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
STNDRD, Dalton Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Spooky Actions at a Distance, curated by Sharmyn Cruz Rivera, Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Rosemont, IL
And when we go we come crashing down, Demo Project, Springfield, IL
2016
For Real For Real, Schnormeir Gallery, Mount Vernon, OH
Projecting, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
2015
Hocus Locus, Common People, Satellite Projects, Miami Beach, FL
Strange Matter, UIS Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL
Overview Effect, Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
2014
Planetoids, the Franklin, Chicago, IL
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Afterglow, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Center of the Circle, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013
Our Findings From Spaceship Earth, Roxaboxen, Chicago, IL
Finds and Falls, Octagon Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
Cosmic Debris, organized by Michael Green, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE, Bolt Project Space, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2011
The Wonder of It All, curated by Nicolette Caldwell and Sixty Inches From Center, MDW Fair Chicago, IL
Catastrophe, 208 S. Wabash Pop-Up Exhibition space, Chicago Urban Art Society, Chicago, IL
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 Slow Stretch, with Eileen Rae Walsh, curated by Third Object, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2013 Super in the Natural, with Christine Gray, O’Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
2012 Sports Infiltrated, with Jake Myers, Design Cloud, Chicago, IL
2012 The Quarterly Site # 11: Line-of-Site, with Christalena Hughmanick & Sarah Jones, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Archive, 6018North, Chicago, IL
2024
Unbroken Chain, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
The Weatherproof Anniversarial, Weatherproof, Chicago, IL
2022
Plaything, Tiny Table at Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
2020
Public intimacies, Tufts University Art Galleries (online)
Art In Place, CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions, Cicero, IL
CovidTV, Instagram Live (online)
scry til you know why, The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, Chicago, IL
2019
Terrain Biennial, Oak Park, IL
Fan Mail, Red Line Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
The Sheltering Sky, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2018
Local Comfort, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Borderline/Can’t Help Falling in Love with You, Oh!klahomo, Chicago, IL
10,000 Fahrenheit, SFAC Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Under the Influence, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
2017
PANIC, Terrain Biennial (home of Claudine Ise), Oak Park, IL
Eye Level, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago, IL
2016
20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Rapid Pulse Performance Festival, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Design + Art Series, represented by Demo Projects, Dock 6 Collective, Chicago, IL
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2015
Dead Man’s Curve, Heaven, Chicago, IL
A Challenge to the Summer Group Show, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
SATELLITES, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
Cosmosis, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Were the Eye Not Sun Like, ACRE TV, live stream broadcast
Future Proof, LODGE, Chicago, IL
Out There, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO
The Party’s Over, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2014
EDITION, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Ultra-Deep Field, Rockford University Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
April First Fridays: Apocalypse, MCA, Chicago, IL
Why Marriage?, curated by Tricia Van Eck, Chicago, IL
Bare Bones, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
2013
All At One Point, Tuesday evening interactive workshop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Imperfect Symmetry, A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL
20/92 Video Screening, Ice Box, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
EDITION Chicago, Abryant Gallery, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
The Game of a Free City, organized by US English, St. Louis, MS
2 of a Kind, LVL3, Chicago, IL
it’s not me, it’s you, Heaven, Chicago, IL
Exchange, CAVE, Detroit, MI
2012
Preview, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, IL
ACRE, Buena Vista Building, Design District, Miami, FL
Meltdown, Octagon Gallery, MDW Fair, Chicago, IL
Belknap, Evans, Romero; Happy Collaborationists, MDW Fair, Chicago, IL
Video Night, Airplane, Brooklyn, NY
On Making Things Matter: Strategies for Preservation, ShoP, Chicago, IL
Super Challenge Excitement Fun Zone, Octagon Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Romantic Notions, Los Caminos, St. Louis, MO
Aftermath, Bolt Project Space, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, IL
Mischief Night, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Attendant, curated by The Happy Collaborationists, MDW Fair, Chicago, IL
Wood Worked, Chicago Urban Art Society, Chicago, IL
The Perpetual Motion of a Still Life (in collaboration with Sara Black,) Ryerson Woods, Deerfield, IL
Preview, Bolt Project Space, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago IL
Building: a way of living, Built Festival, Chicago, IL
the toy formerly known as…, Slow, Chicago, IL
The Precession, (Rebecca Horn Fingers for Mark Jeffrey and Judd Morrissey,) Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2010
Stretching Distillment, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Materials of the City, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURES
Lecture and Workshop, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO. August 2025
Workshop, In Progress: Sarah and Joseph Belknap, MCA, Chicago, IL. October 2017
Lecture, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, OH. October 2016
Lecture, WONDER, Kavi Gupta Editions. July, 2015
Panel Discussion, On the Horizon Line, Chicago Artists Coalition. June 2015
Lecture, COSMOSIS CONVERSATIONS, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. April, 2015
Lecture, Contemporary Practices, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. April, 2015
Lecture, Trinity Community College. February 2015
Lecture/Studio Visit, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. November 2014
Lecture/Studio Visit, Grand Valley State University, Chicago, IL. November 2014
MCA Talk: Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap, MCA, Chicago, IL, October 2014
Lecture, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 2014
Lecture and Workshop, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL. March, 2014
Lecture, O’Conner Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL. November, 2013
Visiting Artist, ACRE, Steuben, WI. July 2012
Lecture, PROPOSITIONS, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. October 2011
COLLECTIONS
The Diane and Brown Goodwin Collection
Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
2015 2 Week Fellowship Residency Award, Playa
2013 4 Week Fellowship Residency Award, Vermont Studio Center
2012 BOLT Residency Mentorship, Chicago Artists Coalition
2011 Chicago Artists Month Featured Artist
2010 James Nelson Raymond Fellowship
2009 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Visiting Artist Fellowship
2009 Morrison-Shearer/Tom Jaremba Fellowship
RESIDENCIES
2024 Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI
2015 Playa, Summer Lake, OR
2013 SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013, Bolt Residency (mentors), Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2012 ACRE, Steuben, WI
2012 Bolt Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2010 Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH
2010 Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2009 Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, IL
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