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VISUAL ARTIST

Launching a visual arts career in Chicago at the age of 15, Sandra Antongiorgi had the rare opportunity to study under renowned muralists and artists, including Keith Haring. Known primarily for her gifted use of paint, and formation of concept, Antongiorgi has contributed to scores of murals that dot the Chicago cityscape. Her work has been showcased in several museums and exhibitions, including The National Museum of Mexican Art, Zhou B Gallery and most recently a solo exhibit at Advocate & Gochis Galleries in Los Angeles and the Center on Halsted Gallery. Antongiorgi has led and collaborated on many murals including, Weaving Cultures, which won the Chicago Readers, "Best Mural of 2017". The mural is unique in that it features a transgender Latina, serves to bridge the gap between divided neighborhoods and honors underrepresented women of color. One of her more recent mural collaborations, “The Love I Vibrate” is an inaugural mural honoring our non-binary community members. In 2018 “Es Tiempo de Recordar” a longstanding iconic mural in Chicago, also a collaboration, was whitewashed by the City, immediately launching Antongiorgi into advocacy for the anti-erasure of murals, and pushing for a permanent public mural registry that would preserve and protect cultural murals in the City of Chicago. Subsequently, a registry is being established to catalogue and commemorate outdoor murals across the City of Chicago, and prevent complete removal or destruction.

As a studio artist, Antongiorgi draws upon life experiences, power relationships, culture, boundaries, mysticism and spirituality. She explores the way in which social stigmatization is internalized, inhibiting the ability to see ones abundant beauty and uses the human biology to reveal the inherent splendor within each and every one of us. Antongiorgi is dedicated to recognizing and responding to suffering. Her works expose the damage caused by family violence, incarceration and systematic marginalization. Antongiorgi’s work delves deeply into those struggles normally hidden from view. She invites us to see where many turn a blind eye.